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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 Loritts 10-year anniversary as Fellowships 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, its a goal worth telling others about. Theres 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 actionThis means we do not make enough focused
thinking time.
Who fills our calendar? If you fill it, Im on your agenda.
You cant reach the future successfully unless youve 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. Theres 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. Im a
feedback fanatic. My best thinking has been done by others. Great thoughts arent
birthed in a vacuum. You either sit at the table or Im 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. Its not the thought you have in the shower. Its what you do with it
after you dry off. An iceberg doesnt 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, youll never be satisfied with yesterday. You appreciate it. But you
dont want to stay there. When youre a focused thinker, yesterday doesnt excite
you so much.
8. Launch the thought. The greatest test of a thought is the launching of it. Dont
tell me what youre going to do. Show me what youre 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 cant 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 doesnt win the race. It is the one who starts first.

2. Creative Thinking

3. Realistic Thinking Most dreams dont reach their potential because they dont
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. Im really grateful for Willow Creek Community ChurchIm so proud of you
as a churchI 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 dont 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. Dont just deliver the required result. Over-deliver and over-deliver every
time.
20. When senior leadership demonstrates grittinessteammates 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. Dont 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. Theres 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 tomorrows world will have to build the case for The Why in
everyones job.
52. What moves you and drives you as a leader to get better and better every
year?
53. If Gods 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 dont ever recall telling anyone, Thats 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, youre 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. Im 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 doesnt happen without great leadership at the unit level.
37. Great leadership doesnt 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 Ive ever read. Hybels
2. I didnt 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 isnt about drawing. Its 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 doesnt 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 others 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 cant 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 cant 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 dont have very many rules.
37. We select people because they have a passion for something.
38. The real goal of what were 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. Its your
default.
7. Its dangerous to be generous.
8. The givers are the worst performers. They are so busy doing someone elses
job they dont get their own work done.
9. Many of us think were givers when were actually thinkers.
10. If you want to boost a companys 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 peoples problems helps solve the
organizations problems.
18. Its nice to have the right people on the bus. Its 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. Its
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. Its 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 youre 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 womens crisis. 80% of the
people in retirement homes are women.
2. I love men. Im married to a man. But youre 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 isnt something they
dont 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 dont 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, its the hair and make up. Its so tiring.
21. Research shows we give less feedback to women because we think theyre
going to cry.
22. Imagine all the pats on the back you dont 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. Youre
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 Ive been given is my responsibility to give back.
28. My worst day is so much better than most peoples best day.

Albert Tate, Founder and Lead Pastor of Fellowship Monrovia

1. Who to believe Lies in truths clothing or the naked truth?
2. Were 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 cant be
done in your strength.
5. As a leader leave room to bring a dumb idea because you never know when
Gods going to use a dumb idea to do something great.
6. Dumb Idea + Gods 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 Gods
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 Gods work in your life.
15. Were not limited by whats in our hands.
16. Its not about my name being great. Its 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. Whos the person youre 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. Its
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 theyre 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. Thats 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 dont hire people. We select people. Caring is part of the profile.
25. We orient people.
26. Im the President and CEO of this company and Im important. But so are
you. No one is more important than anyone else.
27. If you dont make the beds its a disaster. If I dont come to work, nobody
will know.
28. As leaders we forfeit the right to make excuses.
29. Is the destination where youre 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 dont 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 dont 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 worlds relationship
with me.
4. People all over the world struggle with feedback conversations.
5. In any exchange between giver and receiver, its 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 youre 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 dont 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? Thats what everybody else sees everyday.
18. The only face I cant 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
Whats one thing you appreciate? You need to feel seen about how hard you
re already working. And, Whats 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 didnt handle it well. I went into leadership mode.
8. Im 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 Gods grace Ive 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 wont. And some of those
who are flighty are the ones you grow with.
23. Its smart in leadership to take your time and invest in people.
24. I dont know if youre going to be here for 3 years, 10 years, or 33 years.
Were all only here for a season. So lets 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 dont want to be there.
28. Ive always been inspired by big cities and cities of influence. And building
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 29. People are quick to tell you what a London church looks like. All weve 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 Im 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 Im going through intense times of pressure and cant access the
presence of God by reading my Bible or looking at a sunset, I turn to music.
4. Im not a fear-driven person.
5. I dont 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. Theres
a unique challenge to leadership that gives way to fear.
7. You dont 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
its just them and God.
13. Leaders you cant do this journey without help from above. You cant do this
without the regenerative strength which only comes from God.
14. Its 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. Ive 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.
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 5. Oceans is the most successful song to ever come out of our church. Gods
faithful.

