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“Skinny Jeans and a Tattoo Does Not Make You a Leader” and
999 More Leadership Quotes: Timeless Truths From The 2014
Double, Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit and Catalyst
Conferences
As a member of INJOY Stewardship Solutions, I have the privilege of attending
some of the greatest Christian conferences each year. During the second half of
2014, three events in particular stood out.
Double ’14 took place at NewSpring Church in Anderson, SC. Put on by the
NewSpring staff, this amazing event was designed to help churches double in
attendance.
Global Leadership Summit is the Willow Creek Association’s annual
convergence of Christian and business leaders.
Catalyst ‘14 had a different feel this year. The content was much more geared
to Next Generation Christian leaders. An extra day of Lab sessions are included
in the content.
These and other events featured many incredible Christian leaders such as Andy
Stanley, Perry Noble, Louie Giglio, Bryan Loritts, Bill Hybels, Patrick Lencioni,
Wifredo De Jesus, Reggie Joiner, Carl Lentz, Mark Batterson, Craig Groeschel,
Christine Caine and many others. Their insights have been captured for you
throughout this Ebook.
Thanks for reading. I look forward to bringing you more key learnings from
additional Christian leadership events throughout the year.
Brian Dodd
www.BrianDoddOnLeadership.com

Double'14'Conference
Perry Noble
1. “If the Gospel has been unleashed, if Jesus is alive, if the Holy Spirit is
unleashed in our church, then to expect nothing to happen is inconsistent
with the Gospel.”
2. “If we want our churches to grow, if we want to see the Great Commission
fulfilled, we’ve got to learn to speak the same language.”
3. “If the Bible said, ‘The Lord said’, then I’m going to go with it.”
4. “When the church has a common language, the Lord Himself said what
they will do will be impossible.”
5. “The question you want to ask if you want to double is why does your
church exist?”
6. “Everyone that walks in your doors has a vision for your church.
Everyone.”
7. “Vision and values are the two things you have to have to allow your
church to grow. Vision and values that support it.”
8. “Church people like things simple.”
9. “What you think people know intuitively they don’t know.”
10.“Church planters, please stop telling everybody how hard it is to plant a
church where you planted.”
11.“You’re planting a church. It’s going to hard to plant, period.”
12.“When you judge people coming in the door based on the Bible version
they are carrying you feel superior to others.”
13.“A lot of people want a program to grow your church. A program won’t
grow your church. A process will.”
14.“We want to reach people far from God.”
15.“Every church says they want to reach messy people until messy people
start showing up. It’s highly uncomfortable with messy people. The
church for the longest time has been into behavior modification.”
16.“Can people smoke in your parking lot?”
17.“You can’t smoke in the parking lot but the guy watching porn can walk
through your parking lot because it’s private.”
18.“There are some denominations right now praying for revival and it’s not
going to happen because they should be preparing the house for messy
people to show up. If the house is prepared, the messy people will show
up.”
19.“Sick people don’t need to hear how sick they are. They know.”
20.“No one is more reformed in their theology than the Apostle Paul. He
wrote Romans. And he said it was his goal to win as many as possible. It
sounds like you’re into numbers Paul? Yep.”
21.“Engage – You know people are super-interested in spiritual things.”
22.“When books are written on angels and demons it goes to the top. When
people write on the end times it goes to the top.”

23.“The church for time long has focused on things no one is interested in.”
24.“Do you know people think about during the week – How do I handle the
rape I had 10 years ago?…They ask it internally. They won’t ask it
publically.”
25.“Use their felt needs to take them to their greatest need.”
26.“We’re not taking the blood out. We’re just trying to not make it weird…I’m
thankful for Jesus and his blood.”
27.“The story of Jesus is life-changing. It’s captivating.”
28.“Jesus didn’t die for music so quit calling stuff secular and Christian.”
29.“Engaging people for pastors could be narrowing your message down to
one sentence and saying it over and over again.”
30.“Excellence – When we go to a restaurant do you want excellence? Yes.”
31.“The church, we take half-baked, water-downed, poorly prepared things
and tell everyone we did it for God.”
32.“They can’t sing. It doesn’t glorify the Lord. It sounds like a cow dying in a
hail storm.”
33.“You say she has a good heart (when she sings). I can’t hear her heart.”
34.“Excellence is not perfection. It is simply giving the best effort with what
you have.”
35.“You can be authentic and give your best at the same time. That’s what
Jesus did.”
36.“Jesus Christ has never given us anything but His very best.”
37.“Excitement - If you’re not excited about your church, then no one else is
either. If you’re not excited about your church, Satan is excited you go to
your church.”
38.“Every Sunday at your church can be the best Sunday ever? Why not?”
39.“It’s only hype if you don’t believe it. It’s hope if you do believe it.”
40.“We celebrate what we worship. Some of you might want to back off the
selfies.”
41.“It’s OK to be excited about your church. It’s OK to be excited about
baptisms.”
42.“This past Sunday we had 1,223 people come to Christ.”
43.“I believe the same Jesus that saved them and led them to Him, can take
them where they need to go.”
44.“What some churches call discipleship is nothing more than a modern
form of manipulation.”
45.“Jesus said, ‘My yoke is easy and my burden is light.”’
46.“What would happen if the church responded to spiritual babies like we
handle our babies?”
47.“Show people patience. Patience does not excuse sin.”
48.“The Pharisees were not patient with people. A new plant with too much
water poured on it does not help it. It kills it.”
49.“For the first 300 years the early church was not know for its theology. It
was known for its generosity.”
50.“Discipleship is not a program. It’s a process. It takes time.”

