Today is the second day of my favorite conferences of the year!  INJOY Stewardship Solutions has dispatched to attend the Orange and ReThink Leadership Conference in Atlanta, GA.  This event contains the most relevant church leadership content I annually receive.  It’s just an amazing conference!!

The morning’s next session was an interview with Reggie Joiner and Andy Stanley.  If you missed Andy’s session from Orange this morning, click HERE.

Before getting to their thoughts, the team at INJOY Stewardship wanted you to have a FREE resource.  Click HERE or on the image below to download your copy of The Millennial Handbook: 16 Ways To Engage Millennials On Stewardship.  Some resources need no explanation!

The following are 31 Leadership Quotes And Lessons From Andy Stanley and Reggie Joiner:

  1. “When you’re at the top rung of ladder in an organization, there’s just a different level of pressure.” – RJ
  2. “The more emotional and tragic something is the more people go into their giftedness.” – AS
  3. “When people come together for something, they naturally lean into their giftedness.” – AS
  4. “All our lives we have let go of something we wanted for something we wanted more.” – AS
  5. “Getting people to change is moving a rock uphill.” – AS
  6. “It is incumbent on us as leaders to create urgency around something that is tangible.” – AS
  7. “What are the things about this organization that if they were no longer true, we would leave?” – RJ on values
  8. “Identify values and teach them. Identify them.  Don’t set them.” – AS
  9. “The process really is more important than the product. Leaders want to speak into their own destiny.  If you want someone to own something, have them create it.” – AS
  10. “Being one as a staff takes intentionality.” – RJ
  11. “What are we doing? How are we doing it?  How do you fit in?” – AS
  12. “Most people we hire come in as employees.They don’t come in as vision owners.” – AS
  13. “The children’s, youth, preschool, and middle school leaders should report directly to you as the senior leader.” – AS
  14. “The further you are away from family ministry, the further you are away from family ministry.” – AS
  15. “Family ministry is your church.” – AS
  16. “No one on my leadership team has to motivate me to help recruit volunteers.” – AS
  17. “The only reason we need brick and mortar churches anymore is family ministry.” – AS
  18. “40-50% of our adult leaders drop kids off, go home and watch online.” – AS
  19. “What I like about being old is I know what really matters and what doesn’t.” – Dr. Charles Stanley
  20. “Denominational distinctives don’t matter to the people who have been in your church a long time. People outside your church just want to know what you can do for them and their kids.” – RJ
  21. “We don’t learn much from people who agree with us.” – AS
  22. “There have only been a handful of white evangelicals who have supported POTUS. Many of them were not famous until they supported him…  They don’t represent us… I want to say, ‘Long after he’s out of office, you will still be the pastor.’  You have said, ‘If you’re a democrat you’re not welcome in our church.” – AS
  23. “Never give up influence unnecessarily. Never make a point at the expense of your influence… Jesus didn’t come to make a point. He came to make a difference.”
  24. “The church should be a healing of that (politics), not divisive.” – RJ
  25. “Do not view Christianity through the lens of your politics. Whether you are republican or democrat, shame on you.  You view life through Jesus.” – AS
  26. “Both ends of the political spectrum are our responsibility. Going down the middle is not saying anything.” – AS
  27. “Privilege isn’t bad. It’s stewardship.  It’s what you do with your privilege.” – AS
  28. “When there is a clear path to address these things, you have to address them.” – AS
  29. “You don’t attract people who aren’t like you…That’s just human nature.” – AS
  30. “Because you are a pastor, you have an excuse to initiate relationships.” – AS
  31. “As lead pastors if we don’t lead the way in building relationships, our people will not build those relationships.” – RJ

It has been an challenging morning!  More information to come this afternoon!

Once again, the team at INJOY Stewardship wants you to have a FREE resource.  Click HERE or on the image to the left to download your copy of The Millennial Handbook: 16 Ways To Engage Millennials On Stewardship.

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