Sam Adeyemi, Senior Pastor of Daystar Christian Centre in Lagos, Nigeria

1. God didnt want me to be a building contractor. He wanted me to teach and
be a pastor.
2. When you dont have money, its pretty hard to do anything.
3. When God asked you a question, you need to remember its not because He
doesnt 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 Christs
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 leaders 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 Jesuss 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. Willows 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. Its not what you know. Its 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 dont want a job Im 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 were doing we miss whats 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 theyre skilled, but because
theyre 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 dont like it. We do great work in
this zone because we want to reduce the tension.
17. Signs youre on a plateau things are going smoothly.
18. Signs youre on a plateau youve got all the answers.
19. Signs youre on a plateau youre getting positive feedback.
20. When were at the top of our game is when were leaving a plateau.
21. Signs youre on a plateau youre a mentor for work that no longer exists.
22. Its easy to step back and let our jobs stay at a busy state.
23. We can be dulled to danger because were 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 dont know.
29. In a growing company, youre under-qualified every day.
30. Maybe the people looking up to you, maybe you should admit what you
dont know.
31. We need leaders who step back and can follow someone elses 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
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 35. The rookie zone is where we find our greatest joy.
36. In todays reality were 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 Fathers voice.

Craig Groeschel, Senior Pastor of Life.Church

1. Were not going to do this thing unless we do it right.
2. Your brain doesnt know what youre body can do.
3. Theres far more in you than you ever thought possible.
4. Theres 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 dont 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. Youre who I say you are. And youre
called to ministry. God to Craig
18. If you show me who you listen to, Ill show you who youre 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. Dont try to copy what people do. Learn how they think.
22. The Gift of Disorientation
23. You want to get around people you dont understand.
24. Decide specifically where you need to improve communication, listening,
delegating, work ethic, feedback, hiring, recruiting, firing, cast vision, how
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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. Theres 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 wouldnt miss another Leadership Summit
until Jesus comes back.
39. What you want determines what youre 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 dont 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.
Ive 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 dont like desert seasons as a church.
11. In desert seasons, we bail out too quick and we dont 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 youre 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 didnt have the heart of a shepherd. He had the heart of a
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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. Youre 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 dont ask for
help.
23. Never let obstacles deter you from what God told you to do.
24. If Gods 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 dont 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 its the beach.
2. Last week we saw 189 people get baptized at the beach.
3. We were portable for 6.5 years.
4. We wouldnt have made it if it wasnt for the call of God and an incredible
team.
5. Ministrys tough and its unpredictable.
6. Duct tape makes a great temporary fix but a horrible solution.
7. Most of the time were grabbing the duct tape because something went
wrong.
8. Were not where we want to be. Thankfully were not where we used to be.
Were 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 were
not where other people are.
12. We launched on the same day of Elevation Church in Charlotte so I
understand comparison.
13. Arent you glad we serve a God who knows where were going and what we
need to get there?
14. Youve got a God who will fight for you.
15. You walk with a little bit of swagger when you know Gods got your back.
16. We want it and we want it now. God says, I have something incredible for
you but you cant handle it right now.

