1869  Leadership  Quotes:  Timeless  

Truths  From  2015  Global  Leadership  
Summit,  That  Church,  REACT  and  
Catalyst  Conferences  
 
 
 
 
 

By  Brian  Dodd  On  Leadership  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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1869  Leadership  Quotes:  Timeless  Truths  From  2015  Global  Leadership  
Summit,  That  Church,  REACT  and  Catalyst  Conferences  
 
We  are  living  in  a  Golden  Age  of  Christian  leadership  in  terms  of  insights  and  
content  delivery.    Pastors  and  Christian  leaders  today  have  access  to  more  great  
leadership  minds  than  anytime  in  history.  
 
During  the  last  half  of  2015,  much  of  this  wisdom  and  insight  was  on  display  during  
a  number  conferences  and  events.    The  following  are  the  events  spotlighted  in  this  
resource:  
 
John  Maxwell  –  Live  Online  Think  Your  Way  To  The  Top  Workshop  –  Dr.  
Maxwell  needs  no  introduction.    The  wisdom  contained  during  this  online  event  
must  be  learned  and  applied.    The  difference  between  successful  and  unsuccessful  
people  is  how  they  think.  
 
Global  Leadership  Summit  -­‐  The  GLS  is  a  world-­‐class  experience  designed  to  help  
you  get  better  and  embrace  your  grander  vision-­‐the  reason  God  called  you  to  lead.  
 
Capital  Campaign  University  –  Hosted  by  INJOY  Stewardship  Solutions,  this  event  
helps  pastors  and  church  leaders  learn  how  to  fully-­‐fund  their  mission  and  vision.  
 
Duct  Tape  Conference  –  This  one  day  event  was  designed  to  help  pastors  and  
church  leaders  accomplish  great  things  with  minimal  resources.  
 
The  10  Indispensible  Practices  Of  The  2-­‐Minute  Leader  Book  Study  For  
Business  Leaders  –  I  put  together  this  10-­‐week  study  for  the  business  leaders.    The  
speakers  were  world  class  and  their  thoughts  are  captured  for  you.  
 
That  Church  Conference  –  This  unique  conference  brought  together  the  best  minds  
in  Christianity  to  teach  best  practices  of  social  media.  
 
REACT  Conference  –  This  one-­‐day  event  challenged  and  equipped  men  to  become  
everything  God  designed  them  for.  
 
Catalyst  Conference  –  Catalyst  unifies  change  makers.    This  event  equips  leaders  
who  love  the  Church  with  impactful  content  and  events.  
 
Fellowship  Bible  Church  Leadership  Event  On  Multi-­‐Ethnic  Ministry  –  In  
celebration  of  Dr.  Crawford  Loritt’s  10-­‐year  anniversary  as  Fellowship’s  senior  
pastor,  his  son  Bryan  came  for  a  personalized  time  of  leadership  development.  
 
Jon  Gordon  and  Mike  Smith  Event  for  high  school  football  coaches  at  NorthStar  
Church  –  As  part  of  their  book  tour,  over  400  high  school  coaches  and  players  had  
an  evening  they  will  never  forget.  
 

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Table  of  Contents  
 
Chapter                     Page  
 
John  Maxwell  –  Live  Online  Think  Your  Way  To  The  Top  Workshop     4  
 
Global  Leadership  Summit                 6  
 
Capital  Campaign  University                 20  
 
Duct  Tape  Conference                   21  
 
The  10  Indispensible  Practices  Of  The  2-­‐Minute  Leader  Book  Study  For     27  
Business  Leaders    
 
That  Church  Conference                   29  
 
REACT  Conference                     36  
 
Catalyst  Conference                   42  
 
Fellowship  Bible  Church  Leadership  Event  On  Multi-­‐Ethnic  Ministry     62  
 
Jon  Gordon  and  Mike  Smith  Event  for  high  school  football  coaches  at  NorthStar  
Church                     65  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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John  Maxwell  –  July  30th  Live  Online  Think  Your  Way  To  The  Top  Workshop  
 
• “Unsuccessful  people  go  in  too  many  directions.    Successful  people  focus  on  
the  main  thing.”  
• “If  a  goal  is  worth  pursuing,  it’s  a  goal  worth  telling  others  about.    There’s  no  
such  thing  as  a  silent  dream.”  
• “The  Houston  Chronicle  indicates  professionals  lose  2.1  hours  every  day  in  
distractions.”  
• “Leaders  have  a  bias  for  action…This  means  we  do  not  make  enough  focused  
thinking  time.”  
• “Who  fills  our  calendar?    If  you  fill  it,  I’m  on  your  agenda.”  
• “You  can’t  reach  the  future  successfully  unless  you’ve  touched  the  past.”  
• “The  Iceberg  Thought  –  the  more  you  see  on  top  of  the  water,  the  more  you  
know  there  is  below  the  water.”  
• “A  lot  of  people  are  not  iceberg  thinkers.    They  are  ice  cube  thinkers.”  
• “Focused  thinker.    I  think  longer  than  anyone  else.”  
• “Think  to  you  think  it  through.”  
 
How  to  think  a  thought  all  the  way  through:    Focused  Thinking  
   
1.    “Think  the  thought.    Schedule  time  for  thinking.    90%  of  my  material  is  the  result  
of  my  scheduled  thinking  time.”  
2.    “Write  the  thought.    I  capture  the  thought.    There’s  a  visual  component  to  your  
thoughts.”      
3.    “Rethink  the  thought.    This  is  the  incubation  period.    I  will  get  clarity  to  the  
thought.”      
4.    “Verbalize  the  thought.    Talking  enhances  thinking.”      
5.  “  Table  the  thought.    Get  people  around  the  table  and  ask  them  questions.    I’m  a  
feedback  fanatic.    My  best  thinking  has  been  done  by  others.    Great  thoughts  aren’t  
birthed  in  a  vacuum.    You  either  sit  at  the  table  or  I’m  going  to  put  you  on  the  menu.    
You  know  if  you  have  the  right  people  at  the  table  when  they  take  your  ideas  and  
make  them  better.    One  is  too  small  a  number  to  achieve  greatness.”  
6.    “Practice  the  thought.    99%  of  great  ideas  never  become  a  reality.    They  just  stay  
in  the  mind.    It’s  not  the  thought  you  have  in  the  shower.    It’s  what  you  do  with  it  
after  you  dry  off.    An  iceberg  doesn’t  become  an  iceberg  quickly.”      
7.    “Think  the  thought  some  more.    This  is  where  a  lot  of  people  miss  it.    If  you  are  a  
focused  thinker,  you’ll  never  be  satisfied  with  yesterday.    You  appreciate  it.    But  you  
don’t  want  to  stay  there.    When  you’re  a  focused  thinker,  yesterday  doesn’t  excite  
you  so  much.”  
8.    “Launch  the  thought.    The  greatest  test  of  a  thought  is  the  launching  of  it.    ‘Don’t  
tell  me  what  you’re  going  to  do.    Show  me  what  you’re  going  to  do.’  –  John  Wooden.    
The  world  is  full  of  small  thinkers.”      
9.      “Land  the  thought.    The  landing  dramatically  changes  the  outcome  of  any  score.    
What  do  I  want  them  to  know?    What  do  I  want  them  to  do?”  
10.    “Upgrade  the  thought.    All  is  well  that  ends  well.”  

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Where  do  we  put  our  mind?    Where  do  we  put  our  focus?  
 
• “I  give  100%  in  my  strengths,  on  the  main  event,  key  people.”  
 
• “The  only  thing  a  player  can  control  in  golf  is  his  own  game.”  –  Jack  Nicklaus  
 
• “Problems  are  things  I  can  fix.    Facts  of  life  are  things  I  can’t  control.”  
 
• “Plan  while  others  are  playing.”  
 
 
10  Thinking  Skills    
 
 
1.  Big  Picture  Thinking  –  “allows  you  to  see  more  and  before  others  see.    The  fastest  
person  doesn’t  win  the  race.    It  is  the  one  who  starts  first.”  

2.  Creative  Thinking      

3.  Realistic  Thinking  –  “Most  dreams  don’t  reach  their  potential  because  they  don’t  
have  a  foundation.”  

4.  Strategic  Thinking  –  “results  from  asking  the  right  questions.”  

5.  Possibility  Thinking  –  “the  opportunities  we  receive  in  life  come  from  possibility  
thinking  more  than  any  single  thing.”  

6.  Reflective  Thinking  –  “Experience  is  not  the  best  teacher.    Reflective  thinking  
allows  you  to  extract  wisdom  from  experience.”  

7.  Popular  Thinking  –  “This  is  the  most  common  thing  keeping  people  from  being  
successful.”  

8.  Shared  Thinking  –  “The  most  effective  way  to  have  a  great  idea.”  

9.  Unselfish  Thinking  –  “The  biggest  roadblock  to  reaching  your  potential  is  you.”  

10.  Bottom  Line  Thinking  –  “The  greatest  gap  between  successful  and  unsuccessful  
people  is  how  they  think.”  
 
• “It  is  a  personal  value  of  mine  to  always  exceed  expectations.”  
 
 
 

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Global  Leadership  Summit  August  5th  –  7th  
 
Opening  Night  –  Bill  Hybels,  Founder  and  Senior  Pastor  of  Willow  Creek  Community  
Church    
 
1. “When  leaders  change,  families  change.    Businesses  change.    Entire  countries  
change.”  
2. “If  we  care  about  anything,  we  better  care  about  leadership.”  
3. “Vision  makes  the  present  experience  unacceptable.”  
4. “Visions  are  powerful  things.”  
5. “When  I  travel  to  the  developing  world  and  see  what  some  leaders  are  up  
against,  I  feel  like  a  real  lightweight.”  
6. “The  local  church  is  the  hope  of  the  world.    Christ-­‐centered  leaders  bring  
hope.”  
7. “When  leaders  change,  governments  functions  better.    Schools  function  
better.”  
8. “When  leaders  change,  there  is  hope  on  the  horizon.”  
9. “I’m  really  grateful  for  Willow  Creek  Community  Church…I’m  so  proud  of  you  
as  a  church…I  love  it  that  you  understand  the  world  is  complicated.”  
 
Session  1  –  Bill  Hybels  
 
1. “We  define  leadership  as  moving  people  from  here  to  there.”  
2. “Leadership  is  not  about  presiding  over  something,  protecting  a  position  or  
pontificating  about  how  smart  you  are.”  
3. “Leadership  is  all  about  movement.”  
4. “10%  of  you  are  thinking  about  quitting  whatever  you  are  leading  right  now.”  
5. “The  highest  value  at  the  Leadership  Summit  is  humility.”  
6. “Armed  with  enough  humility  leaders  can  learn  from  anyone.”  
7. “Leaders  at  the  highest  levels  of  effectiveness  have  more  subtle,  advanced  
leadership  traits  than  their  peers.”  
8. “One  of  the  greatest  predictors  of  success  is  grit.”  
9. “Grit  is  the  passion  and  perseverance  over  the  long  haul.”  
10. “Gritty  people  play  hurt.”  
11. “Gritty  people  don’t  quit,  ever.”  
12. “Gritty  people  believe  they  can  overcome  whatever  obstacle  stands  in  their  
way.”  
13. “Those  with  ample  amounts  of  it  will  achieve  more  than  those  without  it  
regardless  of  intellect.”  
14. “The  archenemy  of  grit  is  ease.”      
15. “Grit  development  demands  difficulty.”  
16. “Grit  grows  every  time  you  prove  to  yourself  you  can  overcome  an  obstacle.”  
17. “You  must  assign  yourself  very  difficult  tasks  and  will  yourself  to  achieving  
them.”  
18. “Elite  leaders  have  learned  overcoming  physical  challenges  is  developing  
grit.”  

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 19. “Don’t  just  deliver  the  required  result.    Over-­‐deliver  and  over-­‐deliver  every  
time.”  
20. “When  senior  leadership  demonstrates  grittiness…teammates  and  
volunteers  notice  and  develop  an  appetite  for  grit  themselves.”  
21. “Gritty  organizations  are  unstoppable.”  
22. “When  you  read  about  a  huge  mess  in  an  organization,  you  can  bet  a  lot  of  it  
is  driven  by  low  self-­‐awareness.”  
23. “The  definition  of  a  blind  spot  is  something  someone  thinks  they  do  well  but  
everyone  knows  is  unture.”  
24. “Every  leader  has  3.or  4  blind  spots.”  
25. “The  danger  with  blind  spots  is  you  really  have  no  idea  they  exist.”  
26. “Your  direct  supervisor  has  the  best  insight  into  your  blind  spots.”  
27. “Self-­‐awareness  is  a  very  big  deal.    Knowing  how  your  past  is  messing  with  
the  decisions  you  are  making  today  is  crucial  information.”  
28. “Growing  in  self-­‐awareness  demands  feedback  from  others.    Honest  
feedback.”  
29. “Everybody  will  win  when  you  grow  in  self-­‐awareness.”  
30. “Resourceful  people  are  quick  learners.    They  are  endlessly  curious  about  
how  things  work.”  
31. “Organizations  that  grow  resourcefulness  among  their  senior  leadership  
teams  grow  25%  more  than  their  competitors.”  
32. “The  Wright  brothers  studied  birds  for  years.”  
33. “Resourceful  people  figure  it  out.”  
34. “So  much  of  your  success  in  coming  years  is  dependent  on  your  
resourcefulness.”  
35. “The  primary  way  to  discover  resourcefulness  is  to  put  yourself  in  positions  
that  are  confusing  and  being  forced  to  figure  it  out.”  
36. “Self-­‐sacrificing  love  is  at  the  very  core  of  leadership.”  
37. “Vision  is  not  the  core  of  leadership.”  
38. “Self-­‐sacrificing  love  always  has  been  and  always  will  be  at  the  very  core  of  
leadership.”  
39. “Love  never  leaves  a  heart  the  way  it  found  it.    Love  changes  people.”  
40. “Love  melts  people  and  molds  people  into  tightly  knit  communities  that  feel  
more  like  families  than  work  groups.”  
41. “We  live  in  a  day  of  celebrity  leaders  with  narcissistic  blood  flowing  through  
their  veins.”  
42. “At  the  root  of  all  of  this  is  an  absent  of  self-­‐sacrificing  love.”  
43. “Everyone  takes  their  cues  from  the  senior  leader.”  
44. “Do  workers  feel  personal  concern  coming  from  their  managers?”  
45. “Love  never  fails.    Love  changes  the  order  of  things.”  
46. “Don’t  hesitate  a  single  moment  in  showing  genuine  concern  and  love  to  your  
teammates.”  
47. “The  quality  of  your  loving  will  set  the  tone  for  the  whole  organization.”  
48. “There’s  the  What.    The  How.    The  Why.”  
49. “Almost  all  leaders  know  The  What.    Everyone  knows  The  How.”      
50. “The  huge  disconnect  is  The  Why.”  

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 51. “Leaders  in  tomorrow’s  world  will  have  to  build  the  case  for  The  Why  in  
everyone’s  job.”  
52. “What  moves  you  and  drives  you  as  a  leader  to  get  better  and  better  every  
year?”  
53. “If  God’s  perfect,  you  have  a  gap.    God  sees  your  gap.”  
54. “My  white-­‐hot  Why  is  never  going  to  be  money.    My  white-­‐hot  Why  is  going  
to  be  changed  lives.”  
55. “Leadership  matters  in  every  industry.”  
56. “It  matters  in  life  and  it  certainly  matters  in  death.”  
 
Jim  Collins,  Author  and  Leadership  Expert  
 
1. “I  believe  questions  are  better  than  answers.”  
2. “What  cause  do  you  serve  with  Level  5  ambition?”  
3. “Every  single  kid,  no  matter  what  zip  code  or  family  situation,  deserves  a  shot  
at  a  K-­‐12  education.”  
4. “If  you  have  a  charismatic  cause  you  do  not  need  to  be  a  charismatic  leader.”  
5. “Personal  humility,  the  X-­‐factor  of  great  leadership.”  
6. “The  effect  of  service,  a  commitment  to  cause  bigger  than  yourself,  runs  
through  West  Point.    They  know  some  of  them  might  die  in  that  service.”  
7. “We  were  not  looking  for  Level  5  service  in  organizations.    It  came  to  us.”  
8. “Money  is  like  blood,  food,  oxygen  and  water.    They  are  necessary  for  life.    
But  they  are  not  the  point  of  life.”  
9. “To  serve  is  to  live.”  
10. “Will  you  settle  for  being  a  good  leader,  or  will  you  grow  to  become  a  great  
leader?”  
11. “Leadership  is  not  personality.”  
12. “It  is  not  position.    It  is  not  rank.    It  is  not  power.”  
13. “True  leadership  is  only  when  people  follow  when  they  would  have  the  
option  not  to  follow.”  
14. “In  my  35  years  of  service  I  don’t  ever  recall  telling  anyone,  ‘That’s  an  order.’”  
–  Colin  Powell  
15. “As  a  leader  you  have  to  know  what  must  be  done.    You  must  know  what  
must  be  done  and  you  must  be  right.”  
16. “As  a  leader  you  must  make  people  want  to  do  what  must  be  done.”  
17. “Most  great  leaders  do  not  start  as  great  leaders.    They  grow  into  great  
leaders.    Will  you  do  whatever  it  takes  to  scale  your  leadership  as  the  
demands  of  your  enterprise  grows?”  
18. “If  your  BHAGs  are  big  enough,  you’re  going  to  need  to  grow  a  lot.”  
19. “How  can  you  reframe  failure  as  Growth,  in  pursuit  of  a  BHAG?”  
20. “I  am  not  failing.    I’m  growing.    It  is  making  me  stronger.”  
21. “How  can  you  succeed  by  helping  others  succeed?”  
22. “We  succeed  at  our  very  best  only  when  we  help  others  succeed.”  
23. “Your  response  should  be,  ‘Let  me  help  you.”’  
24. “Create  the  idea,  ‘You  Are  Never  Alone.”’  

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 25. “If  you  want  build  a  culture  of  engaged  leaders  and  a  great  place  to  work,  you  
need  to  spend  time  thinking  about  three  things:  Service,  Growth,  Communal  
Service.”  
26. “It  is  very  difficult  to  have  a  meaningful  life  without  meaningful  work.”  
27. “Have  you  found  your  Hedgehog  –  your  Personal  Hedgehog?”  
28. “What  are  you  encoded  for?    What  you  are  put  here  for  may  be  different  than  
what  you  are  good  at.”  
29. “Something  we  should  all  experience  at  some  point  is  getting  fired.”  
30. “He  (Steve  Jobs)  had  an  unquenchable  love  of  his  work.”  
31. “The  most  efficient  animal  on  earth  is  a  man  on  his  bicycle.”  
32. “True  creators  stay  in  the  game.”  
33. “If  you  believe  life  comes  down  to  a  single  hand,  you  can  lose  very  easily.”  
34. “Real  creative  impact  accelerates  after  50  (years  of  age).”  
35. “Will  you  build  your  Unit  –  your  minibus  –  Into  a  Pocket  of  Greatness?”  
36. “Great  leadership  doesn’t  happen  without  great  leadership  at  the  unit  level.”  
37. “Great  leadership  doesn’t  happen  by  focusing  on  your  career.    But  by  building  
a  unit  in  becoming  a  pocket  of  greatness.”  
38. “Every  responsibility  you  get,  make  it  a  pocket  of  greatness.”  
39. “The  number  one  executive  lesson  of  building  a  great  pocket  is  determining  
who  should  be  in  the  right  seats  on  the  bus.”  
40. “  The  thing  I  am  most  proud  of  in  my  life  is  my  marriage.”  
41. “When  you  are  suffering  at  the  end  of  the  race,  you  are  not  running  for  you.”  
42. “The  greatest  leaders  and  people  I  know  have  found  a  way  to  make  a  
contribution  on  real  life,  flesh  and  blood  people.”  
43. “How  will  you  change  the  lives  of  others?”  
44. “Life  is  people.”  
 
Ed  Catmull,  President  of  Pixar  Animation  Studios  and  Walt  Disney  Animation  
Studios  
 
1. “Creativity,  Inc  is  the  finest  book  of  its  type  I’ve  ever  read.”  –  Hybels  
2. “I  didn’t  see  the  path  of  how  to  become  a  Disney  animator  so  when  I  went  to  
college,  I  went  into  Physics.”  
3. “Creativity  is  the  same  on  both  sides  –  art  and  technology.”  
4. “Art  isn’t  about  drawing.    It’s  learning  to  see.”  
5. “By  doing  something  that  was  inconceivable  at  the  time,  it  forced  me  to  think  
about  hard  problems.”  
6. “Stories  are  the  way  we  communicate  with  each  other  at  every  level.”  
7. “There  are  stories  that  are  well  told  and  stories  that  are  poorly  told.”  
8. “The  good  stories  are  the  ones  that  connect  with  the  emotions.”  
9. “If  it  doesn’t  work  well,  how  do  we  judge  the  people  who  are  working  on  it?”  
10. “How  do  we  measure  progress?    How  the  team  is  working  together.”  
11. “We  accidently  happened  upon  the  Brain  Trust.”  
12. “Peers  talking  to  peers.    Filmmakers  talking  to  filmmakers.”      
13. “There  is  no  power  structure  (in  the  Brain  Trust).”  
14. “They  (Brain  Trust)  have  a  vested  interest  in  each  other’s  success.”      

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 15. “Their  best  interest  is  in  the  film  being  right.”  
16. “We  give  and  listen  to  good  notes.”  
17. “Magic  is  seeing  a  loss  of  ego  in  the  room.”  
18. “People  do  not  become  attached  to  their  ideas.”  
19. “When  you  are  working  on  something  and  in  the  middle  of  it,  you  can’t  help  
but  lose  objectivity.”  
20. “Your  peers,  with  mutual  respect,  help  pull  you  out.”  
21. “We  all  have  problems.    It  is  the  nature  of  life.    This  is  what  creativity  is  about.    
It  is  not  drawing.    It  is  about  solving  problems.”  
22. “Solutions  is  a  creative  act.”  
23. “We  want  simple  explanations.    Simple  explanations  actually  delude  us.”  
24. “There  is  a  real  aura  of  danger  around  failure.”  
25. “Problems  re-­‐occur  because  there  is  a  fear  of  failure.”  
26. “We  will  fail.    We  need  to  make  it  safe  to  fail.”  
27. “If  you  get  over  the  embarrassment  of  failure,  you  will  become  more  
creative.”  
28. “All  good  artists  know  they  have  to  operate  within  constraints.”  
29. “The  problem  with  being  unbounded,  the  constraint  forces  you  to  reorder.”  
30. “If  you  spend  too  much  time  on  something,  you  sap  the  energy  from  it.”  
31. “In  order  to  make  something  beautiful,  you  can’t  waste  your  energy  on  
something  not  worth  seeing.”  
32. “You  can  talk  about  trust  but  trust  is  something  you  earn.”  
33. “Stating  values  is  easy  to  do.    Agreeing  to  them  is  easy  to  do.    The  hard  part  is  
asking  yourself  is  why  you  are  not  living  up  to  them.”  
34. “Having  a  building  that  is  executive  driven  is  a  terrible  way  to  do  things.”  
35. “Allow  for  inadvertent  and  accidental  encounters.”  
36. “We  don’t  have  very  many  rules.”  
37. “We  select  people  because  they  have  a  passion  for  something.”  
38. “The  real  goal  of  what  we’re  doing  is  to  have  a  positive  impact  on  the  world.”  
 
Adam  Grant  of  the  Wharton  School  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  
 
1. “We  live  in  a  connected  world.    We  lead  in  a  connected  world.”  
2. “There  are  three  styles  of  interaction  -­‐  Takers  ,Givers  and  Matchers.”  
3. “Takers  think  about  every  interaction  as  taking  something  from  others  while  
giving  nothing  back.”  
4. “Givers  enjoy  helping  others  and  often  do  so  with  no  strings  attached.”  
5. “Matchers  tried  to  keep  an  even  balance  of  Takers  and  Givers.    Quid  Pro  Quo.”  
6. “Your  style  is  the  way  you  treat  most  of  the  people  most  of  the  time.    It’s  your  
default.”  
7. “It’s  dangerous  to  be  generous.”  
8. “The  givers  are  the  worst  performers.    They  are  so  busy  doing  someone  else’s  
job  they  don’t  get  their  own  work  done.”  
9. “Many  of  us  think  we’re  givers  when  we’re  actually  thinkers.”  
10. “If  you  want  to  boost  a  company’s  products  and  performance,  get  more  
givers.”  

