{"id":9694,"date":"2012-11-07T21:23:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T23:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/?p=9694"},"modified":"2012-11-08T10:57:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T12:57:26","slug":"21-leadership-quotes-from-jen-hatmaker-and-todd-wager-live-notes-from-the-rightnow-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/2012\/11\/07\/21-leadership-quotes-from-jen-hatmaker-and-todd-wager-live-notes-from-the-rightnow-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"44 Leadership Quotes From Jen Hatmaker and Todd Wagner &#8211; Live Notes From The RightNow Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Once again, I want to thank <a title=\"ISS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.injoystewardship.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Injoy Stewardship Solutions<\/a> and <a title=\"Scott Williams\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bigisthenewsmall.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Scott Williams<\/a> for giving me the privilege of guest blogging at this year&#8217;s <a title=\"RightNow Conference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rightnowconferences.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">RightNow Conference<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0 What an incredible event!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Jen Hatmaker\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/jenhatmaker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Jen Hatmaker<\/a>, well-known conference\u00a0speaker, blogger,\u00a0and author,\u00a0along with\u00a0<a title=\"Todd Wagner\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/wordsfromwags\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Todd Wagner<\/a>, Senior Pastor of host site <a title=\"Watermark Community Church\" href=\"http:\/\/www.watermark.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Watermark Community Church<\/a>,\u00a0just completed the 2nd session<\/strong>.\u00a0 Jen, in particular,\u00a0brought one of the Top 5 most challenging messages for Christian leaders I have ever heard.<\/p>\n<p>The following are their leadership quotes that all pastors and church leaders can learn from:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bigisthenewsmall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/jenhatmaker.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"jenhatmaker\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bigisthenewsmall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/jenhatmaker.jpg?resize=500%2C108\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jen Hatmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We were simply serving saved people in a city that is completely lost. (Austin, TX is 93% unchurched.)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>We had a &#8220;come-to-us&#8221; paradigm in a city where no one was coming to us.<\/li>\n<li>We were blessing blessed people.<\/li>\n<li>We were churning out untransformed people, including ourselves&#8230;Folks were leaving mostly unchanged.<\/li>\n<li>Failure is a fantastic teacher and in this area I am rich.<\/li>\n<li>I really believe consumerism is a cancer to missional communities&#8230;It is unsustainable.<\/li>\n<li>If we develop a church geared toward the saved,\u00a0blessed people will come wanting more blessings.<\/li>\n<li>Only Christians want a church with 49 programs.<\/li>\n<li>The church has a limited amount of resources.\u00a0 If saved people consume them all, we have nothing more missional activity.<\/li>\n<li>How do we teach people to live missionally?\u00a0 Do it yourself first.\u00a0 Live it or you have no hope in leading it.<\/li>\n<li>With a click of a button we can cherry-pick leadership from 10,000 guardians\/nannies.<\/li>\n<li>A nanny has no responsibility.\u00a0 A father is charged with raising his children for Christ.<\/li>\n<li>Leaders, we cannot possibly lead a missional community if we are not on mission ourselves.<\/li>\n<li>What can people look at in our lives and say, &#8220;That, that is worth following&#8221;?\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>We are leading in a time when &#8220;Well done&#8221; outtrumps &#8220;Well said&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Conservatantly, the church is America is losing 150,000 a week&#8230;40% cite distrust and lack of respect for the pastor.\u00a0 Churches built on the charismatic personality of the pastor are going to struggle to reach the cynical.<\/li>\n<li>Should we consider ourselves not as leaders but rather as influencers?<\/li>\n<li>Heaps of well-spoken theology only impresses Christians who are in to that sort of thing.<\/li>\n<li>We are nothing if not disciples first.\u00a0 We do not get to shirk that responsibility because we wear the &#8220;Christian hat&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>To tell a better story we are going to have to live a better story and be watched first.<\/li>\n<li>If we live a life worthy of being followed we will earn a hearing for gospel we never intended to.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Todd Wagner<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><\/strong>When people say you have a beautiful church I say, &#8220;Who did you meet?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>God believes life change happens in the way you do things.<\/li>\n<li>The greatest leaders that ever lived are the &#8220;Follow Me&#8221; leaders&#8230;Don&#8217;t do as I say but do with me.<\/li>\n<li>Follow The Leader is not just a child&#8217;s game.<\/li>\n<li>God brings judgement on a land but raising up leaders who act like children. &#8211; Isaiah 3:1-4, Ecc. 10:16-17<\/li>\n<li>Children are selfish.\u00a0 They are not others-centered.<\/li>\n<li>Children have no sense of delayed gratification.<\/li>\n<li>They lack\u00a0wisdom.\u00a0 They&#8217;re childish and foolish.\u00a0 When they have the wisdom they can&#8217;t executive&#8230;They don&#8217;t know the difference between a curb and a cliff.\u00a0 They are indisriminate with what they put in their mouth.<\/li>\n<li>Charismatic leaders can gain a following very quickly&#8230;Charismatic leadership that isn&#8217;t ultimately surrended to Jesus Christ is going to be a scourge on Christianity.<\/li>\n<li>God has always wanted people to lead with moral authority.<\/li>\n<li>God has always looked for the willing, even if they&#8217;re weak, to glorify Himself.<\/li>\n<li>All of life is a leadership test.\u00a0 The reward of faithful service\u00a0is the opportunity to serve more.<\/li>\n<li>Pharoah never misses his Joseph but you must be a Joseph.<\/li>\n<li>Death.\u00a0 Surrender.\u00a0 Faithfulness.\u00a0 This is what separates men from children.<\/li>\n<li>Children will fight for the comfort.\u00a0 Men are not concerned with comfort.<\/li>\n<li>Some of us are called to have well-done ministries that the world may never know about except Him.<\/li>\n<li>When you surrender to anything other than God you will be surrendering to something that is not good for you.<\/li>\n<li>People will not surrender to anything where they don&#8217;t see life.<\/li>\n<li>You cannot keep selling something you are not convinced you (personally)\u00a0need to buy.<\/li>\n<li>Just because I&#8217;m a pastor doesn&#8217;t mean I still can&#8217;t be a Christian.<\/li>\n<li>I am an evangelist for the cross.\u00a0 That doesn&#8217;t mean I don&#8217;t run to it and act (as a pastor) like I don&#8217;t need it.<\/li>\n<li>What is your motivation for your obedience?<\/li>\n<li>The greatest evil in this country is that which God has called salt and light and dispel\u00a0darkness is not doing our job.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a special gift from Injoy Stewardship Solutions to the RightNow attenders, we are offering a FREE report 5 Mistakes That Kill Your Church Fundraising by clicking <a title=\"ISS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.injoystewardship.com\/rightnow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe <a title=\"Subscription Form\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push([&#039;_trackEvent&#039;,&#039;outbound-article&#039;,&#039;http:\/\/briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage1.com&#039;]);\" href=\"http:\/\/briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage1.com\/subscribe?u=8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537&amp;id=deea5837f2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">here<\/a> so future posts can be sent directly to your Inbox. 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Jen Hatmaker, well-known conference\u00a0speaker, blogger,\u00a0and author,\u00a0along with\u00a0Todd Wagner, Senior Pastor of host site Watermark Community Church,\u00a0just completed the 2nd session.\u00a0 Jen, in particular,\u00a0brought one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","iawp_total_views":1,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[229,259,370],"class_list":["post-9694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-leadership","tag-inspiration","tag-leadership","tag-quotes"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9694"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9696,"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9694\/revisions\/9696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}