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 17. If were 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 theyre big things.
20. We want God to do the big things but we dont want to do the little things.
21. Dont ask God to do the big things if youre unwilling to do the little things.
22. As a leader Im guilty for always looking for the next big thing.
23. When you become the best with what youve 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 churchs we look
up to.
28. We all watch what God is doing in another house and downplay what Hes
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 were 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
were 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 dont prepare our people.
40. Growing churches pray like crazy. They sweat the details.
41. Celebrate everything.
42. Youll 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 Jesuss 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 dont believe in God then why do we have such tasty animals?
49. People want to be in environments of fun.
50. Weve all been to life-draining churches.
51. Youre looking for the next strategy. Im telling you to go home and have
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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 dont 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 dont want to reach people who dont know how to swim, we have to
hang out in the shallow end.
7. Theres a natural tendency to cater to those who want to go deep at the
expense of those who dont know how to swim.
8. People who want to go deep will tell you. People who dont know how to
swim simply dont 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 dont know the anxiety of showing up to a church were unfamiliar with.
13. Appearance matters.
14. The front door of our church is not the front door of our church anymore.
Its our website. Its 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 cant look
past?
19. Laughter matters.
20. The one thing people dont 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 somebodys face we disarm them.
23. We want to be life giving. Weve 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 dont know
where to go.
28. The kiddie pool matters. Kids ministry matters.
29. You cant invest too much money in kids.
30. You will ask your kids two questions, What did you learn? Did you have
fun?
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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 churchs music will always be bent to the generation coming up.
40. If were unable to adapt our music to the generation coming up, we value
our preferences over the next generation.
41. God doesnt 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 dont go to church assume
nothing.
49. Every single week someones there for the first time.
50. Assume they dont know our stories.
51. Be Biblical.
52. I hear a lot of messages that are good ideas but theyre 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. Youve got to
somehow preach a message that lands with all three. Im so thankful for the
Holy Spirit.
59. For those who want to go deep, weve 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. Were constantly reinvesting in those we want to reach.
62. I dont live in an unchurched community. Theyre dechurched.
63. Theres a Lifepointe experience were trying to create.
64. Sundays happen every seven days.
65. Were very particular about what we create that goes outside the doors of
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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 someones interest.
69. I really think weve 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 dont care what youre dealing with, the answer is Jesus.

Breakout Session UnMasked: The Real Life Of A Pastors 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 pastors wife, Alice, pulled me aside and said, They are not your
friend. They were together before you arrived and theyll be together after
youre gone. She was speaking to me out of a wound but that was a terrible
thing to say to a young pastors wife.
4. Ive 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 dont have to be
somebody else.
9. You dont have to be perfect.
10. If youre real, living in a glass house is a lot less scary, a lot less
intimidating.
11. People love you even though youre real.
12. God created you for a unique purpose.
13. I dont 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 dont 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 husbands
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.
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 21. Negative church stuff, we all know its real, but dont talk about it front of
your children.
22. Give them a love for church but its more important to give them a love for
Jesus.
23. You will get lonely. Everybody does.
24. You may say, I get lonely because Im a pastors 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 dont close yourself off.
28. Dont be easily offended.
29. Offended people are very self-focused people.
30. Offended people tend to build walls because theyre 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. Youre 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 dont do it.
39. Loving your neighbor or loving the church came after loving Jesus first.
Were not going love people if we dont love Jesus first.
40. Love God first. Then your family. Then comes the church.
41. People are going to disappoint us. Im going to disappoint somebody
because were just people. There is One Who sticks closer than a brother.
42. Without loving God we cant 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 pastors 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 youre 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, Im not engaged in my job.
8. 16% say, I am actively disengaged. That is a 71% disengaged rate.
9. OBT On Board Terrorists. Theyre getting paid but theyre 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 Im 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. Whats going to happen if we dont 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. Youre only successful if you have a successor.
3. The mission of whatever youre leading is more important than you. Its 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 youre leading.
9. If you dont hand it off successfully, have you ever really led.
10. Humility. It is doubtful if anyone can lead well if they havent been humbled.
Because you learn its 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. Dont murmur.
15. Stop thinking youre 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, youre going to hire people better than you
because that is what is going to make the entity better.
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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. Its 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 isnt about the Big Day. Its about every day after that.
6. We dont have to sell anything anymore because we have relationships with
people.
7. If your people are posting your church should be listening. If not, were 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, well 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
youre not pointing people to Jesus youre 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

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 2. The digital world we live in is personal.
3. We often say things but dont 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 youre not. And who
youre not is just as important.
7. Were 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 dont 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 youre not growing, going on Facebook is not going to help you.
26. If someone says, We have this great childrens ministry and need a
Facebook page. No you dont.
27. Strategy are not tactics.
28. Strategy is casting a vision. Tactics support that vision. Strategy is the roof.
Tactics are the wall.
29. Dont take things the culture is doing and make them Christian. We have the
Holy Spirit within usWhy 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 elses 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 its a story we have to be humble enough to read.
34. In writing you must kill your darlings.
35. Lets kill bad practices.
36. We dont have to respond to everyone.
37. We are all stories in the end.

