Live Blog – 41 Leadership Quotes And Lessons From 2021 Send Conference Featuring Gregg Matte

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 41 leadership quotes from the event’s opening evening by the :

Hershael York of Buck Run Baptist Church in Franfort, KY from Psalm 44 and the Unity of Rejection

1. “We are in a moment of humiliation.”
2. “I’ve not heard of anyone preach on Psalm 44… It’s the first of 11 laments in the book of Psalms.”
3. “There’s nothing quite like rejection and defeat to unite people in purpose.”
4. “Our belief in God’s work in the past is often overwhelmed by our pain the present.”
5. “Our evaluation of our circumstances is often better than our evaluation of our character.”
6. “God’s ability is never in doubt in this Psalm, only His will.”
7. “God may be hidden but He’s not asleep.”
8. “We don’t know when this Psalm was written but we know when it was fulfilled… The cross is God’s answer to Psalm 44.”
9. “God was not asleep. He was at work.  God allows humiliation for a reason.”
10. “When God is at His most hidden is when He does His greatest work.”
11. “We are not slaughtered for Him. He was slaughtered for us.”
12. “Because of Christ we are not conquered, we are conquerors.”

Pastor Miguel Nunez

1. “The convulsion of the world is more complex than our collective wisdom.”
2. “Intimacy is hard because we are constantly being distracted by the world and our own work. Day after day the urgent takes place over the priority.”
3. “Extraordinary times require extraordinary prayer.”
4. “We need to measure not by how much we get from God but by how much God gets into us.”
5. “The harvest is beyond human abilities.”
6. “Prayer is what nourishes our community with Christ… Prayer is what oils our unity and community.”
7. “The Holy Spirit of the most neglected person of the Trinity and the most important person of the Trinity to finish the task.”
8. “Not even Jesus Christ started His ministry without first receiving the anointing of the Spirit.”
9. “The goal is for the Spirit to be the speaker and the person speaking the microphone.”
10. “Humility is the antidote to our selfishness. Selfishness is the DNA of our sin.”
11. “The ability to see ourselves can become difficult because of our giftedness.”
12. “Humility means you embrace your weaknesses rather than your abilities.”
13. “Statistics do not send people to the mission field. Only God does.”

Gregg Matte, Senior Pastor of Houston First Baptist Church

1. 1. “To faithfully go; we must humbly come.”
   2. “We have helped over 200 adoptions happen from 24 nations.”
   3. “When the church and Spirit is unified, look out! That’s the power.”
   4. “Somewhere along the way we get good at the craft… and all of a sudden ‘Come” is a declaration to the people but also to me.”
   5. “You can explain the Bible in one word – Come…. Come to Jesus.”
   6. “Knowing Christ is not as important as serving Christ. Knowing Christ is VASTLY MORE IMPORTANT than serving Christ.”
   7. “We spend so much time pouring out that we have had nothing poured in.”
   8. “Who pastors the pastor.”
   9. “Let’s don’t get so familiar with the Bible that we forget its power.”
   10. “Pray.   Proceed.  Most of us proceed and then we start planning.  When it’s not working then we pray.”
   11. “Pastor, become a second responder.   If anyone can do it beside you, let them do it.”
   12. “Give your mornings to God. Give your afternoons to the church.  Give your evenings to your family.”
   13. “God’s ‘Things To Do List’ is shorter for me and my ‘Things To Do List’ for me is. I’m tougher on me than God is.”
   14. “A deliberate distortion of the Word of God is a statement of unbelief.”
   15. “The more we love Jesus, the more we long for His return.”
   16. “The phrase ‘Lord Jesus’ was never used in scripture until after the resurrection. Then it’s used 90 times.”

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