649 Leadership Quotes

Timeless Truths From The 2013 Passion, Exponential, Orange And Chick-Fil-A Leadercast Conferences
Brian Dodd www.BrianDoddOnLeadership.com

649 Leadership Quotes: Timeless Truths From The 2013 Passion, Exponential, Orange, Chick-Fil-A Leadercast Conferences God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them. Hebrews 6:10 (NIV) As a member of The Rocket Company, I have the privilege of attending some of the greatest Christian conferences possible. During the first half of 2013, four events in particular stood out. Passion 2013 was a historic event as 60,000 students descended upon the Georgia Dome for an amazing time of worship and to bring attention to the 27 million trapped in slavery around the globe. Exponential 13 took place in Orlando during the month of April. The focus of this conference was DiscipleShift. While you may be unfamiliar with word, this group of church planters has a deep desire to see churches more effective at making and releasing disciples. Orange is a Childrens Ministry Conference that every adult should attend. While there, I made it a point to attend as many Pastors Tracks as possible. A little preview the Pastors Lunch is the best session I have attended this year. Dont miss that chapter. Chick-Fil-A Leadercast was a great way to conclude the years first half. A quality mix of business and Christian leaders convened to address a subject desperately needed in the leadership community simplicity. As you read the comments provided, make note that genius is making complicated things simple, not simple things complicated. These events featured many incredible leaders such as Andy Stanley, Francis Chan, Louie Giglio, Condoleezza Rice, John Maxwell, and others. Their insights have been captured and provided for you throughout this Ebook. I have also provided two bonus sessions for you. Jeff Henderson, Campus Pastor at Gwinnett Church of North Point Ministries, came to The Rocket Company offices to speak into the lives of our staff. His thoughts were recorded for you as well as a session Crawford Loritts conducted at Fellowship Bible Church on effective preaching and teaching. His 101 insights are a highlight of this Ebook. If you learn from and apply the lessons provided by these experts of their craft, you will be a better leader. Thanks for reading. I look forward to bringing you more key learnings from additional Christian leadership events throughout the year. Brian Dodd www.BrianDoddOnLeadership.com

Table Of Contents Passion Louie Giglio Francis Chan Exponential Jim Putman Francis Chan Ed Stetzers Interview With Francis Chan Ed Stetzer Alan and Debra Hirsch Tim Keller Brandon Hatmaker Orange Brian White 8 Michael Lukaszewski 10 Carey Nieuwhof 11 Andy Stanley 13 Jon Acuff 15 Bob Goff 17 Pastors Lunch with Perry Noble, Jeff Henderson, and Carey Nieuwhof 18 *Bonus - Rocket Company Training with Jeff Henderson *Bonus 101 Lessons On Becoming A Better Preacher Chick-Fil-A Leadercast Andy Stanley Henry Cloud John Maxwell Condoleezza Rice 27 28 29 30 20 22 5 5 6 6 6 7 7 Page Number 3 4

Passion 2013
Louie Giglio 1. 2. 3. 4. This is really happening. Everything thing were doing is coming out of the living Word of God. We believe in the God who does immeasurably more. God had a heartbeat for 18-25 years oldthe vast majority of whom dont have a clue why they are on this planet. 5. I am the God of immeasurably more. - what God said to Louie after seeing a clip of 60,000 college students gathered in Seoul, Korea in 1996. 6. Im looking at another stadium of 60,000 people and I believe God is a God of immeasurably more. 7. When we are foolish God intervenes. 8. We get into captivity because of our foolishness and we are more foolish that we want to admit. 9. It is because of our foolishness that we forget who God is. 10. When God breathes He breathes on hard-hearted people. 11. I like that about God. He is always leaning in with tricky questionsHe is gauging our understanding of Him. 12. Whenever God asks you a question, its always a wise answer to say, Our sovereign Lord, only You know. 13. Things can be going crazy and Jesus has an amazing ability to focus in that momentIt doesnt matter whats going on in the Metro Atlanta right now. Jesus can be focused on whats going on in your world. 14. Your life may be messed and your foolishness may have put you into captivity but Jesus can do the whatever it is that is immeasurably more in your life. 15. Ezekiels Lord was big. 16. Jesus is great! He glows like fire! He is radiant in His glory!..Jesus is unrivaled in His glory!..He is asking the question, Do you believe I can do exceedingly more in your life and your generation? 17. The Word of God spoke into the dry bones. His breath filled them, put tendons (repair), and put skin onThen you will know I am GodWhen Jesus comes that will happen. 18. The bound are going to go free because Jesus is in this Dome. 19. I got high when I went to Passion 2012 but Ive been sober ever since. 20. Somebodys got their drugs with you in here at this eventwhen Jesus comes in the bound will go free. 21. This conference is not about religionThis conference is about the fact that sin did not make us bad. Sin made us deadWhen Christ comes, the dead will come to life. 22. Youre going to think we had an eye clinic here because at the end of this conference youre going to be able to seesome for the very first time. 23. Jesus makes the lame walkThe poor are going to be lifted. 24. God always gets the glory when Jesus comes. 25. If Jesus is here we are going to walk out of this place to live our lives to the 3

glory of God the Father. Francis Chan 1. Im going let them nail me to a cross for everything he did wrongIll suffer what Ill need to but Ill save him. Francis thinking about what Jesus did for him. 2. God, I dont want to look relaxed at the next PassionI want to fight. I want to know Im battling and doing something with my life. 3. If you really want to experience Him, then go and make disciples. 4. One of the biggest struggles of my life is walking up to a stranger and telling him about Christ. 5. For those who say I dont experience Jesus. I say Are you making disciples? 6. Yes!!! I finally freak people out! 7. Gods promises, the things He writes in this book (Bible), can be trustedEvery year I am more and more sure of the words in this book. 8. Every year in my life I trust fewer peopleI dont really trust people. 9. There are a ton of people in this room people who were supposed to protect you, abused you. 10. If I die with God I will also live with HimIts not that big a deal. 11. My wife Lisa has been faithful to me for 19 years. 12. If youre faithless Im still faithful. Thats just who I am. God 13. If we cant put up with things on the earth, we are going to reign with Him. 14. Life is difficult but you got to endure it. 15. Im not making a definitive statement but I am giving a warning right nowWhen I read passages about perseverance, if there is a pattern in your life when you get no real joy from the cross, and there is this ongoing pattern of selfishness where you would think about hurting others by killing yourself, it would be wise to consider you are not secure in Christ. 16. My fear is that you thinking you are escaping pain (by suicide), that was not pain and you are in a deeper pain for all of eternity. 17. God is going to fight it (the pain of life) for you. 18. While you trust His promises of blessings but you dont trust His threats of punishment. 19. Some of us have a hard time believing in Gods faithfulness because of how we have behavedDo you think you did something that changed His character. 20. Even though you were faithless, I am faithful. I want you back. Ill buy you back right now. God 21. You dont want to get your hopes. God doesnt want us living that way. 22. Christ really is going to return. Get excited. For more from Louie Giglio and Francis Chan click the following: 17 Inspirational Leadership Quotes By Francis Chan From Passion 2012 9 Reasons Why Passion City Church, Louie Giglio, And Chris Tomlin Are A Contagious Epidemic