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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 isnt 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 youre willing and humble.
4. Marketing is influencing behavior to get more people to buy more stuff,
more often, for more money. 1950s definition
5. Marketing is everything your organization does. Todays definition
6. People dont trust marketing anymore.
7. Whoever has the best story wins.
8. Its more about the story a products/service helps you tell vs. what it
actually does.
9. Great brands aim for peoples 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 peoples attention.
17. Attention is the asset of the future. - @GaryVee
18. Gods 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. Weve 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
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 27. Churches who dont 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 dont 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 doesnt 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 its advertising. Social media is not a
megaphone. Its a telephone. DA
6. We try to move real information with relevant conversation. CD
7. Dont 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. Its a calling. DA
12. If Im a social media director and everything depends on me, Ive 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 churchs brand should be about Jesus, about people. If its anything
other than that youre 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. Its 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 youre a smaller church, dont 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 Gods plan for reaching Gods 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.
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 8. Digital is a great supplement in life but its 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 cant 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 dont 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 isnt 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
couldnt 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. Its 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 thats easy to listen to.
Sometimes he speaks to me in my wifes 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 youre 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. Its 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 dont 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
Gods 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 mans head his heart will sometimes follow. If you speak to
a mans 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.
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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 its 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 dont 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 youre 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 Gods 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. Youre never more like Jesus than when youre giving.
26. Influence is not the same as authority. Authority can be abused by what
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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 doesnt know it. - Billy Grahams 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 cant lead people you dont 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 dont see it before you see it, youll 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. Its logical.
47. The emotional people, you tap into peoples hearts.
48. Everyone needs someone to believe in.
49. Most people dont believe in themselves.
50. Most people dont 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. Ive never missed anything Ive given away.
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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 dont know what its like to marinate and process.
6. My parents had a sense of future about them.
7. Youre going somewhere. Act like it. Crawfords 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. Youve 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. Dont institutionalize your struggles and say thats 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 Gods Word.
19. A hard head makes a soft backside. Crawfords 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. Dont 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
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26. Blessing comes with obedience.
27. You dont have to be successful. You do have to obey God.

Johnny Hunt

1. If youve 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 didnt 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 youre 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, its 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 doesnt 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 cant estimate what God is doing through you.
24. Its not my duty to convince the people to believe. Its 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. Gods work at times is incomprehensible.
28. You may grow weary in the work but never grow weary of the work. But
sometimes you cant know the difference between the two.
29. Most people who get in trouble, its not a blowout. Its 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 wouldnt wish it on
your worst enemy but wouldnt 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 Davids 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 dont 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 were 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 aint happy, nobodys happy. If daddy aint 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.
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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. Dont 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 Gods 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 Gods presence.
33. God never called anyone to do anything in the Scriptures that you dont see a
promise of His presence. When you do what He wants you to do, there is a
manifestation of His presence.
34. Gods will and Gods 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. Dont 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, youre going to get courage. Dont 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. Weve got to be it.
46. Our culture and society is going down the crapper because we have ignored
Truth.
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49. Youve 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. Weve 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 youre going to build a church thats dynamic, that begins by building the
right kind of childrens 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 kids life when you can leverage distinctive
opportunities to influence their future.
8. Life is moving so fast. We have to pause and say, We wont miss this.
9. We miss phases because we dont see what we dont 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 dont 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
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24. If you dont give high schoolers something significant to do, they wont
believe they are significant.
25. We miss phases because we dont remember what we dont 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. Dont expect kids to follow Jesus until you treat them like theyre made in
the image of God.
32. We dont anticipate what we dont anticipate? We dont 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 doesnt 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 dont think most churches have a Gospel problem. Most churches have an
audience problem. They dont know who their audience is.
48. Fight your battles together.
49. Dont fight each other. Fight for each other.
50. Youre doing the work of the Gospel when youre 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. Weve seen 100 people give their life to Jesus in last four weeks. RW
2. Were 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. Gods dreams often have to go through a season of darkness. A dream that
hasnt 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 didnt 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. Weve 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, dont let things around you knock you
off track. CD
15. I want to be the type of person who goes through trials and doesnt
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 Gods 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 cant stand the test of time. CV
30. Its always too early to quit. If you dont quit, you win. - CV
31. Any great leader is only there because they didnt quit. CV
32. We lose too many people not to the temptation of sin, but the temptation of
quitting. CV