51.“What if the church was known for it was nice to people? There’s just a
bunch of Christians who are saved and just mad about it.”
52.“Kindness does not excuse immorality.”
53.“What do you do with homosexuals? The same thing we do with people in
heterosexual sin.”
54.“If you want to reach the gay community, it’s going to take kindness.
Everyone wants to start an argument.”
55.“When I see people far from God, I haven’t forgotten what it’s like to be
one of them.”
56.“Where were you when Jesus saved you? Jesus changed me. And He’s
still changing me.”
57.“If we ever forget where we came from, we automatically want people who
are saved to be where we are even though it took us 10 years to go
there.”
58.“We don’t have Christian schools. We’re going to turn public schools in
Christians schools.”
Perry Noble
1. “Leaders, you have to define where the church is going.”
2. “You don’t really know what you value until you’re five years in as a
church.”
3. “Normal people in our churches don’t think about vision and values as
much as we do.”
4. “If you get too far removed from student ministry your church will become
irrelevant before you know it.”
5. “If you want to know where your church is heading, disciple a group of
high school students.”
6. “Defining your vision and values does not happen in a one-hour meeting.
If you can define it in a one-hour meeting it’s a vision not worth following.”
7. “Found People Find People.”
8. “Most church people don’t know what evangelism is. But they know
Found People Find People.”
9. “People say I found Jesus. He wasn’t lost. I believe Jesus found me.”
10.“Not every church wants to grow.”
11.“My first church was in Pickens, SC where the men are men and so are
most of the women.”
12.“Some people don’t want churches to grow because they’re going to lose
their seat.”
13.“Who are you willing to let walk so lost people get found.”
14.“Not everyone wants to see lost people found because some are lost
themselves. Just because you’re in church doesn’t mean you’re in Christ.”
15.“Is Israel safe? I say ‘is God sovereign?”’
16.“Here at NewSpring Church we are really into numbers and we celebrate
the numbers.”

17.“Every number has a name. Every name has a story. Every story matters
to God.”
18.“People say, ‘Numbers don’t matter at our church.’ Then don’t take an
offering.”
19.“Asking people to come to a place where they can meet Jesus is
evangelism.”
20.“10% of the people in your church have the gift of evangelism.”
21.“It’s OK to talk about football and it not turn into a spiritual conversation.”
22.“If you get your lost friends here, we won’t embarrass you.”
23.“Having intentional, focused services on reaching people far from God
really does work.”
24.“Get on stage and announce in two weeks bring your family and friends
and I’m going to preach ‘that message.’”
25.“If the worst thing you can say about me is I target lost people, then talk
about me all you want.”
26.“Easter is a home run. Even the devil goes to church on Easter.”
27.“If it’s the Gospel you can’t water it down.”
28.“God is willing to do whatever it takes to find people far from Him and
bring them to His Son.”
29.“Changed lives should be celebrated.”
30.“Very rarely will I give a new believer a microphone.”
31.“What gets celebrated gets repeated.” – Andy Stanley
32.“Pastors, when you give an invitation, you got to give it. You give an
invitation. God is responsible for the results.”
33.“Saved People Serve People.”
34.“Members. These are the people who go out to eat after church on
Sundays and don’t tip good.”
35.“We don’t have members at NewSpring. We have owners. Members
have rights but owners have responsibilities.”
36.“If something breaks, owners have a responsibility to do something about
it.”
37.“The only way the church develops ownership is when people serve.”
38.“There is a way to become great and it is through servanthood.”
39.“If people aren’t serving in your church, they’re not growing.”
40.“Involvement does not mean attendance. Involvement means you are
participating.”
41.“If people aren’t serving in your church, they’re not becoming more like
Jesus.”
42.“A lot of us in our churches have service evaluators who show up every
Sunday.”
43.“The way you turn evaluators in participators is to say will you come
alongside of me and help me fix the problems you’re seeing? They’ll then
leave because you’re not feeding them.”
44.“Some leave the church because they desire attention, not spiritual
growth.”

45.“Does LeBron James have to tell people he’s gifted? No, you hand him a
ball and let him play the game.”
46.“You have to audition to sing because we’re committed to excellence.
Even if you’re the pastor’s wife.”
47.“We don’t have anything high capacity around here. Can you help us pick
up trash between the services.”
48.“Motivation by guilt, not vision. You cannot shame people into serving.”
49.“10-15% of your church have the gift of mercy. When we motivate by guilt
all the mercy people volunteer and then you can’t find them in two weeks.”
50.‘“We need’. Take that language out. Few respond to need but many
respond to vision.”
51.“You want happy, smiling people with good breath. It’s not a mint. It’s a
hint.”
52.“The biggest problem if someone isn’t serving is that they’re being
disobedient.”
53.“The difference between elders and deacons is elders drink and deacons
smoke.”
54.“Elders and deacons are often elected by a popularity contest.”
55.“There is not a staff member in ministry that’s ever worked a 40-hour
week. We call that a vacation.”
56.“Elders and deacons who work 4-6 hours a week in a church tell church
staff who work 40-60 hours a week in a church what to do. If a business
did that they would go out of business. What about accountability? I’ve
seen more messed up accountability with this model than anything.”
57.“Churches who are not growing has nothing to do with the power of God
but power-hungry people.”
58.“A church is not effective when the pastor ministers to the people but
rather when the body ministers to the body.”
59.“Find me a verse that says you have to be ordained to preach a funeral.
Show me that in the body, control freak.”
60.“When saved people serve people, served people become saved people.”
61.“Healthy things grow.”
Shane Duffey, NewSpring’s Creative Arts Pastor
1. “The primary way Jesus is going to build His church is through the local
church.”
2. “Everything revolves around Sunday.”
3. “On Sundays you draw crowd so you can hopefully build the church.”
4. “I want to have church services that are excellent and compelling.”
5. “We want to invoke some sort of action and response.”
6. “Everyone ever born is going to ask 3 questions – Where did I come from?
(origin) Why am I here? (purpose) Where do I go when I die?
(destination)”
7. “To answer questions people have about their lives we have to be great
communicators.”