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 11. “Givers  fail  to  secure  their  oxygen  masks  before  helping  others.”  
12. “Takers  rise  quickly  and  fall  quickly.    They  fall  to  the  hands  of  matchers.”  
13. “Matchers  often  destroy  takers  with  gossip.”  
14. “Most  people  operate  by  default  as  matchers.”  
15. “The  people  who  blow  the  whistle  the  loudest  on  cheaters  are  actually  other  
cheaters.”  
16. “Givers  often  fail  in  the  short  run  but  excel  in  the  long  run.”  
17. “The  time  a  giver  spends  solving  other  people’s  problems  helps  solve  the  
organization’s  problems.”  
18. “It’s  nice  to  have  the  right  people  on  the  bus.    It’s  critical  to  keep  the  wrong  
people  off  the  bus.”  
19. “Put  one  taker  on  the  team  and  paranoia  starts  to  spread.”  
20. “A  healthy  organization  is  not  about  getting  more  givers  on  the  team.    It’s  
about  getting  the  takers  off  the  team.    The  matchers  then  become  givers.”  
21. “Disagreeable  givers  give  the  feedback  no  one  wants  to  hear.    They  have  a  
bad  interface  but  a  great  operating  system.”  
22. “If  someone  is  nice  to  you  it  does  not  mean  they  actually  care  about  you.”  
23. “Most  people  project  their  own  motivations  onto  others.”  
24. “Takers  expect  more  selfishness  from  others.    It’s  part  of  their  justification  
for  being  selfish.”  
25. “Do  more  5-­‐minute  favors.    Small  acts  adding  significant  value.    Micro-­‐
kindness.”  
26. “One  of  the  best  things  you  can  do  as  a  leader  is  ask  for  help.”  
27. “If  you’re  a  matcher,  you  can  only  go  to  people  you  have  traded  favors  with.”  
28. “Takers  want  to  sink  all  other  ships  like  Battleship.    Givers  ask  how  can  I  be  
the  rising  tide  that  lifts  all  boats.”  
 
Bill  Hybels  
 
• “In  the  early  days  of  the  Summit,  my  faith  was  far  too  small.”  
 
Sallie  Krawcheck,  CEO  and  Co-­‐Founder  of  Ellevest  
 
1. “The  retirement  savings  crisis  in  this  country  is  a  women’s  crisis.    80%  of  the  
people  in  retirement  homes  are  women.”  
2. “I  love  men.    I’m  married  to  a  man.    But  you’re  going  to  be  dead.”  
3. “There  is  real  power  in  the  intersection  of  women  and  money.”  
4. “Women  are  woefully  under-­‐invested  vs.  the  men.”  
5. “Companies  that  have  more  women  in  leadership  have  higher  returns  on  
investment,  greater  long-­‐term  focus,  lower  risk.”      
6. “Diverse  teams  outperform  smarter  teams.”  
7. “Adding  a  smart  math  major  to  a  team  of  smart  math  majors  adds  nothing.”  
8. “Diversity  has  the  potential  to  improve  ethics  on  Wall  Street.”  
9. “The  growth  in  the  lending  industry  was  masking  a  decline  in  quality.”  
10. “I  was  hired  to  do  the  best  job  for  our  clients  even  if  it  isn’t  something  they  
don’t  want  to  hear.”  

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 11. “The  #1  reason  women  take  a  job  is  meaning  and  purpose.”  
12. “We  were  not  evil  (housing  crisis).    We  were  dumb.”  
13. “What  matters  is  my  voice  was  different.    That  can  drive  better  results.”  
14. “Diverse  teams  make  more  effective  decisions.”  
15. “We  went  into  the  crisis  white,  male  and  middle-­‐aged.    We  came  out  more  
white,  more  male  and  more  middle-­‐aged.”  
16. “The  research  tells  us  we  like  powerful  men  but  we  don’t  like  powerful  
women.”  
17. “A  courageous  conversation  is  –  ‘Hey  guys,  I  may  be  the  only  one  but  do  you  
know  what  we  just  did?”’  
18. “There  is  false  comfort  in  agreement.”  
19. “For  so  many  the  best  person  for  the  job  looks  just  like  us.”  
20. “We  women  are  tired.    Guys,  it’s  the  hair  and  make  up.    It’s  so  tiring.”  
21. “Research  shows  we  give  less  feedback  to  women  because  we  think  they’re  
going  to  cry.”  
22. “Imagine  all  the  pats  on  the  back  you  don’t  get.”  
23. “If  we  use  our  money  for  our  purpose,  you  can  have  returns  and  value.”  
24. “It  hurt  to  get  fired  on  the  front  page  of  the  Wall  Street  Journal  twice.”  
25. “When  my  child  googled  me  she  said,  ‘Yes  mommy.    I  Googled  you.    You’re  
one  of  the  good  guys  (on  Wall  Street).”’  
26. “I  work  everyday  as  if  my  children  are  watching  me.    Because  they  are.”  
27. “All  the  opportunities  I’ve  been  given  is  my  responsibility  to  give  back.”  
28. “My  worst  day  is  so  much  better  than  most  people’s  best  day.”  
 
Albert  Tate,  Founder  and  Lead  Pastor  of  Fellowship  Monrovia  
 
1. “Who  to  believe  –  Lies  in  truth’s  clothing  or  the  naked  truth?”  
2. “We’re  not  supposed  to  leave  it  all  on  the  field.    We  play  on  the  field.    We  live  
at  home.    We  must  have  something  left  for  home.”  
3. “Live  not  for  your  resume.    Live  for  your  eulogy.”  
4. “There  are  times  Jesus  wants  you  to  do  the  math  so  you  will  know  it  can’t  be  
done  in  your  strength.”  
5. “As  a  leader  leave  room  to  bring  a  dumb  idea  because  you  never  know  when  
God’s  going  to  use  a  dumb  idea  to  do  something  great.”  
6. “Dumb  Idea  +  God’s  hand  =  Life  Transformation”  
7. “Jesus  specializes  is  using  dumb  ideas.”  
8. “You  never  know  when  God  is  going  to  put  His  hand  on  a  dumb  idea.”  
9. “Jesus  uses  what  you  bring  to  do  a  miracle.”  
10. “Some  of  us  try  to  instruct  Jesus  along  the  way.”  
11. “When  you  get  out  of  the  way  you  discover  the  awe  and  wonder  of  God’s  
hand.”  
12. “When  was  the  last  time  you  were  blown  away  by  what  God  did  in  your  
church,  in  your  company?”  
13. “What  would  it  mean  to  have  something  left  at  the  end  of  the  day  for  your  
family,  your  children,  your  church?”  

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 14. “Empty  is  not  a  sign  of  a  great  work  ethic.    It  is  a  sign  of  a  missed  opportunity  
to  see  the  abundance  of  God’s  work  in  your  life.”  
15. “We’re  not  limited  by  what’s  in  our  hands.”  
16. “It’s  not  about  my  name  being  great.    It’s  about  His  name  giving  us  full  
access.”  
 
Horst  Schulze,  CEO  of  Ritz-­‐Carlton  Hotels  
 
1. “Ladies  and  Gentlemen  serving  Ladies  and  Gentlemen.”  
2. “As  a  total,  there  are  240,000  people  watching  this.    Four  or  five  more  could  
make  a  speaker  nervous.”  
3. “The  matre  de  did  not  come  to  work  to  work.    He  came  to  work  to  be  
excellent.”  
4. “Caring  is  what  service  means.”  
5. “What  industry  is  not  in  service?”  
6. “Love  your  neighbor  as  yourself.    Who’s  the  person  you’re  dealing  with  in  
business?    Your  neighbor.”  
7. “You  have  a  great  business  if  number  one  is  to  keep  the  customer.”  
8. “Dissatisfied  customers.    They  are  terrorists  against  your  customer.”  
9. “Satisfied  customers  are  neutral.    If  the  competitor  offers  a  better  deal,  you  
will  lose  them.”  
10. “Loyal  customers.    Great  organizations  fight  for  loyal  customers.”  
11. “Customer  loyalty  means  they  trust  you.    You  have  developed  trust.    It’s  
trust.”  
12. “Give  the  customer  what  the  customer  wants.”  
13. “You  want  customer  satisfaction  with  the  product.”  
14. “You  want  timeliness.”  
15. “You  want  people  who  give  it  to  you  to  be  nice  to  you.”  
16. “The  number  driver  to  customer  satisfaction  is  being  nice  to  the  customers.”  
17. “If  they’re  nice  to  you,  you  will  forgive  them.”  
18. “Service  starts  the  instant  you  make  contact.    The  first  10  seconds  are  
essentially  important.”  
19. “Within  4  meters,  12  feet  you  recognize  the  guest  and  say,  ‘Welcome.”’  
20. “Service  starts  with  a  great  greeting.”  
21. “Welcome.  Comply.  Farewell.    That’s  what  service  is.”  
22. “Service  is  your  product.”  
23. “In  any  business  you  can  create.    And  certainly  excellence  should  be  part  of  
our  creation.”  
24. “We  don’t  hire  people.    We  select  people.    Caring  is  part  of  the  profile.”  
25. “We  orient  people.”      
26. “I’m  the  President  and  CEO  of  this  company  and  I’m  important.    But  so  are  
you.    No  one  is  more  important  than  anyone  else.”  
27. “If  you  don’t  make  the  beds  it’s  a  disaster.    If  I  don’t  come  to  work,  nobody  
will  know.”  
28. “As  leaders  we  forfeit  the  right  to  make  excuses.”  
29. “Is  the  destination  where  you’re  leading  people  good  for  all  concerned?”  

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 30. “I  hire  people  to  join  me  in  my  dream,  not  to  fulfill  a  function.”  
31. “I  don’t  compromise  my  expectations.”  
32. “The  key  product  we  deliver  is  service  to  human  beings.”  
33. “We  are  in  business  to  bring  results  and  volume  for  our  owners.”  
34. “I  expect  superior.”  
35. “If  you  don’t  deliver  it  (excellence),  I  have  to  make  your  life  miserable.”  
36. “If  it  is  important  we  have  to  repeat  it.”  
37. “If  you  get  a  complaint,  you  own  it.”  
 
Sheila  Heen,  Founder  of  Triad  Consulting  Group  
 
1. “We  swim  in  an  ocean  of  feedback.”  
2. “Feedback  is  all  the  information  we  have  about  you.”  
3. “Feedback  is  my  relationship  with  the  world  and  the  world’s  relationship  
with  me.”  
4. “People  all  over  the  world  struggle  with  feedback  conversations.”  
5. “In  any  exchange  between  giver  and  receiver,  it’s  the  receiver  who  is  in  
charge.”  
6. “The  givers  of  feedback  in  my  life  are  kind  of  terrible  at  it.”  
7. “That  occasional  good  shot  in  golf  tricks  you  into  thinking  you’re  getting  
better  at  it.”  
8. “People  need  to  be  accepted  or  respected  or  loved  the  way  we  are  now.    This  
is  why  we  are  conflicted  about  feedback.”  
9. “Evaluation  (feedback)  rates  or  ranks  you  on  a  set  of  criteria  against  your  
peers.”  
10. “Coaching  (feedback)  is  anything  that  helps  you  get  better.”  
11. “Appreciation  (feedback)  says,  ‘I  see  you.    I  get  you.    You  matter  here.”’  
12. “Every  organization  needs  all  three.”  
13. “Even  when  we  hear  coaching  we  don’t  always  take  it.”  
14. “You  can  always  find  something  wrong  with  the  feedback  you  get.”  
15. “All  feedback  lives  in  the  relationship  between  giver  and  receiver.    Value  is  
found  in  the  Who  (gives  it).”  
16. “Everyone  has  blind  spots.”  
17. “Seen  yourself  on  video?    That’s  what  everybody  else  sees  everyday.”  
18. “The  only  face  I  can’t  see  in  a  meeting  is  my  own.”  
19. “Your  friends  can  help  you  when  you  are  ready.”  
20. “The  fastest  way  to  change  the  feedback  culture  in  your  organization  is  for  
the  leaders  to  get  better  at  receiving  feedback.”  
21. “When  you  become  a  better  receiver  of  feedback  you  automatically  become  a  
better  giver.”  
22. “The  key  to  getting  valuable  helpful  feedback  is  to  ask  two  questions  –  
‘What’s  one  thing  you  appreciate?’    You  need  to  feel  seen  about  how  hard  you  
’re  already  working.    And,  ‘What’s  one  thing  you  see  me  doing  that  you  
suggest  I  change?”’  
23. “The  model  for  how  to  walk  in  this  is  Jesus  Christ.    He  accepts  us  how  we  are  
and  demands  that  we  learn  and  grow.”  

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 24. “Reluctant  growth  has  come  most  from  relationships  in  my  life.”  
25. “When  you  ask  and  invite  feedback,  you  will  accelerate  your  professional  and  
spiritual  feedback.”  
26. “Growth  from  feedback  is  what  the  Christian  life  is  all  about.”  
 
Brian  Houston,  Senior  Pastor  of  Hillsong  Church  
 
1. “I  always  knew  I  wanted  to  become  a  pastor  and  preacher.”  
2. “Having  clarity  was  a  huge  advantage  in  my  life.”  
3. “Being  the  son  of  a  prominent  pastor,  I  put  too  much  pressure  on  myself.”  
4. “We  started  HillSong  in  a  very  small  school  hall.”  
5. “The  worst  day  of  my  life  –  1999.    We  had  a  complaint  my  father  abused  a  
young  person  –  a  male.”  
6. “It  was  the  most  horrible  news  you  could  ever  hear.”  
7. “I  probably  didn’t  handle  it  well.    I  went  into  leadership  mode.”  
8. “I’m  still  working  through  this  even  now.”      
9. “I  started  imploding  over  a  period  of  years.”  
10. “Our  church,  through  the  whole  storm,  has  continued  to  move  forward.    The  
people  with  the  church  just  came  with  us  on  the  journey.”  
11. “The  hurt.    The  shock.    The  trauma  started  wearing  me  down.”  
12. “Slowly  I  found  myself  taking  sleeping  tablets  every  night  of  my  life.”  
13. “I  was  having  a  panic  attack.”  
14. “By  God’s  grace  I’ve  never  had  another  panic  attack.”  
15. “I  made  big  changes.    Changes  in  how  I  traveled.    Stopped  taking  sleeping  
tablets.”  
16. “Darlene  (Zschech)  was  a  huge  blessing  to  your  church.    She  grew  up  like  a  
child  star  in  our  country.”  
17. “I  always  wanted  a  church  that  helped  other  people  do  church.”  
18. “We  believe  music  is  an  arrowhead  for  a  healthy  church.”  
19. “Creativity  is  what  really  switched  him  (Joel  Houston  and  head  of  HillSong  
United)  on.”  
20. “Through  various  seasons  and  transitions,  the  church  is  resilient.”  
21. “In  most  organizations,  who  you  start  a  church  with  is  not  necessarily  who  
stays  with  it.”  –  Bill  Hybels  
22. “Sometimes  the  people  who  you  expect  to  be  there  won’t.    And  some  of  those  
who  are  flighty  are  the  ones  you  grow  with.”  
23. “It’s  smart  in  leadership  to  take  your  time  and  invest  in  people.”  
24. “I  don’t  know  if  you’re  going  to  be  here  for  3  years,  10  years,  or  33  years.  
We’re  all  only  here  for  a  season.  So  let’s  give  God  our  best.”  –  Bill  Hybels  
25. “People  may  move  to  the  other  side  of  the  Earth  but  they  never  leave  your  
life.”  
26. “Not  all  your  sons  and  daughters  stay  with  you.”  
27. “You  never  hold  onto  people  who  don’t  want  to  be  there.”  
28. “I’ve  always  been  inspired  by  big  cities  and  cities  of  influence.    And  building  
churches  there.”  

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 29. “People  are  quick  to  tell  you  what  a  London  church  looks  like.    All  we’ve  done  
is  build  HillSong  Church  in  London  and  be  true  to  ourselves.”  
30. “If  you  get  the  right  person  at  the  right  time,  God  will  bless  it.”  
31. “When  I’m  around  you  my  faith  is  expanded.    You  have  an  anointing  in  your  
life  that  makes  people  think  God  can  do  great  things.”  –  Bill  Hybels  
32. “I  love  what  I  do.    I  love  the  Lord.    I  love  the  church.    I  love  people  ultimately.    
That  motivation  has  never  left  me.”  
33. “I  have  never  ever  gotten  away  from  the  vision  God  has  given  me.    You  just  
keep  getting  up  when  you  get  knocked  down.”  
34. “Longevity  is  perhaps  the  greatest  thing  you  can  have  as  a  leader.”  
 
Bill  Hybels  
 
1. “The  leaders  I  know  who  carry  the  greatest  pressure,  who  climb  the  greatest  
hills,  have  the  closest  affinity  to  music.”  
2. “It  is  a  well-­‐known  fact  in  psychology  that  people  who  are  in  evaluative  
positions  have  a  hunger  in  their  soul  for  something  else  (music).”  –  Dr.  Henry  
Cloud  
3. “When  I’m  going  through  intense  times  of  pressure  and  can’t  access  the  
presence  of  God  by  reading  my  Bible  or  looking  at  a  sunset,  I  turn  to  music.”  
4. “I’m  not  a  fear-­‐driven  person.”  
5. “I  don’t  have  to  be  a  slave  to  fear.    I  am  a  child  of  the  Most  High  God.”  
6. “”Leaders  really  do  live  a  different  kind  of  life  than  what  other  people  live.    
We  see  things  before  others  see  it.    The  problems  land  on  your  desk.    There’s  
a  unique  challenge  to  leadership  that  gives  way  to  fear.”  
7. “You  don’t  have  to  play  and  live  with  fear.”  
8. “My  dad  had  total  confidence  in  my  capabilities.”  
9. “He  (my  dad)  breathed  huge  parts  in  confidence  in  me.”  
10. “He  (my  dad)  had  a  heart  attack  and  died.    My  heart  was  ripped  out.    I  was  
inconsolable.”  
11. “I  had  a  verse  to  help  me.    I  needed  a  song.”  
12. “Leaders  are  always  out  of  sight  of  land.    They  are  in  the  unique  position  of  
it’s  just  them  and  God.”  
13. “Leaders  you  can’t  do  this  journey  without  help  from  above.    You  can’t  do  this  
without  the  regenerative  strength  which  only  comes  from  God.”  
14. “It’s  our  job  to  stay  connected  with  God  to  help  us  do  this  great  thing.”  
 
Brian  Houston  
 
1. “There  is  not  other  name  but  the  name  of  Jesus.    I’ve  been  very  aware  in  my  
life  there  is  no  other  name.”  
2. “Songs  have  such  potential  to  bring  healing  to  our  inner-­‐person.”  
3. “Music  often  itself  has  been  created  in  pain.    The  heart  at  which  it  has  been  
created  is  the  heart  that  it  affects.”  
4. “So  much  of  ministry  is  walking  on  water.”  

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 5. “Oceans  is  the  most  successful  song  to  ever  come  out  of  our  church.    God’s  
faithful.”  
 
Sam  Adeyemi,  Senior  Pastor  of  Daystar  Christian  Centre  in  Lagos,  Nigeria  
 
1. “God  didn’t  want  me  to  be  a  building  contractor.    He  wanted  me  to  teach  and  
be  a  pastor.”  
2. “When  you  don’t  have  money,  it’s  pretty  hard  to  do  anything.”  
3. “When  God  asked  you  a  question,  you  need  to  remember  it’s  not  because  He  
doesn’t  know  the  answer.    He  is  often  confronting  your  foolishness.”  
4. “You  will  not  find  the  definition  of  success  for  your  ministry  or  organization  
until  you  help  the  people  I  sent  to  you  to  succeed.”  
5. “For  most  leaders,  the  object  of  leadership  is  success.    The  object  of  Christ’s  
leadership  was  the  success  of  His  followers.”  
6. “I  took  the  attention  off  myself.    I  put  the  focus  on  the  people.    I  was  able  to  
ask,  ‘What  are  their  needs?    What  are  their  issues?”’  
7. “If  we  are  not  growing,  it  is  likely  self-­‐centeredness.”  
8. “Following  you  as  a  leader  should  hold  the  promise  of  life  change.”  
9. “Hierarchical  structures  represent  the  fact  power  is  not  shared  in  the  
organization.”  
10. “The  downside  to  power  distance  is  that  it  can  leave  followers  with  low  self-­‐
esteem  and  afraid  to  challenge  a  leader’s  views.”  
11. “Jesus  crushed  the  power  gaps.”  
12. “Jesus  crushed  the  power  gaps  between  men  and  women.”  
13. “Jesus  crushed  the  power  gaps  in  church.”  
14. “One  of  the  most  amazing  things  about  Jesus’s  leadership  is  He  gave  power  
away.”  
15. “Peter,  if  I  can  do  it.    You  can  do  it  too.    Walk  on  water!”  –  Jesus  
16. “There  is  something  about  leaders  and  talented  people  that  makes  us  think  
others  cannot  do  what  we  do.”  
17. “Shepherds  feed  sheep.”  
18. “In  the  under-­‐resourced  part  of  the  world  you  have  a  huge  opportunity.    The  
systems  put  in  place  by  man  are  putting  people  down.”  
19. “It  is  not  the  absence  of  money  that  makes  you  poor.    You  need  an  idea  to  
start  your  business.”  
20. “Jesus  did  not  only  crush  the  power  gap.    He  over-­‐turned  it.”  
 
Bill  Hybels  
 
1. “Giving  emboldens  the  soul.”  
2. “Generosity  largens  and  strengthens  and  purifies  your  heart.”  
3. “Your  first  priority  in  giving  should  be  your  local  church.”  
4. “Willow’s  diversity  rate  has  gone  from  2%  10  years  ago  to  34%  now  through  
intentionality  and  teaching.”  
5. “What  are  you  willing  to  die  for?    Live  for  that?”  –  Dr.  Andrew  Young  to  
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Liz  Wiseman,  President  of  The  Wiseman  Group  
 
1. “It’s  not  what  you  know.    It’s  how  fast  you  can  learn.”  
2. “Is  it  possible  we  are  at  our  best  when  we  know  the  absolute  least?”  
3. “Be  cautious  but  quick.”  
4. “It  was  my  naivete  which  forced  me  to  move  fast  and  stay  close  to  the  
business.”  
5. “I  don’t  want  a  job  I’m  qualified  for.    There  would  be  nothing  to  learn.”  
6. “In  the  rookie  state,  we  operate  in  small,  simple  but  powerful  ways.”  
7. “In  a  physical  world,  experienced  people  outperform  inexperienced  people.”  
8. “With  experience,  we  can  make  assumptions.    We  can  make  some  bad  
assumptions.”  
9. “We  can  get  so  focused  on  what  we’re  doing  we  miss  what’s  going  on.”  
10. “Inexperienced  people  are  unencumbered.”      
11. “Newcomers  bring  no  ideas.    What  do  you  do  when  you  have  nothing?    It  
forces  you  to  look  outside  and  find  out  what  others  are  doing.”  
12. “Newcomers  work  in  baby  steps  because  they  want  feedback.”  
13. “Newcomers  deliver  things  very  fast,  not  because  they’re  skilled,    but  because  
they’re  desperate.”  
14. “When  you  lack  resources  is  when  you  get  resourceful.”  
15. “When  the  challenge  level  goes  up,  satisfaction  goes  up.    When  the  challenge  
is  low,  satisfaction  at  work  is  low.”  
16. “The  rookie  zone  is  powerful  because  we  don’t  like  it.    We  do  great  work  in  
this  zone  because  we  want  to  reduce  the  tension.”  
17. “Signs  you’re  on  a  plateau  –  things  are  going  smoothly.”  
18. “Signs  you’re  on  a  plateau  –  you’ve  got  all  the  answers.”  
19. “Signs  you’re  on  a  plateau  –  you’re  getting  positive  feedback.”  
20. “When  we’re  at  the  top  of  our  game  is  when  we’re  leaving  a  plateau.”  
21. “Signs  you’re  on  a  plateau  –  you’re  a  mentor  for  work  that  no  longer  exists.”  
22. “It’s  easy  to  step  back  and  let  our  jobs  stay  at  a  busy  state.”  
23. “We  can  be  dulled  to  danger  because  we’re  so  comfortable.”  
24. “You  must  pivot  between  leader  and  learner.”  
25. “How  to  pivot?    Throw  away  your  notes.”  
26. “My  students  deserve  fresh  thinking  every  semester.”  
27. “There  is  no  more  powerful  shift  a  leader  can  make  than  from  knowing  to  
inquiry.”  
28. “Admit  what  you  don’t  know.”  
29. “In  a  growing  company,  you’re  under-­‐qualified  every  day.”  
30. “Maybe  the  people  looking  up  to  you,  maybe  you  should  admit  what  you  
don’t  know.”  
31. “We  need  leaders  who  step  back  and  can  follow  someone  else’s  lead.”  
32. “Leaders  need  more  than  just  a  forward  gear.    We  need  to  be  able  to  stop  and  
sometimes  reverse.”  
33. “You  need  to  put  yourself  at  the  bottom  of  a  learning  curve.”  
34. “Sometimes  in  our  state  of  not  knowing,  we  get  to  know  God  and  His  hand  
working  on  us.”  

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 35. “The  rookie  zone  is  where  we  find  our  greatest  joy.”  
36. “In  today’s  reality  we’re  all  rookies.    The  only  question  is  are  we  going  to  use  
rookie  smarts?”  
37. “The  best  leaders  know  when  to  draw  on  their  experience  and  when  to  get  
their  rookie  on.”  
38. “Create  new  beginnings.”  
 
Michael  Jr.,  Comedian  
 
• “A  secure  leader  knows  how  to  laugh  at  himself.”  
• “As  a  leader  when  things  get  hard,  be  still  and  listens  to  the  Father’s  voice.”  
 