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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 cant 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 cant 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 dont 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 doesnt 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 theyre 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 dont deny reality but you cant let reality define you.
10. Advancing leaders display a confident humility.
11. When I cast bold vision, I have to make sure my ego doesnt 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 peoples
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 17. Someday your platform is going away. So its how many platforms have you
built?
18. Gods 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 didnt
happen.
25. When you live in the land of possibility, dont give up too early. You are
persistently resilient.
26. Its OK to fail because were not failing, were learning. And if were learning,
were winning.
27. Is your team scared of failing? It starts with you and me.
28. I dont know if its going to work. But Im so proud of you for trying.
29. It doesnt take a whole lot of courage to live in the land of reality. You just
point out whats working or not working.
30. The Wright brothers were preachers 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 shouldnt
know how to serve people better than you do. I just think were 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 dont 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. Its 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 weve celebrated, what could we have done better and
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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. Im 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. Its unchanging. Im 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 didnt lose my identity.
I didnt 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. Dont 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.
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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 dont 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 dont 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 werent rooted.
36. You have to establish systems that protect you from yourself.
37. If I didnt 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 dont get a paycheck
from you that will tell you the truth.
40. When youre paying somebody, they will tell you exactly what you want to
hear.
41. Youre 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 dont call me anymore.
45. In Gods 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 dont change the world youre 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 youre a leader, part of your role in helping your team flourish is to force
margin for them.
50. I didnt force my team to stop and rest.
51. Margin is one of the greatest lessons Ive 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 were 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 dont stand up in front of your students with 100% passion,
theyre out.
57. If you are leading with passion, people will follow you.
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David Platt, President of the International Mission Board