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Jim Putman 1. My fear is people will give credit to the wrong things and reproduce the wrong things. 2. My dad, despite the shame I brought upon him, kept lovingTheir life was the real deal. 3. Atheism takes you to a place where you think youre God. And no one wants to live with someone who thinks theyre God. 4. I remember the night I gave my life to the Lord. I just felt new. 5. Asking me to be a pastor was like asking me to be part of a losing team. 6. 90% of Christians will die without ever sharing their faith. 7. What is winning to the church? What should we be measuring? 8. As I look at the church in America, we see our influence waning. 9. Christians cant answer basic Bible questions. 10. Its His (Jesus) church if its under His authority. We have too many people wondering what the people want. 11. His mission is NOT to make converts and it never has been. His mission is to make disciples. 12. A disciple is following Jesusbeing made into something elseis committed to the mission of Jesus. 13. The saddest thing about Christians is they are the loneliest people in the world. 14. AA took everything out of the church that was supposed to be in the church. 15. The sad part of Christianity is that weve built a Christianity that doesnt satisfy souls. 16. We define Christianity in a way that does not work. 17. Jesus is the greatest disciple maker in history. He discipled 12. 18. Why would every pastor want what every teacher hates? Only 20% of people have an auratory learning style. 19. Our people are being converted and then invited to come and watch. 20. Im not against church services. We have them every week. Im just against church services only. Francis Chan 1. The problem is getting people to make disciples is I question how many of them are really believers. 2. How many people who attend our church on Sunday are going to hell? 3. Paul chose to sound dumber than he really wasIm not going to know anything except Christ crucified. 4. Im betting it all on the gospel and that it is going to change people. 5. When have you been part of a church where an unbeliever would walk in and say, Thats impossible? 6. God wants to build a church thats like a family. 5

7. Our kids arent going to survive the way things are right nowFun nights and pizza nights are not going to sustain us. 8. This is the first generation who doesnt believe the future is going to be brighter. 9. More soldiers died by suicide last year than in combat. 10. We got to talk serious about where the world is going. 11. Strengthen what remains and is about to die. 12. I bet there is some of you who would say, I used to love Jesus more. Francis Chan Interview With Ed Stetzer 1. What frustrates me is when I look at Scripture is I want to be that man. To put me as an extremist is destructive. Radical Christian living is sustainable. 2. My own sin keeps me (perceived radical Christian living) from being sustainable. 3. I in no way believe everyone to sell everything they have and move overseas. 4. Of course there are moments when you want to leave (the pastorate) but I dont leave during those moments. 5. The discipleship process is an open life process. The challenge is do you want to open yourself up that much. 6. I see myself as a bi-vocational pastor. I dont make my money by discipling people. 7. Im encouraging people who are already working jobs to become shepherds. 8. I tell them (small group leaders) you are their shepherd. Ed Stetzer 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Discipleship is long obedience is the same direction. Discipleship is lived out in relationship with others. The Gospel is not you do, the Gospel is Jesus did. Attendance is a skewed measurement of success. How every attractive your strategy, its helpful to occasionally look at the results. Winston Churchill It is more valuable for me to disciple two people rather than write a book or speak at a conference. Pastors think the #1 way to disciple people is through their preaching. The people think the #1 way to disciple is with other people. I dont want behavioral modification. I want biblical-based living. What is not a fad is people following Jesus with radical devotion.

Alan and Debra Hirsch 1. You cannot teach what you do not know. You cannot lead where you will not go. 2. A leader never stops being a follower of Jesus. 3. Being a leader doesnt mean we get to point the way. As leaders, we lead the

way. 4. You dont just get to be a leader and rest. 5. If you are a leader, you must be more radical now. Not less. 6. A leader must have current stories. Not old ones. 7. A leader who is a disciple looks as Jesus looked. 8. Leaders who follow Jesus need to embody holiness. Not moralism. 9. Jesuss style of leadership was humble and servant-like. 10. All truth equals subjective changeIf something is true, it must change you. 11. We teach with our lives. Tim Keller 1. One of the problems with discipleship is you cant hideYou have to be a Godly person. 2. Natural temperament always has a dark side because it participates in your idols. 3. Unless youre really a Godly person, discipleship will not work because people arent going to believe you. 4. You cant them where you are not yourself. Brandon Hatmaker 1. What was once a place built on community (the original Starbucks in Seattle) had become so efficient that people were being herded in and out like cattle. They gave the people what they wanted. This is what the church becomes without community. A tour stop for consumers. 2. Community just didnt fill a need in their lives to get plugged in. It gave them purpose. 3. Discipleshift occurs when we as leaders move people from programs to moving them to live on mission. 4. Community without mission is not biblical community. 5. The first a missionary will want to do is engage their culture. 6. They engage culture by identifying their needs and engaging the needs of that culture. 7. Church is what church does. We are what we doIt organizes what it does. If we dont get create the structure that mirrors the vision, well never do it. 8. When people are confused or distracted, the first thing you will lose is mission. 9. If we say we are going to do something (mission) instead of that (another good idea), it communicates the value of the mission. For additional Christian content click the following:
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Disney Executive Brian White I had the privilege of attending a session for senior Christian leaders by Brian White, elder of Discovery Church in Simi Valley, CA and employee of Disney. I wanted to share his thoughts with you on one of the worlds greatest companies. Disney Thinks Orange. 1. Walt Disney was a man with big ideas. He noticed most parents were bored and the children did not want to be there. 2. He was 50 yrs. old when he came up with the big idea of parents and children having fun together. 3. EVERY family member should enjoy church. 4. Each person who attends church should get something out of it. Honor The Past Without Living In It 1. If Disney made it all about nostalgia, the world would pass them by. 2. Walt Disney wasnt really a nostalgic person. We can ill afford to rest on our laurels, even in times to retrospect. Times and conditions change so rapidly we must keep our aim constantly on the future. 3. Walt was fine with Mickey Mouse changing his appearance over the years. 4. Disney bought Marvel for guys in their 20-somethings. 5. We must never forget it was all started by a mouse. 6. The decision to go into movies (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) established the next 60 years of the company. 7. If the church ignores technology, we will pay a price. 8. Our church is 110% interested in reaching the next generation. Being A Good Brand Steward 1. We own one thing intellectual property. A white t-shirt costs $10. Throw a mouse on it and it costs $25. 2. A brand is like a bank account. Everything you do puts value in or takes value out of that brand. 3. The cheap and safe model makes money but takes value away from the brand. 4. We invented Swampy and the other brands started calling us. We added value to the bank account by creating a character. 5. Jesus Christ, the gospel message, is the most important brand that has ever existed. Everything I do, every time I share the gospel, every time I start a ministry I affect the brand. 6. Am I cheapening peoples perception of the gospel or am I cheapening the brand? 7. Sometimes improving the brand is getting out-of-the-way of the next person with a great idea. 8

Dont Even Try To Please Everybody 1. We dont try to please the demanding fan and the hater. The demanding fan has such a high opinion of your company that they have a narrow view of it. A hater hates you. They dont believe what you believe. They dont have the same values. 2. We care about making the best products we can make knowing some people will think we lost our way. 3. Some people want their FREE back. How do you please someone like that? 4. Becoming obsessed with what people think is the quickest way to forget what God thinks. Craig Groeschel The Ideation Process Is Critical 1. If you have a bad ideation process, you will never have good ideas. 2. In Blue Sky Meetings, there are no bad ideas. 3. What if we build a theme park where no one knows the name Disney? Tokyo Disneyland is now the most profitable of all the parks. 4. Art is a team sport. There is no way for one person to do a piece of art anymore. 5. Any idea that comes forth can be a great idea even if it is not from a person you expect. 6. For churches, the visionaries need to be setting direction but you need an ideation process to make the ideas come at. 7. Crazy ideas needs to be entertained. Concentrate On Psychographics, Not Demographics 1. Psychographics is getting into the mind of your customer, the person walking through your door. 2. Think like a compass Needs Wants Stereotypes (Positive, Negative) Emotions. 3. We want lines to be there (Disneyland). Its a sign that things are successful. 4. Someone comes to church on a Sunday morning, what is their need? What is their want? What are their stereotypes (positive, negative)? What are the emotions feel as people come in? Great Staff Members Require Three Yeses 1. What do I get to do? 2. Who do I get to work with? 3. Am I a valued contributor?