8. “There are two components to every church service – sayers (preachers)
and senders (those who send you out to preach).”
9. “Vision is what God’s calling your church to do. Creativity is what it looks
like while you’re doing it.”
10.“If want to preach a gospel that’s hearable then when need to put on
services that make that doable.”
11.“In our services we can put on a bunch of vibrations but no sound.”
12.“Failure for a church service is to put on a bunch of vibrations but no
sound.”
13.“Inspire is to get them to lean in to hear what you have to say.”
14.“Inform is to familiarize yourself with a subject. We want everyone who
attends our service to learn something they didn’t already know or be
reminded of something.”
15.“We don’t take Sundays off. Next Sunday is the most important Sunday
yet.”
16.“Bad structure. We’ve got to know who does what and who is accountable
for what.”
17.“4 things you need to do to have great services. Pray. Plan. Prepare.
Practice/Perspire.”
18.“The church service is not where all my personal preferences come to
life.”
19.“We are not who we want to reach. The church service cannot be
designed for you. You may not reach the people you’re trying to reach.”
20.“To have a good plan you must have margin. The plan should create
more time for you not less. People must have more time to practice what
you plan.”
21.“We plan 4-5 weeks ahead.”
22.“We have two meetings a week at NewSpring. The first is with a small
number of people who sit down with the pastor to talk about his message.
Everything emminates from the message. No one was ever saved by
creativity but the Word of God.”
23.“We don’t separate the message and creativity. We bring them together.”
24.“The second meeting is a larger meeting (discussing) who executes the
decisions from the first meeting.”
25.“Good communication is essential after planning.”
26.“Practice/Perspire – This is where most great plans fail, when you have to
go to work on it.”
27.“Excellence is giving God your best. In a service, excellence is removing
anything that distracts from who Jesus is.”
28.“Hard work and smart work leads to great results.”
29.“Preparation allows everyone with a role the time to do their best work.”
30.“A healthy team is a productive team. The way a team stays healthy is
because they want to do a good job.”
31.“Senior pastor, it’s your responsibility to steward people’s gifts well. Don’t
get mad at them if they can’t keep up with you if you don’t give them the
time to do things with excellence.”

32.“God hasn’t asked anything from you that He hasn’t already given you.”
33.“Our vision will always outpace our resource.”
Amy Bagwell, Central Serve Director and Sherry Moorhead
1. “If you didn’t sing or rock babies, there just wasn’t a lot to do at our church
(that I grew up in).” – Sherry
2. “How do you get people to serve? When’s the last time you asked
somebody to serve?” – Sherry
3. “There is something to the visual side of God’s love that helps people
believe what they hear from the stage.” – Sherry
4. “The best way for you to realize your gift is to just get involved.” – Sherry
5. “The church takes on the personality of every single person who’s
serving.” – Sherry
6. “The sermon starts in the parking lot.” – Sherry
7. “We don’t use the word ‘need’. We have ‘opportunities’ for you to serve.” -
Sherry
8. “It’s always people over process but you do have to have the process to
love the people.” – Sherry
9. “None of us on this staff have a clue what we’re doing.” – Sherry
10.“The last thing we want is to have people serving but not enjoy it.” – Amy
11.“Opportunities Tour – for someone who doesn’t know where they want to
serve. The big on-ramps are Guest Services, Next Steps, Fuse
(students), KidsSpring and Production.” - Amy
12.“With growth comes change.” – Sherry
13.“If people are serving, the Lord is revealing gifts they never knew they
had.” – Sherry
14.“The first to do when you care for volunteers is to love them.” – Amy
15.“Some of loving them is having tough conversations.” – Amy
16.“The best way to lead volunteers and care about your volunteers is to be
intentional in everything you do to build relationships with your volunteers.”
– Sherry
17.“Equipping is so much more than saying, ‘Hey usher, here’s a flashlight to
help people to their seats.’” - Sherry
18.“Equipping is creating structures to allow you love your teams.” – Sherry
19.“We have to constantly break things down so the Lord can build it up.” –
Sherry
20.“We want to set teams up well so relationships can be built.” – Sherry
Perry Noble
1. “Growing People Change.”
2. “Most of people who made mistakes loved God. They just made some
bad decisions. Where does that person go? We kick people out of church
and call it church discipline. If you ever meet anyone who is excited about
church discipline, that person doesn’t have any friends.”