Craig  Groeschel,  Senior  Pastor  of  Life.Church  
 
1. “We’re  not  going  to  do  this  thing  unless  we  do  it  right.”  
2. “Your  brain  doesn’t  know  what  you’re  body  can  do.”  
3. “There’s  far  more  in  you  than  you  ever  thought  possible.”  
4. “There’s  way  more  inside  you  than  you  can  imagine.”  
5. “Capacity  is  what  you  can  handle.    Capacity  is  what  you  can  do.”  
6. “As  your  organization  grows,  your  mindset  has  to  change.”  
7. “If  you  don’t  change  the  way  you  think,  you  become  the  lid  to  your  
organization.”  
8. “If  my  organization  starts  to  struggle,  I  assume  I  am  the  lid.”  
9. “What  got  you  here,  will  not  get  you  there.”  
10. “Build  Your  Confidence.”  
11. “Expand  Your  Connections.”  
12. “Improve  Your  Competence.”  
13. “Strengthen  Your  Character.”  
14. “Increase  Your  Commitment.”  
15. “Somewhere  someone  is  speaking  The  Language  Of  The  Lid.    Your  words  are  
giving  you  away.”  
16. “The  pathway  to  your  greatest  potential  is  straight  through  your  greatest  
fear.”  
17. “You  are  not  who  others  say  you  are.    You’re  who  I  say  you  are.    And  you’re  
called  to  ministry.”  –  God  to  Craig  
18. “If  you  show  me  who  you  listen  to,  I’ll  show  you  who  you’re  becoming.”  
19. “You  may  be  one  relationship  away  from  changing  the  course  of  your  
destiny.”  
20. “One  relationship  changed  the  course  of  my  destination.”  
21. “Don’t  try  to  copy  what  people  do.    Learn  how  they  think.”  
22. “The  Gift  of  Disorientation”  
23. “You  want  to  get  around  people  you  don’t  understand.”  
24. “Decide  specifically  where  you  need  to  improve  –  communication,  listening,  
delegating,  work  ethic,  feedback,  hiring,  recruiting,  firing,  cast  vision,  how  
you  run  meetings.”  

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 25. “When  we  delegate  tasks  we  create  followers.    When  we  delegate  authority  
we  develop  leaders.”  
26. “I  am  working  on  initiating  rather  than  responding.”  
27. “My  calendar  gets  full  of  what  everyone  else  is  asking  me  to  do.”  
28. “Talent  can  get  you  to  the  top.    Only  character  will  keep  you  there.”  
29. “If  your  character  is  not  strengthening,  your  future  is  weakening.”  
30. “We  need  to  check  our  lives  for  leaks.”  
31. “In  any  area  where  I  could  be  potentially  weak,  I  am  removing  future  
temptations.”  
32. “Why  would  I  want  to  resist  a  temptation  tomorrow  that  I  can  eliminate  
today?”  
33. “You  are  only  as  strong  as  you  are  modest.”  
34. “It  is  time  to  deal  severely  with  that  which  could  take  you  out.”  
35. “There’s  a  big  difference  between  ‘I  kind  of  want  this’  and  ‘I  must  do  this.”’  
36. “We  are  not  spiritual  consumers.    We  are  spiritual  contributors.”  
37. “We  are  willing  to  do  anything  short  of  sin  to  reach  people  for  Christ.      We  are  
willing  to  do  things  never  done  before  to  reach  people  never  reached  before.”  
38. “You  want  to  be  a  better  leader?    I  wouldn’t  miss  another  Leadership  Summit  
until  Jesus  comes  back.”  
39. “What  you  want  determines  what  you’re  willing  to  do  to  get  it.”  
 
Capital  Campaign  University  –  August  26th    
 
Mike  Linch,  Senior  Pastor  of  NorthStar  Church    
 
1. “You  learn  a  lot  of  lessons  when  you  have  been  somewhere  a  long  time.”  
2. “We  judge  moments.    We  don’t  judge  things  by  the  length  of  times.”  
3. “My  journey  is  probably  no  different  than  your  journey.”  
4. “The  trip  that  you  are  on  is  a  journey.”  
5. “No  matter  how  it  may  look  God  is  in  control.”  
6. “When  we  look  at  our  life  in  snap  shots,  it  looks  like  God  has  forgotten  us.    
I’ve  got  good  news.    God  has  not  forgotten  you.”  
7. “Timing  is  everything.”  
8. “Moses  got  caught  up  in  what  he  wanted  his  role  to  be  more  than  what  God  
wanted  his  role  to  be.”  
9. “Times  in  the  desert  are  never  wasted.    For  14,600  days,  Moses  was  a  
shepherd.”  
10. “We  don’t  like  desert  seasons  as  a  church.”  
11. “In  desert  seasons,  we  bail  out  too  quick  and  we  don’t  fully  learn  the  lessons  
God  wants  us  to  learn.”  
12. “Moses  was  able  to  be  used  because  he  stayed  strong  in  the  desert.”  
13. “The  most  fun  times  are  when  you’re  bringing  buildings  out  of  the  ground.    
The  worst  times  are  paying  for  the  buildings  you  brought  out  of  the  ground.”  
14. “God  shapes  who  we  need  to  be  when  we  think  He  is  least  at  work.”  
15. “Moses  at  40  didn’t  have  the  heart  of  a  shepherd.    He  had  the  heart  of  a  
military  leader.”  

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 16. “Sometimes  when  we  think  God  is  up  to  the  least,  He  is  up  to  the  most.”  
17. “We  always  want  life  to  be  good.    But  life  is  not  always  good.    Not  every  
quarter  of  a  game  is  good.”  
18. “When  we  feel  the  least  usable,  God  uses  us  the  most.”  
19. “God  had  all  of  Moses.    Not  just  his  talents.    He  had  his  heart.”  
20. “Never  be  too  big  to  listen  to  others.    You’re  never  too  big  to  listen  to  others.”  
21. “The  best  ideas  always  come  from  the  guys  who  are  the  hungriest  and  
youngest.”  
22. “We  get  in  trouble  when  we  think  we  know  everything  and  don’t  ask  for  
help.”  
23. “Never  let  obstacles  deter  you  from  what  God  told  you  to  do.”  
24. “If  God’s  called  you  to  a  task,  He  is  more  than  capable  of  getting  you  through  
the  task  He  has  called  you  to.”  
25. “In  the  end,  God  will  reward  your  faithfulness  and  faith.”  
26. “I  don’t  know  where  you  are  at  in  the  journey,  but  this  I  know.    God  will  see  
you  through  the  journey  if  you  keep  walking  with  Him.”  
 
Duct  Tape  Workshop  August  29th  
 
Jeff  Kapusta,  Lead  Pastor  of  Lifepoint  Church  
 
1. “How  do  you  know  God  called  you  to  the  beach?    Because  it’s  the  beach.”  
2. “Last  week  we  saw  189  people  get  baptized  at  the  beach.”  
3. “We  were  portable  for  6.5  years.”  
4. “We  wouldn’t  have  made  it  if  it  wasn’t  for  the  call  of  God  and  an  incredible  
team.”  
5. “Ministry’s  tough  and  it’s  unpredictable.”  
6. “Duct  tape  makes  a  great  temporary  fix  but  a  horrible  solution.”  
7. “Most  of  the  time  we’re  grabbing  the  duct  tape  because  something  went  
wrong.”  
8. “We’re  not  where  we  want  to  be.    Thankfully  we’re  not  where  we  used  to  be.    
We’re  stuck  in  between.”  
9. “Nobody  told  me  when  I  got  into  ministry  that  having  a  vision  of  what  could  
be  and  what  should  be  can  be  very  frustrating.”  
10. “Nobody  told  me  that  when  you  start  ministry  that  some  people  take  off  like  
rockets  while  others  seem  to  always  be  looking  for  the  launch  codes.”  
11. “One  of  the  reasons  we  find  ourselves  frustrated  in  ministry  is  because  we’re  
not  where  other  people  are.”  
12. “We  launched  on  the  same  day  of  Elevation  Church  in  Charlotte  so  I  
understand  comparison.”  
13. “Aren’t  you  glad  we  serve  a  God  who  knows  where  we’re  going  and  what  we  
need  to  get  there?”  
14. “You’ve  got  a  God  who  will  fight  for  you.”  
15. “You  walk  with  a  little  bit  of  swagger  when  you  know  God’s  got  your  back.”  
16. “We  want  it  and  we  want  it  now.    God  says,  ‘I  have  something  incredible  for  
you  but  you  can’t  handle  it  right  now.”’  

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 17. “If  we’re  not  careful  our  big  faith  can  blind  us  to  our  broken  reality.”  
18. “As  you  increase  your  ministry  will  increase.”  
19. “Do  the  little  things  like  they’re  big  things.”  
20. “We  want  God  to  do  the  big  things  but  we  don’t’  want  to  do  the  little  things.”  
21. “Don’t  ask  God  to  do  the  big  things  if  you’re  unwilling  to  do  the  little  things.”  
22. “As  a  leader  I’m  guilty  for  always  looking  for  the  next  big  thing.”  
23. “When  you  become  the  best  with  what  you’ve  got,  God  will  give  you  more.”  
24. “Never  lose  the  significance  of  the  small  things.”  
25. “A  single  domino  is  capable  of  bringing  down  another  domino  one-­‐and-­‐a-­‐
half-­‐times  bigger  than  it  is.”  
26. “Instead  of  mountain  moving  faith,  we  need  seed  moving  faith.”  
27. “Redefine  excellence.    So  often  we  define  excellence  as  the  church’s  we  look  
up  to.”  
28. “We  all  watch  what  God  is  doing  in  another  house  and  downplay  what  He’s  
doing  in  our  house.”  
29. “Excellence  is  doing  the  best  you  can  with  what  you  have.”  
30. “Excellence  and  honor  define  us.    We  will  always  give  people  our  very  best.”  
31. “The  faithful  find  favor.    Stay  faithful  to  the  vision  and  God  will  give  the  
provision.”  
32. “Why  would  God  give  us  2,000  people  if  we’re  not  being  faithful  with  200  
people?”  
33. “Are  you  developing  leaders  or  are  you  acquiring  followers?”  
34. “Most  of  the  time  we  throw  in  the  towel  just  before  we  see  the  fruit  of  what  
we’re  trying  to  accomplish.”  
35. “Are  you  growing  people?”      
36. “Are  you  using  people  to  grow  the  church  or  are  you  using  the  church  to  
grow  your  people?”  
37. “If  we  grow  our  people,  God  will  grow  our  church.”  
38. “Where  are  you  asking  God  to  do  the  miraculous  where  you  are  not  willing  to  
do  the  minimum?”  
39. “We  will  never  win  battles  if  we  don’t  prepare  our  people.”  
40. “Growing  churches  pray  like  crazy.    They  sweat  the  details.”  
41. “Celebrate  everything.”  
42. “You’ll  never  get  to  a  place  where  you  say,  ‘We  have  arrived!”’  
43. “I  began  to  lose  the  significance  of  ONE.”  
44. “We  can  become  workaholics  in  Jesus’s  name  and  it  looks  stellar.”  
45. “We  want  to  be  somewhere  else  but  we  have  something  to  celebrate  today.”  
46. “We  can  become  so  addicted  to  growth  we  can  forget  it  is  about  the  ONE.”  
47. “Never  underestimate  a  lifetime  of  faithfulness.”  
48. “If  you  don’t  believe  in  God  then  why  do  we  have  such  tasty  animals?”  
49. “  People  want  to  be  in  environments  of  fun.”  
50. “We’ve  all  been  to  life-­‐draining  churches.”  
51. “You’re  looking  for  the  next  strategy.    I’m  telling  you  to  go  home  and  have  
fun.”  
 
 

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Jeff  Kapusta  –  Sink  or  Swim.    What  The  Church  Can  Learn  From  The  Public  Pool.  
 
1. “A  lot  of  what  we  do  we  learn  when  we  get  in  it.”  
2. “The  deep  end  is  awesome  if  you  know  how  to  swim.    The  deep  end  is  
terrifying  if  you  don’t  know  how  to  swim.”  
3. “We  all  learned  to  swim  in  the  shallow  end  of  the  pool.”  
4. “At  Lifepoint  Church,  we  wanted  the  most  amazing  shallow  end  as  possible.”  
5. “A  lot  of  people  like  the  idea  of  reaching  unchurched  people,  but  when  it  
happens  people  are  like,  ‘This  is  not  what  we  signed  up  for.”’  
6. “If  we  don’t  want  to  reach  people  who  don’t  know  how  to  swim,  we  have  to  
hang  out  in  the  shallow  end.”  
7. “There’s  a  natural  tendency  to  cater  to  those  who  want  to  go  deep  at  the  
expense  of  those  who  don’t  know  how  to  swim.”  
8. “People  who  want  to  go  deep  will  tell  you.    People  who  don’t  know  how  to  
swim  simply  don’t  come  back.”  
9. “Every  major  move  of  our  church  we  lost  a  top-­‐level  giver.”  
10. “Deep  people  pay  for  the  vision  but  the  vision  is  not  for  sale.”  
11. “The  longer  a  person  has  been  in  church  the  harder  it  is  to  imagine  what  life  
is  like  outside  of  church.”  
12. “We  don’t  know  the  anxiety  of  showing  up  to  a  church  we’re  unfamiliar  with.”  
13. “Appearance  matters.”  
14. “The  front  door  of  our  church  is  not  the  front  door  of  our  church  anymore.    
It’s  our  website.    It’s  our  Twitter  feed.”  
15. “People  will  check  us  out  online  before  they  ever  check  us  out  on  person.”  
16. “The  moment  people  show  up  they  have  a  perception  of  who  we  are.    Their  
perception  shapes  their  reality.”  
17. “Is  your  facility  inviting?”  
18. “What  if  you  become  comfortable  overlooking  what  fresh  eyes  can’t  look  
past?”  
19. “Laughter  matters.”  
20. “The  one  thing  people  don’t  expect  to  find  when  they  go  to  church  are  
friendly  faces.”  
21. “You  need  to  find  out  how  to  put  friendly  people  all  over  the  place.”  
22. “If  we  can  put  a  smile  on  somebody’s  face  we  disarm  them.”  
23. “We  want  to  be  life  giving.    We’ve  all  been  to  life  draining  churches.”  
24. “Signage  matters.”  
25. “3  things  every  visitor  wants  to  know  -­‐  Where  do  I  go?    Where  do  my  kids  go?    
Where  do  I  go  when  I  got  to  go?”  
26. “Prioritize  clear  over  cute  all  day  long  on  signage.”  
27. “A  lot  of  people  have  anxiety  at  our  churches  because  people  don’t  know  
where  to  go.”  
28. “The  kiddie  pool  matters.    Kids  ministry  matters.”  
29. “You  can’t  invest  too  much  money  in  kids.”  
30. “You  will  ask  your  kids  two  questions,  ‘What  did  you  learn?    Did  you  have  
fun?”  
31. “Kids  drive  the  family.”  

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 32. “Your  kids  ministry  -­‐  Is  it  safe?    Is  it  secure?    Is  it  clean?    Is  it  fun?    Are  the  
toys  from  this  decade?”  
33. “Music  matters.”  
34. “Your  style  of  music  should  match  your  culture.    Your  quality  should  be  
excellent.”  
35. “The  Lord  deserves  the  absolute  best.    There  is  a  right  position  for  everyone.”  
36. “You  can  have  a  great  band  and  a  horrible  sound  guy.    A  bad  mix  can  destroy  
your  service.”  
37. “The  length  of  music  matters.”  
38. “Music  will  always  be  one  of  the  most  divisive  topics  in  the  church.”  
39. “Our  church’s  music  will  always  be  bent  to  the  generation  coming  up.”  
40. “If  we’re  unable  to  adapt  our  music  to  the  generation  coming  up,  we  value  
our  preferences  over  the  next  generation.”  
41. “God  doesn’t  have  a  favorite  genre.”  
42. “I  think  God  loves  it  loud.”  
43. “Music  is  a  tool.”  
44. “We  are  trying  to  use  what  is  cultural  to  communicate  Christ.”  
45. “We  want  people  to  say,  ‘Hey,  I  know  that  song.    Maybe  they  know  me.”’  
46. “Message  matters.”  
47. “One  of  the  most  exhausting  things  I  do  is  sit  down  and  write  messages.”  
48. “Assume  Nothing.    There  is  nothing  easier  to  do  than  preach  to  people  who  
know  the  Bible.    When  preaching  to  people  who  don’t  go  to  church  assume  
nothing.”  
49. “Every  single  week  someone’s  there  for  the  first  time.”  
50. “Assume  they  don’t  know  our  stories.”  
51. “Be  Biblical.”  
52. “I  hear  a  lot  of  messages  that  are  good  ideas  but  they’re  not  God  ideas.”  
53. “People  want  to  know  what  the  Bible  says.”  
54. “Call  them  to  action.    What  do  I  want  them  to  do?”  
55. “When  you  get  in  the  Bible,  it  gets  in  us.”  
56. “Sometimes  I  read  the  Bible  for  depth.    Sometimes  I  read  for  distance.    I  
always  read  for  application.”  
57. “We  have  to  redefine  what  deep  means.”  
58. “There  are  three  types  of  people  in  our  churches.    There  are  seasoned  
believers.    There  are  new  believers.    There  are  non-­‐believers.    You’ve  got  to  
somehow  preach  a  message  that  lands  with  all  three.    I’m  so  thankful  for  the  
Holy  Spirit.”  
59. “For  those  who  want  to  go  deep,  we’ve  got  groups  for  that.”  
60. “The  deepest  thing  a  mature  believer  can  do  is  get  out  of  the  deep  end  and  go  
to  the  shallow  end  and  help  someone  know  how  to  swim.”  
61. “We’re  constantly  reinvesting  in  those  we  want  to  reach.”  
62. “I  don’t  live  in  an  unchurched  community.    They’re  dechurched.”  
63. “There’s  a  Lifepointe  experience  we’re  trying  to  create.”  
64. “Sundays  happen  every  seven  days.”  
65. “We’re  very  particular  about  what  we  create  that  goes  outside  the  doors  of  
Lifepointe  Church.    It  has  to  be  great.”  

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 66. “Fun  is  a  big  deal.”  
67. “There  was  something  very  attractional  about  Jesus.    Yes,  He  raised  the  dead  
but  children  wanted  to  be  around  Him.”  
68. “The  definition  of  ‘entertain’  is  to  hold  someone’s  interest.”  
69. “I  really  think  we’ve  got  a  fun  God.    Have  you  seen  a  sunset?”  
70. “My  favorite  comedians  make  fun  of  themselves.”  
71. “I  would  love  to  hire  a  Director  of  Fun  for  our  staff.”  
72. “My  words  will  return  void.    His  Word  will  not.”  
73. “I  love  preaching  on  money.    How  many  topics  will  touch  everyone  in  the  
room?”  
74. “Truth  with  no  grace  has  no  friends.    Grace  with  no  truth  has  not  backbone.”  
75. “I  don’t  care  what  you’re  dealing  with,  the  answer  is  Jesus.”  
 
Breakout  Session  –  UnMasked:  The  Real  Life  Of  A  Pastor’s  Wife  by  Frankie  Powers    
 
1. “My  husband,  I  married  him  because  he  was  a  youth  pastor.”  
2. “My  husband  said,  ‘I  want  to  be  there  for  people.’    How  do  you  fight  that?”  
3. “My  first  pastor’s  wife,  Alice,  pulled  me  aside  and  said,  ‘They  are  not  your  
friend.    They  were  together  before  you  arrived  and  they’ll  be  together  after  
you’re  gone.’    She  was  speaking  to  me  out  of  a  wound  but  that  was  a  terrible  
thing  to  say  to  a  young  pastor’s  wife.”  
4. “I’ve  made  dozens  of  friends  in  my  life.”  
5. “Your  job  is  the  only  job  where  there  is  no  pay,  no  job  description,  no  
seminary  class,  no  manual  but  all  eyes  are  upon  you.”  
6. “Your  husband  is  under  constant  scrutiny  from  your  friends.”  
7. “I  wish  Alice  told  me  I  could  just  be  real.    I  can  be  me.”  
8. “Each  one  of  us  has  been  given  different  gifts  and  you  don’t  have  to  be  
somebody  else.”  
9. “You  don’t  have  to  be  perfect.”  
10. “If  you’re  real,  living  in  a  glass  house  is  a  lot  less  scary,  a  lot  less  
intimidating.”  
11. “People  love  you  even  though  you’re  real.”  
12. “God  created  you  for  a  unique  purpose.”      
13. “I  don’t  know  all  the  keys  to  success  but  I  know  one  key  to  failure.    That  is  
trying  to  please  everyone.”  –  Rick  Warren  
14. “I  am  just  as  called  as  my  husband.    Some  pastors’  wives  don’t  feel  like  they  
are  called.”  
15. “God  when  He  calls  a  man  He  calls  a  whole  man.    He  calls  the  one  who  is  one  
flesh  with  that  man.”  
16. “God  put  you  together.    He  knows  your  gifts  and  He  knows  your  husband’s  
gifts.    He  meshed  you  together  in  a  beautiful  way.”  
17. “Your  ministry  with  your  husband  is  only  as  strong  as  your  marriage.    We  
need  to  work  at  our  marriage.”  
18. “Have  fun  with  your  marriage.”  
19. “Take  time  to  get  away  with  your  husband.”  
20. “Protect  your  children  and  give  them  a  love  for  ministry.”  

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 21. “Negative  church  stuff,  we  all  know  it’s  real,  but  don’t  talk  about  it  front  of  
your  children.”  
22. “Give  them  a  love  for  church  but  it’s  more  important  to  give  them  a  love  for  
Jesus.”  
23. “You  will  get  lonely.    Everybody  does.”  
24. “You  may  say,  ‘I  get  lonely  because  I’m  a  pastor’s  wife.’    Ladies,  there  are  
millions  of  lonely  women  everywhere.”  
25. “There  are  special  ladies  in  the  church  you  can  be  friends  with.”  
26. “You  can  have  a  friend  in  the  church  but  she  may  not  be  a  confidant.    She  may  
not  be  in  the  church.”  
27. “Have  a  safe  friendship  and  don’t  close  yourself  off.”  
28. “Don’t  be  easily  offended.”  
29. “Offended  people  are  very  self-­‐focused  people.”  
30. “Offended  people  tend  to  build  walls  because  they’re  safe.    We  become  
selective  who  gets  to  enter  our  world.”  
31. “Consider  your  source.”  
32. “A  lot  of  people  I  deal  with  are  hurting  people  and  they  hurt  people.”  
33. “You  need  a  mentor.”  
34. “You’re  all  older  than  somebody.    You  can  all  mentor  somebody  and  also  get  a  
mentor.”  
35. “Choose  wisely  your  counselors  and  friends.    In  battle,  you  need  warriors  not  
worriers.”  –  Christian  Caine  
36. “Your  schedule  will  never  be  normal  again.”  
37. “Love  God  first.”  
38. “Either  have  total  tunnel  vision  for  Jesus  Christ  or  don’t  do  it.”  
39. “Loving  your  neighbor  or  loving  the  church  came  after  loving  Jesus  first.    
We’re  not  going  love  people  if  we  don’t  love  Jesus  first.”  
40. “Love  God  first.    Then  your  family.    Then  comes  the  church.”  
41. “People  are  going  to  disappoint  us.    I’m  going  to  disappoint  somebody  
because  we’re  just  people.    There  is  One  Who  sticks  closer  than  a  brother.”  
42. “Without  loving  God  we  can’t  love  somebody  who  walked  away  from  our  
church.”  
43. “I  have  to  open  the  Word  for  Frankie.”  
44. “My  husband  and  I  agreed  to  take  time  away  and  not  mention  the  church  at  
all.    As  a  couple  you  need  that.”  
45. “If  the  enemy  can  create  a  conflict  between  you  and  your  husband,  he  can  
create  a  problem  in  the  whole  church.”  
46. “Being  a  pastor’s  wife  is  a  high  calling  and  can  be  filled  with  great  joy.”  
47. “The  joys  outweigh  the  pressures  any  day.”  
 
 
 
 
 
 

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The  10  Indispensible  Practices  Of  The  2-­‐Minute  Leader  Book  Study  For  
Business  Leaders  
 
Ike  Reighard,  Senior  Pastor  of  Piedmont  Church  on  Dreaming  
 
1. “As  you  get  older  you  downplay  your  dreams  a  little  bit.”  
2. “The  day  that  your  memories  are  greater  than  your  dreams  you’re  dead  in  
the  water.”  
3. “Dreams  are  what  drive  you  forward.”  
4. “You  attach  the  word  ‘change’  to  the  word  ‘dream.’”  
5. “I  communicate  three  things  –  faith,  hope  and  love.”  
6. “Inspire  means  to  breath  life  into  something.”  
7. “55%  of  people  say,  ‘I’m  not  engaged  in  my  job.”’  
8. “16%  say,  ‘I  am  actively  disengaged.’    That  is  a  71%  disengaged  rate.”  
9. “OBT  –  On  Board  Terrorists.    They’re  getting  paid  but  they’re  trying  to  blow  
up  the  company.”  
10. “The  number  one  time  for  heart  attacks  is  5:00  AM  to  7:00  AM  on  Monday  
mornings.”  
11. “The  highest  time  for  suicides  is  Sunday  nights.”  
12. “A  lot  of  people  are  working  in  a  toxic  workplace.”  
13. “Dreamers  look  at  way  the  things  that  are  but  think  of  things  of  the  way  
things  could  be.”  
14. ‘“Why’  people  are  victims.”  
15. ‘“Why  Not’  people  are  victors.”  
16. “Anytime  you  have  a  God-­‐given  dream  it  has  a  cycle  –  Birth,  Death,  and  Re-­‐
Birth.”    (Hab  2:2)  
17. “A  dream  without  the  ability  to  execute  is  hallucination.”  
18. “The  main  job  of  a  leader  is  to  define  reality.”  
19. “Take  aspirations  and  turn  them  into  accomplishments.    And  to  do  this  you  
need  execution.”  
20. “A  leader  gives  hope.”  
21. “The  smartest  person  in  the  room  is  asking  questions.    Ask  questions  of  God.”  
22. “A  dream  is  something  that  you  think  about.    A  goal  has  a  deadline.    A  goal  is  
committed  to  paper.”  
23. “A  dream  is  a  wish  that  your  heart  makes.”  –  Walt  Disney  
24. “Are  the  things  I’m  doing  right  now  moving  me  toward  my  goal  or  away  from  
my  goal?”  
25. “Always  start  with  Why.”  
26. “The  Law  Of  Inertia  –  An  object  at  rest  will  tend  to  stay  at  rest  until  an  object  
of  greater  force  comes  along.”  
27. “What’s  going  to  happen  if  we  don’t  change?”  
28. “Change  is  inevitable.    Growth  is  optional.”  
29. “A  stalled  career  is  often  the  fast  track  to  success.”  
30. “Never  mistake  a  detour  for  a  denial.”  
 