Synergy + Focus = Synchronized Energy 1. Creativity + Innovation is the #1 thing. 2. You might have a lot of siloed ministries. Is anyone looking at all of it seeing how it connects? 3. Scrum is when a whole bunch of people go down the field together hoping to score. We manage scrum principles to managing projects. 4. In my 15 year career at Disney, there is nothing that has made more progress in my career than implementing a Scrum Board. 5. No one is an enemy anymore, because everyone is in a scrum together. Michael Lukaszewski Michael Lukaszewski of The Rocket Company (and oh by the way my boss) gave a great message on helping pastors and church leaders better connect with their audience. 1. If you can speak to a room full of teenagers, that takes some skill. I tell pastors if they want to improve to speak to teenagers. They wont put up with stuff. 2. I improved my communication by speaking to a room full of people who didnt want to be there. 3. Most presentations fall flatPeople endure it. 4. The missing ingredient is connectivity. Connectivity is the art of connecting your message to your audience by capturing their attention in order to engage their hands and hearts. 5. Connection, not information, makes a difference. 6. When you connect with your congregation, that is when they pay attention. That is when the Holy Spirit gets through. 7. If you cant answer the question of what is the single most persuasive idea (in your sermon), then know no one in your audience will know either. 8. People remember stories. People remember statements. 9. Remembering statements dont happen because we preach. They happen because they were crafted. 10. At the 10 minute mark, the brain starts wondering when this will be over. 11. Steve Jobs comes out with something new and interesting every 10 minutes. 12. A great communicator does not give the brain time to get bored. 13. Formulas create freedom. 14. Turn ideas into word pictures so everyone can understand it. 15. We remember things even if theyre wrong because theyre wrong. 16. Political writers use echo all the time. An echo is a word or phrase and repeating it in the 2nd half of your sentence. 17. Forgiven people forgive. 18. Proverbs is almost all contrast. The righteous do this. The wicked do that. Would you rather die from something or for something. 19. A hook is repeating it over and over and over again. 20. Information is life-changing but it is how it is packaged that causes the audience to lean in. 21. Your sermon preparation should start with the scripture. I dont think your 10

sermon should. You start your sermon with where your congregation is. Jesus did this. 22. The people attending your church on Sunday already believe something about what youre talking about. 23. If you start with where people are, they will lean it and you can take them on a journey. 24. Having a topic is not the same as having a point. 25. People used to come in with an automatic Im going to listen to the pastor. They dont do that anymore. 26. If people like you, they will listen to you. 27. One of the most important things you can do in the first five minutes of the message, is to do something to make people like you. 28. People dont always like to listen to the experts. Sometimes they like to listen to a fellow struggler. 29. Likability is the single most important quality of a pastor. Vance Havner 30. Assume the worst. Assume that your congregation or audience could care less about what you have to say. If you do that, you will do the hard work it takes to connect. 31. You have to go through the process to get a product. 32. What God has called you to is important. Carey Nieuwhof This morning I had the privilege of attending a session for senior Christian leaders by my friend Carey Nieuwhof, Senior Pastor of Connexus Community Church in Toronto on the subject of change. In my opinion, Carey has the best leadership blog on the internet. To get additional thoughts from this incredible leader, you can check it out his blog by clicking here. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Leadership can sometimes be lonely. If you look at where the church is going, change is going to be on the agenda. The longer I lead the less I trust myself. There is a difference between whether you are doing something or are you doing it well. Change is exhausting. I will be letting a younger generation make more and more calls as I move into my 50s. They have a better pulse on todays culture. Many churches have frozen into a particular year. Some are in the 50s. Some are in the 60s. Some contemporary churches are frozen in the 90s. They arent contemporary anymore. Sometimes you have to say, Youre a praying person. Im a praying person. We both love Jesus. Now lets talk about strategy. Spiritual leadership can become a mask for conflict.

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5 Shifts That Help Create An Appetite For Change Shift One Understand Why People Resist Change 1. People crave what they already like. 2. Our cravings form behavioral patterns. People who attend your church love it the way it is. That is why they are there. The people who dont attend your church dont. 3. People change when the pain associated with the status quo is greater than the pain associated with change. 4. Leaders have a greater appetite for change than those who follow. This creates tension in your church. You behave one way as a leader and another way as a follower. Shift Two Plot Trajectory To Determine Whats At Stake 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Unimplemented change eventually becomes relief or regret. As a leader you must decide if you want your story to be about relief or regret. Incremental change ushers in incremental results. 60% of those who attend Connexus have no church background. The Kingdom of God really, really demands our best. Radical change has the potential power to usher in radical results. (Regarding change) the last 10% is the hardest. Because the people who resist change still have something to hold on to and now youre taking that away. 8. Change can happen in five years. Transformation takes seven. 9. Four Sundays a month is disappearing. Regular attendance in now 2-3 Sundays a month. 10. Plot out where you will be if you dont change. Plot out where you could be if you do change. 11. Your job as a leader is paint a picture of the future and call people to it. 12. The greatest enemy of our future success is your current success. Shift Three Raise The Level Of Discontent 1. Create discontent in a good way. 2. Out of discontent great things get birthed. 3. Create discontent out of the potential of your mission, the progress of your mission, the gap in your mission of what is and what could be, the urgency of your mission. 4. As leaders, you are dreamers. You see great things of what could be. 5. Transfer the tension that comes with the appetite for change from the leader to the community. 6. When you cast vision, focus twice as much as why you do what do rather than what and how. Why unites, while what and how divide. 7. The only leadership question that unites people is Why? 8. Only the most selfish people say I dont care about the rest of the world. They

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can go to hell. 9. Communicate the need for change in concentric circles. Dialogue with the core. Get input from committed people. Give information to the congregation. Give vision to the crowd. And finally, give an invitation to the community. 10. Getting input from 100s and 1000s of people in your church can kill change. 11. Dont look for consensus. Consensus kills courage. Change never happens when everyone has a say. 12. You will never get consensus. 13. You are a leader because you will do things other people dont do. 14. Reserve decisions exclusively for the body that must make decisions. Shift Four Prepare For Drama 1. We are attracted to the drama in other peoples lives but resist it in our own. 2. We pay for drama. 3. Most Christians would forbid their children to participate in the Bible stories we read to them. 4. Most Christians pray for a changed outcome and then pray against any drama necessary to bring the outcome about. 5. There is no story without drama. You want the right kind of drama in your drama. 6. To lead effectively introduces the drama necessary for the outcomes to change. Shift Five Never Arrive 1. 2. 3. 4. Focus on where you are going, not when youll arrive. When you stop changing, you die. Value experimentation. I dont know where the church is going the next 10 years, but it is going to require a lot of experimentation. 5. Embrace failure as a step toward progress. 6. Celebrate the progress you make. 7. A lasting appetite for change develops naturally in people and organizations who truly embrace their mission. Andy Stanley Andy Stanley destroyed many of our assumptions about how to effectively communicate to students and young people. Reggie Joiner 1. Words matter and what you do every week matters.