3. “I had lunch with busted up person after busted up person after busted up
person. And they all called me pastor.”
4. “Beware when only pretty people are showing up calling you pastor.
Because pretty people are always hiding something.”
5. “What happens to the teenage girl when she gets pregnant in your
church? Instead of getting kicked out, she needs to be brought in.”
6. “If we’re going to have churches that are able to grow, we need to have
churches where people can be messy.”
7. “Before change can happen confession needs to happen and the church
needs to be the safest place to confess.”
8. “You’ve got to have two environments where growing people can change,
you’ve got to have a strong children’s ministry. Have clean, safe and fun.
The first question all parents ask is, ‘Did you have fun?”’
9. “If you have a clean, safe environment they will more Bible than you ever
thought possible.”
10.“You’ve got to have a strong student ministry.”
11.“One of the most popular sayings right now is ‘Student Ministry is dead.’
Someone forgot to tell our student ministry staff.”
12.“We had 4,200 students last night at all our campuses. I’m not mad about
that!”
13.“If you’re going to have a strong student ministry you’re going to have to
fund it. If you’re cemetery budget is better funded than your student
ministry you’re dying. Half those people in the church cemetery aren’t in
Heaven anyway. They just got buried at the church.”
14.“Funding does not mean fundraisers. Senior Pastor, you are the
fundraiser for the student ministry.”
15.“Is the best use of your student minister washing cars? Don’t make the
kids sell doughnuts. The senior adults don’t sell doughnuts.”
16.“20-30 of our staff members were once part of our children’s and student
ministry. We hire them young so we don’t have to beat the seminary out
of them.”
17.“Growing Churches Change. Growing Leaders Change.”
18.“In most churches, the change going on in the church is in direct
proportion with the change going on in the leader.”
19.“What are you learning as a leader? Who are you learning from? We
learn from people who actually haven’t done anything. If they haven’t
done it, I don’t care.”
20.“One of the biggest problems in the world is Christian leaders are cheap.”
21.“If you’re a leader who has ever considered going to Israel, you need to
go. It will do more for your leadership than anything.”
22.“I Can’t Do Life Alone.”
23.“Groups ministry is the hardest job in the church. You can’t force Christian
community.”
24.“We investigated many churches who state they do groups well and stated
a certain percentage. They lied.”
25.“Groups are essential for churches that are growing.”

26.“The myth in the church is that we know everybody. We actually only
know an average of 53.”
27.“One of the biggest problems in the church is when a person gets saved
on Sunday, on Friday night their old friends call.”
28.“I would argue that for a new believer groups are actually more important
than reading their Bible. The church didn’t have a Bible for the first 350
years. What did they do? What did they have though? Each other.”
29.“For a brand new believer, putting them in the right environment is more
important than shoving the Bible down their throat. If you put them in the
right environment, they will crave the Word of God.”
30.“Two or three times a year we do a big groups push from the stage.”
31.“We don’t ask people to join a group long-term. We just ask them for six
weeks.”
32.“I Can’t Outgive God.”
33.“Money creates tension.”
34.“About once or twice a year, every leader is going to get a financial test.
God is going to find out if you are a prostitute or a prophet.”
35.“You will either sell the vision or keep the vision.”
36.“I’ve got to feed my family. Actually, it’s God that feeds your family.”
37.“Money is the only sin in the church we apologize for preaching on.”
38.“It takes money to run a church.”
39.“If you’ve got a checking account you’re a business. I know a lot of
churches who said they weren’t a business that are going out of
business.”
40.“If your vision is bigger than your current resource, you are on the right
path.” – Jeff Henderson
41.“There’s a couple of reasons pastors don’t preach on money – They’re not
giving. You should be one of the top givers in your church every year. We
check staff tithing records…If it’s a heart issue we fire them. Why would
we let other people spend tithe money when they’re not tithing. If you got
a problem with that, you’re robbing God.”
42.“Anytime your pastor is preaching on money, pray for him because he’s
going to get attacked.”
43.“Jesus said the #1 competitor for our hearts is money.”
44.“Why would we shy away from preaching on the #1 thing that competes
with the human heart?”
45.“The only cat that screams when the rocking chair rocks is the cat that got
his tail rocked on.”
46.“Some people preach on grace giving. Some teach on tithing. These
people are broke. These people have money.”
47.“There’s a difference between teaching and preaching.”
48.“I believe most people want to give. They just don’t think they can.”
49.“When I challenge people to give, if you think we’re after your money, tithe
to another church.”
50.“When Jesus died on the cross, He died to set us free in every area of our
lives.”

51.“Don’t spend money that people promise you. Spend money that you
have.”
52.“The best advertisement you have in your church are the people in your
church who are excited about your church.”
53.“You can give without loving but you can’t love without giving.”
Perry Noble
1. “You’re into church growth because God is in to church growth. And since
Jesus is into church growth, if you’re not then you’re not into Jesus.”
2. “If your people speak the same language many people will accuse you of
being a cult.”
3. “Pretty soon those who speak against you will be ashamed because of
what Jesus is doing.”
4. “Too many people go to the Burger King church – have it your way right
away.”
5. “God didn’t lead your church through imitation. He called you to lead it
through revelation.”
6. “Imitation will get you started but revelation will take you where you want
to go.”
7. “The Personnel Committee doesn’t do anything but tells everyone else at
the church what to do.”
8. “No one has died from second-hand dancing.”
9. “God had to teach me the process of submitting to authority.”
10.“One of the biggest mistakes a church or leader can make is to care more
about progress than the process.”
11.“Don’t apologize for wanting to fulfill the Great Commission.”
12.“To double you will realize mistakes you have made and will make new
ones all over again.”
13.“You don’t make progress because you’re perfect. You make progress by
making mistakes and correcting them.”
14.“You can’t pray away a mistake God has called you to deal with.”
15.“The way to deal with wrong decisions is to deal with them and then make
right decisions.”
16.“Don’t confuse benevolence with ministry.”
17.“You’ve got to make tough decisions if you want to make progress.”
18.“It’s the people who push through frustrations that see breakthroughs.”
19.“When making progress most people don’t leave quietly.”
20.“When someone says, ‘You’ve changed.’ I say, ‘Thank God. I hope I’m
changing all the time.”’
21.“If you have to tell someone you’re anointed, you’re not.”
22.“Only thing wrong with skinny jeans are people who are not skinny trying
to get into skinny jeans.”
23.“With social media, too many leaders want to be discovered and not
developed.”
24.“Nothing is more crippling to a church than an insecure leader.”