1. In my life and leadership, Im in way over my head.
2. In order to be a good leader, you dont 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 were talking about
unreached people, were talking about access.
7. Unreached means youre born, you live, you die and youve 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 dont 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. Its glory.
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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 isnt 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. Dont 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 cant 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 dont understand or cant control.
20. To awaken wonder youve 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. Youre 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. Ive 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. Lets 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 theyre born
dont have clean water. Bad water kills more people than war. 56% of all
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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 wasnt I didnt like praise music. The problem was I didnt like the
object of their praise.
11. We stand before Gods 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 Gods character
on trial.
20. Some people dont 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.
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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 lifes 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. Im still in it.
Theyre watching me like a hawk.
18. Fighting with joy is not where Ive been. Its 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.
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7. Humans are my favorite species.
8. Im more of an anthropologist because I dont 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 wasnt 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 didnt you come
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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 shouldnt 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 peoples 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 hasnt started.
19. The fact youre saved is a miracle.
20. If being saved doesnt get your awe up I dont know what does. If youre not
going to hell today doesnt get your awe up I dont know what will. Im still one
of those people that believes there is one.
21. We dont 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 Gods
promises is not skill and talent. It is perspective and faith.
23. Critics, naysayers dont 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 Gods power by the size of your giant.
27. You are holding the fruit of the promise but focused on the giant.
28. Im 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, its not a miracle. Its a management
issue.
31. Some of you are asking for God to do signs, miracles and wonders and never
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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 couldnt 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 dont take a selfie the event didnt happen.
2. Steve Jobs was a remarkable person. Everything youve 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.
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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 dont fight you.
17. You can take the evangelist out of Apple but you cant 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 dont worry. Ship it. It doesnt have to be perfect.
20. In Silicon Valley, we ship and then we test.
21. Dont 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
Apples 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. Thats OK. The worst thing
is people dont 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. Dont let the Bozos grind you down.
38. Only a loser listens to a loser. Theyre not dangerous. Youre 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
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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. Its hard to executive on an idea if you dont have specifics.
3. Having a positive impact means nothing unless theres something behind it.
4. Rethink your brand in terms of the need you are meeting.
5. People wont come if you build it. They have to be told.
6. Stand back and break every challenge into smaller steps.
7. Whenever youre 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 youll encounter challenges.
12. Selling to someone instead of giving it to them adds dignity.
13. Its 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 dont ask for innovation, if you dont ask for passion, youre not going to
get it.
22. As leaders, its our job to help others find their passions.
23. As leaders, its 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. Ive been in the business community 20 years.
When I went a lot of people didnt understand it.
2. Jesus loves everybody, not just the choir.
3. This has been my best year sharing my faith. Weve 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.
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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, youll always have crowds to talk to.
10. If you help other people get what they want, theyll help you get what you
want.
11. Put people first.
12. Most people dont lead their life. They accept their life.
13. Every one of us has a story. The pages are blank and either youre going write
your story or someone else will.
14. Youre 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 youve tasted significance, success will never satisfy you.
19. Everyday I value people. My model for that is Jesus.
20. The only people who couldnt handle Jesus valuing all the people were the
religious people.
21. Are we to correct people or connect with people?
22. Weve corrected people so much Jesus couldnt 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 dont 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 dont start with the mass. They start with a few. At 68 years
of age, Im 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. Isnt 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
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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. Heres the
standard. Id 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 Jesuss 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. Gods 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
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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 havent said to my church first. There are also things I would say to
my local church that I wouldnt 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 havent 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. Its 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. Weve 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. Weve been pretty good at being innocent. Weve 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 doesnt 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
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 4. Why doesnt 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 didnt 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. Its just not biblical.
15. The New Testament model for multi-ethnic churches is the norm.
16. Multi-ethnic churches are not new. Weve just deviated and were trying to
arc back to our first century roots.
17. Multi-ethnic churches can be headaches. But its so worth it.
18. In Christs death, his death demolished the dividing wall of hostility.
19. In mans 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
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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? Americas 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 dont 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 worlds 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 dont have multi-ethnic movements unless you go against peoples idols
of comfort.
51. If you sing every song I like the way I liked it, I failed youStretch 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 youre in Compton, CA
youre 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
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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. Im second-in-command at home.
6. Mikes 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 dont have a ghost writer. I have a Holy Ghost writer.
10. I opened the first Moes in Florida. It was the sixth Moes 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. Im just the pen. God is the ultimate writer of the books.
14. God doesnt 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 doesnt 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 were communicating
meaningfully less.
27. I have to know where everyone is to lead them where they need to be.
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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 isnt 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 dont get burned out because of what we do. We get burned out because
we forget why we do it.
39. Were created from the inside out, not the outside in.
40. Dont 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. Thats why we love him. Mike Linch on what
players say about Coach Smith
2. I cant 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 its important you have an outside voice.
9. Its 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) wasnt 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. Dont lose sight of the process. Wins and losses are how you are graded as a
coach. But if you forget about the process, youre doomed for failure.
14. As a leader and a head coach, you dont only affect the people in a locker
room. When you walk in a room, they are all taking their cues from you.
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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. Everyones caring quality is a little different.
23. We werent going to have goals. We had to get buy-in early from our team.
Were going to talk about milestones. Once you reach milestones, well 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 dont have a two-game losing streak, youre going to be playing for a
play-off spot.
27. Im a list maker and I write things down. I wrote Im not going to have a bad
day. I might have bad moments but Im not going to have a bad day. We can
always find something to be grateful about. Im 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. Hed arrived 15 minutes early to catch 100 passes.
Being contagious doesnt 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. Youve got to be consistent. Its learned. I learned it first from my mother
and father.
34. The players will lose trust in you quicker than anything if youre not
consistent.
35. When youre consistent youre doing the same thing over and over and over
again. You dont change. You adjust.
36. You cant coach each player the same way.
37. Its important you learn who you are working with. You cant 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, dont email. Dont text.
42. You cant 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 youve got them. Youve got to have connections outside the
workplace. You become invested in your teammates.
46. Were looking to care for other people. And were 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. Its about the love and care you have for human beings.
49. Its 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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