The next three days are three of my favorite days of the year! INJOY Stewardship Solutions has dispatched to attend the Orange and ReThink Leadership Conference in Atlanta, GA. This event contains the most relevant church leadership content I annually receive. It’s just an amazing conference!!
The afternoon’s final speakers were Kara Powell and Lee Jenkins. Kara is the Executive Director of the Fuller Youth Institute. Lee is the Senior Pastor of Eagles Nest Church and the Atlanta Urban Director of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
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The following are 27 Leadership Quotes And Lessons from their sessions on culture:
Kara Powell
- “Week after week while I was serving as a youth pastor I was tempted to lie. I had to turn in a head count.”
- “That attendance report was like my report card.”
- “We become what we measure. Then let’s measure mission.”
- “Sitting in a chair for 75 minutes does not measure up to what we should be measuring.”
- “Instead of focusing on numbers, what if we focused on actual names of actual people.”
- “Track numbers for reports but names for ministry.”
- “Track people in circles rather than rows.”
- “Track stories of life change.”
- “Track better activities. Track missional activities that are important to our people’s growth.”
- “Track the percentage of people giving.”
- “Do you know what percentage of your people are inviting people to church?”
- “Track factors that are proven to drive growth.”
Lee Jenkins
- “When it comes to race in this country, we have been more of The Divided States of America rather than The United States of America.”
- “The fundamental of race in America lies with the church failing to come to grip with this issue from a biblical perspective.”
- “To promote racial unity be intentional.”
- “Racial unity doesn’t just happen. It is hard. It is difficult.”
- “When you see color how does it make you feel and do you respond.”
- “To promote racial unity you must recognize common ground.”
- “Build a bridge of communication by starting with what you agree on.”
- “Unity is oneness of purpose.”
- “To promote racial unity you must step out of our relational comfort zone.”
- “Jesus stepped out of His relational comfort zone.He put His Jewish lips on a Samaritan cup. He did not let tradition dictate how He treated someone else.”
- “We have cross-racial relationships but they’re not intimate.”
- “One of the greatest hindrances to racial unity it our inability to engage each other socially.”
- “To promote racial unity we must refuse to allow culture to interfere with truth.”
- “If it does not line up with the Word of God, it’s not true.”
- “It is the responsibility of the church to model racial unity.”
It has just been an amazing day! Make sure you check back tomorrow for Day 2 of the live blog from ReThink Leadership.
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