25.“The reason many churches don’t let youth ministries thrive is the senior
pastor is insecure because of the youth pastor.”
26.“We all know t-shirt bible verses.”
27.“If we made a full-length movie of the Bible it would be NC-17. We have
G-rated the Bible.”
28.“You will never have authority if you don’t know how to work under
authority.”
29.“One of the only things about ministry that gets on my nerves is people.”
30.“When you get done preaching, normal people go home. But ‘they’ find
you every Sunday.”
31.“What do I do with all these weird people? Love them.”
32.“Process is greater than Progress.”
33.“God could raise you to a level you could never raise yourself if you submit
to the process.”
34.“The church is great today because we have a Savior who was committed
to a process.”
Lee McDerment
1. “My first Sunday the church had 75 people. (today they run over 45,000)”
2. “’We can’t pay you but we’ll help you find a job.’ Pastors, that’s a great
line to use with worship leaders.”
3. “We went from 500 to 1,500 in six weeks. God blew it up. We didn’t do
anything different.”
4. “We were running 4,000 and then doubled to over 8,000 in a year.”
5. “In worship, we’re guided by I’m a child of God first. A minister to people
second. A worship leader third.”
6. “If you know who you are in Christ, you can be free from the jail that is the
stage.”
7. “You don’t have to be known by the people because you’re known by the
King of the universe.”
8. “Musical readiness is important. Spiritual readiness is more important and
the next steps you are taking.”
9. “If I’m concerned with my lead guitarist’s heart he will give me great solos
on Sunday morning.”
10.“I will be serving people all my life on this earth. I will not always be on the
stage.”
11.“The songs might be done well but the most important thing may be a
conversation I have in the lobby that Sunday.”
12.“If you value God’s people He will help you do great artwork.”
13.“The vision for our services in how we use music – Engage Outsiders and
Build Up Believers.”
14.“It’s not about us. It’s about fishing for people and feeding sheep.”
15.“The best of my time and resources as a worship leader are going to be
spent in my personal development. How much I pray and how well I know

the scriptures really, really does matter. Being a good singer does not
make you a worship leader.”
16.“You need a great worship leader who cares more about the Bride of
Christ than his own fame.”
17.“People are worth more than their skills and gifts.”
18.“Your whole job as a worship leader is to bring attention to someone else
(Jesus).”
19.“The vision of this church is absolutely captivating to me. I love seeing
people get saved.”
20.“The end goal is always to serve the people in the seats. Not us.”
21.“Most people who come to NewSpring listen to Top 40 radio.”
22.“Perry knows our people so well. When God puts something on his heart,
I try to do it as much as possible.”
23.“The best answer to any pastor from a worship leader is ‘Yes ,comma.”’
24.“Working under authority, Perry is a conduit to the authority of Christ. I
want to be in that flow.”
25.“Say ‘YES’ quickly to your pastor.”
26.“Earlier in my career, I was more concerned about my taste in music than
actually serving people.”
27.“Songs are just tools to get people closer to Jesus. One song is as good
as another. The key is the person.”
28.“Young people love hymns and the opportunity to connect with the older
generation. Just make sure you do it really well.”
29.“At NewSpring we don’t do anything just to do it.”
30.“God is a good father who will discipline His children if you make a
mistake. But take a risk.”
31.“We don’t ever push anything at NewSpring as they are playing a gig.”
32.“Because we have five services on a Sunday we have to steward our time
very well. So we often have scripts.”
33.“We record all our rehearsals and play them back all week.”
34.“I was the only worship leader on staff until we got to three-or-four
thousand people.”
35.“Planning well out in advance gives you time to pour into the people you’re
leading.”
36.“If you can raise up someone who can come in on Sunday, your value to
the organization goes up.”
Perry Noble
1. “Maybe there’s a leader in the room that if your church doubled, it wouldn’t
bless you. It would crush you.”
2. “Your relationship with the Lord is the one thing no one else can do for
you.”
3. “When a sheep is born, the shepherd will go and get that sheep and hold it
every single day…The primary goal for the shepherd is for the sheep to

