May 1st through 3rd are three of my favorite leadership days of the year. Each year, INJOY Stewardship Solutions allows me to live-blog the Orange and ReThink Leadership Conferences. No event stretches my thinking more and make me a smarter and better-equipped leader than this event.
If you are unfamiliar with ReThink and Orange, let me give you an overview. Hosted by Carey Nieuwhof, ReThink is a series of Ted Talk-stlyle lessons from some of the most innovative minds in business and leadership. Orange is simply the nation’s preeminent organization on children’s ministry.
As part of my time here, INJOY Stewardship is offering a FREE Capital Campaign Calculator for your church. If your church needs to raise significant capital in the next two years, this will be a wonderful source of information for you.
Today is Day 3 of the conference. The afternoon’s first speaker was Clay Scroggins. Clay is the lead pastor of North Point Community Church (NPCC), providing visionary and directional leadership for all of their church staff and congregation.
The following are 13 leadership lessons and quotes from his wonderful session:
- When you are drunk you will commit your life to anything. I realized I needed to minister to sober people.
- My biggest fear when I went to seminary was I would spend all my days around Christians…. My greatest fear has come true and it breaks my heart.
- In our organization we have two values – Make It Better and Take It Personally.
- We love better.We are an organization of constant improvement.
- The longer we’re in ministry, the more we’ll drift towards “make it better” and less “take it personally.”
- It’s not how many come inside the building. It’s how many in our building are getting into their building.
- You’ll never change the way the community sees the church until you change the way the church sees the community.
- The world gets bigger when you see more of the world.
- You take it personally when your connection with someone becomes personal.
- Turn down for what?
- Jesus was moved not by what they believed, but what they did because of what they believe.
- You’ve got to stop asking people to like your church’s post and start having your church like their posts.
- If our goal is to be the hope for the world, we’ve got to stop hiding in our church.
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