Orange Conference and its concurrent sister event ReThink Leadership is the #1 conference I recommend to church leaders.
For senior leaders, I feel the two days spent with Carey Nieuwhof and the group of speakers assembled is the most practical, relevant teaching you can receive all year. To give you a preview of what you can expect on May 1 and 2, I want to revisit last year’s event.
The following are Top 50 Leadership Quotes From Carey Nieuwhof, Dan Reiland, Andy Stanley, Louie Giglio and countless others from the 2018 ReThink Leadership Conference. For their complete sessions, click the hot links on their name.
- “Most times leaders start with the question – ‘What are we good at?’ This immediately separates us from the people and what they need… The first question to ask is ‘What do they really need?’ This makes people visible and valuable… The second question is ‘What do we have to fix that need?’ This question requires humility because you may find you don’t have the things you need.”
- “What helped Apple gain momentum is they actually really like people.”
- “The problem with incremental thinking is that is doesn’t produce exponential momentum.”
- “Success, by nature, makes you conservative. You have nothing to lose when you only have six people.”
- “The greatest enemy of your future success is your current success.”
- “Incremental thinking and change produces incremental results.”
- “I was very blessed to be developed and in time invited to the table. But I had to earn that spot at the table.”
- “Speed and pressure are the great separators for everything in leadership.”
- “It’s not wise to determine who is at the table by who might get their feelings hurt.”
- “The people around the table is determined by the agenda.”
- “It’s not smart to have a bunch of 40, 50, 60 yrs old making all the decisions about LGBTQ without having young leaders in the room…Don’t assume you all think the same.”
- “There is a big difference between competence and attitude. Competence is skill-based and you need time to grow. Attitude is a decision.”
- “We look for five things in a young leader – competence (they’re good at something), capacity, energy, intelligence (will you think, leaders think), and relationally savvy (self-aware, secure, the ability to connect). When packaged together, there’s a hunger. We can do more with a B+ leader who is hungry than an A+ leader who isn’t.”
- “Inspiration doesn’t favor with those who sit.”
- Leadership is not about people… Leadership is about getting closer to your common goal… It’s not your job to make sure everyone feels good.
- Leadership is about slowing down the decision-making process and speeding up the implementation process.
- “When your desperation exceeds your embarrassment you will make a change.” – Shannon quoting Andy Stanley
- “The folks that got you to a certain point may not be the ones to go one with you. Vision scares people.” – Bryan
- “We become what we measure. Then let’s measure mission.”
- “Instead of focusing on numbers, what if we focused on actual names of actual people.”
- “Track numbers for reports but names for ministry.”
- “You may have the spiritual gift of teaching but you often wonder if your congregation has the spiritual gift of listening.”
- “When I talk to leaders many of them feel lonely.”
- “There are no statues being built in your honor (for self-reliance). Great leaders do not do it alone.”
- “To do things well together you must start doing things together. When you work in isolation you don’t get good at doing things together.”
- “People who were nothing like Jesus liked Jesus and He liked them back.”
- “The things you pray most about are the things that are most important to you.”
- “Are you a republican or democrat first or a Christian first? Are you more worried about who’s in office rather than who’s in Heaven?”
- “The church shouldn’t go into decline and be resurrected by the next guy. It should go from peak to peak.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “Every pastor is the pacesetter for the church.”
- “The greatest challenge I had in my first season was staff… I missed the seminary class on how to fire your underperforming friend.”
- “I am the Chief Culture Officer for my staff.”
- “At the end of the day, He has called us to disciple people. He has called us to change lives.”
- “When you’re at the top rung of ladder in an organization, there’s just a different level of pressure.”
- “Denominational distinctives don’t matter to the people who have been in your church a long time. People outside your church just want to know what you can do for them and their kids.”
- “As lead pastors if we don’t lead the way in building relationships, our people will not build those relationships.”
- “There is nothing worse than a leader pretending to be happy to help everyone else.”
- “Friends are like elevators. They can take you up or they can take you down.”
- “You measure on results. Be clear on what you want them to do. Follow up on the results.”
- “You are the guide. The people are the hero.”
- “Our leadership legacy is defined by how it grows when we’re gone.”
- “The cross of Jesus Christ where we all found new life and were brought from death to life.”
- “Leadership 101 – Lord, we don’t know what to do. If you cannot admit that you’ll never lead anything great.”
- “The Good News isn’t sin made us bad and Jesus made us better. The story is sin makes us dead and dead people can’t help themselves… He is the only one with the power to lift us out of death and make us alive.”
- “Depression may be big but it’s not bigger than Jesus.”
Register for ReThink and Orange Conference 2019 today!