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Ken Coleman 1. Words are strategically used in questions. 2. Good questions inform. Great questions transform. 3. By the time we reach the 8th grade, the average person is only asking 2-3 questions a day. 4. Our education system is driving out curiosity. Were training them to answer questions. 5. Great leaders are always asking questions. 6. The most successful people are continually asking questions. 7. We can become so obsessed with whats next that we miss the now. And by missing the now, we often miss whats next. 8. At some point life happens. Andy Stanley 1. We have for generations, Evangelicals perceived ourselves as being the majority. Anytime that happens, they speak with an element of authority whether they have that authority or not. 2. Were not the majority anymoreWe keep talking like were the majority and we look foolish. 3. In the first century they knew they werent the majority. They were lion food. 4. Once upon a time a handful of people believe Jesus raised from the dead. 2000 years later a third of world believes that. Its going to be OK. 5. Whenever youre in the majority, you outreach your authority. 6. Approach determines peoples response to what we have to say. 7. We must adapt our approaches to connect with our target audiences. 8. How do you win as many as people as possible? I change my approach. 9. My goal isnt to be right. My goal isnt to make a point. My goal is to win those under the law. 10. My goal isnt for people who agree with me to agree with me. 11. I adjust my approach depending on my audience. 12. There is a goal and an approach. When you prioritize the approach over the goal, youre out of business. 13. You have inherited an approach that assumes consensus among biblical authority. 14. Engaging people with the text has more to do with your approach than the scripture. 15. We live in a world that does not view the scriptures and Bible the same way you do. 16. Anytime you choose a passage and stay there, this is a win in a biblically illiterate culture. 17. A Bible story is a terrible word. Its better than a story. We think it actually happened. Its not a story. Its history. 18. Bring your energy to the text. 19. Nobody reads anything because its inspired. You read things because you want

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to read it and discover its true. 20. Give people permission not to believe or obey the scriptures. I Cor 5:1213 When you give the permission not to believe or obey, they are more likely to believe or obey. 21. When you give non-Christians an out, they begin to lean in. 22. The attraction of the church is looking at all of those one-anothers oneanothering one-another. They will want to be a part of that. 23. The attraction of the early church was looking at how they love one another. 24. We dont believe Jesus is the Son of God because the Scripture is inerrant. We believe Jesus is the Son of God because Jesus rose from the dead. 25. The foundation of our faith is not the Bible. The foundation of our faith is an event in history. 26. Weve got to teach in a way that always ties things back to Jesus. 27. Our approach that weve used has set our children up for disaster in college. 28. The foundation of your faith is not historical Adam and Eve. The foundation of your faith is that people who expected to find a body did not find a body. 29. Dont refer to the Bible as a book. The Bibles not a book. Its way better than a book. 30. Cite authors, not the Bible. 31. Every single time you say something about the author you tie that author to history. 32. We shouldnt expect rationale people to think Jesus raised from the dead because the Bible says so. 33. Dont ever use the phrase biblical marriage again ever. Can you even think of a good biblical marriage? Use the term Christian marriageJust go home for a day, you dont even need to believe this, and submit to one another. 34. I submit to Sandra out of reverence of what Jesus did for me. 35. Acknowledge the odd as odd. There are some odd things in the Bible. Dont be afraid of that. 36. You believe the Old Testament is true because Jesus believed the Old Testament is true. 37. Dont create the impression that one must choose between faith and science. 38. Science is the search for natural explanations. 39. Just say, Oh, so thats how God did it. 40. We want people to find natural causes. We want people to find out the reasons why things work the way they work. 41. It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. Acts 15:18 NIV Jon Acuff on Social Media 1. Its easy to go viral. Its difficult to go vital. 2. The best way to make sure something doesnt viral is to try to make something go viral. 3. Social media has leveled the playing field. 4. Now is a great time to be a leader. 5. There are encore careers. There are 55 yr. olds who are starting their career

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again. 6. Anyone can play. The internet can level the playing field. 7. The internet is still swallowing up industries. 8. The internet is still giving a lot of people a lot of opportunities. 9. Hope is boss. Hope is the new currency for this generation. 10. If we get the principles right, the technology is just a means. 11. Honesty is the most important thing in social media. 12. The people you are trying to reach have been exposed to more talent than anyone in history. 13. There is not a person in this room who would say we have gotten more honest in the last 20 years. 14. Getting caught doesnt make you honest. It makes you exposed. 15. The next generation grew up around Marketing and they can spot it. 16. You can only control the starting line. You have no control over the finish line. 17. As leaders, its our job to go first. 18. When you go first, you give everyone else the gift of going second. 19. If you wont admit weakness, they wont trust anything else you say. 20. What fear fears is community. 21. With social media, you have the tools to create a space where someone can say, Me too. 22. Dont engage with haters. 23. Hate only gets loud when youre doing something that matters. No one throws rocks at someone laying down. 24. Leaders dont know how to take a compliment or an insult. 25. Critics Math 1 insult + 1000 compliments = 1 insult. 26. Were here to herd sheep, not take care of goats. 27. Churches spend too much time trying to get people who don t like them to like them rather than getting people to love Jesus. 28. We are the first generation in the history of mankind who has to have a digital footprint conversation with their children. 29. Its not about keeping up with technology. Its about maintaining truth. 30. Random parents dont show up for sleepovers. That is what we need to do with Facebook. 31. Go to where your crowd already is. It is just a question of if you will be part of the conversation. 32. If you have a big event coming up in a month, you need to designate a Twitter intern. Someone at your church is already an expert on social media. 33. When a new platform gets out, sprint there and get a spot. But dont spend a lot of time there if it doesnt take off. 34. I go to Vine a lot. 35. People who visit your site dont care about your flash site. They care what times your service is. 36. The human brain hates new ideas. It is very active and the brain must retrain itself to accept new ideas. 37. If you lose someone at the beginning of an interaction, they dont come back to the middle.