 

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Joe  Sangl,  President  and  CEO  of  INJOY  Stewardship  Solutions  on  Positioning  
 
1. “To  succeed  in  your  personal  life  you  must  position  yourself  financially.”  
2. “Financial  positioning  allows  you  to  take  advantage  of  opportunities.”  
3. “People  let  their  financial  situation  dictate  dreams  to  them.”  
4. “Your  dreams  should  dictate  what  your  financial  decision.”  
5. “Margins  create  space  for  you  to  take  advantage  of  opportunities.”  
6. “Space  =  peace  and  the  confidence  to  take  the  next  step.”  
7. “Lack  of  margin  =  lack  of  vision.”  
8. “People  with  no  margin  live  more  selfish  lives.”  
9. “God  will  bless  you  as  you  increase  your  ability.”  
10. “You  cannot  prosper  if  you  do  not  save.”  
11. “Money  finds  a  deal.    Money  finds  financially  competent  people.”  
 
Russ  Crosson,  President  and  CEO  of  Ron  Blue  &  Co.  on  Execution  
 
1. “Why  you  exist  as  a  leader”    Why  has  3  meanings  –  Cause,  Reason  or  Purpose  
for  something.”  
2. “You  lead  to  replace  yourself.    You’re  only  successful  if  you  have  a  successor.”  
3. “The  mission  of  whatever  you’re  leading  is  more  important  than  you.    It’s  not  
about  you.    It  is  about  the  organization  you  are  leading.”  
4. “You  are  only  in  your  position  for  a  limited  amount  of  time.”  
5. “Children  are  the  message  you  send  into  a  time  you  cannot  see.”  
6. “The  graveyards  are  full  of  indispensable  men  and  women.”  –  Charles  De  
Gaulle  
7. “We  only  lead  what  we  lead  for  a  limited  amount  of  time.”  
8. “You  are  a  steward  and  caretaker  for  whatever  you’re  leading.”  
9. “If  you  don’t  hand  it  off  successfully,  have  you  ever  really  led.”  
10. “Humility.    It  is  doubtful  if  anyone  can  lead  well  if  they  haven’t  been  humbled.    
Because  you  learn  it’s  not  about  you.”  
11. “To  be  a  great  leader  you  have  to  be  a  great  follower.”  
12. “Stay  one  step  ahead  of  your  boss.    Let  them  get  the  credit.”  
13. “Make  your  boss  look  good.”  
14. “Don’t  murmur.”  
15. “Stop  thinking  you’re  always  right.”  
16. “Leaders  are  always  making  decisions  with  limited  knowledge.    Your  breadth  
of  decisions  is  always  greater  than  your  breadth  of  knowledge.”  
17. “If  the  company  is  really  going  to  be  good,  you  need  to  have  influence  to  help  
your  company  and  boss  be  more  successful.”  
18. “Great  leaders  grow  in  their  influence  as  followers.”  
19. “Followers  are  future  leaders.”  
20. “Characteristics  of  great  leadership  is  they  are  not  afraid  of  strength  in  
others.”  
21. “If  the  mission  is  bigger  than  you,  you’re  going  to  hire  people  better  than  you  
because  that  is  what  is  going  to  make  the  entity  better.”  
22. “Accept  feedback.”  

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 23. “Great  leaders  will  ask  penetrating  questions  so  they  can  get  the  facts.”  
24. “The  best  feedback  comes  from  those  who  are  most  loyal  to  the  mission.”  
25. “What  are  you  looking  for  in  a  successor  –  wholehearted  purpose  burning  
inside  which  awakens  in  others.”  
26. “Great  leaders  are  great  coaches.”  
27. “Your  team  is  taking  their  cues  from  you.”  
28. “There  is  nothing  worse  than  seeing  a  baton  laying  on  the  track.”  
 
That  Church  Conference  –  September  23rd  
 
• “Numbers  matter  because  people  count.”  –  Dave  Adamson,  Social  Media  
Director  of  North  Point  Ministries.      
 
Van  Baird  –  Chief  Thank  You  Economist  of  Relational  Equity  
 
1. “It’s  what  goes  in  a  relationship  that  determines  what  we  get  out  of  it.”  
2. “Content  is  king.    Relationships  are  Beyonce.”  
3.  “The  time  I  got  saved  was  the  most  memorable  moment  of  my  life.”  
4. “There  was  an  overwhelming  sense  that  I  belonged  to  something  greater  
than  me.”  
5. “Marriage  isn’t  about  the  ‘Big  Day’.    It’s  about  every  day  after  that.”  
6. “We  don’t  have  to  sell  anything  anymore  because  we  have  relationships  with  
people.”  
7. “If  your  people  are  posting  your  church  should  be  listening.    If  not,  we’re  not  
in  ministry.”  
8. “Jesus  knew  what  people  needed  BEFORE  He  met  them.”  
9. “As  churches  grow  it  becomes  more  difficult  to  manage  relationships,  causing  
individuals  to  feel  lost  and  unloved.”  
10. “In  an  effort  to  find  community  our  culture  posts  their  lives  online  for  all  to  
see.”  
11. “Your  church  makes  people  feel  loved  by  leveraging  what  your  people  are  
posting  online  about  themselves.”  
12. “Digital  is  at  its  best  when  stories  are  being  told.”  
13. “The  church  has  THE  best  story  to  tell.    The  Church  should  be  THE  best  at  
using  digital  platforms.”  –  Haly  Veturis  
14. “If  we  stay  focused  on  what  our  people  are  sharing  online,  we’ll  never  run  out  
of  content.”  
15. “When  you  listen  you  get  to  be  heard.”  
16. “The  church  should  be  using  social  media  to  point  people  to  Jesus.  Period.    If  
you’re  not  pointing  people  to  Jesus  you’re  failing.”  
17. “Friend  people  who  go  to  your  church.”  
18. “Listen,  listen,  listen.    Draw  people  in  relationally.”  
 
Carrie  Kintz  –  former  Social  Media  Director  of  Focus  On  The  Family  
 
1. “Whatever  else  anything  is,  it  ought  to  begin  by  being  personal.”  

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 2. “The  digital  world  we  live  in  is  personal.”  
3. “We  often  say  things  but  don’t  want  to  take  responsibility  for  them.”  
4. “What  churches  say  online  is  what  we  believe  and  the  type  of  culture  we  are  
creating.”  
5. “What  you  have  to  learn  is  fit  your  content  in  the  context  of  people  where  
they  are.”  
6. “Figure  out  who  we  are,  who  you  want  to  be,  and  who  you’re  not.    And  who  
you’re  not  is  just  as  important.”  
7. “We’re  not  social  commentators.    We  have  conversations.”  
8. “We  have  this  perception  that  only  famous  people  can  make  a  difference.”  
9. “It  is  ordinary  people  who  can  live  life  well  that  can  make  a  difference.”  
10. “Simplicity  is  often  the  best.    Cut  out  the  extraneous.”  
11. “Consider  the  humility  of  the  person  of  Jesus.”  
12. “The  Gospel  is  an  intentionally  personal  thing.”  
13. “There  are  things  God  calls  us  to  do  that  bucks  every  church  program.”  
14. “God  calls  us  to  speak  with  kindness.”  
15. “God  calls  us  to  walk  with  wisdom  concerning  the  outsider.”  
16. “Speak  the  truth  in  love.”  
17. “People  from  the  Body  are  watching  how  Christians  are  talking  to  one  
another  online.”  
18. “What  is  our  theology  of  communication?”  
19. “We  are  called  to  walk  in  humility.    We  are  called  to  be  humble.”  
20. “Reaction  and  Proaction.    We  live  in  a  very  reactive  culture.”  
21. “You  don’t  always  have  to  comment  on  what  is  happening.”  
22. “Listening  well  means  doing  your  research.”  
23. “Make  sure  you  understand  the  amount  of  time  it  takes  to  communicate  well  
diligently.    Because  it  takes  time.”  
24. “Facebook  is  not  the  answer  to  your  problems.”  
25. “If  you’re  not  growing,  going  on  Facebook  is  not  going  to  help  you.”  
26. “If  someone  says,  ‘We  have  this  great  children’s  ministry  and  need  a  
Facebook  page.’    No  you  don’t.”    
27. “Strategy  are  not  tactics.”  
28. “Strategy  is  casting  a  vision.    Tactics  support  that  vision.    Strategy  is  the  roof.    
Tactics  are  the  wall.”  
29. “Don’t  take  things  the  culture  is  doing  and  make  them  Christian.    We  have  the  
Holy  Spirit  within  us…Why  are  we  not  listening  to  Him  to  create  and  
communicate  the  Gospel?”  
30. “Paul  and  Peter  were  burdened  with  glorious  purpose.”  
31. “It  is  not  stealing  someone  else’s  stuff  and  slapping  a  fish  on  it.”  
32. “When  you  read  the  stories  your  readers  are  telling  you  about  you,  you  are  
able  to  handle  it  when  it  comes.”  
33. “Data  is  a  story.    And  it’s  a  story  we  have  to  be  humble  enough  to  read.”  
34. “In  writing  you  must  kill  your  darlings.”  
35. “Let’s  kill  bad  practices.”      
36. “We  don’t  have  to  respond  to  everyone.”  
37. “We  are  all  stories  in  the  end.”  

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 38. “What  story  is  your  church  writing  for  the  Kingdom  of  God?”  
39. “We  are  the  story.    We  are  the  letter  of  the  Lord  to  this  world.”  
40. “As  the  church,  we  have  to  show  people  we  are  not  afraid  of  their  stories.”  
41. “Jesus  isn’t  afraid  of  our  stories.”  
42. “We  need  to  be  present  in  a  world  looking  for  hope.”  
43. “The  world  needs  to  see  someone  who  can  fail  and  get  back  up.”  
 
Tim  Schraeder  –  Social  Media  Director  of  Willow  Creek  Church  
 
1. “The  church  should  be  the  most  creative  place  on  the  planet.”  
2. “In  an  urban  demographic,  young  people  are  running  away  from  church,  not  
running  to  it.”  
3. “God  can  do  anything  if  you’re  willing  and  humble.”  
4. “Marketing  is  influencing  behavior  to  get  more  people  to  buy  more  stuff,  
more  often,  for  more  money.  –  1950’s  definition”  
5. “Marketing  is  everything  your  organization  does.  –  Today’s  definition”  
6. “People  don’t  trust  marketing  anymore.”  
7. “Whoever  has  the  best  story  wins.”  
8. “It’s  more  about  the  story  a  products/service  helps  you  tell  vs.  what  it  
actually  does.”  
9. “Great  brands  aim  for  people’s  hearts,  not  their  wallets.”  
10. “Answer  questions  people  are  asking.”  
11. “Social  media  has  leveled  the  playing  field.”  
12. “Digital  marketing  is  better  than  traditional.”  
13. “Marketing  is  about  storytelling  and  storytelling  is  central  to  the  Gospel.”  
14. “When  it  comes  to  marketing  less  is  more.”  
15. “Church  marketing  has  traditionally  said,  ‘Come  to  us.’    Jesus  said,  ‘Go  to  
them.”’  
16. “The  biggest  hindrance  to  people  attending  church  is  busyness.    Our  
competition  is  not  the  other  church.    It  is  for  people’s  attention.”  
17. “Attention  is  the  asset  of  the  future.”  -­‐  @GaryVee  
18. “God’s  invitation  is  to  everyone,  everywhere  and  we  need  to  extend  it  
wherever  we  go.”  
19. “The  call  to  be  witnesses  is  as  much  online  as  offline.”  
20. “The  most  effective  means  of  marketing  your  church  is  in  your  seats  every  
single  weekend.”  
21. “The  most  effective  thing  to  bring  people  into  your  church  is  the  people  in  
your  church  right  now.”  
22. “Make  everything  you  do  sharable.”  
23. “We  are  living  in  the  middle  of  a  revolution.”  
24. “What  the  printing  press  did  for  Luther,  smartphones  will  do  for  this  
generation  in  the  church.”  
25. “We’ve  never  been  more  equipped  to  communicate  the  Gospel  than  today.”  
26. “Evangelism  in  the  digital  age  is  more  about  how  we  live  our  lives  out  online  
than  what  we  say  or  do.”  

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 27. “Churches  who  don’t  engage  in  social  media  will  be  left  out  of  the  
conversation.”  
28. “No  one  knows  why  anything  goes  viral.”  
29. “Use  online  connections  to  foster  offline  community.”  
30. “Programs  don’t  connect  people.    People  do.”  
31. “All  of  our  efforts  is  for  life  transformation.    People  going  public  with  their  
faith.”  
32. “Our  world  is  in  desperate  need  of  good  news.”  
 
Lunch  Q&A  
 
Chris  Dunagan,  Social  Media  Director  at  NewSpring  Church  
Matt  McKee  of  Orange  
Phil  Bowdle,  Creative  Arts  Director  at  West  Ridge  Church  
Justin  Dean,  former  Public  Relations  Director  of  Mars  Hill  Church  
Dave  Adamson  also  known  as  @AussieDave,  Social  Media  Pastor  of  North  Point  
Church  
 
1. “Give  yourself  more  freedom  to  fail  becomes  it  doesn’t  last  that  long.    Because  
in  24  hours  it  is  gone.”  –  CD  
2. “People  are  by  nature  narcissistic.”  –  DA  
3. “Be  as  social  as  you  can.    Be  as  human  as  you  can.    You  want  your  brain  being  
human.”  –  MM  
4. “At  NorthPoint  we  have  multiple  ministries  every  day  wanting  to  be  
promoted.”  –  DA  
5. “I  say  ‘No’  to  people  because  it’s  advertising.    Social  media  is  not  a  
megaphone.    It’s  a  telephone.”  –  DA  
6. “We  try  to  move  real  information  with  relevant  conversation.”  –  CD  
7. “Don’t  be  afraid  to  re-­‐use  the  same  story  over  and  over  again.”  –  MM  
8. “Using  content  you  already  have  is  great.”  –  MM  
9. “Story  is  everything  on  social  media.”  –  DA  
10. “Every  Monday  we  queue  up  tweets  for  the  week.”  –  JD  
11. “This  position  (social  media  director)  is  not  a  job.    It’s  a  calling.”  –  DA  
12. “If  I’m  a  social  media  director  and  everything  depends  on  me,  I’ve  failed.”  –  
CD  
13. “You  have  to  really  protect  your  Sabbath  time.”  –  CD  
14. “Not  having  a  Sabbath  is  the  only  Commandment  Christians  brag  about  
breaking.”  –  DA  
15. “To  build  your  brand  you  need  to  set  a  level  of  excellence  and  that  is  where  
the  church  has  fallen.”  –  MM  
16. “Your  church’s  brand  should  be  about  Jesus,  about  people.    If  it’s  anything  
other  than  that  you’re  getting  in  trouble.”  -­‐  JD  
 
 
 
 

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Justin  Dean  
 
1. “There  are  more  dogs  in  the  Seattle  area  than  children.”  
2. “December  31st  the  church  (Mars  Hill  Church  led  by  Mark  Driscoll)  closed.    
We  have  15  locations  and  15,000  people  coming  every  week.”  
3. “It’s  hard  to  get  the  message  of  the  Gospel  out  in  such  a  hostile  world.”  
4. “Everything  you  do  and  say  is  P.R.”  
5. “Every  single  one  of  us  is  in  P.R.”  
6. “The  worse  P.R.  plan  is  not  having  a  P.R.  plan.”  
7. “The  way  people  perceive  you  is  reputation.    80%  of  potential  visitors  will  
look  at  your  website  before  coming  to  your  church.”  
8. “Many  say  when  a  church  needs  to  hire  a  P.R.  guy  is  when  you  need  to  stop  
attending  that  church.”  
9. “You  need  to  be  prepared  for  your  church  to  show  up  in  the  headlines.”  
10. “As  long  as  your  church  is  preaching  out  of  the  Bible  you  need  to  prepare  for  
things  to  go  wrong.”  
11. “We  have  created  a  world  where  the  smartest  way  to  survive  is  to  be  bland.”  
–  Jon  Ronso.      
12. “People  want  Christians  to  be  bland.”  
13. “Cultural  Christianity  is  dead.    There  are  no  more  social  advantages  to  being  
identified  as  a  Christian.”  –  Greg  Laurie  
14. “We  need  to  start  building  relationships  with  other  churches.”  
15. “Praise  other  churches  online.”  
16. “If  you’re  a  smaller  church,  don’t  criticize  the  Mega  church  in  town.”  
17. “Build  relationships  with  media  contacts.”  
18. “When  someone  of  the  press  contacts  you,  respect  their  deadlines.”  
19. “P.R.  is  about  managing  perception.”  
20. “Surround  yourself  with  people  who  will  tell  the  truth.”  
21. “Proximity  matters.    They  will  give  you  the  benefit  of  a  doubt  when  
something  goes  wrong.”  
22. “If  you  can  get  in  front  of  the  booing  you  can  change  the  message.”  
23. “Crisis  Plan  –  Choose  a  spokesperson.    Create  a  FAQ.    Train  staff.”  
 
Chris  Dunagan  
 
1. “When  it  comes  to  digital,  we  are  God’s  plan  for  reaching  God’s  people.”  
2. “There  are  just  over  7  billion  in  the  world.    There  are  6.8  billion  cell  phone  
plans  in  the  world.”  
3. “More  than  anytime  in  history,  we  are  connected  to  everyone  on  the  planet.”  
4. “You  have  got  to  shift  from  promotion  to  how  does  God  move  in  this  digital  
space.”  
5. “When  you  see  digital  spaces  as  a  mission  field,  you  will  see  the  Gospel  move  
there.”  
6. “One  of  our  strategies  for  reaching  people  far  from  God  is  to  write  articles  
that  answer  the  questions  people  are  asking.”  
7. “Excellent  customer  service  can  lead  to  a  Gospel  interaction.”  

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 8. “Digital  is  a  great  supplement  in  life  but  it’s  not  a  replacement  for  face-­‐to-­‐face  
interaction.”  
9. “The  Gospel  story  is  for  critics  also.”  
10. “Numbers  matter  because  people  count.”  
11. “How  hard  do  you  work  at  reaching  people?    We  work  heartily  to  search  and  
serve.”  
12. “If  you  are  not  looking  for  conversations,  you  can’t  be  in  them.”  
13. “It  is  our  burden  to  use  the  tools  wisely  to  search  for  people.”  
14. “People  are  on  the  internet.    1.5  billion  people  have  an  active  Facebook  
account.”  
15. “Numbers  will  not  lie  to  you.    You  cannot  lie  with  data.”  
16. “We  are  very  open-­‐handed  with  everything  we  do  at  NewSpring  Church.”  
17. “We  don’t  have  a  lot  of  volunteers  on  our  social  media  team.    We  do  have  50  
content  writers.”  
 
Paul  Briney,  Digital  Design  and  Creative  Strategist  of  Elevation  Church  
 
1. “Success  isn’t  always  determined  by  what  you  build,  but  significance  is  
determined  by  what  you  build  on.”  
2. “We  are  a  team  driven  by  data.    Our  best  friend  is  Google  Analytics.”  
3. “In  2014,  we  have  1.9  million  unique  users  to  Elevation.org.    Only  17%  were  
from  Charlotte.”  
4. “Who  are  our  people  and  where  are  they  coming  from  digitally?”  
5. “For  every  1  person  physically  in  our  churches,  we  had  16  online.”  
6. “I  was  looking  for  someone  on  my  team  who  is  the  best  in  the  world.    I  
couldn’t  find  them.    I  had  to  go  to  my  knees.    I  had  to  be  out  front  with  my  
prayers.”  
7. “Only  hire  the  best  with  potential  to  grow.”  
8. “Is  the  culture  you  have,  the  culture  you  want?”  
9. “Stay  humble.    Keep  learning  and  keep  listening.”  
10. “Stay  focused.    Keep  your  mission  in  front  of  everything  you  do.”  
11. “Get  to  work.    This  takes  hard  work.    It’s  a  calling.”  
12. “We  have  daily  team  meetings.”  
13. “Every  Monday  we  spend  30  minutes  talking  about  what  God  is  doing  in  our  
life.”  
14. “Always  ask  ‘Why?’    Junior  designers  ask  how.    Senior  designers  always  ask  
why.    Followers  ask  how.    Leaders  ask  why.”  
15. “Design  with  data.    We  make  every  decision  based  upon  data.”  
16. “Know  your  audience.    Understand  the  goal.    Then  design.”  
17. “At  some  point  you  have  to  press  Send.”  
18. “There  is  a  part  of  the  digital  work  that  is  risk.”  
19. “We  never  fail.    We  just  learn  new  ways  to  never,  ever  do  it  again.”  
 
 
 
 

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Dave  Adamson  
 
1. “I  trust  my  wife  listens  to  God.”  
2. “Sometimes  God  speaks  to  me  in  His  voice  and  that’s  easy  to  listen  to.    
Sometimes  he  speaks  to  me  in  my  wife’s  voice  and  that  is  sometimes  hard  to  
listen  to.”  
3. “In  the  Christian  world,  it  was  like  ESPN  offered  me  a  job.    North  Point  
offered  me  a  job.”  
4. “God  told  me  to  quit  taking  photos  of  your  food.    I  made  you  a  photographer  
and  pastor.”  
5. “If  you’re  a  parent  and  not  on  Instagram.,  get  on  Instagram.    It  is  the  best  
parenting  move  you  can  make.”  
6. “At  14,  my  daughter  already  knows  more  about  social  media  than  I  do.”  
7. “She  does  not  know  the  difference  between  an  online  relationship  and  a  
digital  one.”  
8. “She  is  a  native  to  social  media.    I  am  a  missionary.”  
9. “You  cannot  get  your  self-­‐worth  from  social  media.”  
10. “It’s  not  just  kids  who  are  on  social  media.”  
11. “The  average  adult  spends  2.4  hours  per  day  on  social  media.”  
12. “Almost  90%  of  people  access  social  media  from  their  cell  phone.    They  
connect  with  us  for  one  hour  on  Sunday.    We  can  connect  with  them  167  
hours  per  week.”  
13. “I  don’t  tweet  for  Andy.    Andy  tweets  all  the  time.”  
14. “28,000  people  are  watching  porn  on  the  internet  every  second.”  
15. “There  is  a  lot  of  crap  online.”  
16. “Jesus  calls  us  to  go  into  those  spaces.    We  are  to  be  salt  in  the  world.”  
17. “As  Christians  we  are  supposed  to  mix  with  the  manure  of  the  world  to  cause  
God’s  Word  to  burn  hotter  and  brighter.”  
18. “I  believe  God  can  do  far  more  than  we  infinitely  imagine.    And  I  believe  God  
can  do  it  in  the  physical  and  digital  world.”  
19. “At  North  Point,  we  use  social  media  to  connect  people  with  our  church  so  we  
can  lead  them  into  a  growing  relationship  with  Jesus  Christ.”  
20. “We  use  social  media  as  a  telephone,  not  a  megaphone.    A  telephone  invites  
people  into  a  two-­‐way  conversation.”  
21. “We  use  only  three  types  of  posts  -­‐  Engage,  Educate,  Experience.“  
22. “Circles  are  better  than  rows.”  
23. “You  need  community  and  somebody  in  community  needs  you.”  
24. “Following  Jesus  makes  your  life  better,  and  makes  you  better  at  life.”  –  Andy  
Stanley  
25. “If  you  speak  to  a  man’s  head  his  heart  will  sometimes  follow.    If  you  speak  to  
a  man’s  heart  his  head  will  always  follow.”  
26. “I  use  social  media  to  reduce  friction  for  people.    I  want  to  make  it  easier  for  
them  to  come  to  church.”  
27. “The  best  ideas  are  sometimes  the  ones  not  planned  out.”  
28. “Social  media  gives  us  a  chance  to  recast  vision.”  

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 29. “Social  media  lets  you  stay  high  touch  with  our  community.    We  use  social  
media  to  be  high  touch,  not  high  tech.”  
30. “Just  ask  people  what  their  needs  are.    Just  ask.”  
31. “Social  media  is  not  an  activity  –  it’s  an  investment.”  
32. “Numbers  only  matter  because  people  count.”  
33. “We  are  using  social  media  to  collect  stories,  archive  them,  and  use  them  in  
messages.”  
 