know its voice. And when a sheep learn a voice, it will never follow
another voice.”
4. “Some of us in this room are just going through the motions because we’re
tired. And we’re not following His voice.”
5. “Religion kills relationship.”
6. “We worship stupid things when we turn away from God.”
7. “Religion killed 3,000 people (with the golden calf). Grace saved 3,000
people (with Pentecost).“
8. “When we have a relationship with God, we don’t spend a lot of time
walking around talking about the things we lack.”
9. “Churches, stop telling God what you don’t have.”
10.“An empty vessel cannot fill up and preach to broken people.”
11.“The strongest ministry in our lives takes place out of the overflow of our
lives.”
12.“If God wants to start a fire in a church, it always starts with the leaders.”
13.“Nobody else gets to define what an emergency is for me.”
14.“The problem with many pastors, who because of social media, have
become addicted to the noise.”
15.“The rate of which I was doing the work of God was destroying the work of
God in me.” – Bill Hybels
16.“You can’t plan a move of God.”
17.“We can’t plan a move of God but we can prepare for one.”
18.“You got into ministry yesterday. Congratulations! That’s the best day
you’ll ever have.”
19.“I’m tired of going to conferences and hearing them talk about how great
everything is and then walking backstage and talk about their antidepressants.”
20.“If you make a good decision when you’re tired, it’s an accident.”
21.“When you’re tired you do what is easy rather than what is right.”
22.“Refreshment = Refocus”
23.“He wants us to get it right more than we get it wrong because it’s His
church.”
24.“Who do you want in charge of something? People who will do
something.”
25.“If we get something wrong and we’re in a right relationship with Him, He
won’t let us get it wrong for long.”
26.“None of us like dark times.”
27.‘“Even though’ times will come in ministry.”
28.“We can fear circumstances more than we fear God.”
29.“No one in here has a guard sheep. No one has the mascot The Fighting
Sheep.”
30.“How insane would it be to cower at a kitten but slap a lion in the mouth?”
31.“God wants to bless churches. He wants to bless church leaders.”
32.“I praise God for Vegans because there’s more meat for me.”
33.“Can you imagine a table God prepared?”

34.“The Baptists ask, ‘Why do you drink wine?’ Have you seen the Baptists?
‘Why do you drink gravy?”’
35.“You don’t get the table prepared by God without enemies that hate you’re
at the table prepared by God.”
36.“Don’t let the presence of your enemies take your eyes off the table
prepared right before you.”
37.“Too many people are too obsessed with what people say about them.”
38.“We need to focus on Him rather than them.”
39.“When you feel the presence of your enemies you feel pressure. Pressure
is nothing more than a call to humility because you are reminded you can’t
do this alone.”
40.“There are some days I leave church and this goes on in my mind, ‘I don’t
how long this can go on.”’
41.“One day you and I will stand before Someone who had an assignment
much tougher than ours and He did not quit.”
42.“Why Churches And Pastors Implode - Misunderstanding of God, Bad
Environments, Bad Decisions, No One Around In Tough Times, Obsessed
With Wrong Things, and We Doubt God’s Love and True Belief In His
Grace.”
43.“If you haven’t had a day off in six months that’s your fault.”
44.“The storm God calmed within you will calm the storm around you.”
Global'Leadership'Summit
Introduction
• When God wants to do a great work in the world, it almost always starts in
the heart of one person…we call these people leaders.
Bill Hybels
1. “Everything that matters in this world rises and falls on leadership.”
2. “World peace rises and falls on leadership.”
3. “Building prevailing churches, enduring business and governments rises
and falls on leadership.”
4. “One of the supreme values of the Leadership Summit is humility.”
5. “Armed with enough humility, pastors can learn from business leaders.
Business leaders can learn from pastors.”
6. “Every decision you make as a leader has a direct impact on the emotion,
psyche and spirit of those you lead.”
7. “Leaders are visionaries. We can’t help ourselves….We paint pictures
that produce passion in other people.”

8. “Often, leaders with the highest level of passion for the vision have the
lowest level of awareness of the spirit the team he/she has assembled to
achieve that vision.”
9. “A grunt is someone who works long hours, is not appreciated, and
expendable.”
10.“What God treasures most in this world is people.”
11.“Don’t make your people pay because you’re so fired up about the vision.”
12.“Had I simply delegated culture to the HR Department, it would have been
doomed from the start.”
13.“Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to
be. Senior pastors, CEOs, there is no place to hide.”
14.“People join organizations. They leave managers.”
15.“You will never meet your culture’s full vitality potential, until those who
lead people get better.”
16.“Every single worker secretly wants to know at the end of the day how
they are doing.”
17.“The kindest form of management is the truth.” – Jack Welch
18.“Start. Stop. Continue.”
19.“3M. Start the meeting by clarifying what you’re trying to Move ahead. If
it’s not moving, Modify the plan. Motivate the people before the meeting
ends.”
20.“I try to motivate people so they levitate out of my office.”
21.“Everybody wins when a leader gets better.”
22.“What if we look at conflict as a way to strengthen a relationship?”
23.“In the average Christian organization, only 54% of the employees are
truly engaged in their work. In the U.S. corporate world only 30% of the
employees are engaged in their work. Internationally, it’s half that.”
24.“Everyday when I drive on this campus, my heart rate increases.”
25.“Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.”
26.“Short-term task force allows you to test a young emerging leader.”
27.“Resourcefulness is the most important weapons in a leader’s arsenal.
We lead in chaotic environments and there is not a roadmap at their level.”
28.“Before you put any emerging leader in a senior role you must ascertain
what they are going to do when they don’t know what to do.”
29.“In today’s complex world, no senior leader can know enough to handle
what will be thrown at them.”
30.“When is the last time you have taken the time to assign an emerging
leader a Pass/Fail task?”
31.“Hirelings don’t give a rip about your sheep. They have no intentions of
staying long-term…He will risk nothing for the sake of your sheep.”
32.“Owners actually care about the sheep and have a long-term view…They
will lay down their life for the sheep.”
33.“Find and develop leaders with a legacy mindset.”
34.“The average tenure for a Fortune 500 CEO is 4.5 years.”