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38. Christians confess safe sins. 39. You should survey your church to see what platform theyre on. 40. Shock closes ears. Surprise opens hearts. 41. Churches should put your Hashtag feed on your site. 42. Do a promo vs. content ratio. 43. Schedule your tweets. Life is fun. 44. My wife has never said, Enough about me. What about Twitter. 45. If I say Yes to everyone who wants to have coffee, I would never be the guy everyone wants to have coffee with. Andy Stanley 46. Social media will empty pastors out if youre not careful. 47. The first lie is the phone will give you more free time. Bob Goff The morning session kick off with best-selling author Bob Goff and an interview with Jeff Shinabarger on the subject of generosity and what is really enough. The comments below are from Bob unless otherwise noted. 1. If you want to know where people who follow Jesus have been, follow the wet tennis shoes marks. We should leak Jesus. 2. Some of you are weird. You are. Thats just how you were wired to be. 3. Were posing. Were just faking it. Were afraid of who God made us to be. 4. Who are you? What do you want? Those are two great questions to ask. 5. Jesus, as time went by got more and more available. 6. Every time I answer the phone, every time you do an act a kindness, you answer the question Is it really true? 7. Were called to lift up the hurting. 8. We lift each other up. You dont let go until we have five strong people holding you up. 9. Jesus just held everybody close. We have people running around holding people accountable when they just need to hold them close. 10. Dont have any expectations. Are you kidding me? We are kids of the King! 11. Every single Thursday I quit something. 12. What if were picky about what we see? 13. What does my wife want? She wants me home. Must be present to win. 14. Lets keep our eyes fixed on Jesus. You get that part right. You get everything right. 15. Whats the word you hate most Cant. 16. What are you made to do? Not what you are able to do. What are you made to do? 17. If you change the world and your marriage fails, you lose. Jeff 18. Influence isnt about the numbers. Its about influencing one individual person. Jeff 19. We all want generosity in our lives but weve never drawn a line about what is enough. Jeff

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Carey Nieuwhof, Jeff Henderson and Perry Noble Pastors Lunch

Brian with Perry Noble and Carey Nieuwhof There are perks to leadership and there is a price to leadership. I got to experience one of the perks! In an effort to help churches succeed, The Rocket Company dispatched me to the Orange Conference in Atlanta, GA to gather leadership lessons and insights to pass on to you. I just attended a special lunch for pastors only that was highlighted by a Q & A between Carey Nieuwhof, Jeff Henderson, and Perry Noble. In a word UNBELIEVABLE!!! This is one of the BEST events I have ever attended!!! Perry Noble 1. In 2000, we were planting a church and I was broke. 2. A dynamic Childrens Ministry is essential for a thriving churchWe want them in environments where they can have fun and learn about Jesus on their level. 3. If youre doing church right, you offend someone every week. 4. I dont believe in fundraisers for youth and childrens group. The pastor should be the chief fundraiser for them. It is a sin to put them in front of Wal-Mart. Our kids have gotten everything they have ever needed. 5. Disney is spending money on them. Hollywood is spending money on them. But the church screams if they need $500 and then sends them to WalMart. 6. Staff that doesnt have unity on the staff will never have unity in the church. You will not have vision. You will have division. 7. Parent only care about three things when they bring their kids to church. Clean. Safe. Fun. 18

8. I hear people say, Fun aint the goal. Well, Heaven is going to suck for you. 9. We never told our daughter never to do something because it would look bad on the church or daddy. 10. Im not obsessed with what people think because I want to be a great husband and father. 11. Love always assumes the best. Ive got her (daughters) back far more than the opinion of others. 12. My wifes ministry in the church is to me. She can do things for me no one else in the church can do for me. 13. Opportunity does not equal obligation. 14. Jesus did not play to the expectations of people. He did what His Heavenly Father called Him to do. 15. If you dont control your schedule, youre not leading yourself or your family. 16. Deep in most church settings means confusing. A non-Christian has never asked me about going deep. 17. Time, not content, produces spiritual growth. 18. Every spiritual growth metaphor in the Bible is agricultural, not technological. Agriculture takes time. 19. In most discipleship classes in churches, the burden is not easy and the yoke is not light. 20. Were a church where change takes place. 21. The only organization that resisted change the most is the church. Its also important that the population in America is increasing while church attendance is decreasing. 22. Were willing to answer the questions people are asking. Nobody coming to your church Sunday cares about Calvinism. 23. Nobody wants to hear you speak for 45 minutes. 24. When we meet them where they are, answer their questions, they are more open to what the Bible says. 25. Were going to go after people I have a heart for. 26. Too many churches are over-programmed. 27. When you have to manufacture energy for something, its time to kill it. 28. When Gods done with you in ministry, hell kill you. Jeff Henderson 1. The male population serving in family ministry continues to decline. 2. There are boys in our church and community who have no idea what a positive male Christian role model looks like. 3. I know what my role is senior pastor, fundraiser, hire the right people and get out of the way. 4. Kids are an easier sale than the adultsEven the worst parents in the world will take their kids to church if they want to go to church. 5. For the family ministry I dont have a customer (child) in, I pay them especial attention. 6. Every year I have five goals I want to accomplish in five areas of my life.

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7. (To have balance) You have to say, No. 8. My most important ministry is with my family, not the church. 9. Our spiritual growth strategy is for you to do what were doing. 10. If youre not giving financially, there is something wrong with your heart. 11. Im a starter. Thats what I do. 12. If you want to feel like a celebrity, go to NewSpring and turn on your flashers as a first-time guest. 13. The sermon starts in the parking lot. 14. The key to the church growing is the enthusiasm of the person in the parking lot. 15. When my family ministry says we have enough men, only then will I start a mens ministry. I want them serving. 16. Job security is tied to killing ministry. When someone says, Something isnt working. I want to kill it. Thats good leadership. They are more interested in the vision than the ministry. Thats the person I want to keep. Carey Nieuwhof 1. There is power of another voice in a childs life. 2. Family ministry is a value, not a program. 3. One of the effectiveness of an Orange Church is that the senior pastor owns the vision for family ministry. 4. My wife and family would do what they would normally do because their Christians, not because Im the pastor. 5. Without a filter, everything sounds compelling.

Jeff Henderson From The Rocket Company Training Meetings

In an effort to help churches succeed, the leadership of The Rocket Company is pulling back the curtain and show you how we train our team members. Jeff Henderson of Gwinnett Church, one of the North Point Community Church campuses, provided some invaluable coaching for our team. We felt the content was so rich that we wanted to share it with all church leaders. 1. In every marriage there is the Wow and the How. 2. If you dont execute, a dream is just a nap. 3. Our dreams should outstretch us. Where people get overwhelmed is the dreams get stuck. 4. Five Life Goals Family, Spouse, Financial, Career/Work, Health. If Jesus doesnt show up in these, I have failed. Jesus doesnt need to be a separate category. 5. My wife and kids are separated. I didnt marry my kids. Many times when they go away to college, the marriage suffers. 6. I break down how Im doing on my goals on a quarterly basis. 7. You have a 30-day review, a quarterly review, and an annual review. But the most important is looking at it weekly because it helps me execute. 20

8. Life will lead you or you will lead your life. 9. I hire great people and get out of the way. 10. I cast vision, I raise money, and I encourage the staff. 11. What are the three things Ive got to do this week? 12. A lot of people have big dreams. They get impatient and then they walk away. 13. First, reflect on your last week. 14. What fuels things is how I feel. If I dont feel good, it affects how I am as a husband and how I am as a dad. 15. Second, look at your weekly goals. This helps focus on strategic relationships. 16. I have a goal of writing three thank-you notes a week. 17. Third is tools. This ultimately leads to three goals, things I want to accomplish this week. The secret is looking at this for two minutes a day. 18. I have a reading goal every week. 19. The best thing about this is it lets me know when Im behind. 20. The goal is not perfection. The goal is progressI believe in steady plodding. 21. Only 3% of Americans have goals. Only 1% write them down. But that 1% exponentially achieves their goals over others. 22. There are curriculum goals and measurable goals. 23. Prepare your spouse to be a widow. The people that didnt have life insurance are the ones who needed it. 24. If I get wins early in the week, it gets me going for the rest of the week. 25. The most difficult person I lead is me. 26. There is humility and there is false humility. 27. For creative people, every canvas has a border. Songs are three minutes on the radio. Every great painting has a frame. 28. Steve Jobs says, Real artists ship the product. 29. In the church world, Im relying on the Holy Spirit is code for I havent done the work. 30. Stephen Kings goal is to write a 1000 words-a-day six-days-a-week. Bonus Frustration is when you are this close to figuring out something you dont know. Casey Graham For additional posts regarding Casey and other great Christian leaders click the following: 33 Lessons On Tribal Leadership I Learned From Casey Graham 10 Posts Expressing Love, Support, and Prayers For Rick Warren And His Family 7 Websites Every Christian Should Read On A Daily Basis The Type Of Leader God Uses To Grow A Church Part 1 Of My Interview With Ike Reighard 22 Leadership Quotes From Brad Lomenicks Interview With Worship Leader Chris Tomlin 23 Facts About Courageous Pastors A Profile Of Dr. Robert Jeffress Of First Baptist Church Dallas, TX 12 Unique Characteristics Of A Church That Has No Limitations