REACT  Conference    
 
Johnny  Hunt,  Senior  Pastor  of  Woodstock  First  Baptist  Church  
 
1. “If  we  don’t  own  our  manhood  someone  else  will.”  –  Keith  Boggs  
2. “The  word  ‘influence’  means  the  power  to  change  or  affect  someone.”  
3. “God  uses  us  to  impact  others.”  
4. “We  can  influence  people  for  bad  or  good.”  
5. “You  cannot  lead  people  you  do  not  influence.”  
6. “Everyone  of  you  got  to  where  you  are  because  someone  influenced  you.”  
7. “People  who  excel  at  something  can  rarely  tell  you  how  to  do  something.”  –  
Peter  Drucker  
8. “Platforms  are  established  because  of  the  way  the  Lord  used  someone.”  
9. “You  teach  what  you  know.    You  reproduce  what  you  are.”  
10. “The  platform  God  has  given  me  is  the  platform  of  exhortation.”  
11. “More  lives  are  influenced  by  emulation  than  exhortation.”  
12. “If  your  lives  connect  with  other  people  you  have  influence.”  
13. “Every  man  is  a  hero  or  oracle  to  someone.    And  that  person  has  enhanced  
value.”  –  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson  
14. “If  you  know  what  you  got  and  like  it,  be  reluctant  to  leave  it.”  –  Homer  
Lindsey  
15. “There  is  no  such  thing  as  great  work  without  longevity.”  
16. “The  stewardship  of  influence.    What  have  you  done  with  influence?”  
17. “If  God  gives  you  a  platform  where  you’re  influencing  others,  you  need  to  
steward  it  well.”  
18. “You  should  use  your  influence  to  help  other  platforms  succeed.”  
19. “There  will  be  people  the  old  flesh  will  rise  up  and  wonder  why  God  blessed  
them.    But  no  one  will  ever  be  envious  on  God’s  blessings  on  their  children.”  
20. “Integrity  –  No  one  will  ever  use  conjuctions  talking  about  you.  “  -­‐  “He  is  a  
good  preacher…..but…..”  
21. “Character  is  made  in  the  small  moments  of  our  lives.”  –  Phillip  Brooks  
22. “If  I  take  care  of  my  character,  my  reputation  will  take  of  itself.”  -­‐  Moody  
23. “Integrity  gives.    It  is  not  a  taker.”  
24. “The  enemy  will  hit  you  in  your  area  of  strength  to  discourage  you.”  
25. “You’re  never  more  like  Jesus  than  when  you’re  giving.”  
26. “Influence  is  not  the  same  as  authority.    Authority  can  be  abused  by  what  
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 27. “Authority  leads  through  position.    Influence  builds  others  out  of  
relationship.”  
28. “Some  people  are  into  position,  not  the  mission.”  
29. “Character  is  what  you  know  you  are.    Reputation  is  what  others  think  you  
are.”  
30. “Granddaddy  can  pick  up  a  phone  and  call  anyone  in  the  world  and  they  will  
take  his  call.    But  he  doesn’t  know  it.”  -­‐  Billy  Graham’s  grandson  
31. “Influence  is  about  being  genuine.”  
32. “Influence  requires  humility.    The  essence  of  influence  is  others.    The  key  
word  is  relationships.”  
33. “Influencers  connect  with  others  before  they  take  them  anywhere.”  
34. “Influencers  influence  people  and  the  people  who  they  influence.”  
35. “God  may  not  allow  you  to  touch  thousands  but  He  may  allow  you  to  touch  
one  who  will  touch  thousands.”  
36. “Everyone  wants  to  connect  with  someone  who  people  think  is  someone.”  
37. “For  people  to  influence  others,  they  must  keep  growing  themselves.”  
38. “You  can’t  lead  people  you  don’t  believe  in.”  
39. “Jesus  Christ  was  the  ultimate  influencer.    My  life  has  been  influenced  by  
Jesus  more  than  anyone  else.”  
40. “Before  I  met  Jesus  I  wanted  to  be  a  professional  pool  player.”  
41. “Influencers  are  dreamers.    They  are  leaders  with  a  vision.”  
42. “Vision  sees  what  could  be.”  
43. “If  you  don’t  see  it  before  you  see  it,  you’ll  never  see  it.”  
44. “Influencers  refuse  to  leave  the  world  they  way  they  found  it.    They  leave  a  
legacy.”  
45. “The  #1  reasons  are  unsuccessful  people  is  their  inability  to  lead  
themselves.”  –  Truett  Cathy  
46. “Some  people  you  speak  to  you  speak  into  their  heads.    It’s  logical.”  
47. “The  emotional  people,  you  tap  into  people’s  hearts.”  
48. “Everyone  needs  someone  to  believe  in.”  
49. “Most  people  don’t  believe  in  themselves.”  
50. “Most  people  don’t  have  someone  to  believe  in  them.”  
51. “I  believe  in  people.”  
52. “Most  people  know  who  believes  in  them.”  
53. “When  you  believe  in  someone,  they  will  do  anything  and  everything  to  live  
up  to  those  who  believe  in  them.”  
54. “Pastors  spend  a  good  bit  of  time  helping  people  with  their  sin.    Who  helps  
them  with  their  sin?”  
55. “You  have  to  believe  in  them  now.    Christ  believed  in  you  when  there  was  
nothing  to  believe  in.”  
56. “Everyone  loves  winners.    You  look  for  things  to  praise  with  those  you  
believe  in.”  
57. “Identify  with  failures  in  others  by  listing  yours.”  
58. “I’ve  never  missed  anything  I’ve  given  away.”  
59. “Show  more  interest  in  their  story  than  your  own.”  

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 60. “The  blessing  of  influence  is  helping  others  succeed.    It  is  lifting  up  Christ  
with  your  established  platform.”  
61. “If  you  can  be  faithful  as  an  influencer,  God  will  allow  those  who  mentored  
you  to  become  your  mentees.”  
 
Crawford  Loritts,  Senior  Pastor  of  Fellowship  Bible  Church  
 
1. “What  Johnny  Hunt  has  done  eclipses  what  he  says.”  
2. “One  of  the  lingering  effects  of  a  divorced  culture  and  the  erosion  of  authority  
has  been  the  loss  of  hope  for  the  future.”  
3. “Because  of  pain  and  not  having  the  role  models  we  should  honor,  we  have  
made  the  dastardly  assumption  that  our  moment  in  history  is  the  only  
moment  that  matters.”  
4. “We  think  exposure  is  the  same  thing  as  experience.”  
5. “We  don’t  know  what  it’s  like  to  marinate  and  process.”  
6. “My  parents  had  a  sense  of  future  about  them.”  
7. “You’re  going  somewhere.    Act  like  it.”  –  Crawford’s  dad  when  he  was  a  young  
child  
8. “What  are  we  passing  on  to  a  time  we  cannot  see?”  
9. “My  life  has  meaning  because  of  what  God  wants  to  do  three,  four,  five  
generations  down  the  pike.”  
10. “To  be  a  man  means  you  are  a  steward  of  direction.    God  did  not  invite  us  to  
negotiate  this  role.”  
11. “Your  whole  life  is  to  be  organized  around  the  character  of  God  and  the  
content  of  Scripture.”  
12. “What  is  to  be  passed  on  to  the  next  generation  is  the  character  of  God  and  
the  content  of  Scripture.”  
13. “You’ve  got  to  win  about  telling  your  kids  about  the  character  of  God,  Who  He  
is.    And  the  content  of  Scripture,  what  He  said.”  
14. “Identity  is  declarative.    It  is  outside  ourselves.    It  is  not  inclination.”  
15. “Don’t  institutionalize  your  struggles  and  say  that’s  our  identity.    The  Bible  
calls  us  out  of  that.”  
16. “Too  much  information  brings  a  lot  of  confusion.”  
17. “Are  you  bringing  your  behavior  up  to  the  Book?”  
18. “My  wife  and  I  believe  the  Bible.    We  believe  in  the  power  of  God’s  Word.”  
19. “A  hard  head  makes  a  soft  backside.”  –  Crawford’s  dad  
20. “You  raise  this  generation  based  upon  what  you  want  the  6th,  7th,  8th,  or  the  
next  20th  generation  to  look  like.    What  do  you  want  the  future  Loritts  
generations  to  look  like?”  
21. “You  want  to  teach  them  they  should  put  their  hope  in  God  when  things  are  
not  working  out.”  
22. “Give  them  a  sense  of  history  and  not  forget  the  works  of  God.”  
23. “Don’t  abuse  your  children  by  not  giving  them  the  opportunity  to  trust  God  
on  their  own.”  
24. “A  ship  is  safe  in  harbor  but  that  is  not  what  it  was  built  for.    That  ship  was  
built  to  sail  and  they  have  to  be  sail-­‐worthy.”  

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 25. “Teach  them  to  obey  God.    It  is  not  optional.”  
26. “Blessing  comes  with  obedience.”  
27. “You  don’t  have  to  be  successful.    You  do  have  to  obey  God.”  
 
Johnny  Hunt  
 
1. “If  you’ve  never  been  through  a  dry  season.    Hold  on.    It  will  one  day  come  
uninvited.”  
2. “When  I  first  got  converted,  I  had  never  owned  a  Bible.”  
3. “I  made  commitments  in  the  early  part  of  my  life  that  I  didn’t  want  to  be  
mediocre.”  
4. “David  experienced  times  when  God  seemed  distant.”  
5. “You  may  not  finish  long  but  you  can  finish  strong.”  
6. “It  is  not  your  duration  of  life  but  your  donation  of  life.”  
7. “If  you’re  experiencing  long  periods  of  dryness,  I  must  examine  my  life.”  
8. “Is  there  any  unconfessed  sin  between  my  Lord  and  I?”  
9. “Am  I  physically  unprepared?”  
10. “Stress  is  a  silent  killer.”  
11. “Sometimes  you  try  too  much.”  
12. “Sometimes  you  have  stress  or  burn  out  simply  from  routine.”  
13. “Sometimes  there  are  lack  of  margins  in  our  life.”  
14. “When  the  first  sign  of  burnout  appears,  it’s  time  for  a  break.”  
15. “Pastors  are  expected  to  lead  even  when  the  desire  to  do  so  is  challenged.”  
16. “Being  an  entrepreneur,  everything  you  initiate  arrives  on  your  task  list.”  
17. “24%  of  our  best  leaders  felt  secure  in  their  faith  but  spiritually  dry.”  
18. “Spiritual  exhaustion  doesn’t  come  from  sin,  but  service.”  –  Oswald  Chambers  
19. “Remember  your  soul  is  satisfied  in  environments  where  your  soul  engages  
eternity.”  –  Boyd  Bailey  
20. “You  have  no  idea  where  God  wants  to  take  you,  so  be  obedient.”  
21. “The  day  you  die  should  be  more  celebrated  than  the  day  you  were  born.”  
22. “If  I  could  stay  awake  24-­‐7  and  comprehend  God,  it  is  beyond  my  capacity  to  
comprehend  all  God  is  doing.”  
23. “You  can’t  estimate  what  God  is  doing  through  you.”  
24. “It’s  not  my  duty  to  convince  the  people  to  believe.    It’s  my  duty  to  be  
convinced  I  believe.”  
25. “We  preachers  never  prepare  to  give  a  boring  sermon.”  
26. “Obedience.    It  is  not  the  truth  I  know  but  the  truth  I  obey  that  makes  the  
greatest  difference.”  
27. “God’s  work  at  times  is  incomprehensible.”      
28. “You  may  grow  weary  in  the  work  but  never  grow  weary  of  the  work.    But  
sometimes  you  can’t  know  the  difference  between  the  two.”  
29. “Most  people  who  get  in  trouble,  it’s  not  a  blowout.    It’s  a  slow  leak.”  
30. “Emotional  emptiness  leads  to  chronic  exhaustion.”  
31. “A  leader  can  make  some  of  the  worst  decisions  of  his  life  during  emotional  
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 32. “Some  of  the  regrets  of  my  life  were  allowing  daily  decision-­‐makers  to  make  
decisions  I  should  have  made.”  
33. “Sometimes  you  go  through  such  a  difficult  time  that  you  wouldn’t  wish  it  on  
your  worst  enemy  but  wouldn’t  trade  it  for  anything  in  the  world.”  
34. “The  biggest  drain  on  your  reserves  is  managing  difficult  people.    Politics  in  
the  workplace.”  
35. “It  was  in  the  prime  of  David’s  life  he  had  most  of  his  difficulties.”  
36. “How  do  you  find  time  with  your  family  as  a  pastor?    The  same  way  other  
people  do.”  
37. “Fight  back.    It  is  always  too  soon  to  quit.”  
38. “Recruit  others  to  help  you  emotionally.”  
39. “Find  a  new  mission  that  renews  your  passion  and  creates  meaning  in  life.”  
40. “Help  always  comes  in  incremental  increases.”  
41. “God,  with  what  time  I  have  left,  let  me  carve  out  the  priorities.”  
42. “The  single  greatest  platform  God  has  ever  given  me  is  First  Baptist  
Woodstock.”  
43. “Mentoring  young  men  to  preach  the  Gospel  is  a  big  priority  to  me.”  
44. “When  I  was  at  a  difficult  time  in  my  life,  the  only  thing  in  ministry  I  did  was  
touch  poverty.    I  had  to  touch  people  in  a  worse  position  than  I  was  in.”  
 
Crawford  Loritts  
 
1. “Spiritual  gifts  are  not  a  path  to  self-­‐discovery.    The  only  reason  is  for  the  
wholeness  and  the  blessing  of  the  body  of  Christ.”  
2. “Adversity  and  inadequacies  are  gifts  from  God.”  
3. “What  you  don’t  have  forces  us  to  rely  on  God.”  
4. “God  hits  straight  licks  with  crooked  sticks.”  
5. “Having  gaps  does  not  limit  what  God  can  do.”  
6. “It  is  a  miracle  God  would  use  me  to  do  anything.”  
7. “It  is  more  important  for  us  to  have  a  big  vision  for  God  than  it  is  for  us  to  be  
looking  at  if  we’re  capable  of  something.”  
8. “We  all  are  deficient.”  
9. “Spurgeon  struggled  with  depression  his  whole  ministry.    Feeling  of  
worthlessness.”  
10. “Listen  to  God  speaking  through  your  wife.”  
11. “No  one  can  be  the  husband  of  your  wife  but  you.    No  one  can  be  the  father  of  
your  children  but  you.”  
12. “Some  of  us  get  in  trouble  not  because  of  the  work  but  other  things.”  
13. “You  have  to  speak  in  one  voice  as  a  couple.”  
14. “It  is  the  wife  and  mother  that  creates  the  environment  that  creates  the  
attitude  about  dad.”  
15. “If  momma  ain’t  happy,  nobody’s  happy.    If  daddy  ain’t  happy,  nobody  cares.”  
16. “Kids  need  to  know  there  are  justifiable  sacrifices.”  
17. “It  takes  courage  to  be  a  man.”  
18. “Nothing  in  life  happens  apart  from  courage.”  
19. “There  is  no  movement  in  life  apart  from  courage.”  

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 20. “Somebody  has  to  own  the  responsibility  to  do  something.    That  is  the  role  of  
being  a  husband  and  father.    Someone  has  to  go  to  a  place  nobody  wants  to  
go  so  others  can  arrive  at  a  place  they  always  wanted  to  be.”  
21. “Great  disclosure  comes  with  greater  responsibility.”  
22. “Great  understanding  brings  greater  accountability.”  
23. “The  first  pillar  of  courage  rests  upon  a  clear  assignment  from  God.”  
24. “When  a  man  of  God  dies  nothing  of  God  dies.    Don’t  get  arrogant.”  
25. “Our  hearts  are  to  be  filled  with  what  God  wants  done  apart  from  our  
personalities  and  feelings.”  
26. “There  is  no  such  thing  as  courage  apart  from  clarity.”  
27. “Faith  does  not  exist  apart  from  opposition.”  
28. “You  are  courageous  for  something.    There  is  an  assignment  from  God.    There  
is  something  that  needs  to  be  done.”  
29. “Courage  is  always  in  the  verb  position.    It  is  always  moving  somewhere.”  
30. “If  you  are  the  head  of  your  household,  God  expects  us  to  listen  to  Him  and  do  
what  needs  to  be  done  inside  that  house.”  
31. “Seek  God’s  will  about  our  lives.    Why  are  we  here?    What  were  we  born  for?    
What  are  our  assignments?    What  is  He  telling  us  to  do?    Too  many  of  us  are  
too  passive.”  
32. “Courage  rests  upon  the  assurance  of  God’s  presence.”  
33. “God  never  called  anyone  to  do  anything  in  the  Scriptures  that  you  don’t  see  a  
promise  of  His  presence.    When  you  do  what  He  wants  you  to  do,  there  is  a  
manifestation  of  His  presence.”  
34. “God’s  will  and  God’s  plan  is  about  the  manifestation  of  Himself.    Your  neck  is  
not  on  the  line.”  
35. “Courage  is  not  the  absence  of  fear.    It  is  the  direction  of  your  fear.”  
36. “Don’t  ever  follow  anyone  who  never  said  they  were  never  afraid.    That  
person  is  an  idiot.”  
37. “If  you  fear  God  more  than  people,  you  will  always  come  out  courageous.”  
38. “Courage  rests  upon  focused  determination.”  
39. “God  does  not  negotiate  with  Joshua  whether  he  is  courageous  enough  to  
handle  the  assignment.    He  commands  him  to  be  courageous.”  
40. “If  you  act  with  courage,  you’re  going  to  get  courage.    Don’t  wait  to  feel  like  
you  have  it.”  
41. “Courage  is  like  a  muscle.    It  gets  stronger  when  you  exercise  it.”  
42. “Leadership  is  not  for  the  faint  of  heart.    The  devil  is  not  sitting  back  while  we  
determine  whether  to  raise  Godly  kids.    He  is  going  to  come  after  you.    You  
are  on  the  right  target  when  you  are  being  shot  at.”  
43. “Success  and  failure  is  really  in  your  hands.”  
44. “Your  success  or  failure  is  determined  by  your  relationship  to  the  Word  of  
God.”  
45. “A  leader  means  you  are  a  portrait  of  the  desired  destination  at  which  others  
should  wish  to  arrive.    We’ve  got  to  be  it.”  
46. “Our  culture  and  society  is  going  down  the  crapper  because  we  have  ignored  
Truth.”  
47. “You’ve  got  to  proclaim  Truth.    You’ve  got  to  possess  Truth.”  

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 48. “When  they  cut  you,  you  ought  to  bleed  Bible.”  –  Tony  Evans  
49. “You’ve  got  to  practice  Truth.”  
50. “Leadership  in  the  Bible  is  all  about  character  because  the  leader  needs  to  be  
worth  following.”  
51. “People  follow  you  because  of  who  you  are.”  
52. “We’ve  got  to  organize  our  life  based  upon  what  God  is  calling  us  to  do  and  
be.”  
53. “Pull  the  trigger.    Get  up  and  act.    Take  responsibility.    Apologize  for  where  
we  have  been  passive  with  our  wives  and  kids.”  
 
Catalyst  2015  
 
Reggie  Joiner,  Founder  and  CEO  of  Orange  
 
1. “At  every  phase  of  life,  there  are  significant  relationships  that  show  up  that  
make  the  difference  in  keeping  us  stuck  or  unstuck.”  
2. “Brain  Growth,  Changing  Hormones,  Body  Odor  –  3  Things  Pre-­‐Schoolers  and  
Middle  Schoolers  have  in  common.”  
3. “Who  still  believes  God  is  a  big,  amazing  God?    Most  of  your  children  have  not  
grown  out  of  that.”  
4. “If  you’re  going  to  build  a  church  that’s  dynamic,  that  begins  by  building  the  
right  kind  of  children’s  and  student  ministry.”  
5. “Some  of  the  most  incredible  volunteers  in  your  church  are  those  who  show  
up  to  work  with  children,  young  adults  and  college  students.”  
6. “Sometimes  we  go  through  life  and  miss  the  things  we  can  learn  from  
children.”  
7. “Phase  is  a  timeframe  in  a  kid’s  life  when  you  can  leverage  distinctive  
opportunities  to  influence  their  future.”  
8. “Life  is  moving  so  fast.    We  have  to  pause  and  say,  ‘We  won’t  miss  this.”’  
9. “We  miss  phases  because  we  don’t  see  what  we  don’t  see.”  
10. “In  every  phase  there  is  a  crisis  that  drives  the  questions  people  are  asking.”  
11. “The  crisis  for  birth  is  birth.    Am  I  safe?”  
12. “The  crisis  for  the  2nd  grader  is  a  comparison  crisis.    Do  I  have  what  it  takes?”  
13. “The  crisis  for  6th  graders  is  puberty.    Who  do  I  like?    Who  likes  me?    
Acceptance.    How  do  I  fit  in?”  
14. “The  crisis  for  the  10th  grader  is  freedom.    Why  should  I  believe?”  
15. “You  don’t  parent  and  lead  these  kids  the  same.”  
16. “For  a  pre-­‐schooler  your  job  is  to  embrace.”  
17. “For  elementary  kids,  engage  them.”  
18. “Elementary  kids  will  grade  your  church  by  if  they  had  fun.”  
19. “For  middle  schoolers,  affirm  their  personal  journey.”  
20. “In  middle  school,  everything  is  moving  from  concrete  to  abstract.    They  are  
building  their  faith  as  their  own.”  
21. “In  high  school,  your  job  is  to  mobilize.”  
22. “You  have  to  develop  two  skills  at  once  –  when  to  let  go  and  when  to  hold  on  
to  set  them  up  for  what’s  next.”  

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 23. “Let  high  schoolers  experience  failure  while  they  are  with  you.”  
24. “If  you  don’t  give  high  schoolers  something  significant  to  do,  they  won’t  
believe  they  are  significant.”  
25. “We  miss  phases  because  we  don’t  remember  what  we  don’t  remember.”  
26. “Every  kid  is  made  in  the  image  of  God.”  
27. “Every  kid  has  a  divine  capacity  to  reason,  improve,  and  lead,  to  care,  relate,  
and  trust  to  believe,  to  imagine,  and  even  to  love.”  
28. “When  you  welcome  on  such  child  in  my  name  you  welcome  me.”  –  Jesus  
29. “No  one  should  feel  more  welcome  in  our  church  than  a  crying  baby,  bored  
elementary  schooler,  disobedient  middle  schooler,  and  defiant  teenager.”  
30. “Treat  every  kid  who  breathes  like  they  are  made  in  the  image  of  God.    
Whether  they  believe  what  you  believe,  they  are  made  in  the  image  of  God.”  
31. “Don’t  expect  kids  to  follow  Jesus  until  you  treat  them  like  they’re  made  in  
the  image  of  God.”  
32. “We  don’t  anticipate  what  we  don’t  anticipate?    We  don’t  think  ahead.”  
33. “A  strategy  is  a  plan  of  action  with  an  end  in  mind.”  
34. “We  have  a  real  enemy  and  he  has  a  real  strategy.    He  is  thinking  ahead.”  
35. “He  is  trying  to  steal  their  potential,  kill  their  identity,  and  destroy  the  image  
of  God.”  
36. “4  out  of  10  kids  will  live  without  their  fathers.    But  we  step  in  as  a  church  
because  that  doesn’t  have  to  define  them.”  
37. “80%  of  10-­‐year-­‐old  girls  worry  about  not  being  thin  enough.”  
38. “2  out  of  10  girls  will  be  sexually  abused.”  
39. “1  in  10  girls  will  start  cutting  by  age  12.    1  out  of  10  will  be  sexually  active.”  
40. “5  in  10  girls  will  be  sexually  active  by  18.”  
41. “Suicides  peak  in  10th  grade.”  
42. “Recruit  your  best  leaders  to  champion  the  next  generation.    Put  your  best  
leaders  on  your  best  opportunities.    They  should  be  the  smartest  people.    
They  should  be  some  of  the  best  paid.”  
43. “Lead  smarter  through  transitions.”  
44. “Re-­‐engage  every  parent  at  every  phase.”  
45. “Teach  like  child  development  matters.”  
46. “Teach  children  the  Bible  better.”  
47. “I  don’t  think  most  churches  have  a  Gospel  problem.    Most  churches  have  an  
audience  problem.      They  don’t  know  who  their  audience  is.”  
48. “Fight  your  battles  together.”  
49. “Don’t  fight  each  other.    Fight  for  each  other.”  
50. “You’re  doing  the  work  of  the  Gospel  when  you’re  meeting  the  physical  needs  
of  kids.”  
 
