I am excited to be dispatched by INJOY Stewardship to bring you the finest and valuable leadership insights from the ReThink Leadership Digital Conference. This event features some of today’s brightest Christian minds talking about what is needed to effectively advance the church into the future. If you missed April’s conference, click Complete Speakers And Content From 2020 Orange And ReThink Conferences Including Andy Stanley, Carey Nieuwhof, And Others to get the information.
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I also want to invest in you as a leader. So let’s get to the leadership lessons. The event’s first speaker was the incomparable Carey Nieuwhof. Carey is the founding pastor of Connexus Church in Canada and the author of the new book Didn’t See It Coming: Overcoming the Seven Greatest Challenges That No One Expects and Everyone Experiences.
The following are 20 Leadership Quotes From Carey Nieuwhof On Current Church Trends During The ReThink Leadership Digital Conference:
- Is this an interruption or a disruption?
- It’s hard to go back to normal when normal died.
- External conditions do not make or break organizations. Leadership does.
- Crisis doesn’t create failure but it accelerates it. And in the same way, crisis doesn’t create momentum but it does accelerate it. It is the cradle for innovation and breakthroughs.
- If you hate change, you’ll like irrelevance even less.
- In a crisis, the first thing you normally do is resurrect your methods because a crisis breaks your methodology.
- In the first month (of churches not meeting in-person), that wasn’t innovation. That was adaptation. We adapted because we had no choice.
- The real innovation is in the future.
- When we reopen our buildings, in-person church attendance is lower than anyone expected.
- In May, 48% of church-goers reported they hadn’t done anything with church the previous 30 days.
- People are seeing between 10-40% of their previous attendance showing up.
- The mission isn’t dead. The method has changed.
- It’s time to reimagine how we do church…. What if it’s like the taping of the tonight show? A lot of people are watching online with a small studio audience.
- What if you cooperate with reality rather than compete with it?
- Crisis is revealing and accelerating consolidation.
- 23% of the people who watched church online watched other churches instead of their home church.
- The larger growing churches are growing faster.
- Digital is now the new default.
- What if we became a digital-default church and treated it as real? What if you were a digital-first church with physical expressions.
- What you focus on expands. It’s easy to focus on what you lost. But what if you focused on what the opportunities are?
What an incredible way to start the. day!!! Keep checking back later this afternoon for more lessons from an incredible line-up of speakers.
