Today is the second day of my favorite conferences 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!!
ReThink Leadership’s first speaker this morning was Bryan Carter, the senior pastor of Concord Church. Under his leadership the church has tripled in size. He is incredibly respected in the city of Houston and an incredible leader.
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The following are 25 Leadership Quotes And Lessons From Bryan Carter:
- “It’s a call and challenge to humility. It is a core to our new season in the life of our church.”
- “The church shouldn’t go into decline and be resurrected by the next guy. It should go from peak to peak.”
- “Let me never have to question your integrity.I learned how important integrity is in a leader’s life.”
- “Every leader in our church had a two-year term limit.The elders had a four-year term limit and could serve two terms. We always had an influx of new leaders.”
- “Humility is something we are either pursuing or it is pursuing us. We will live out of our brokenness or God would show us our brokenness.”
- “We must honor the past work, the legacy, and the contributions of the previous work.”
- “By honoring him (the previous pastor), it was actually enduring me to the people.”
- “I was not tearing anything down but building on what was already there.”
- “Be humble enough to trust the process.”
- “It takes 5-7 years to be the pastor. It’s a process. Transferring leadership and credibility doesn’t happen when I walk through the door.”
- “Sometimes there has to be a revival at the back door before there can be a revival at the front door.”
- “Be humble and seek God’s pace.”
- “Every pastor is the pacesetter for the church.”
- “Every church has its own pace.”
- “Be humble enough to own your staff culture.”
- “The greatest challenge I had in my first season was staff… I missed the seminary class on how to fire your underperforming friend.”
- “Staffing matters would keep me up late at night.”
- “You have to say certain words to the congregation about staff transitions but never get to tell your side of the story.”
- “I am the Chief Culture Officer for my staff.”
- “I have to be humble enough to keep the main thing the main thing.”
- “We are here to make disciples… It is that work we should give all our attention, energy and focus to.”
- “I am a son of a church planter. My dad planted a church when I was 9 years old.”
- “I watched my father pastor 20 people like he would pastor 2,000 people.”
- “The ministry we do is not about the building.The ministry we do is about the people.”
- “At the end of the day, He has called us to disciple people. He has called us to change lives.”
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