Rich  Wilkerson,  Jr.  –  Senior  Pastor  of  Vous  Church,  Chad  Veach  –  Pastor  of  Zoe  Church,  
and  Chris  Durso  –  Pastor  of  MisFits  NYC  
 
1. “We’ve  seen  100  people  give  their  life  to  Jesus  in  last  four  weeks.”  –  RW  
2. “We’re  pastors.    We  use  the  Bible.”  –  RW  

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 3. “In  New  York,  snitches  get  stitches.”  –  CV  
4. “Anything  great  God  wants  to  do  takes  time  to  develop.”  –  RW  
5. “When  God  wants  to  build  a  mushroom,  it  takes  six  hours.    When  God  wants  
to  build  an  oak  tree,  it  takes  60  years.”  -­‐  RW  
6. “God  gives  us  a  picture  of  the  future  so  we  can  make  it  through  the  present.”  
–  RW  
7. “God’s  dreams  often  have  to  go  through  a  season  of  darkness.    A  dream  that  
hasn’t  been  tested  cannot  be  trusted.”  –  RW  
8. “Each  and  every  one  of  us  are  going  to  have  to  deal  with  rejection.”  –  CD  
9. “We  all  deal  with  rejection.    Not  everyone  is  going  to  like  you.”  –  CD  
10. “What  God  said  to  you  He  didn’t  necessarily  say  to  them.”  –  CD  
11. “Never  once  do  we  see  in  the  Word  did  God  tell  Joseph  to  share  his  dream.”  –  
CD  
12. “Millennials  are  so  quick  to  share  with  others  what  God  is  saying  to  them.    It  
is  coming  from  a  place  of  insecurity  because  they  are  looking  for  other  people  
to  affirm  what  God  said  to  them.”  –  CD  
13. “We’ve  got  to  be  better  stewards  of  our  dreams  because  you  are  going  to  be  
rejected.    We  just  have  to  make  sure  we  are  not  inviting  in  extra  rejection.”  –  
CD  
14. “When  God  has  given  you  something,  don’t  let  things  around  you  knock  you  
off  track.”  –  CD  
15. “I  want  to  be  the  type  of  person  who  goes  through  trials  and  doesn’t  
complain  about  them.”  –  CD  
16. “Yes  there  will  be  dreams  but  they  come  with  nightmares.”  –  CD  
17. “No  one  is  strong  enough  to  push  back  what  God  intends  to  push  forward.”  –  
CD  
18. “Leadership  is  pain.    When  your  leadership  grows,  your  tolerance  for  pain  
has  to  grow.”  –  Dr.  Sam  Chand  
19. “Rejection  often  turns  out  to  be  God’s  direction.”  –  RW  
20. “All  of  us  face  temptation.”  –  CV  
21. “No  matter  how  old  you  get,  we  all  face  the  temptation  of  pride  and  sexual  
temptation.”  –  CV  
22. “God  tests,  Satan  tempts  and  people  tease.”  -­‐  CV  
23. “There  is  always  the  temptation  to  indulge.”  -­‐  CV  
24. “We  have  teach  young  people  to  say  ‘No’  to  things  which  might  be  good  in  the  
moment.”  –  CV  
25. “A  lot  of  young  leaders  want  to  force  the  dream.“–  CV  
26. “Dreams  have  to  stand  the  test  of  time.”  –  CV  
27. “Young  leaders  are  always  looking  for  a  way  to  network  their  way  to  the  top.”  
–  CV  
28. “Young  leaders  always  want  to  force  dream.”  –  CV  
29. “Some  young  leaders  get  their  too  early  and  can’t  stand  the  test  of  time.”  –  CV  
30. “It’s  always  too  early  to  quit.    If  you  don’t  quit,  you  win.”  -­‐  CV  
31. “Any  great  leader  is  only  there  because  they  didn’t  quit.”  –  CV  
32. “We  lose  too  many  people  not  to  the  temptation  of  sin,  but  the  temptation  of  
quitting.”  –  CV  

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 33. “When  you  go  through  pain,  the  first  thing  you  realize  is  how  much  pain  
people  are  in.”  –  CV  
34. “We  are  going  to  put  all  our  faith  and  all  our  hope  in  Jesus.”  –  CV  
35. “In  our  brokenness  is  when  God  uses  us  the  most.”  –  CV  
36. “Light  shines  best  through  transparency.”  –  CV  
37. “You  can’t  control  what  happens  to  you.    But  you  can  control  how  you  
respond  to  what  happens  to  you.”  –  RW  
38. “Joseph  was  a  man  of  character,  not  just  gifting  and  talent.”  -­‐  RW  
39. “Joseph  did  the  right  thing.    It  just  led  to  the  wrong  place.”  –  RW  
40. “This  guy  is  changing  the  economies  of  nations,  not  because  he  went  to  
school  for  it  but  because  he  listened  to  God.”  –  RW  
41. “Can  you  pass  the  test  of  retribution?”  –  RW  
42. “A  God-­‐dream  is  never  about  you.    It  is  always  about  God  and  other  people.”  –  
RW  
43. “If  you're  too  big  to  serve,  you're  too  small  to  lead.”  -­‐  RW  
 
Bobby  Gruenewald,  Innovation  Leader  at  Life.Church  
 
1. “We  are  pretty  predictable.    If  we  are  going  to  be  innovative,  we  have  to  think  
differently.”  
2. “If  we  are  going  to  do  things  no  one  else  is  doing,  we  can’t  do  what  everyone  
else  is  currently  doing.”  
3. “Innovation  should  solve  a  problem  or  create  an  opportunity.    Creating  an  
opportunity  is  solving  a  problem  no  one  yet  knows  exists.”  
4. “Embrace  constraints.”  
5. “Innovation  happens  when  passion  meets  constraints.”  
6. “If  you  have  everything  you  need,  you  will  not  have  innovation.    You  will  just  buy  
what  you  need.”  
7. “If  you  have  everything  you  need,  you  will  want  to  put  artificial  constraints  on  
your  company.”  
8. “If  we  think  we  are  big  and  significant,  our  risks  will  be  small  and  insignificant.”  
9. “We  are  a  micro-­‐church  with  a  mega-­‐vision.    If  we  think  for  a  second  we  think  we  
are  big,  we  will  stop  taking  risks.”  
10. “Move  fast  and  follow  momentum.”  
11. “People  think  they  have  to  figure  out  the  future  and  create  a  plan.”  
12. “Do  not  plan.    Prepare.    Be  nimble.      Be  quick.    Be  ready  to  react.”  
13. “You  don’t  have  to  be  right.    You  have  to  be  fast.”  
14. “Data  has  a  seat  at  the  table.    We  measure  everything.”  
15. “The  only  thing  worse  than  not  having  momentum,  is  having  momentum  and  not  
know  why.”  
16. “Never  ever,  ever,  ever,  ever  give  up!”  –  Winston  Churchhill.    “That  is  great  
advice  for  war.    But  terrible  advice  for  innovation.    Because  you  have  to  be  
willing  to  give  up  what  doesn’t  work.    Otherwise  you  can  pretend  you  never  
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 17. “This  November  we  will  pass  200  million  who  will  have  installed  the  Bible  app.”  
18. “Failure  is  not  an  option.    It  is  a  requirement.”  
19. “What  is  your  failure  resume?”  
20. “You  are  always  going  to  have  people  who  are  resistant  to  change.”  
21. “Small  doses  of  change  helps  people  lean  into  it.”  
22. “A  mistake  some  leaders  make  is  spending  all  their  equity  making  change.    Then  
they  exhale  and  say  they’re  not  going  to  change  for  a  while  rather  than  change  
being  a  constant  action.”  
23. “Social  media  has  a  tendency  to  elevate  the  individual.”  
24. “Some  churches  elevate  the  individual  well.”  
25. “Truly  unique  ideas  have  trouble  getting  the  attention  they  deserve  in  a  large  
organizational  vortex.”  
26. “When  you  see  God  do  something  that  was  unexpected,  are  you  going  to  
respond  in  an  incremental  way  or  does  it  change  the  way  you  do  everything?”  
27. “Some  of  the  most  innovative  concepts  came  from  limitations  when  we  had  to  
come  up  with  a  new  way  to  solve  this  problem.”  
 
Jeff  Henderson,  Lead  Pastor  of  Gwinnett  Church  
 
1. “VISA  going  to  go  out  of  business  one  day  but  the  church  will  last  forever.”  
2. “The  tendency  of  a  church  leader  is  to  live  in  the  land  of  reality.    Can  you  lead  
and  live  in  the  land  of  possibility?”  
3. “Leaders  need  to  own  a  space  in  the  land  of  possibility  and  lease  a  space  in  the  
land  of  reality.”  
4. “Possibility  is  the  answer  to  the  question  –  What  causes  a  leader  to  advance?”  
5. “We  need  to  be  ‘Anything  Is  Possible’  leaders.”  
6. “Have  you  been  beat  down  by  spreadsheets  and  accountants?”  
7. “Possibility  fuels  the  advance.”  
8. “We  have  280,000  unchurched  people  in  our  county.    Our  church  was  filled  to  
capacity  when  we  opened.    But  I  told  our  team  that  was  not  success.    Our  goal  is  
to  reach  280,000  unchurched  people  in  our  county.”  
9. “We  don’t  deny  reality  but  you  can’t  let  reality  define  you.”  
10. “Advancing  leaders  display  a  confident  humility.”  
11. “When  I  cast  bold  vision,  I  have  to  make  sure  my  ego  doesn’t  get  in  the  way.”  
12. “You  are  looking  at  a  prideful  leader  who  has  to  practice  humility  on  a  daily  
basis.”  
13. “Bubba  Cathy  was  a  leader  taking  the  organization  to  high  places  but  he  was  
willing  to  take  the  low  places.”  
14. “You  have  to  ask,  ‘How  can  I  take  the  low  place  today?”’  
15. “There  has  to  be  one  person  in  your  organization  you  are  pushing  to  the  
forefront.”  
16. “How  much  time  do  you  spend  building  your  platform  vs.  building  other  people’s  
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 17. “Someday  your  platform  is  going  away.    So  it’s  how  many  platforms  have  you  
built?”  
18. “God’s  thumbprints  are  on  you.    And  His  thumbprints  are  clues  as  to  how  He  is  
going  to  use  you.”  
19. “  In  the  land  of  reality,  we  ask  a  question  that  causes  people  to  stop  dreaming  –  
‘Is  it  working?”’  
20. “If  you  create  an  atmosphere  of  fear,  it  becomes  detrimental  because  people  go  
into  protective  mode.”  
21. ‘“What  are  we  learning?’  should  be  asked  twice  as  much  as  ‘Is  it  working?”’  
22. “Sometimes  you  have  to  kill  things.    The  church  is  not  good  at  killing  things.”  
23. “When  you  live  in  the  land  of  possibility,  something  might  not  work  but  an  
iteration  of  this  idea  might  work  somewhere  down  the  line.”  
24. “The  Chick-­‐Fil-­‐A  calendar  is  the  #1  selling  calendar  in  the  world.    It  almost  didn’t  
happen.”  
25. “When  you  live  in  the  land  of  possibility,  don’t  give  up  too  early.    You  are  
persistently  resilient.”  
26. “It’s  OK  to  fail  because  we’re  not  failing,  we’re  learning.    And  if  we’re  learning,  
we’re  winning.”      
27. “Is  your  team  scared  of  failing?    It  starts  with  you  and  me.”  
28. “I  don’t  know  if  it’s  going  to  work.    But  I’m  so  proud  of  you  for  trying.”  
29. “It  doesn’t  take  a  whole  lot  of  courage  to  live  in  the  land  of  reality.    You  just  
point  out  what’s  working  or  not  working.”  
30. “The  Wright  brothers  were  preacher’s  kids.”  
31. “Culture  eats  strategy  for  breakfast.”  –  Peter  Drucker  
32. “People  value  hearing  their  name.”  
33. “Jeff,  your  leader  Jesus  is  the  greatest  servant  leader  of  all-­‐time.    We  shouldn’t  
know  how  to  serve  people  better  than  you  do.    I  just  think  we’re  more  
passionate  about  it.”  –  Horst  Schulze,  former  CEO  of  Ritz-­‐Carlton  
34. “One  day  I  want  the  Ritz-­‐Carlton  to  study  us.”  
35. “We  want  to  let  people  know  God  is  for  them  by  how  well  we  serve  them.”  –  
Gwinnett  Church  guest  services  statement.  
36. “Deliver  WOW  Through  Service  –  Get  to  know  their  name  in  a  non-­‐freaky  way.”  
37. “The  most  threatening  thing  guests  do  at  our  church  is  hand  off  their  babies  to  
people  they  don’t  know.”  
38. “Church  is  not  just  for  the  adults.    There  are  kids  involved.”  
39. “The  Holy  Spirit  is  not  just  in  the  auditorium  with  adults.    The  Holy  Spirit  is  in  the  
nursery  with  the  kids.    It’s  been  my  experience  the  Holy  Spirit  leaves  the  nursery  
in  about  an  hour.”  
40. “Create  Fun.    Fun  at  church  is  so  disarming.”  
41. “Address  the  customer.    Learn  their  name.    Address  their  situation.    Solve  their  
situation  in  the  moment  if  possible.    Say  farewell  by  using  their  name.”  
42. “We  can  get  too  evaluative  in  our  meetings  and  not  celebratory.    Start  with  
celebration.    Now  that  we’ve  celebrated,  what  could  we  have  done  better  and  
what  did  we  learn?”  

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 43. “Church  plants,  the  slower  sometimes  the  better.    In  the  early  days,  going  every  
other  Sunday  might  be  a  good  idea.”  
44. “Every  idea  that  is  dying  is  competing  for  resources  that  are  currently  alive.”      
45. “We  want  to  fund  and  fuel  momentum.”  
 
Brad  Lomenick  –  5  Failures  From  His  Own  Leadership  Journey  As  Former  Leader  of  
Catalyst  He  Has  Learned  The  Most  From.  
 
1. “H3  stands  for  Humble,  Hungry,  Hustle  and  that  has  been  my  mantra  since  I  was  
21  years  old.”  
2. “The  first  failure  was  a  personal  identity  crisis.”  
3. “When  I  stepped  out  of  running  Catalyst,  the  hardest  thing  I  had  to  deal  with  was  
Who  Am  I?”  
4. “I’m  not  ‘the  Catalyst  guy’  anymore.    Will  anyone  care  anymore  about  Brad  
Lomenick?”  
5. “Who  I  am,  who  you  are,  is  not  defined  by  what  you  do.”  
6. “Identity  is  who  you  are.    It’s  unchanging.    I’m  a  follower  of  Jesus.”  
7. “Calling  should  answer  the  question,  ‘Why  am  I  here?’    it  is  where  your  strengths  
and  passions  come  together.”  
8. “Assignment  is  what  I  do.”      
9. “My  assignment  can  change  and  will  change  multiple  times.    My  calling  is  to  
Influence  Influencers.”      
10. “Catalyst  was  an  assignment.    That  assignment  is  over.    I  didn’t  lose  my  identity.    
I  didn’t  lose  my  calling.”  
11. “The  average  25-­‐year-­‐old  will  have  10-­‐15  seasons  of  assignment  in  your  career.”  
12. “The  second  failure  was  Stale  Leadership.”  
13. “The  slow  steady  decline  over  time  for  me  was  starting  to  take  its  toll.”  
14. “Brad  and  Darb  (Brad  spelled  backwards)  were  evidence  of  my  stale  leadership.”  
15. “You  have  allowed  the  pursuit  of  the  vision  to  get  in  the  way  of  the  people.”  
16. “My  pursuit  in  what  was  really  great  was  becoming  really  bad.”  
17. “Don’t  allow  your  pursuit  of  what  seems  like  something  great  to  get  in  the  way  
of  what  will  ultimately  take  you  down.”  
18. “Catalyst  was  a  very  successful  organization  with  an  unhealthy  leader.”  
19. “I  was  glad  I  could  have  stopped  while  I  was  in  ‘stale  mode’  and  make  changes.”  
20. “I  was  glad  I  could  do  preventive  leadership  instead  of  prescriptive  leadership.”  
21. “I  had  a  fear  in  me  that  people  were  finally  going  to  find  out  I  was  a  knucklehead  
from  Oklahoma.    How  did  I  ever  get  into  this  seat?”  
22. “Successful  leadership  is  when  you  are  helping  other  people  thrive.”  
23. “The  people  closest  to  me  were  getting  the  worst  of  me.”  
24. “So  many  times  we  give  the  people  closest  to  us  our  leftovers.”  
25. “I  was  leaving  people  in  the  ditch  on  the  way  to  getting  the  mountain.”  
26. “My  third  failure  was  I  was  losing  my  authenticity.”  
27. “I  starting  acting  like  all  the  people  we  were  inviting  to  be  on  the  Catalyst  stage.”  
28. “The  more  you  carry  the  harder  it  is  to  lead  from  who  you  already  are.”  

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 29. “Be  comfortable  walking  in  with  who  you  are.    Your  team  wants  to  be  led  by  that  
person.”  
30. “So  many  of  us  are  walking  around  posing  trying  to  be  the  next……”  
31. “Just  go  be  you.”  
32. “Young  leaders  don’t  need  a  relevant  leader.    They  need  a  real  leader.”  
33. “All  your  team  already  realizes  you  have  pit  stains.    They  just  want  the  leader  
they  know  to  be  the  leader  you  know.”  
34. “I  don’t  know  if  I  did  the  sabbatical  well.    I  watched  a  lot  of  Breaking  Bad.”  
35. “A  lot  of  my  friends  grew  fast  and  blew  over  because  they  weren’t  rooted.”  
36. “You  have  to  establish  systems  that  protect  you  from  yourself.”  
37. “If  I  didn’t  have  people  and  systems  in  place,  I  would  destroy  the  thing  I  
created.”  
38. “Your  spouse  is  your  greatest  accountability  partner.”  
39. “Have  people  in  your  life  that  need  nothing  from  you  and  don’t  get  a  paycheck  
from  you  that  will  tell  you  the  truth.”  
40. “When  you’re  paying  somebody,  they  will  tell  you  exactly  what  you  want  to  
hear.”  
41. “You’re  like  the  boxer  in  the  ring  in  the  14th  round  .    You  will  pass  out  before  you  
bow  out.”  
42. “You  have  to  have  people  who  will  protect  you  from  yourself.”  
43. “My  fourth  failure  was  faithfulness  to  where  you  are.”  
44. “A  lot  of  people  who  used  to  call  me  don’t  call  me  anymore.”  
45. “In  God’s  economy,  your  scorecard  is  based  on  how  did  you  steward  what  you  
were  given.”  
46. “God  is  saying,  ‘Be  faithful  to  your  2.    And  if  I  turn  it  into  4,  so  be  it.”’  
47. “Under  30  leaders,  stop  worrying  about  being  the  next  Mark  Zuckerberg.    Stop  
thinking  if  you  don’t  change  the  world  you’re  a  failure.”  
48. “To  recharge  your  batteries,  take  as  much  vacation  as  you  want.    Part  of  new  
comp  plans  is  what  looks  like  a  good  vacation  plan  for  you.”  
49. “If  you’re  a  leader,  part  of  your  role  in  helping  your  team  flourish  is  to  force  
margin  for  them.”  
50. “I  didn’t  force  my  team  to  stop  and  rest.”  
51. “Margin  is  one  of  the  greatest  lessons  I’ve  seen  leaders  I  admire  put  in  their  
schedule  and  protect  with  all  their  lives.”  
52. “My  fifth  failure  was  my  passion  tank  was  empty.”  
53. “I  got  my  smile  back.”  
54. “So  many  of  us  at  some  point,  the  reason  we  got  in  it,  is  the  reason  we’re  about  
to  get  out  of  it.”  
55. “Do  not  let  your  passion  get  to  where  it  is  running  on  fumes.”  
56. “Youth  pastor,  if  you  don’t  stand  up  in  front  of  your  students  with  100%  passion,  
they’re  out.”  
57. “If  you  are  leading  with  passion,  people  will  follow  you.”  
58. “Do  not  let  your  passion  tank  go  empty.”    
 

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David  Platt,  President  of  the  International  Mission  Board  
 
1. “In  my  life  and  leadership,  I’m  in  way  over  my  head.”  
2. “In  order  to  be  a  good  leader,  you  don’t  have  to  know  everything.    You  just  need  
to  know  a  few  right  things  and  be  willing  to  die  from  those  things.”  
3. “People  who  believe  God  is  wonderful  above  all  things  will  give  their  lives  
unconditionally  to  spread  His  wonder  to  all  peoples.”  
4. “Global  mission  is  tragically  neglected.”  
5. “In  Yemen,  there  are  only  20-­‐30  Christians  in  8  million  people.    There  are  more  
people  in  many  of  our  small  groups  than  there  are  Christians  in  Yemen.”  
6. “2.8  billion  people  are  classified  is  unreached.    When  we’re  talking  about  
unreached  people,  we’re  talking  about  access.”  
7. “Unreached  means  you’re  born,  you  live,  you  die  and  you’ve  never  heard  the  
Gospel.”  
8. “Our  sovereign  God  holds  the  destiny  of  the  world  in  the  palm  of  His  hand.”  
9. “He  is  sovereign  over  everything.    The  wind  blows  at  His  bidding.”  
10. “Our  God  charts  the  course  of  countries.”  
11. “21st  century  in  America  –  you  don’t  have  rights.    God  has  all  the  rights.”  
12. “Man  is  responsible  in  human  history  but  God  is  sovereign  over  human  history.”  
13. “We  make  choices.    God  is  in  control.”  
14. “Our  God  does  not  need  us.    Everyone  one  of  us  could  drop  down  and  turn  to  
dust  and  God  will  make  a  great  name  for  Himself.”  
15. “God  allows  us  to  join  Him  because  He  loves  us.”  
16. “The  state  of  man  before  God  apart  from  Christ  is  utterly  hopeless.”  
17. “Talking  about  hell  is  not  particularly  popular  at  conferences.”  
18. “There  is  real  eternal  wrath  before  a  holy  God  apart  from  Christ.”  
19. “Over  2  billion  have  only  enough  knowledge  of  God  to  damn  them  from  
Heaven.”  
20. “What  is  it  going  to  take  for  unreached  people  to  become  totally  unacceptable  
to  people  in  church?”  
21. “The  greatest  news  in  all  the  world  is  that  the  slaughtered  lamb  of  God  reigns  as  
the  Sovereign  Lord  of  all.”  
22. “Jesus  conquered  death  by  enduring  death.”  
23. “The  greatest  news  in  all  the  world  is  death  has  been  defeated.    Sin  has  been  
conquered.    Jesus  Christ  is  risen.”  
24. “The  salvation  of  Christ  is  radically  gracious,  global  and  glorious.”  
25. “Christians,  He  has  purchased  you.”  
26. “We  had  nothing  to  do  with  where  we  were  born.    There  is  a  mystery  to  that  
mercy.    That  mercy  was  not  intended  to  stop  with  me.    It  was  intended  to  flow  
through  me.”  
27. “What  drives  passion  to  get  the  Gospel  to  all  people  is  not  guilt.    It’s  glory.”  
28. “Pray  confidently.”  
29. “Give  sacrificially.”  

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 30. “Why  are  we  the  richest  people  to  ever  walk  planet  Earth?    Psalm  67.    God  gives  
wealth  for  the  sake  of  worship.”  
31. “Go  wisely.”  
32. “What  if  God  is  not  calling  people  to  leave  their  job  but  leverage  their  job  to  get  
the  spread  of  the  Gospel  around  the  world?”  
33. “Die  willingly.    People  who  believe  that  God  is  wonderful  above  all  things  will  
give  their  lives  literally  and  figuratively.”  
34. “People  are  dangerous  to  reach.    All  the  easy  ones  are  taken.”  
35. “In  unreached  people  groups,  there  are  no  locals.”  
36. “The  most  foolish  thing  you  can  do  is  put  conditions  on  your  leadership  to  Him.”  
 
Day  2  
 
Andy  Stanley,  Senior  Pastor  of  North  Point  Community  Church  
 
1. “A  Catalyst  Leader  is  a  leader  who  loves  the  local  church.”  
2. “You  saw  something  you  never  saw  before  and  the  wonder  was  awakened  for  
you.”  
3. “When  you  have  a  child,  a  category  of  love  is  awakened  in  you.”  
4. “We  remember  the  joy  that  was  awakened  when  we  became  Christians.”  
5. “When  wonder  is  awakened,  we  are  suddenly  aware  that  what  is  isn’t  all  there  
is.”  
6. “The  potential  of  wonder  resides  in  all  of  us.”  
7. “Everything  in  life  conspires  against  wonder.”  
8. “My  dad  kept  wonder  alive  in  me  as  a  kid.”  
9. “Don’t  you  give  your  life  to  something  small.”  
10. “I  loved  seminary.”  
11. “When  wonder  is  birthed,  you  know  there  is  more  to  this  life.”  
12. “In  1991,  I  heard  Bill  Hybels  talk  about  leadership  in  the  local  church.    I  had  never  
heard  anyone  speak  on  leadership.”  
13. “We  can’t  change  the  world  but  we  can  be  a  snapshot  of  what  could  be  and  
should  be  for  a  kid  looking  for  a  family.”  
14. “Your  mandate  as  a  leader  -­‐  To  awaken  the  wonder  within.    To  stir  and  disturb  
the  imagination  of  the  people  and  organizations  you  lead.”  
15. “Wonder  is  the  portal  to  progress.    Wonder  is  the  catalyst  for  change.    Wonder  is  
necessary  for  growth.”  
16. “Wonder  is  as  threatening  and  disruptive  as  it  is  inspiring.”  
17. “Wonder  is  a  match  and  organizations  are  like  a  bucket  of  water.”  
18. “As  leaders,  our  mandate  is  to  work  against  everything  conspiring  against  
wonder.”  
19. “It  is  human  nature  to  resist  what  we  don’t  understand  or  can’t  control.”  
20. “To  awaken  wonder  you’ve  got  to  keep  wonder  wide  awake  in  you.    It  is  your  
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 21. “If  you  allow  wonder  to  shut  down  in  you,  you  will  allow  wonder  to  shut  down  in  
everyone  around  you.”  
22. “Be  a  student.    Not  a  critic.”  
23. “Everything  I  do  makes  perfect  sense  to  me.”  
24. “Students  learn.    Critics  criticize.”  
25. “If  you  are  a  critic  before  you  are  a  student  you  shut  down  the  wonder  in  you  
and  you  shut  down  the  wonder  in  the  people  around  you.”  
26. “Why  is  the  church  viewed  as  judgmental  and  critical?    Because  the  church  has  
been  judgmental  and  critical.”  
27. “You’re  not  going  to  learn  anything  from  people  who  agree  with  you.”  
28. “We  must  pay  attention  to  the  frontiers  of  our  ignorance.    Wonder  lives  on  the  
frontiers  of  your  ignorance.    If  you  think  you  know  everything,  say  ‘Goodbye’  to  
wonder.”  
29. “If  you  already  know  everything,  please  get  out  of  leadership.    Please  get  out  of  
ministry.    You  are  a  wonder  buster.”  
30. “God  gave  the  human  race  the  gift  of  accumulated  knowledge.”  
31. “I’ve  had  a  lot  of  dogs  –  no  accumulated  knowledge.”  
32. “In  times  of  profound  change,  the  learners  inherit  the  earth  while  the  learned  
find  themselves  beautifully  equipped  to  handle  a  world  that  no  longer  exists.”  –  
Eric  Hoffer  
33. “You  must  do  everything  in  your  power  to  keep  wonder  alive  in  you.”  
34. “Replace  HOW  with  WOW!”  
35. “You  can  HOW  a  great  idea  right  out  the  door  of  your  church.”  
36. “You  must  become  a  leader  who  is  all  about  WOW  instead  of  HOW.”  
37. “WOW  is  all  about  ‘Imagine  if  we  could’.”  
38. “You  have  no  idea  what  trajectory-­‐shifting  idea  lurks  in  the  hearts  and  minds  of  
the  staff  and  organization  you  work  with.”  
39. “The  next-­‐generation  product  and  idea  never  comes  from  the  previous  
generation.”  
40. “Add  Imagine  to  everything.    Every  meeting.    Every  talk.    Anytime  you  do  
anything.    When  you  get  to  the  end  say,  ‘Imagine  a  world….”’  
41. “We  are  on  the  other  side  of  a  resurrection.    That  should  keep  our  wonder  
awake  for  a  long,  long  time.”  
42. “Why  would  we  ever  back  down  from  what  God  could  do  through  us?”  
43. “I  want  to  be  a  leader  that  sets  the  next  generation  up  for  success.    Let’s  keep  
wonder  awake  for  that  generation.”  
 