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101 Lessons On Becoming A Better Preacher And Teacher

On April 13th, Crawford Loritts, Senior Pastor of Fellowship Bible Church in Roswell, GA, conducted an incredible seminar on effective preaching and teaching. All who were in attendance went to another level as communicators. One thing you will notice as you read Crawfords words is his incredible use of language and desire to invest in the next generation of pastors and Christian leaders. 1. The gifts of the Bible are not gender specificPositions are gender specific but not the gifting. 2. What I say about preaching is also true about teaching. 3. Preaching is important because it is the God-ordained method. 4. Preaching has fallen on hard times because is has to be transferable, accepted by the audience, and demands response. 5. We now define preaching based upon communication models. 6. God delights in doing nonsensical things to show His glory. 7. We are so concerned with how people respond that we have neutered the messageStop trying to make it make sense. 8. Biblical preaching is not mired in a transactional communication model. 9. Your ministry is defined by proclamation of the Word of God, not strategy. 10. Preaching and teaching does not mean everything in your ministry. But preaching and teaching starts all the fires in your ministry. 11. Preaching does not depend on how you feel. 12. You will always have trends that break with transcendence. The human heart has a need to be affirmed, not directed. Therefore, good preaching must be directive. 13. When you stand in front of people your primary motivation is not to do wellIt is not to experience self-actualization. The only reason why you preach and teach is to be a vehicle for transformationYouve got to settle that piece. 14. Dont ever stand in front of a group of people with a Bible in your hand and not expect changeThat book youre holding is THEVERYLIVINGWORDOFGOD. You must expect God is going to use youI expect lives will be changed. 15. Over time the effectiveness as a preacher/teacher will explode from the holiness of your personal life. 16. Over time, hypocrisy always causes us to collapse. The greatest preachers of alltime were passionate about being Godly. You are the visible representation of the truth you are declaringYou dont separate the gift from who you are. 17. Holiness and godliness bring power to what you are doing. 18. The pleasure of God will always eclipse the gifts of God. 19. When you preach or teach you always reveal far more about yourself than you intend to. You are always auto-biographical. 20. Preaching is both a gift and a calling. 21. Preaching is a very lonely calling because some people are not going to like what you say. 22

22. You dont preach because you want to do it. You have to do it. Youre compelled to do it. 23. Preaching is a message from God for the people at a moment in history. 24. Gods messages are not necessarily initiated by a committee. 25. You can not separate intimacy with God with Gods voice through you. 26. One of the most humbling things about preaching is you learn you are not omniscient. 27. You should be just as fervent with 5 people as you are with 50,000. You learn to be faithful. God aint going to trust you with a platform if you cant handle this. Those 5 people are valuable. 28. I can always tell when a dude is tired and just mailing it in. 29. Be fearless in your preaching. Not obnoxious. There is a difference between holy boldness and obnoxiousness. 30. People pleasing will kill your effectiveness as a preacher. Most with public ministries struggle with this. It will inject embalming fluid into your effectivenessYou will one day wake up feeling like you were afraid to tell the truth. 31. Commitment to truth will cost you relationships. Youre going to pay a price. 32. You cant handle hot truth coolly. 33. Godliness, not desire, is the prerequisite for God to do great things in human history. 34. The most important thing you can ever do in your life is to pray Gods will. What do You want to do in my life? 35. Preaching is like cutting the grass. You dare not admire it because you have to do it again next week. 36. There is a difference between fruitfulness and immediate response. 37. For some people, fruitfulness for you will be multiplied in the next generation. 38. Every time you open your Bible in front of people, you have an appointment with God and God has an appointment with people. The preaching and teaching moment is a celebration of the work and power of the Spirit of God. 39. Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the spotlight is being put on Jesus and Truth is being made clear in their lives. You are not giving a speech. You are not giving a talk. You are a vessel that the Spirit of God is speaking through. 40. You cannot separate the Word of God, the proclaimer, the Spirit of God, and audience. The preacher is like a great symphony conductor. For me to be effective, I must become the music Im conducting. I am the seamless instrument between the music that is to be performed and the audience who will enjoy it. You stand there not in Gods way. Youre not just delivering content but worshipping the God who gave it to you. 41. Dont make apologies for being spiritual when you preach. Who are you trying to be? Jay Leno? 42. When you stand to preach you are not there to impress them with how smart you are. 43. Filling of the Spirit is normative filling, walking, dont quench, dont grieve. Anointing is occasional. Empowering for a specific task. 44. God will bless His Word but can also spank you.

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45. No one ever truly compartmentalizes. We manage certain things but we are holistic. God wants to use a transparent vessel. Barriers being down is a prerequisite for being filled with the Spirit. Dont ask God to use you if you arent willing to run from sin. 46. Holy passion is intellectual and emotional believability. 47. There are some pastors who dont know the difference between hip-hop and Bach. 48. Our cuteness can take away from divine relevance. 49. You got to know how to use PowerPoint and visuals. The anointing of God is on you, not the technology. It is there to simply help you. The message has been given to you. 50. The greatest deficiency in most exposition is powerlessness. 51. As a preacher you must make a life-long commitment to two things: Diligent, serious study of the scriptures. Moment by moment dependence on the Holy Spirit. 52. You dont want to ever be in a situation where God takes His hand off of you. 53. Effective ministry always advances from human weakness, not human strength. 54. God uses us because we are inadequate. 55. When you are used of God, it is the celebration of the supernatural. Not of your gifts. You must separate your giftedness from how you are used. 56. The strength is not in the gift. The strength is in the Giver. 57. Accept the compliments. Dont be falsely humble. Say Thank You. 58. There are times you dont know when God is using you. Youre just preaching through a storm. 59. There are times when youre preaching in the Holy Spirit that youre a spectator into what God is doing. 60. Great preachers are good communicators. But great communicators are not necessarily even preachers. 61. Communicators makes speeches. Preachers deliver messages. 62. Communicators tend to be audience-centered and they want the content to be embraced. 63. Every message in the Bible, there is a clear action statement or it is strongly implied. When you preach, people must do something or you havent preached. 64. Preaching requires people to walk away from where they are and to where God wants them to be. 65. God wants His Word to be believed and acted upon. 66. Truth is core to preaching or you have nothing to say. 67. God speaks through who you are. Dont try to change yourself. Dont adopt someone elses identity. Dont be a C-minus replication of Tim Keller. 68. Dont chase diamonds in someone elses yard when you have gold in yours. 69. You will not preach any better than your personal growth. 70. Guard the deposit and stir up the gift. Look at whats been given to you. Youve got your own Ground Zero. 71. Learn from others but preach like yourself. Do not have a favorite preacher that you listen to all the time. You will become a C-minus clone. Do not have two favorite preachers or you will get confused. Listen to about four or five that you

