For the next several days, I will be attending the Renew Leadership Conference hosted by Union Baptist Church and Bishop Sir Walter Mack in Winston-Salem, NC. I have been dispatched by INJOY Stewardship Solutions to add value to those in attendance and capture the best leadership insights I gleaned from an all-star lineup of speakers.
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The first session was was “Renewing The Church With Innovative and Creative Strategies” by the incomparable Bishop Sir Walter Mack of Union Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, NC. The following are 55 quotes from his incredible session:
First some introductory comments from Dr. Harold Hudson, Associate Dean for Doctrinal Studies of United Theological Studies:
- ISIS has become part of our lives. We do not know if we will live or die by the hands of terrorists.
- If you are to get through things, you need to know where your help comes from.
- Trouble does not last forever if you are a child of the King.
- God did not bring you this from in 2019 to leave you.
- The reason things sometime goes downhill is because you forgot who helped you in the past.
- Your help does not come from buying lottery tickets but the Lord.
- God is for you and on your side.
- In crisis, the devil comes to mess with your emotions… but your heart is still fixed on God.
- You must keep your heart fixed so you can praise God in the midst of your crisis.
- The devil will make you put down what God has allowed you to pick up.
Bishop Sir Walter Mack
- If you’re not careful, we the church think we have it made but we’re not even ready for what’s coming.
- The average church in America is functioning 30-40 years behind the times. Most of our churches are functioning as if its 1982.
- It’s apparent we are living in a hostile culture and are we ready to deal with that from a church perspective. This week three churches were burned down and some of us are fighting against security measures.
- 74% admit to hearing cursing. 68% admit to cussing. 30-60% of cheating takes place in every marriage. 60% lies every 10 minutes. 20% of professed Christians attend church weekly. 74% of African-Americans like LeBron James vs 23% of Caucasians.
- Your ministry is not called to just your pews but to change your city and region.
- The NFL can get people to sit in the snow and we can’t get people to come to church.
- The generation that gave money to the church are dying out.
- Millennials give according to causes as long as you come up with something good to do.The problem is you’ve got to keep coming up with something good to do.
- 80% of tithers were able to payoff their credit card bills.
- 74% of tithers no longer have car payments.
- 48% of tithers no longer have mortgage payments.
- 28% of tithers are completely debt free.
- #1 You must have a vision plan for your ministry.
- Leadership matters. Success is determined by who you recruit to evolve your church.
- Vision without execution is hallucination.
- Vision is better than baggage.
- Most of us complain about what happened rather than seeing what could be.
- Vision is seeing something that’s not there yet.
- Most of us can never see the vision of the church because we don’t have vision ourselves. Vision is personal.
- There is a difference between tradition and traditionalism. Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Some traditions are good. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.
- If you look around your circle and your circle doesn’t inspire you, it’s not your circle. It’s your cage. Some churches have become a cage. But we have the key to unlock the cage.
- If you as the leader are in a cage, the church is in a cage. The church is only going as far as you are going.
- We are losing members over stupid policies that don’t make sense.
- Financial issues are the ceiling for most of our leadership.
- You are not hired but were chosen. – Bishop Mack on the Ritz Carlton hiring practices.
- Quality is key.
Just incredible wisdom! The next session will be Doing Ministry Like Chick-Fil-A: Inviting Good Customer Service Into Your Ministry.
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