Scott  Harrison,  CEO  of  Charity  Water  
 
1. “We  have  to  create  awareness  and  care  about  an  issue  that  affects  no  one  in  this  
room.”  
2. “You  can  approach  this  through  facts.    663  million  because  of  where  they’re  born  
don’t  have  clean  water.    Bad  water  kills  more  people  than  war.    56%  of  all  
disease  in  the  world  is  because  of  bad  water.”  

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 3. “13-­‐year-­‐old  girls  should  not  hang  from  trees.”  
4. “We  are  stirred  by  stories.    Jesus  was  the  master  storyteller.    The  thing  we  
remember  are  the  stories.”  
5. “I  decided  no  13-­‐year-­‐old  girl  should  be  drinking  water  from  swamps  in  a  world  
where  people  were  paying  $10  for  a  bottle  of  water  in  nightclubs.”  
 
Trip  Lee,  Rapper  
 
1. “If  we  are  going  to  be  faithful  disciples  and  leaders,  music  must  be  part  of  our  
strategy.”  
2. “To  ignore  music  is  to  accept  unfaithfulness.”  
3. “Music  can  capture  our  attention  and  hearts  like  nothing  else  can.”  
4. “What  is  this  sound  that  God  has  given  us?”  
5. “Music  was  like  a  soundtrack  to  the  movie  of  my  life.”  
6. “Music  told  me  how  to  feel  about  things.”  
7. “Our  culture  is  obsessed  with  music  and  it  is  a  good  thing.”  
8. “God  created  music  and  commanded  us  to  sing.”  
9. “We  should  use  music  to  celebrate  God.”  
10. “The  problem  wasn’t  I  didn’t  like  praise  music.    The  problem  was  I  didn’t  like  the  
object  of  their  praise.”  
11. “We  stand  before  God’s  wonder  and  we  stand  disinterested  and  bored.”  
12. “There  has  never  been  a  more  loving  act  of  deliverance  than  Jesus  dying  on  the  
cross  and  that  deserves  our  praise.”  
13. “May  we  use  music  to  marvel  and  praise  God.”  
14. “It  is  good  for  the  world  to  hear  us  praise  Jesus.”  
15. “We  want  to  use  music  to  express  pain  and  frustration.”  
16. “Not  all  songs  are  praise  songs.”  
17. “The  songs  I  have  written  from  pain  and  grief  are  the  ones  which  have  connected  
with  people  the  most.”  
18. “We  do  not  have  a  cold  dead  Bible.”  
19. “What  is  sinful  about  groaning  and  complaining  is  when  you  put  God’s  character  
on  trial.”  
20. “Some  people  don’t  like  Christians  because  we  act  things  are  good  all  the  time.”      
21. “If  you  listen  to  some  of  our  music,  you  would  never  know  the  fall  ever  
happened.”  
22. “You  can  acknowledge  life  is  hard  without  pulling  God  off  His  throne.”  
23. “We  do  not  have  a  God  who  is  too  weak  to  deal  with  our  pain  and  brokenness.    
In  fact,  He  told  us  to  bring  it  to  Him.”  
24. “Use  music  to  teach  and  encourage.”  
25. “We  can  be  encouraged  by  music.    Buy  good  music  that  encourages  your  soul.”  
26. “Often  they  will  not  remember  your  sermon,  but  they  will  be  able  to  remember  
those  songs  which  stick  with  us  so  easily.”  
27. “Use  your  music  to  call  for  justice.”      
28. “Music  can  go  places  preaching  can’t  go.”  

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 29. “Use  your  music  to  tear  down  our  culture’s  idols.”  
30. “Use  music  to  interact  with  a  wider  culture.”  
31. “I  want  to  write  music  that  tells  how  much  I  love  my  wife  and  my  kids.”  
32. “Use  music  that  gives  us  an  accurate  view  of  Christians.”  
33. “Use  music  for  your  joy.”  
34. “Music  it  going  to  be  part  of  your  life  no  matter  what.    Are  you  going  to  use  
music  that  awakens  wonder  in  the  One  True  God?”  
 
Margaret  Feinberg,  Author  
 
1. “Sociologists  call  it  adolescence.    I  call  it  attitude.”  
2. “If  we  are  not  careful,  as  we  grow  older  we  can  lose  that  childlike  awe.”  
3. “If  familiarity  breeds  contempt,  then  religious  familiarity  brings  unholy  cynicism.”  
4. “God  is  wonderful  and  gives  people  Himself.”  
5. “Life  was  never  going  to  be  the  same  (after  discovering  I  had  cancer).”  
6. “If  I  was  thrust  onto  the  battlefield,  then  the  weapon  I  was  going  to  use  to  fight  
back  was  joy.”  
7. “Joy  is  the  weapon  we  use  to  fight  life’s  battles.”  
8. “Sometimes  you  pick  the  fight  and  sometimes  the  fight  picks  you.    What  if  you  
were  a  leader  who  fought  back  with  joy?”  
9. “Rejoice  when  it  makes  no  sense.”  
10. “Hospital  waiting  rooms  can  be  transformed  into  portals  of  praise.”  
11. “The  secret  to  rejoicing  when  it  makes  no  sense  is  to  do  it  one  square  inch  at  a  
time.”  
12. “When  you  praise  you  proclaim  to  the  darkness,  ‘You  will  not  win.”’  
13. “Remain  suspicious  that  God  is  up  to  something  good.”  
14. “Just  over  100  days  after  I  was  diagnosed  with  cancer,  my  dad  was  too.”  
15. “During  those  months  I  heard  my  daddy  say,  ‘I  love  you’  more  than  I  had  my  
entire  life.”  
16. “I  would  never  call  cancer  a  gift.”  
17. “My  dad  returned  to  the  doctor  and  there  is  no  evidence  of  cancer.    I’m  still  in  it.    
They’re  watching  me  like  a  hawk.”  
18. “Fighting  with  joy  is  not  where  I’ve  been.    It’s  where  I  live.”  
 
Erwin  McManus,  Lead  Pastor  of  Mosaic  Church  
 
1. “How  is  it  possible  for  us  to  even  be  aware  of  wonder?    Where  does  wonder  
even  come  from?”  
2. “You  have  believed  a  lie  that  there  is  an  elite  group  of  individuals  who  create  and  
the  rest  of  us  that  we  are  created  to  admire  them.”  
3. “You  may  not  consider  yourself  a  creative  genius  because  you  have  never  
awakened  that  inside  of  you.”  
4. “The  universe  within  us  is  far  more  fascinating  than  the  universe  outside  of  us.”  
5. “I  used  to  date  so  I’m  comfortable  with  rejection.”  

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 6. “Kind  people  don’t  reject  you  even  when  they  want  to.”  
7. “Humans  are  my  favorite  species.”      
8. “I’m  more  of  an  anthropologist  because  I  don’t  know  if  we  know  who  we  are.”  
9. “Faith  restores  our  humanity.”      
10. “We  are  living  a  life  beneath  our  intention.    We  are  the  only  species  who  can  live  
beneath  our  intention.”  
11. “We  live  lives  confident  in  what  we  have  and  fearful  in  what  we  hope  for.”  
12. “Without  faith  we  become  no  different  than  a  leopard  or  a  hippo.”  
13. “We  are  future  creatures.    Hope  does  not  exist  in  the  present.    Hope  exists  in  the  
future.”  
14. “Human  beings  disconnected  from  God  only  have  confidence  in  what  they  have  
and  not  in  things  they  cannot  see.”  
15. “We  need  an  ancient  faith,  not  an  old  one.”  
16. “It  is  troubling  when  our  beliefs  do  not  match  the  truth.”  
17. “You  were  an  idea  in  the  mind  of  God  before  you  were  a  fetus  in  the  body  of  
your  mother.”  
18. “God  materializes  the  invisible  and  turns  it  into  the  visible.”  
19. “We  have  been  more  informed  by  enlightment  than  the  Scriptures.    We  need  to  
move  from  enlightment  to  living  in  the  light.”  
20. “In  the  same  way  bees  create  hives  and  ants  create  colonies,  humans  create  the  
future.”  
21. “You  are  living  inside  a  dream  someone  had  before  you  ever  took  a  breath.”  
22. “Evil  men  do  not  wait  for  permission  from  God  to  create  something.”  
23. “As  a  child  my  body  wasn’t  sick.    My  soul  was  sick.”  
24. “You  can  only  create  the  world  outside  of  you  that  exists  inside  of  you.”  
25. “It  is  time  to  take  the  Bible  back  from  who  changed  it  into  a  book  of  conformity.”  
26. “The  source  of  all  beauty,  all  creativity  and  all  wonder  is  the  God  who  created  
us.”  
27. “God  is  not  an  imaginary  friend  but  someone  who  lives  in  my  imagination.    He  
created  my  imagination.”  
28. “You  should  open  up  your  soul  so  God  can  fill  it  with  the  hopes  and  dreams  of  
the  future  He  wants  to  create  through  you.”  
29. “You  are  a  work  of  art.    And  you  are  an  artist  at  work.”  
30. “You  are  human.    We  breath  therefore  we  create.”  
 
Day  3  
 
Christine  Caine,  Founder  of  the  A21  Campaign  
 
1. “When  God  gathers  this  many  leaders  together  He  is  wanting  to  do  something  
significant.”  
2. “If  what  you  are  telling  me  about  your  God  is  true,  then  why  didn’t  you  come  
sooner?”  –  those  in  slavery.  

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 3. “Numbers  are  numbing.    Numbers  are  dehumanizing.    It  is  easy  to  lose  
compassion  with  a  faceless  number.”  
4. “Jesus  never  once  had  passion  fatigue  in  the  Scriptures.”  
5. “Every  time  a  trafficker  gets  put  in  jail  I  think  ,  ‘Devil,  put  that  in  your  pipe  and  
smoke  it.”’  
6. “God  is  not  checked  out  so  the  church  shouldn’t  check  out.”  
7. “The  problem  with  the  church  –  Our  ‘but’  is  too  big.    We  need  a  ‘but’  reduction.”  
8. “How  you  see  things  in  your  own  eyes  is  how  others  will  see  you.”  
9. “Never  before  what  we  have  seen  God  do,  because  of  technology  we  can  see  He  
can  do.”  
10. “You  can  be  in  the  midst  of  a  miracle  of  God  and  not  know  the  God  of  the  
miracles.”  
11. “We  need  a  generation  of  Christians  who  will  rise  up  in  faith  and  know  that  God  
will  do  what  He  said  He  will  do.”  
12. “Our  primary  responsibility  this  side  of  Heaven  is  to  lead  people  to  Jesus.    
Therefore,  we  are  all  leaders.”  
13. “It  is  not  about  self-­‐actualization.    It  is  about  knowing  how  great  God  is.”    
14. “Your  perspective  will  determine  other  people’s  destiny.”  
15. “You  will  influence  how  other  people  see  God.”  
16. “Cyncial,  legalistic,  negative,  hyper-­‐intelligent  Christians  have  rationalized  an  
entire  generation  of  people  right  out  of  the  Kingdom.”  
17. “We  need  a  bunch  of  radical  Christians  who  do  not  think  they  are  too  cool  for  
school.”  
18. “God  is  not  obligated  to  pay  for  anything  He  hasn’t  started.”      
19. “The  fact  you’re  saved  is  a  miracle.”  
20. “If  being  saved  doesn’t  get  your  awe  up  I  don’t  know  what  does.    If  you’re  not  
going  to  hell  today  doesn’t  get  your  awe  up  I  don’t  know  what  will.    I’m  still  one  
of  those  people  that  believes  there  is  one.”  
21. “We  don’t  need  a  comparison  or  competition  in  the  church.    We  are  not  the  
enemy.    The  devil  is  the  enemy.”  
22. “In  our  day  of  celebrity  Christianity,  the  only  thing  that  keeps  you  out  of  God’s  
promises  is  not  skill  and  talent.    It  is  perspective  and  faith.”  
23. “Critics,  naysayers  don’t  go  into  the  land  of  promise.”  
24. “God  is  sending  you  on  a  mission  to  see  HOW  you  will  take  the  land,  not  IF  you  
will  take  the  land.”  
25. “Impossible  is  where  God  starts.    Miracles  is  what  God  does.”  
26. “Do  not  limit  God’s  power  by  the  size  of  your  giant.”  
27. “You  are  holding  the  fruit  of  the  promise  but  focused  on  the  giant.”  
28. “I’m  focused  on  the  fruit.”  
29. “The  ingredients  for  a  miracle  are  always  in  our  midst.”  
30. “If  you  could  do  it  in  your  own  strength,  it’s  not  a  miracle.    It’s  a  management  
issue.”  
31. “Some  of  you  are  asking  for  God  to  do  signs,  miracles  and  wonders  and  never  
put  yourself  in  a  position  to  get  one.”  

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 32. “We  are  governing  God  out  of  His  own  miracle  working  business.”  
33. “Doubt  dies  unborn  if  it  is  never  spoken.”  
34. “He  is  asking  me  to  do  something  impossible  this  side  of  eternity.”  
35. “There  is  nothing  my  God  cannot  do  and  because  there  is  nothing  God  cannot  do  
I  can  do  all  things  through  Christ  Jesus.”  
 
United  States  Representative  John  Lewis  
 
1. “As  a  little  boy  I  was  deeply  inspired  by  the  teachings  of  Jesus.”  
2. “When  you  see  something  that  is  not  right,  not  fair,  not  just,  you  have  to  do  
something  about  it.”  
3. “Leaders  are  called  to  be  headlights,  not  tail  lights.”  
4. “Our  president  could  send  troops  to  Viet  Nam  but  couldn’t  send  troops  to  Selma,  
AL  to  protect  our  right  to  vote.”  
5. “As  leaders  of  the  21st  century,  you  have  an  obligation  to  make  it  plain.”  
6. “Leaders  must  lead.    And  never,  ever  give  up  or  give  in.”  
 
Chris  Brown,  National  Syndicated  Radio  Host  
 
1. “Often  worry  trumps  wonder.”  
2. “Oftentimes  wonder  gets  choked  out  by  familiarity.    It  also  gets  choked  out  by  
distraction.”  
3. “The  only  thing  I  wondered  about  as  a  kid  was  when  I  was  going  to  get  hit  next.”  
4. “A  baseball  coach  believed  in  me.    He  gave  me  opportunity.”  
5. “I  borrowed  his  faith  in  me  when  I  had  no  faith  in  myself.”  
6. “I  was  often  wondering  what  was  going  to  be  on  the  table.    Now  I  was  wondering  
why  I  was  at  the  table.”  
7. “Gratitude  is  the  key  that  unlocks  wonder.”  
8. “You  keep  gratitude  by  generosity.”  
9. “If  we  as  leaders  want  to  keep  gratitude  in  our  lives  we  must  act  on  it.”  
10. “Many  of  us  need  to  get  out  of  tactical  meetings  and  touch  some  pain  with  
generosity.”  
11. “We  make  a  living  by  what  we  get.    We  make  a  life  by  what  we  give.”  –  Winston  
Churchill  
 
Guy  Kawasaki,  Author  and  Speaker  
 
1. “If  you  don’t  take  a  selfie  the  event  didn’t  happen.”  
2. “Steve  Jobs  was  a  remarkable  person.    Everything  you’ve  heard  about  him  is  
true.”  
3. “You  are  all  in  organizations  that  can  and  should  innovate  to  dent  the  universe.”  
4. “Great  innovation  occurs  when  people  decide  to  make  meaning.    They  decide  to  
make  the  world  a  better  place.”  
5. “Organizations  that  make  money  instead  of  meaning  inevitably  fail.”  

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 6. “Make  a  mantra.”  
7. “When  the  children  outnumber  the  adults,  it  is  a  whole  new  world.    You  
appreciate  fast  food.”  
8. “A  mantra  is  two  or  three  words  which  explain  why  you  should  exist.”  
9. “Jump  to  the  next  curve.”      
10. “Most  organizations  define  themselves  by  what  they  currently  do.    They  do  not  
embrace  the  next  curve.”  
11. “Great  innovation  does  not  occur  when  you  duke  it  out  on  the  current  curve.    It  
is  when  you  jump  to  the  next  curve.”  
12. “Roll  the  dice.”  
13. “Great  products  are  deep.    Lots  of  features.    Lots  of  functionalities.”  
14. “Great  products  are  intelligent.”  
15. “Great  products  are  complete.”  
16. “Great  products  are  empowering.    They  don’t  fight  you.”  
17. “You  can  take  the  evangelist  out  of  Apple  but  you  can’t  take  Apple  out  of  the  
evangelist.”  
18. “Great  products  are  elegant.    Someone  cared  about  the  user  interface.    They  
cared  about  the  design.”  
19. “Great  products  don’t  worry.    Ship  it.    It  doesn’t  have  to  be  perfect.”  
20. “In  Silicon  Valley,  we  ship  and  then  we  test.”  
21. “Don’t  try  to  achieve  perfection.”      
22. “Great  products  blossom.”      
23. “When  100  of  the  wrong  people  attend  your  church,  declare  victory.”  
24. “One  of  the  reasons  I  believe  in  God  is  because  there  is  no  other  reason  for  
Apple’s  continued  success  than  God.”  
25. “Great  products  polarize  people.”  
26. “Most  people  look  at  ads  one  day  a  year  –  Super  Bowl  Sunday.”  
27. “Great  things  polarize  people.    Not  everyone  likes  it.    That’s  OK.    The  worst  thing  
is  people  don’t  care.”  
28. “Great  products  churn.    You  have  to  take  version  1.0  and  make  it  2.0.”  
29. “Innovators  needs  to  be  in  a  little  bit  of  denial.”  
30. “Great  products  need  uniqueness  and  value.”  
31. “Perfect  Your  Pitch.”  
32. “Customize  your  intro.”  
33. “The  optimal  number  of  PowerPoint  slides  in  a  presentation  is  10.”  
34. “You  should  be  able  to  give  your  slides  in  20  minutes.”  
35. “The  optimal  font  size  is  30  points.”  
36. “Always  use  a  black  background.    Black  is  the  new  black.”  
37. “Don’t  let  the  Bozos  grind  you  down.”  
38. “Only  a  loser  listens  to  a  loser.    They’re  not  dangerous.    You’re  not  listening  
anyway.”  
39. “Rich  and  famous  are  often  lucky.    So  be  careful.”  
40. “If  you  listen  to  people  who  will  tell  you  you  will  fail  and  then  not  try,  that  is  the  
worst  outcome  of  all.”  

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Neil  Blumenthal,  co-­‐founder  and  CEO  of  Warby  Parker  
 
1. “My  mom  being  a  nurse  for  35  years  taught  me  how  to  serve  others.”  
2. “It’s  hard  to  executive  on  an  idea  if  you  don’t  have  specifics.”  
3. “Having  a  positive  impact  means  nothing  unless  there’s  something  behind  it.”  
4. “Rethink  your  brand  in  terms  of  the  need  you  are  meeting.”  
5. “People  won’t  come  if  you  build  it.  They  have  to  be  told.”  
6. “Stand  back  and  break  every  challenge  into  smaller  steps.”  
7. “Whenever  you’re  trying  to  solve  a  problem  there  will  be  moments  of  doubt.”  
8. “By  treating  people  as  valued  persons  rather  than  needy  beneficiaries  we  serve  
people  with  greater  dignity.”  
9. “Every  detail  matters.”  
10. ‘People  would  rather  be  blind  than  walk  around  in  donated  1970s  glasses.”  
11. “Whenever  you  are  on  an  entrepreneurial  journey  you’ll  encounter  challenges.”  
12. “Selling  to  someone  instead  of  giving  it  to  them  adds  dignity.”  
13. “It’s  our  job  as  leaders  to  learn  and  develop  the  people  under  us.”  
14. “Is  it  about  the  dollars  donated  or  the  people  putting  on  the  glasses?”  
15. “Brands  can  build  relationships  with  consumers.”  
16. “You  can  be  good  in  the  world  and  not  charge  a  premium  for  it.”  
17. “Innovation  often  comes  out  of  constraint.”  
18. “If  we  can  approach  every  aspect  of  the  business  with  this  level  of  detail,  we  can  
continue  to  grow  and  innovate.”  
19. “The  question  is  always  How  Can  We  Do  More  Good?”  
20. “It  is  really  hard  to  answer  a  customer  service  question  in  140  characters.”  
21. “If  you  don’t  ask  for  innovation,  if  you  don’t  ask  for  passion,  you’re  not  going  to  
get  it.”  
22. “As  leaders,  it’s  our  job  to  help  others  find  their  passions.”  
23. “As  leaders,  it’s  our  job  to  spur  creativity  and  help  put  in  constraints.”  
24. “Innovation  always  requires  a  deep  examination  of  a  problem.”  
25. “We  need  to  make  a  number  of  small  fixes  that  lead  to  big  pieces.”  
 
John  Maxwell,  Author  
 
1. “I  was  a  pastor  for  25  years.    I’ve  been  in  the  business  community  20  years.    
When  I  went  a  lot  of  people  didn’t  understand  it.”  
2. “Jesus  loves  everybody,  not  just  the  choir.”  
3. “This  has  been  my  best  year  sharing  my  faith.    We’ve  seen  over  4,000  people  in  
the  business  community  come  to  Christ.”  
4. “The  people  I  deal  with  the  church  is  not  even  on  their  radar  screen.”  
5. “For  you  to  live  a  significant  life  you  would  have  to  become  intentional.”  
6. “Success  is  about  us.    Significance  is  about  others.”  

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 7. “Everyday  I  want  value  people,  believe  in  people  and  unconditionally  love  
people.”  
8. “Most  people  are  not  valued.    Very  few  have  someone  who  believes  in  them.    
Practically  no  one  has  anyone  who  unconditionally  loves  them.”  
9. “If  you  do  these  three  things,  you’ll  always  have  crowds  to  talk  to.”  
10. “If  you  help  other  people  get  what  they  want,  they’ll  help  you  get  what  you  
want.”  
11. “Put  people  first.”  
12. “  Most  people  don’t  lead  their  life.    They  accept  their  life.”  
13. “Every  one  of  us  has  a  story.    The  pages  are  blank  and  either  you’re  going  write  
your  story  or  someone  else  will.”  
14. “You’re  either  going  to  read  your  story  or  write  your  story.”  
15. “Very  few  have  gone  from  good  intentions  to  good  actions.”  
16. “Sometimes  you  have  the  right  dream  but  not  the  right  tool.”  
17. “22  nations  and  presidents  have  asked  us  to  come  in  and  teach  leadership  
values.”  
18. “Once  you’ve  tasted  significance,  success  will  never  satisfy  you.”  
19. “Everyday  I  value  people.    My  model  for  that  is  Jesus.”  
20. “The  only  people  who  couldn’t  handle  Jesus  valuing  all  the  people  were  the  
religious  people.”  
21. “Are  we  to  correct  people  or  connect  with  people?”  
22. “We’ve  corrected  people  so  much  Jesus  couldn’t  join  the  church.”  
23. “Everyday  I  think  of  ways  to  add  value  to  people.”  
24. “Thinking  on  the  front  end  is  10-­‐1  more  valuable  than  thinking  on  the  back  end.    
Thinking  on  the  front  end  prepares.    Thinking  on  the  back  end  repairs.”  
25. “Everyday  I  look  for  ways  to  add  value  to  people.”  
26. “We  don’t  see  things  the  way  they  are.    We  see  things  the  way  we  are.”  
27. “Everyday  I  do  things  that  add  value  to  people.”  
28. “Everyday  I  encourage  others  to  add  value  to  people.”  
29. “Mass  movements  don’t  start  with  the  mass.    They  start  with  a  few.    At  68  years  
of  age,  I’m  starting  a  movement  of  significance.”  
30. “My  goal  is  to  collect  1  million  stories  of  significance  over  the  next  two  years.”  
31. “Significance  and  opportunities  are  around  us.”  
32. “What  are  we  going  to  do  today  that  is  significant?”  
 