35.“Prevailing churches cannot be built on the shoulders of hirelings with
short-term mindsets. They just don’t care enough. They won’t be around
long enough to build something lasting.”
36.“Legacy leaders are the only ones willing to pay the price to change
culture because they’re going to live in it.”
37.“Legacy leaders are working for the grander vision.”
38.“Legacy leaders are the ones who leave something beautiful behind when
their hourglass is empty.”
39.“Forgiven much. Worship much.”
40.“Right now several hundred are watching this from our newest satellite
location – the Louisiana State Prison.”
41.“I’ve never seen a single leader drift into being a legacy leader.”
42.“Please don’t go to your grave without tasting a life that is truly life.”
43.“Have you given any real thought to what your legacy will be?”
44.“Legacy making does come with the price tag. The grander the vision, the
greater the price tag.”
45.“Don’t be surprised when grand visions get complicated or costly.”
46.“It’s hard to hear God at Mach 2.”
47.“Radio for help. Humble yourself. Admit this rough patch requires outside
assistance.”
48.“You might be one prayer away from a rescue.”
5 Ways To Develop Young Leaders
1. High challenge roles
2. Short term task force
3. Real time feedback
4. Coaching and mentoring
5. Classroom Teaching
5 Ways To Use A Short-Term Task Force
1. Success of failure must be possible.
2. The merging leader must take full charge.
3. Must work with a wide variety of people.
4. Must involve real pressures and deadlines.
5. Must be evaluated by a senior leader.
Carly Fiorina
1. “Life isn’t smooth.”
2. “All of us learn life’s lessons from living life.”
3. “Through good times and bad times I knew I was not alone.”
4. “Leadership is the same no matter what the context is.”
5. “Everyone has potential. Everyone has more potential than most of us
realize.”

6. “Human potential is the only limitless resource we have in this world.”
7. “There are things that crush potential. Bureaucracy in any setting
because the people who worked in bureaucracy get the message…Follow
the rules.”
8. “Bureaucracies always turn in on themselves. They forget they are there
to serve.”
9. “What unlocks potential? Leadership. The highest calling of leadership is
to unlock the potential of others.”
10.“We call a lot of people leaders who are not leaders at all.”
11.“Leadership is not management. Management is really important but it is
the production of acceptable results within known constraints and
conditions.”
12.“A leader says, ‘I’m going to change these conditions.”’
13.“Leadership is actually about changing the order of things.”
14.“There are a lot of people in corner offices who have never led a day in
their lives.”
15.“Leadership is not about position, title and power.”
16.“He led as less than a nobody. He led as a criminal.” – referring to Nelson
Mandela
17.“Leaders never accomplish anything worthwhile working on their own.”
18.“Is there any better symbol of powerlessness than a baby in a manger?”
19.“People are not poor because they lack potential. People are poor
because, for whatever reason, they have not been given the opportunity to
unlock their potential.”
20.“People think a great speech is leadership.”
21.“The most important aspects of leadership are not words.”
22.“Where are we going? How are we going to work together to get the work
done? How will I develop my team? How are we going to measure
progress? What counts as success?”
23.“Reorganization is an illusion of progress. Nothing is getting done.”
24.“Structure should always follow strategy. You have to know why you’re
doing what you’re doing.”
25.“What gets measured is what gets done.”
26.“Measurement says what is important.”
27.“Culture is ‘What’s it like to work around here?”’
28.“People will listen to ‘the talk’ for a while. Then they will start watching ‘the
walk’.
29.“The hardest decision I ever made as an executive was to fire a direct
report…His behavior was something we would not tolerate.”
30.“In the end actions always speak louder than words.”
31.“An organization cannot achieve its potential if its people cannot achieve
theirs.”
32.“20/20 Rule. 20% of the people are change warriors. Change is a battle.
They are warriors. 20% of the people are ‘Hell no. I won’t go.’ They
become the source of resistance. 60% are skeptics. They’re waiting.”
33.“Successful change never happens unless the 60% are moved.”

34.“When 80% of the people are engaged, forward momentum is possible.”
35.“Leaders are made. Not born.”
36.“Leadership is a profoundly human gift. It is available to us all.”
37.“True leadership requires faith.”
38.“A love of God makes leadership easier. Faith gives us the gift of humility.
True leadership requires a leader to understand it is not about us. It is
about others.”
39.“Faith gives us the gift of empathy. I could be where this person is.”
40.“Faith gives us the gift of optimism. A leader knows things can get better.”
41.“You must have a lot of faith in others. You must know people can rise to
the occasion.”
42.“Faith teaches us everyone is equal. No one is better than anyone else.”
43.“Leadership is a choice.”
44.“Resistance is tough. Criticism is worse. Leaders are sorely tested.”
Bryan Loritts
1. “Jesus does not want his organization monopolized by the affluent.”
2. The Lord has raised you up for the good of the nation.
3. “Your vocation can become a viable venue to advance the meaningful
things of life.”
4. “The blessings of God were not meant to be hoarded but to be shared.”
5. “I want you to have a bigger vision for life than bonus checks.”
6. “Naked we came into this world. Naked we shall return.”
7. “As leaders, our vision has got to be more than to the stuff that will perish.”
8. “Entrance into the church is not by works. We are saved by grace through
faith.”
9. “In God’s organization, His laws are never ‘have to’ but ‘get to’”.
10.“Salvation is a mystery.”
11.“Manifestation and deeper things of life seeps out in how you lead others.”
12.“God loves the people not just of a certain zip code, but the world.”
13.“Over 2,350 verses are in the Bible on the orphan, the widow, the alien
and the poor.”
14.“If the poor want to eat, let them come and work your field.”
15.“How much is enough house? How much is enough profit? How is
enough?”
16.“Do you know what joy is? It’s helping to pay for someone’s medical bills.
That’s joy.”
17.“Jesus had all the status in the world and what does He do? He humbles
himself.”
Jim Mellado

