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.
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The following are 43 leadership quotes from the event’s afternoon sessions by Dr. Kevin Smith and Vance Pitman:
Dr. Kevin Smith – Executive with the Southern Baptist Convention Pastors Conference
- “We need to acknowledge we need some help, and the help can only come from the Lord.”
- “It takes effort to be together. Many times Bible-believing Christians in the United States have failed to exert the necessary effort.”
- “Some Christian mock the pursuit of Christian unity.”
- “The unity of God’s people in the Scripture is essential for the anointing and power of the Holy Spirit.”
- “What good is the salt if the salt has lost its saltiness.”
- “A presidential election does not necessitate repentance.”
- “There are doctrinal boundaries to Christian unity.”
- “Doctrinal fidelity does not give you an excuse to be unloving to God’s people.”
- “In every election there’s two piles of dung and you try to figure which one is less hot.”
- “If you open up the Scripture, there’s no picture of your candidate in there.”
- “You shouldn’t be a pastor if you’re a coward.”
- “Pastors lead God’s people. Hellraisers in the pew often follow hellraisers in the pulpit.”
- “Biblical principles must be more important than expediency.”
- “Don’t assume the worst of one another… Stop these cultural broad sweeps of people. You don’t learn that from the scripture. You learn that from the culture.”
- “The one thing I hate about social media is cowards and punks who will not say anything to your face will type it on a keyboard.”
- “Stop lying slandering one another. It’s a sin. Stop it!”
- “Pastors, you can’t lead your congregations to obey Ephesians 4:3 if you’re not obeying it yourself.”
Vance Pitman – Senior Pastor of Hope Church in Las Vegas
- “The church you are now pastoring…. will one day die.”
- “All churches have a life cycle. They’re born. They live. They die. Don’t believe me. Go visit any church Paul planted.”
- “Want some good news? The Kingdom of God is alive and well!”
- “The Kingdom of God is largely neglected in the North American church.”
- “The Kingdom of God is God’s sovereign activity in the world resulting in people being in right relationship with Himself.”
- “When Jesus comes again, what’s eternal is the Kingdom of God.”
- “We are not pundits for a political kingdom but called to be prophets for an eternal kingdom.”
- “The local church is not the goal. The local church is the temporary tool established by Jesus to introduce them to the King.”
- “When God births a church, it’s always about something bigger.”
- “Churches plant churches, not individuals or networks. Living things give birth.”
- “When God births a church, He always has the nations on His mind.”
- “We are living in the greatest days of Christianity to be alive. There are more people coming to faith in Jesus Christ on a daily basis than anytime in human history.”
- “The size of the church does not determine its significance. The size of the mission determines its significance.”
- “When God births a church He invites us to join in His Kingdom activity.”
- “It’s not about growing our church. It’s about expanding His Kingdom. We need a pronoun revival. No church can expand His Kingdom by itself.”
- “What unites us as Kingdom brothers and sisters is so much bigger than what divides us.”
- “Every church should cultivate a heart for the Kingdom by praying.”
- “Praying is mentioned 26 times in the 28 chapters in the Book of Acts.”
- “How sad is it we use prayer at the church in North America to move people on and off the stage.”
- “What does it say about us as a convention if we need 20,000 seats for our business meeting and 1,000 seats for our prayer meeting?”
- “When we seek God in prayer, we experience God in power. And when we don’t, we don’t experience His power.”
- “Every church should prioritize the God by sending. We as pastors prioritize by seating.”
- “Every church should invest in the Kingdom by giving.”
- “You don’t give to a church. You give through a church as an investment into the Kingdom of God.”
- “When God births a church it’s for His glory.”
- “God does not need the Southern Baptist Convention. Sometimes we can strut sitting down… The Southern Baptist Convention needs God.”
Next up is Dr. David Jeremiah!
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