Andy  Stanley  
 
1. “I  love  the  local  church.    Catalyst  leaders  love  the  local  church.”  
2. “Isn’t  it  great  on  the  weekends  when  everything  works  perfectly?”  
3. “Is  what  we  do  worth  people  sitting  in  traffic?”  
4. “The  local  church  is  an  apologetic  for  the  Gospel.”  
5. “We  one  another  one  another.”  
6. “Maybe  the  next  great  awakening  is  when  our  culture  wakes  up  to  the  grandness  
and  gloriousness  and  amazeness  of  the  local  church.”  

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 7. “It  was  said  about  Jesus,  He  embodied  grace  and  truth.”  
8. “Jesus  was  not  the  balance  of  grace  of  truth.    Jesus  was  the  embodiment  of  
grace  and  truth.”  
9. “Jesus  raised  the  bar  so  high  that  He  leveled  the  playing  field.    ‘Here’s  the  
standard.    I’d  like  for  you  to  follow  me.”’  
10. “Jesus  never  dumbed  down  the  truth  and  turned  down  the  grace.”  
11. “The  grace/truth  tension  requires  we  present  the  ideal  while  embracing  what  is  
real.”  
12. “Sin  gives  us  job  security.”  
13. “To  awaken  culture  to  the  wonder  of  the  local  church,  we  must  distinguish  
theology  from  ministry.    Jesus  never  allowed  His  perfect  theology  to  get  in  the  
way  of  ministry.”  
14. “Theology  is  what  we  believe.    Ministry  is  what  we  do  for  others  because  of  what  
we  believe.”  
15. “Distinguishing  between  theology  and  ministry  without  compromising  ministry.”  
16. “In  Jesus’s  day,  ministry  was  approached  as  people  were  made  for  the  Law  
rather  than  the  Law  was  made  for  people.    In  other  words,  children  were  created  
to  pick  up  toys.”  
17. “Everyone  can  follow  Jesus.”  
18. “No  one  who  followed  Jesus  in  the  first  century  believed  He  was  the  Son  of  God  
until  after  the  resurrection.    They  all  ran  away  at  the  cross.”  
19. “If  you  have  bad  theology  it  will  narrow  who  you  minister  to.”  
20. “When  we  get  this  right  you  will  be  accused  of  condoning  sin.”  
21. “If  Jesus  would  have  been  worried  about  guilt  by  association  He  would  have  
stayed  in  Heaven.”  
22. “When  churches  fail  to  distinguish  between  theology  and  ministry,  ministry  
becomes  idealistic  and  rigid.”  
23. “Rigid  ministry  breaks  down  under  the  weight  of  the  real  world.”  
24. “Good  parents  are  guided  by  situational  ethics  based  upon  the  needs  of  their  
individual  children.    Rigid  parenting  will  work  for  only  one  of  your  children.”  
25. “The  priority  to  God  is  not  the  Law.    The  priority  to  God  is  the  people.”  
26. “There  was  no  one  Jesus  refused  to  minister  to.”  
27. “God’s  priority  is  you,  the  people.”  
28. “You  are  more  important  than  my  view  of  anything.    A  YOU  is  always  more  
important  than  a  VIEW.”  
29. “Never  give  up  influence  unnecessarily.”  
30. “There  are  questions  you  should  never  answer  out  loud  because  there  is  a  time  
and  place  to  spend  your  influence.”  
31. “There  is  something  more  important  than  making  a  point.”  
32. “Never  make  a  point  at  the  expense  of  making  a  difference.”  
33. “If  you  lose  influence  with  the  people  Jesus  came  to  die  for,  shame  on  you.”  
34. “His  mission  was  not  to  be  right.    He  did  not  leave  us  here  to  be  right.    He  left  us  
here  to  make  disciples.”  
35. “Everybody  wants  to  be  one  anothered.”  

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 36. “Think  twice  before  answering  a  question  that  has  the  potential  to  burn  a  bridge  
or  close  a  door.”  
37. “Pastors,  think  twice  about  your  approach  that  has  the  potential  to  burn  a  bridge  
or  close  a  door.”  
38. “When  people  pressure  you  to  take  a  stand,  they  are  generally  pressuring  you  to  
take  their  stand.”  
39. “I  view  the  church  as  my  first  audience.    I  will  never  say  anything  outside  the  
church  that  I  haven’t  said  to  my  church  first.    There  are  also  things  I  would  say  to  
my  local  church  that  I  wouldn’t  say  to  anyone  outside  the  local  church.”  
40. “The  things  I  am  most  often  criticized  for  I  have  made  very,  very  clear  to  my  local  
church  that  I  haven’t  said  outside  my  local  church.”      
41. “You  do  not  owe  people  outside  your  congregation  an  explanation.”  
42. “Preserve  influence  for  later.”  
43. “We  are  experts  at  giving  away  influence  unnecessarily.”  
44. “Some  things  are  more  important  than  others.    Some  things  come  before  
others.”  
45. “Love  your  enemies.”  
46. “It’s  hard  for  us  to  label  who  are  our  enemies.”  
47. “What  groups  that  traditionally  push  back  against  your  local  church?    That  is  who  
you  should  figure  out  how  to  love.”  
48. “The  first  thing  we  do  before  we  show  up  in  a  community  is  figure  out  how  to  
love  people  in  the  community  who  would  traditionally  push  back  against  our  
local  church.”  
49. “The  city  created  a  sign  which  tells  people  how  to  get  to  Buckhead  Church.”  
50. “We’ve  tried  to  be  as  difficult  as  possible  to  hate.”  
51. “There  is  nothing  in  the  New  Testament  that  says  people  should  not  speak  well  
of  us.”  
52. “The  church  must  be  seen  doing  good.”  
53. “Identify  your  potential  enemies  and  figure  out  how  to  love  them.”  
54. “We’ve  been  pretty  good  at  being  innocent.    We’ve  been  horrible  at  being  
shrewd.”  
55. “Pray  for  shrewdness.”  
 
Fellowship  Bible  Church  Leadership  Event  On  Multi-­‐Ethnic  Ministry  –  October  
24th  
 
Bryan  Loritts,  Pastor  of  Preaching  and  Mission  at  Trinity  Grace  Church  
 
1. “Every  church  doesn’t  need  to  be  multi-­‐ethnic.    But  every  church  needs  to  
reflect  its  community.”  
2. “The  community  is  10X  more  diverse  than  the  churches  in  their  area.    The  
schools  are  20X  more  diverse.”  
3. “The  greatest  proponents  of  the  Civil  Rights  Movement  were  Christians.    The  
greatest  opponents  of  the  Civil  Rights  Movement  were  Christians.”  

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 4. “Why  doesn’t  your  orthodoxy  blend  in  to  your  orthopraxy?”  
5. “The  only  thing  worse  than  white-­‐hot  hatred  is  indifference.”  
6. “Righteousness  in  the  Bible  is  seen  as  how  we  steward  the  tangible  blessings  
of  God  in  a  justice  bent  to  others.”  
7. “A  Christian  who  does  not  do  justice  is  an  oxymoron.”  
8. “The  two  most  powerful  words  in  all  of  Scripture  –  ‘But  God”’.  
9. “Most  evangelical  seminaries  who  have  been  around  any  length  of  time  at  
one  time  did  not  let  in  people  of  color.”  
10. “In  the  Kingdom  there  is  no  such  thing  as  merit-­‐based  scholarships.    It  is  
grace  by  faith  in  which  we  are  shared.”  
11. “Grace  means  you  didn’t  eat  your  dinner  but  you  still  get  desert.”  –  Matt  
Chandler  
12. “Adoption  is  not  2nd  class  citizenship.    It  is  1st  class  security.”  
13. “When  Paul  walks  into  a  city  he  asks  two  questions.    ‘Where  are  the  
synagogues?    I  want  to  hang  out  with  the  Jews.’    When  he  finishes  him  with  
them,  he  then  asks,  ‘Where  do  the  Gentiles  hang  out?”’  
14. “Homogenous  Unit  Principle  is  easier  to  grow  a  church.    It’s  just  not  biblical.”  
15. “The  New  Testament  model  for  multi-­‐ethnic  churches  is  the  norm.”  
16. “Multi-­‐ethnic  churches  are  not  new.    We’ve  just  deviated  and  we’re  trying  to  
arc  back  to  our  first  century  roots.”  
17. “Multi-­‐ethnic  churches  can  be  headaches.    But  it’s  so  worth  it.”  
18. “In  Christ’s  death,  his  death  demolished  the  dividing  wall  of  hostility.”  
19. “In  man’s  hands,  the  temple  became  one  of  the  last  institutions  of  
segregation.”  
20. “The  church  is  very  good  at  resurrecting  stuff  God  has  demolished  –  the  
dividing  wall  of  hostility.”  
21. “Basically  every  African-­‐American  church  was  started  in  reaction  to  white  
churches  resurrecting  what  God  has  demolished  –  the  dividing  wall  of  
hostility.”  
22. “Your  church  qualifies  as  multi-­‐ethnic  when  no  one  ethnic  group  makes  up  
80%  of  the  church.    20%  is  the  tipping  point  when  minorities  feel  valued,  
heard  and  seen.”  
23. “When  minorities  walk  into  a  context  like  this  they  are  looking  for  
permission  for  how  to  act.”  
24. ‘“White’  is  not  a  four-­‐letter  word.    Steward  it  well.”  
25. “Integrated  churches  say  mutual  submission  to  preferences  and  norms  in  
relation  to  the  cross.”  
26. “A  hyper-­‐honor  culture  leads  to  deification  of  pastor.”      
27. “An  integrated  multi-­‐ethnic  church  is  not  a  box  to  be  checked  but  a  tension  to  
be  managed.”  
28. “10  years  ago,  only  2%  of  churches  met  the  80/20  Rule  for  being  a  multi-­‐
cultural  church.    Today,  10%  of  churches  are.”  
29. “Kainos  –  the  idea  of  something  new  related  to  kind,  not  time.    It  relates  to  a  
new  invention.”  
30. “If  Henry  Ford  only  gave  people  what  they  wanted,  he  would  have  given  
them  a  faster  horse.”  

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 31. “A  multi-­‐ethnic  church  is  a  powerful  evangelical  witness.”      
32. “A  multi-­‐ethnic  church  is  an  issue  of  justice  as  well.    A  minority  who  attends  a  
multi-­‐ethnic  church,  after  attending,  make  20%  more  in  salary.    People  
primarily  get  jobs  out  of  relationships.”  
33. “Multi-­‐ethnic  churches  happen  through  intentionality.”  
34. “What  about  organically?    America’s  historical  sin  is  racism.”  
35. “Alexander  the  Great  did  not  want  to  just  capture  territory.    He  wanted  to  put  
the  Greek  imprint  on  every  culture.”  
36. “There  is  a  difference  between  ethnicity  and  culture.    There  are  a  lot  of  
churches  that  are  mono-­‐cultural.”  
37. “Within  every  ethnicity  are  at  least  three  different  cultures.”  
38. “Preach  a  Gospel  big  enough  that  you  can  take  it  into  both  an  A.M.E.  church  
and  also  a  Southern  Baptist  church.”  
39. “You  can  float  out  of  different  contexts,  relate  to  people  in  different  contexts,  
and  be  who  they  are.”  
40. “C2  Leaders  (leaders  who  relate  to  all  ethnicities)  are  never  at  home  in  any  
homogeneous  setting.”  
41. “C2  Leaders  are  made  and  not  born.    You  don’t  become  a  C2  by  reading  
books.    You  become  a  C2  by  immersing  yourselves  in  different  ethnicities  and  
settings.”  
42. “Show  me  any  successful  minority  by  the  world’s  metrics,  I  will  show  you  a  
minority  who  has  mastered  I  Have  Become”’.  
43. “You  must  immerse  yourself  in  the  story  of  others.”  
44. “If  people  primarily  come  to  churches  out  of  relationships,  I  have  to  have  
multi-­‐ethnic  sanctuaries  and  dinner  tables.”  
45. “Leadership  101  says  I  cannot  take  people  to  a  place  I  am  not  journeying  to  
myself.”  
46. “Are  you  bought  in?    What  do  your  relationships  look  like?”  
47. “You  cannot  program  your  kids’  relationships.    You  can  orchestrate  their  
social  matrix  so  they  are  in  contact  with  people  of  different  ethnicities.”  
48. “It  takes  a  lot  of  sacrifice  and  intentionality  to  craft  this  new  normal.”  
49. “Every  church  needs  to  develop  their  own  minor  league  farm  system.    
Churches  are  going  to  have  to  develop  their  own  C2  leaders.    It  is  
discipleship.    This  is  what  Jesus  does.”  
50. “You  don’t  have  multi-­‐ethnic  movements  unless  you  go  against  people’s  idols  
of  comfort.”  
51. “If  you  sing  every  song  I  like  the  way  I  liked  it,  I  failed  you…Stretch  with  us.”  
52. “You  have  to  cast  vision  for  discomfort.    You  have  to  talk  about  it  constantly.”  
53. “A  measurement  for  success  is  does  the  demographics  within  the  church  
reflect  the  demographics  of  your  community?    If  you’re  in  Compton,  CA  
you’re  probably  not  going  to  have  a  lot  of  white  people  coming  to  your  
church.”  
54. “The  hardest  hill  to  climb  is  the  class  hill,  not  the  race  hill.”      
55. “One  of  the  problems  I  have  with  my  tribe  is  people  are  louder  on  diversity  
than  the  Gospel…What  drives  it  all  is  Jesus,  Jesus,  Jesus,  Jesus.”  

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 56. “The  church  in  the  African-­‐American  community  is  the  only  thing  that  has  
traditionally  been  ours.    Traditionally,  it  has  been  the  only  day  of  the  week  
we  could  exhale.”  
 
Jon  Gordon  and  Mike  Smith  Event  for  high  school  football  coaches  at  NorthStar  
Church  –  November  1st  
 
Jon  Gordon,  Author  
 
1. “Playing  a  sport  in  college  changed  my  life.”  
2. “Billy  Graham  said,  ‘One  coach  will  impact  more  people  in  a  year  than  most  
people  will  in  a  lifetime.’”  
3. “My  calling  is  to  be  there  for  coaches  who  are  giving  so  much  to  others.”  
4. “You  know  you  are  with  the  right  person  when  they  give  you  strength.”  
5. “I  lead  a  team  at  work.    I’m  second-­‐in-­‐command  at  home.”  
6. “Mike’s  belief  and  support  early  on  gave  me  the  confidence  I  could  do  this  
(speak  to  professional  teams).”  
7. “You  can  tell  culture  immediately  by  the  energy  and  feel  you  get  it  when  you  
walk  in.”  
8. “Your  culture  is  what  you  live  and  breath  each  day.”  
9. “I  don’t  have  a  ghost  writer.    I  have  a  Holy  Ghost  writer.”  
10. “I  opened  the  first  Moe’s  in  Florida.    It  was  the  sixth  Moe’s  in  the  country.”  
11. “I  was  baptized  in  2006.    Shortly  after  that  I  started  writing  The  Energy  Bus.”  
12. “I  wrote  The  Energy  Bus  in  three-­‐and-­‐a-­‐half  weeks  as  God  gives  it  to  me.”  
13. “I’m  just  the  pen.    God  is  the  ultimate  writer  of  the  books.”  
14. “God  doesn’t  pick  the  best.    He  picks  the  most  willing.”  
15. “Dabo  Sweeney,  every  speech  he  gives  is  a  motivational  speech.    He  believes  
in  them  more  than  they  believe  in  themselves.”  
16. “My  goal  is  to  create  to  program  where  they  (Florida,  Michigan)  want  to  be  
like  us.”  –  Sweeney  
17. “A  team  that  stays  positive  together,  wins  together.”  
18. “You  are  either  a  germ  or  a  big  dose  of  Vitamin  C  everyday  to  your  team.”  
19. “Being  positive  doesn’t  just  make  you  better.    It  makes  everyone  around  you  
better.”  
20. “We  always  create  our  life  from  the  inside-­‐out.”    
21. “You  have  to  lead  from  your  values.    You  have  to  lead  from  your  beliefs.    You  
have  to  lead  with  who  God  says  you  are.”  
22. “I  believe  in  tough  love.    But  love  must  come  first.    I  call  it  love  tough.”  
23. “When  there  is  a  void  in  communication,  negativity  fills  it.”  
24. “Fear  breeds  uncertainty.    Uncertainty  breeds  the  void  and  negativity.”  
25. “Communication  is  the  foundation  of  every  great  relationship.”  
26. “We  have  more  ways  to  communicate  than  ever  but  we’re  communicating  
meaningfully  less.”  
27. “I  have  to  know  where  everyone  is  to  lead  them  where  they  need  to  be.”  
28. “One  of  the  best  things  we  ever  did  as  a  family  is  have  a  family  meeting.”  

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 29. “Words  mold  you  and  shape  you  into  who  you  want  to  be.    Serve  is  now  a  
part  of  me  because  it  was  my  word  for  a  year.”  
30. “A  team  has  to  connect.    That  is  the  difference  between  a  good  team  and  a  
great  team.”  
31. “Teams  that  are  connected  are  better.    Team  beats  talent  when  talent  isn’t  a  
team.”  
32. “You  can  look  at  the  synergy  of  the  Clemson  team  this  year  is  because  they  
are  more  connected.”  
33. “The  players  knew  Mike  cared  about  them.    I  saw  first-­‐hand  a  coach  that  
cared  about  his  players.”  
34. “Do  you  care  about  me  and  can  I  trust  you?    The  two  things  we  all  ask.”  
35. “Your  players  know  if  you  care  about  them.”  
36. “The  most  powerful  love  is  sacrificial  love.”  
37. “When  there  is  no  caring  there  is  no  connection.”  
38. “We  don’t  get  burned  out  because  of  what  we  do.    We  get  burned  out  because  
we  forget  why  we  do  it.”  
39. “We’re  created  from  the  inside  out,  not  the  outside  in.”  
40. “Don’t  chase  success.    Live  with  purpose  and  success  will  find  you.”  
 
Mike  Smith,  former  head  coach  of  the  Atlanta  Falcons  
 
1. “He  treats  us  like  men.    That’s  why  we  love  him.”  –  Mike  Linch  on  what  
players  say  about  Coach  Smith  
2. “I  can’t  tell  you  who  my  5th  grade  teacher  was  but  I  can  tell  you  who  my  coach  
was.”  
3. “We  as  coaches  have  the  opportunity  to  touch  so  many  people.”  
4. “Everyone  in  here,  believe  it  or  not,  is  a  coach.    Everyone  in  here  coaches  a  
team.”  
5. “The  first  three  guys  I  ever  recruited  out  of  Cobb  County  (location  of  the  
NorthStar  Church)  are  all  here  tonight.”  
6. “My  wife  and  I  have  been  married  for  35  years.    It  was  love  at  first  sight.”  
7. “Any  relationship  you  have  with  your  spouse  and  daughter,  you  have  to  have  
a  relationship  with  God.”  
8. “I  think  it’s  important  you  have  an  outside  voice.”  
9. “It’s  important  as  a  leader  you  evaluate  not  only  the  good  things,  but  the  bad  
things  and  you  learn  from  them.”  
10. “I  knew  the  first  thing  (arriving  in  Atlanta)  wasn’t  how  were  we  going  to  turn  
this  roster  over.    I  had  to  meet,  greet  and  engage  everyone  in  the  
organization.”  
11. “I  let  them  know  they  were  going  to  help  make  us  successful.”  
12. “We  were  going  to  create  an  organization  everyone  could  be  proud  of.”  
13. “Don’t  lose  sight  of  the  process.    Wins  and  losses  are  how  you  are  graded  as  a  
coach.    But  if  you  forget  about  the  process,  you’re  doomed  for  failure.”  
14. “As  a  leader  and  a  head  coach,  you  don’t  only  affect  the  people  in  a  locker  
room.    When  you  walk  in  a  room,  they  are  all  taking  their  cues  from  you.”  
15. “The  culture  is  defined  at  the  top.    It  grows  organically  from  the  bottom  up.”  

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 16. “The  first  five  years  we  focused  on  the  process  of  what  we  wanted  to  
accomplish.”  
17. “We  were  focused  on  the  fruit  the  last  two  years  instead  of  the  root.    When  
you  focus  on  the  fruit  instead  of  the  root,  the  tree  dies.”  
18. “The  focus  changed  from  the  process  to  what  do  we  have  to  do  to  win  a  Super  
Bowl.    We  paid  dearly  for  it.”  
19. “When  you  get  away  from  the  process  and  focus  on  the  results,  the  results  
will  never  materialize.”  
20. “All  men  and  women  should  learn  from  their  mistakes.”  
21. “It  is  very  important  that  people  you  work  with  know  you  truly  care  about  
them.”  
22. “Everyone’s  caring  quality  is  a  little  different.”  
23. “We  weren’t  going  to  have  goals.    We  had  to  get  buy-­‐in  early  from  our  team.    
We’re  going  to  talk  about  milestones.    Once  you  reach  milestones,  we’ll  give  
you  another  milestone.    We  were  going  to  measure  baby  steps.”  
24. “First  impressions  are  the  most  important.    And  you  only  get  one  chance  at  a  
first  impression.”  
25. “When  we  had  a  setback  we  changed  our  milestone.”  
26. “If  you  don’t  have  a  two-­‐game  losing  streak,  you’re  going  to  be  playing  for  a  
play-­‐off  spot.”  
27. “I’m  a  list  maker  and  I  write  things  down.    I  wrote  I’m  not  going  to  have  a  bad  
day.    I  might  have  bad  moments  but  I’m  not  going  to  have  a  bad  day.    We  can  
always  find  something  to  be  grateful  about.    I’m  blessed  to  have  the  
opportunity  to  do  what  I  want  to  do  at  the  highest  level.”  
28. “From  the  very  beginning  you  knew  Matt  Ryan  was  special.”  
29. “Matt  Ryan  is  not  only  a  great  football  player.    He  is  a  great  man  and  a  great  
leader.”  
30. “Being  positive  is  very  contagious.”  
31. “Tony  Gonzalez  was  non-­‐verbal.    But  when  he  walked  on  the  field  everyone  
watched  what  he  did.    He’d  arrived  15  minutes  early  to  catch  100  passes.    
Being  contagious  doesn’t  have  to  just  be  verbal.”  
32. “In  three  years,  Tony  Gonzalez  will  be  in  the  Hall  of  Fame.    It  is  just  not  what  
he  did  on  the  filed.    It  was  also  what  he  did  off  the  field.”  
33. “You’ve  got  to  be  consistent.    It’s  learned.    I  learned  it  first  from  my  mother  
and  father.”  
34. “The  players  will  lose  trust  in  you  quicker  than  anything  if  you’re  not  
consistent.”  
35. “When  you’re  consistent  you’re  doing  the  same  thing  over  and  over  and  over  
again.    You  don’t  change.    You  adjust.”  
36. “You  can’t  coach  each  player  the  same  way.”  
37. “It’s  important  you  learn  who  you  are  working  with.    You  can’t  always  be  
about  business.”  
38. “My  father  as  elementary  teacher  could  tell  you  the  names  of  everyone  of  the  
over  200  students  he  had.”  
39. “When  going  into  a  new  situation  the  first  thing  you  want  to  do  is  speak  with  
everyone  in  the  organization.”  

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 40. “The  best  communicators  are  not  the  best  speakers.    The  best  
communicators  are  the  best  listeners.”  
41. “When  you  want  to  have  meaningful  conversations,  don’t  email.    Don’t’  text.”  
42. “You  can’t  just  focus  on  the  players.    You  have  everybody  that  is  contributing  
to  the  success.”  
43. “Games  in  the  NFL  come  down  to  one  series.    20%  of  NFL  games  are  3  points  
or  less.    50%  are  8  points  or  less.    Most  NFL  games  come  down  to  how  we  
finish.”  
44. “The  teams  that  have  the  most  success  are  the  most  connected  teams.”  
45. “When  you  are  connected  inside  the  locker  room  and  outside  the  locker  
room,  you  know  you’ve  got  them.    You’ve  got  to  have  connections  outside  the  
workplace.    You  become  invested  in  your  teammates.”  
46. “We’re  looking  to  care  for  other  people.    And  we’re  looking  for  people  to  care  
for  us.”  
47. “As  a  coach  and  as  a  teammate,  the  people  you  work  with  must  know  you  
love  them  and  care  for  them.    Xs  and  Os  are  overrated.”  
48. “It’s  about  the  love  and  care  you  have  for  human  beings.”      
49. “It’s  about  leaving  your  legacy  and  how  you  can  affect  thousands  of  people.”  
50. “There  is  nothing  more  gratifying  than  tonight  to  see  three  recruits  from  
Cobb  County.”  
51. “Caring  and  love.    At  the  core  that  is  what  humanity  is  all  about.”  
 

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