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rotate. 72. Find your own voice and find your own rhythm. 73. Some of the reasons messages are terrible is that we are not readers. We have to be learners. 74. Too much preaching is emotive. You are missing people who are thinkers. You have to read and write. 75. Write a page in your journal every day and you will be amazed at how it helps your preaching. It forces you to think organizationally. 76. The biggest mistake most of us make is that we dont quiet our souls before we speak. 77. I need to know more than just what I am going to say. It has to coalesce in my soul. 78. We dont spend enough time soaking in the implications of what were saying. Prepare enough ahead of time so that you can soak. 79. A lot of messages lack seasoning. 80. The people are not an audience you deliver content to. You have to love the people you are speaking to and they need to feel the love coming through you. 81. Biblical exposition is not a running commentary. The reason most pastors dont do good Biblical exposition is that it takes a lot of work. 82. Exposition just means a passionate explanation of the text. 83. Dont jump to interpretation before you have done observation. Dont assume observation. Know what is being said (in the text). 84. I need to be informed by the authors intent (not mine) and centered on the (texts) main idea. 85. It makes no difference how you (the preacher) understand it (the text). It matters if they understand it. Stubborn people make terrible communicators. It is the clarity you want to give your audience. 86. Some of us are random and our messages sound like it. Some of us should not become victims to our emotions but to use them. Submit your emotions to the passage. 87. Organization is the biggest problem with younger preachers because we view it as an enemy. 88. I submit myself to an outline to protect myself from becoming random. 89. The goal of preaching is for people to remember what you said and act on it. The goal is transformation and transference. 90. The modeling of discipleship is what preaching is all about. If a person cannot pick up their Bible and walk through your passage and remember what you said, you failed. 91. If you are a Christian speaker, unchurched people are assuming youre a Christian speaker and are going to say something about God. 92. In your introduction, dont sell more than you can deliver. 93. Big idea preaching that lacks points has a problem in that sometimes people dont know how you came to that idea from the text. 94. The more points you have, the more repetition you need in order for it to be remembered. 95. Illustrations serve the truth. They are not a corollary truth. The illustration

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sheds light on the truth. It does not replace the truth. 96. Great preachers are like great batters in baseball. Great batters can hit the ball wherever its pitched. Great preachers preach the way the text is presented. They preach wherever the text is going. 97. The way you grow as a preacher is what does the text say, how did the author present it, and how can I give it clarity the way the author meant it. 98. Great preachers repeat themselves an awful lot. You cant repeat yourself enough. 99. Dont confuse the dining room with the kitchen. Exegesis is the details and the content. Thats the kitchen. Exposition is putting the cake in the dining room. 100. When youre preaching, youre not there to let everyone know everything you know about the passage. Youre there to deliver a message. Your outline serves the message. It is not the message. Dont confuse rhetoric with the message. 101. The greatest thing you can do is bring people into the presence of Gods Word and get out-of-the-way. For more from Crawford and other great leaders click the following links:
15 Multi-Ethnic Pastors That Caucasian Pastors And Christian Leaders Should Listen To 8 Signs You Are Leading A Spirit Filled Church 8 Ways To Raise A Spoiled And Entitled Child The Biggest Mistake Church Leaders Make

14 Habits Of Highly Successful Motivational Leaders 10 Habits Of Highly Effective Stewardship Pastors 10 Things I Want To Say To A Departing Friend And Leader 7 Leadership Lessons From Beth Moore Preaching At Passion City Church 20 Habits Of Highly Inspirational Leaders 3 Lessons Every Pastor And Church Leader Should Know About Evangelizing Senior Adults 11 Practices Of The Most Effective Volunteer Your Church Could Ever Have What Improvisation, Art, and Music Can Teach Us About Delivering Great Sermons I Was Wrong About Saving Seats At Church 10 Signs Your Christianity Has Become Too Comfortable What Sport Clips Teaches Us About Men And Church Attendance Is It OK To Thank God For Your Smokin Hot Wife 18 Practices Of Highly Effective Churches Who Partner With Their Local Schools What Adults Are Thinking When They Start Going To Church Again

10 Things Pastors Should Know About Thanking Wealthy People A Weekly Social Media Strategy For Pastors 12 Ways Pastors And Church Leaders Can Create A Generosity Mob In Their Church 10 Leadership Practices Of The Future Passion City Church What I Learned Sitting Beside A Muslim On An Airplane For Two Hours 23 Lessons Coffee Taught Me About Reaching The Unchurched

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The Chick-Fil-A Leadercast

Andy Stanley The first speaker was Andy Stanley, the great pastor of North Point Community Church in Atlanta, GA. There is no better communicator of leadership than Andy. 1. The only way I know how to succeed is to focus on where I add value. Michael Hyatt 2. Im never the smartest person in the world. Im just the leader. 3. We always know there are smarter people in the room. 4. The only way for me to move forward was to take complicated things and make them simple. 5. All the smart people taught themselves not to try things. 6. One of the most important things you can do is surround yourself with smarter people. 7. Level 5 leaders have the humility to aspire to be the dumbest person in the room. Jim Collins 8. If you are in a growing organization, whether there is growth or expansion comes complexity. It is unavoidable. 9. Complexity is the enemy of clarity. 10. Clarity is the most important thing. 11. We knew we were going to be a big church because if you have the only hot dog stand in town, your hot dogs dont have to be that good. 12. As a leader in a complex organization, you need a place you can retreat to. 13. What are we doing? Why are we doing it? Where do I fit in? 14. There is extraordinary power when you can reduce the organization down to answering what is the one thing we are doing? 15. You are ladies and gentlemen serving ladies and gentlemen. Ritz Carlton 16. The mist in your mind will become a fog in an organization is you are not able to communicate your mission with clarity. 17. If you dont know exactly what youre doing, you are going to have a hard time doing it. 18. Once upon a time your company didnt exist. Once upon a time your company was an ideaWhy are doing this? Why are you willing to waste your capital to do this? 19. Somewhere in the midst of all the complexity is the reason you why are doing this. 20. There is a reason you are harnessing the hearts of people as to why you are doing this. 21. People who can answer this feel like team members. If you dont, they feel like employees. 22. What is your unique contribution? What are you doing that if you dont do it, it doesnt get done. 23. You need to create for you and for your direct reports a one-sentence job description. 24. In my industry if you cant keep people awake for 35 minutes, they put you in 27

charge. 25. To inspire our staff and congregations to remain fully engaged in our mission and strategy. Andys job description 26. To keep Andys path clear of nonessential tasks and decisions so that he can do what only he can do. Andys Administrative Assistance one sentence-job description 27. Youre a leader so things are going to grow. Growth creates complexity. Complexity requires simplicity. 28. We create churches unchurched people love to attend. Henry Cloud 1. Simplicity, from a neuro-science and practical standpoint, is one of the most important things you can do to get the people to work the plan. 2. The real work is to get the people to work the plan. 3. Create Necessary Endings This is when the worst thing a leader can do is think there is hope in a situation. 4. The experts prune a rose bush in three contexts A rose bush creates more buds than it can sustain. Which of the buds are the best and prune the rest. The best buds need the resources of the vine. Some branches are sick and not going to get well. And there is the dead stuff. 5. The life of the company was in about 20% of its activities. The best buds need the resources. 6. It is during the leadership pruning that we need courage. 7. There is a point when you have to realize as a leader that you are attached to, and everything you have done is not going to change anything. They are resistant to change, sick, and not going to get well. Their season has passed. 8. Sometimes leaders get so invested in something. That season has passed and its over. 9. Why did it take a bankruptcy judge to shut down Pontiac?The hardest one is when a person is involved. 10. Sometimes it is not best for anybody, or the investment that has been made, because of the logjam they have caused. 11. Hoarders by definition are in denial. 12. A co-dependent is someone who has another persons life flash before them right before they die. 13. There is a hoarder pattern in business. They have been taught they have to be the source for everything. 14. How many cultures and teams are stuck in when we did this or when we did that. Yesterday is gone. Throw away the prom dress. 15. Focused Attention You can have a lot of projects going at once, your brain can only focus at one time. 16. Great leaders lead people in ways that their brains can actually follow them. 17. They create for people focused attention where peoples brains can follow them.

