Live Blog From Catalyst ’18 – 26 Leadership Quotes And Lessons From Lisa Bevere

For two days, INJOY Stewardship Solutions has dispatched me to Catalyst ’18 in Atlanta.  Catalyst is a 2-day experience to help leaders build great churches, grow strong teams, and be a catalyst for change.  This year’s theme is Fully Alive and is based on what the Bible says in John 10:10 – “The thief comes to steal, kill and destroy; I have come that you might have life and have it to the full.”

In addition to the content provided, the team at INJOY Stewardship would like to offer you a FREE gift.  As you know, October is Pastor Appreciation Month.  Simply click HERE or on the image provided and download a done-for-you script which you can read in your services to honor your pastor and staff.  Being a pastor can be challenging to say the least.  These words will honor and encourage your pastor and rally your congregation to a standing ovation.  Don’t believe me?  Click HERE.

The morning’s next speaker was Lisa Bevere.  Lisa and her husband, John, are the founders of Messenger International, an organization committed to developing uncompromising followers of Christ who transform their world. Messenger International has given away nearly 20 million resources in 106 languages.

The following are 21 leadership quotes and lessons from her session:

1. If we’re going to be leaders who are fully alive, we need to know when we are.
2. Often knowing when you are is more important than where we are.
3. We have become a generation who criticizes, not prophecies. It takes no spirit to criticize.
4. The youth are not our replacements. They are our reinforcements.
5. As women, we too often get our identity from taking value away from men.
6. In the beginning, God created men and women to be a power union rather than a power struggle.
7. Houses that divided fall.
8. We are in the last days.
9. Evil will be called good. Truth will be spoken as lies.
10. Love without truth is a lie.
11. The culture is defining itself by making men women and women men.
12. We have an entire generation trying to figure out their calling when they don’t know who they are.
13. Millennials are some of the most well-educated and well-connected people on the Earth. They are also the most confused by the number of options is confusing them.
14. Millennials are called to do something that has never been done before.
15. Truth does not change with the passage of time.Truth is a rock.
16. We are a generation whose opinions form your convictions rather than your convictions changing your opinions.
17. A “No” in Heaven is a “No” on Earth.
18. You are an answer walking around looking for problems to solve.
19. I have a danger gene and love to do dangerous things.
20. What you see as a problem is an identification of someone’s answer.
21. God loves to make you face what you fear because you become fearless. This gives other people the permission to become fearless.
22. There is something that happens when a leader writes something down.
23. If you see your brother in need don’t shut your eyes to compassion.
24. When you write something down you honor God.
25. Have the right conversations with the right people. Social media is the right people.
26. Have the right conversations with the right people, not the same people.

Once again, I want to make it easy to honor your pastor this month.  Click HERE or on the image provided and download this done-for-you script.  Your Board chair or congregational leader can read it in the service.  Trust me, few things will honor your pastor more.