Over the next few days, INJOY Stewardship Solutions has dispatched me to attend the 2021 Reach Conference followed by the Southern Baptist Convention. My objective here is to bring you the top leadership lessons and quotes from the event.
Send Conference is a gathering of pastors, families and churches across North America learning and celebrating what it means to be on mission together, for the sake of the gospel. With specialized tracks for every member of the family, you’ll gain the tools and connections to become a movement of people — the Church — sharing the gospel with a world in need.
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The following are 31 leadership quotes from the event’s opening evening by the incomparable Dr. Tony Evans, Founder and Senior Pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship:
- “Today you and I are living in the midst of cultural conflict and chaos.”
- “Jesus called the meeting. The meeting is called 5 times in the Scriptures. They are called the Commissions – Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Acts.”
- “The book of Matthew is about a King and the Kingdom.”
- “Jesus says, ‘I have all the authorized authority both up there and down here. All other authority that disagrees with Me is illegitimate.”
- “There are two types of evangelicals right now – People who are so heavenly minded they are no earthly good. And people who are so earthly minded they are no heavenly good.”
- “A disciple is more than a person who makes a decision to follow Christ alone. That is a convert. A disciple now functions as a visible, verbal representation of Christ.”
- “A disciple is full-time Christian, not a part-time saint.”
- “Discipleship is making copies of Jesus Christ.”
- “Nations are the people. Nations are also the structures and systems that influence them.”
- “We have watched the culture decline because we have not have representatives of Jesus Christ invading the structures.”
- “Go to where the non-believers are.”
- “70,000 people don’t mind paying $100 a ticket to see you in a huddle as long as you don’t stay there long. They pay to watch to public implementation of what you discussed privately.”
- “The chaos we are experiencing is to wake up the church.”
- “We not only baptize people because they accepted Christ. We baptize them to change their identity.”
- “Baptism means you changed identity. Your primary point of reference has shifted.”
- “Far too many whites are more white than Christian. Far too many blacks are more black than Christians.”
- “God is never in favor of color-blindness.”
- “God is not color-blinded but neither is blinded by color.”
- “The racial problem is a Gospel issue, not a racial issue.”
- “We’re spending too much time discussing cultural dynamics than biblical authority.”
- “God doesn’t ride the backs of donkeys (Democrats) or elephants (Republicans).”
- “You should be at your heart a Kingdom independent. We should never let the potitics separate our togetherness.”
- “We are having information centers on Sunday that do not hold people accountable to observation. God is not into information but transformation.”
- “God made government. He is the author of government.”
- “God is not going to skip the church house to fix the White House.”
- “God has the right to overrule.”
- “There is only one subject in the Bible – the glory of God and the advancement of His Kingdom.”
- “Our problem today is the Lord is not with us. He is with us spiritually but He is not ruling with us.”
- “How can we have 1% of the population changing the definition of marriage? They are together.”
- “Jesus Christ is not with all Christians equally.” – John 3:22-25
- “If 19 men (Taliban) in the name of the wrong god, can reshape how a country operates, what can the SBC do?”
Look for additional information throughout the afternoon as I will capture learnings from Dr. David Jeremiah and The Reach Conference’s Pastors Track.
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