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18. The brain must 1. Attend to what is relevant. 2. Inhibit everything else. 3. Create a working memory. Great leaders do these three things in a multitude of ways. 19. If everything is important, nothing is important. 20. Goals are primarily met not because of desire. It is what gets prioritized. 21. Your brains work on oxygen, glucose, and the simplicity of relationship. 22. In trauma states they can sue you, take assets ways, or go across the street. 23. Whats it like for you? Whats it like for you clients? 24. Sometimes the heat of what is going on in bad situations, the brain begins to break down and change. 25. Create structures where you team gets encouragement from the people and the people with you. John Maxwell 1. The business schools reward complex behavior. But its the simple behavior that make you successful in life. Warren Buffet 2. Educator takes something simple and makes it complicated. A communicator takes something complicated and makes it simple. 3. We take a subject like leadership and add to it. Connectors do the difficult work of keeping it simple. 4. It isnt easy to be simple. But its effective. 5. Its easy to be simplistic. But its not easy to be simple. 6. Simplistic is shallow and fast. 7. Complex is deep and slow. 8. Experience is not the best teacher. We all know people who are getting older but not better. 9. Complexity requires questioning. 10. Complexity says that simplistic is a half-truth. 11. Simple is deep and fast. Deep and fast is what you want in your leadership. 12. Leadership is influence. Nothing more. Nothing less. 13. How do we simply lead Add value to people everyday. 14. When you add value there is a respect and appreciation. 15. Subtract your leadership landmines. We all have certain parts of our leadership that can destroy us. 16. Have you tried to make everyone happy? It doesnt work. Im a leader, not a clown. 17. Put people first. Add value to people. Theyll come back and add value to you. Serve people. Theyll come back and serve you. 18. Multiply your strengths by developing them. 19. It is in the things you do well that will give you the highest return. 20. You have something unique about you that is better than all the rest of us. 21. Confidence does not replace skill. 22. You dont have influence in your area of weakness. 23. Divide your weaknesses by delegating them. 24. A leader is like a quarterback. They dont get paid to run the ball. They get paid

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to put the ball in the right hands. 25. Our problem is trying to find a leader to solve our problems. The answer is be the leader that solves the problem. 26. The way to change this country around is for you to start leading. Condoleezza Rice My favorite session of the event was former Secretary Of State Condoleezza Rice being interviewed by John Maxwell. I would vote for Dr. Rice as president today if I could. Few people have her grace, dignity, statesmanship, and intelligence. 1. Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better. 2. What is the one thing I can do in this environment to change the direction of this conversation. 3. When you see complexity all you see if complexity. You need to look past that to simplicity. 4. We need to look for the enabling condition. 5. The first thing you can do is be right with yourself. For me, that means spiritually and being right with God. 6. You have to be an optimist. Nobody wants to follow a sour puss. 7. You must be able to motivate people to a common goal. Sometimes that means accomplishing something impossible that now seems inevitable. 8. He was President of the United States. The people elected him, not me. 9. Everyday after September 11th was about keeping America than being attacked again. 10. Having people who work for you who are really good is important. I put a lot of time into putting my team together. 11. I had the confidence of the president. 12. When you are negotiating, it is important that they know you represent the president. 13. I tried to take care of myself personally. I exercise everyday and get plenty of sleep. 14. I would take Sunday afternoons off. 15. I learned the hard way the importance of taking breaks. 16. The most important thing in finding balance is to schedule it in. 17. Work is fulfilling for me but there is a different kind of fulfillment in playing the piano. 18. The key has been to have time for the more contemplative side of life. 19. You have to have a moment when you say, What I am seeing and how am I going to attack it. 20. Being a good communicator is being a good teacher. 21. I cant start at the end of where I am. 22. You have to find a way that people see the logic in where you got to where you are. 23. What I love about teaching is when you see that in your students eyes when they see something in a way theyve never saw it before. 30

24. You can lead and make a difference in your community, or school board. 25. We really do believe you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. 26. Its a combination of great parents, hard work, and because I am a person of great faith, this is what I was supposed to do. 27. Life is a series of events that seem quite serendipitous. And you need to put yourself in position for serendipity to happen. For more from Andy Stanley, click the following:
11 Facts About North Point Community Church Raising $1.5 Million In A Single Day 7 Things I Learned from Watching Andy Stanley Teach Junior High Students 45 Leadership Quotes From Andy Stanleys Book Deep & Wide Part 1 45 Leadership Quotes From Andy Stanleys Book Deep & Wide Part 2 28 Leadership Quotes From Andy Stanley And Craig Groeschel At Catalyst One Day

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In conclusion, I hope you visit my site Brian Dodd On Leadership. This site will make you a better leader. I see leadership in everything and so can you. The purpose is the site is to take the everyday life experiences that we all have and process them in the light of leadership. My objective is to add value to leaders and provide perspective, encouragement, and solutions to the issues they face daily. During the past two years, the readership of this website has grown to over 30,000 readers per month. You can also connect with me on Twitter at @briankdodd or Facebook by clicking here. My daytime job is as a Tribal Leader for The Rocket Company where we help churches increase weekly giving and pastors preach better sermons. During the last 10+ years, I have spent each day having one-on-one conversations with many of the greatest church leaders in America. I also have over 25 years of church volunteer and staff experience. I hope you find my observational thoughts on generosity and leadership unique and enjoyable. Just some other items of note: Theology Degrees Online ranked this site the 2012 #1 Christian Leadership blog on the internet. To read the full list, click here. Alexa ranked this site as the internets 30th most visited Christian leadership blog. Alexas traffic rankings are based on the usage patterns of Alexa Toolbar users and data collected from diverse sources over a 3-month period. A sites ranking is based upon a combined measure of reach and page views. You can read the full list by clicking here. StudentLifeGuru.com honored this site by rating it as the 9th best leadership blog on the internet. My post How To Welcome A Man Home was also featured as a guest blog on the popular site www.tonymorganlive.com where it was his 9th most read post of 2010. How To Make Your Vision For 2011 A Reality 34 Leadership Lessons From Buckhead Churchs Jeff was featured by Rick Warren in his January 7th, 2011 newsletter. In addition, 5 Reasons People May Be Leaving Your Church was one of the Top 11 Posts Of 2011 on the wonderful website www.ChurchLeaders.com. I hope you stop by the site, subscribe and return often.

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