1. “You can handle any challenge as long as you know God called you to
take that hill.”
2. “Successions often go terribly bad.”
3. “My mom grew up in poverty. She knew what it was like to clean a dirt
floor.”
4. “When someone grows up in poverty they never believe it’s going to be an
asset to their children.”
Patrick Lencioni
1. “One of the most dangerous mistakes leaders make is becoming a leader
for the wrong reason.”
2. “Some people it should be illegal for them to be a leader.”
3. “Why should a person want to be a leader? They want to sacrifice
themselves for the good of others even when they don’t know if they’ll get
a return on investment.”
4. “The cost of people becoming leaders for themselves it is going to leave a
trail of tears behind.”
5. “Leaders should not go into it because they think it should be good for
them.”
6. “When people calculate the ROI to leadership, that’s economics. That’s
not leadership.”
7. “I’m tired of hearing about servant leadership because there’s not another
kind.”
8. “The only payoff for leadership is eternal.”
9. “A mistake leaders make is they are never vulnerable. It destroys trust.”
10.“The people who work for us know we’re sweating before we do.”
11.“You can’t be too vulnerable as a leader.”
12.“People expect us to be competent. Not perfect but vulnerable.”
13.“If you’re a leader and not trying to get better, you don’t need to be a
leader.”
14.“Pastors, you’re a shepherd and a spiritual manager. Tough job. You
have to be extra-vulnerable as a pastor, not less vulnerable.”
15.“A dangerous mistake leaders make is making leadership too important.”
16.“Most of the time we’re thinking about leadership we’re thinking about it at
work. Not at home.”
17.“Our identity can become wrapped up in being a leader when it should be
wrapped in higher things like a child of God, husband and father.”
18.“We should ask our families, ‘Do you think my job is more important than
you?”’
19.“At the end of our lives we don’t want our employees to come around our
bed and say what a great manager I was.”
20.“Why do companies get put ahead of your family. My employees thank
me more than my children do. They’re also nicer to me.”
21.“The antidote to pride is humility.”

22.“By introducing humility, Jesus perfected leadership.”
23.“My success as a leader is being completely docile to the cause of Jesus.
And if Jesus is calling me to be a failure, that’s OK.”
Bill Hybels
1. “For the last several decades I have watched Willow Creek integrate their
faith into the market workplace.”
2. “Sadly, many Christ-followers give up trying to integrate faith into the
workplace.”
3. “There is a grander vision somewhere on planet Earth with your name on
it.”
4. “I bet a lot of you still wander around asking the question, ‘Is this all there
is?”’
5. “The satisfaction you’re looking for is never going to come from selfgratification.”
6. “Find God’s bidding for your life and serve people indiscriminately.”
7. “God loves you. He didn’t mean for your life to feel bankrupt.”
8. “God made you on purpose for a purpose. There’s not an accidental
human being.”
9. “Pastors, you have to bring the Kingdom of God outside the walls of your
church and into your community and the world.”
Don Flow
1. “Work is a place Christ has called me to.”
2. “I strive to create a culture that reflects Christ and His redemptive plan in
the world.”
3. “My day begins with prayer that my work will be a guidepost for all who we
come in contact with.”
4. “If I don’t start my day like that, I don’t have the ability to bring love and
hope.”
5. “Love should animate Christian leaders. It should be at the center of what
we’re doing.”
6. “I’m called to be a person of truth, trustworthy, and not be self-seeking.”
7. “The company will not be more truthful and more graceful than I am.”
8. “I am responsible for the culture of our company. It shapes the life of
everyone in it.”
9. “Once we’ve made a promise, we live with the promise.”
10.“We intentionally limit our profits.”
11.“Create a culture that is inclusive and invite everyone to participate.”
12.“We provide $3,000 college tuition to any employee with a child.”
13.“The world was not what it was meant to be. We are not what we should
be. And business is not what it could be.”
14.“12 friends changed the world.”
15.“Leadership flows out of who were are, not just what we do.”

16.“Show respect. Because we are made in the image of God, respect is a
given right, not an earned privilege.”
17.“Recognize the inherent job of every job in the workplace.”
18.“The person you are leading wants to know if you are for me.”
19.“Leaders need to cast a vision for how things were meant to be and not be
satisfied with how things are.”
20.“Leaders need to celebrate but never satisfied because there is always
another summit to climb.”
21.“Clarity of purpose gives people something worth believing in.”
22.“The world will not form distinctive Christians. It is the calling of the church
to do that.”
Wilfredo De Jesus
1. “Prayer is necessary. Prayer is a weapon. But we cannot allow prayer to
be a crutch not to do anything.”
2. “You cannot let your budget dictate your faith.”
3. “Once the moral condition has been revealed to you, we must be moved
to action.”
4. “Gaps exist all over our countries, cities and villages. Gaps today are
wider and more destructive.”
5. “Pastors must engage your community. You must see it as your church.”
6. “What is sacred is the message, not the method. I’m going to send all
kinds of bait of Jesus Christ.”
7. “We must not be afraid to take our faith out into the communities.”
8. “If you’re not going to do anything about the answer, don’t ask the
question.”
9. “With revelation comes responsibility.”
10.“Nehemiah prayed. Prayer is good but it has to move us.”
11.“Nehemiah planned.”
12.“Nehemiah proceeded. You’ve got to be willing to sacrifice.”
13.“Nehemiah persuaded. When you stand in gap there will always be
opposition. But if God is with you, who can be against you.”
14.“Regardless of where you live, there is gaps everywhere.”
Ivan Satyavrata
1. “Thank you for your humbleness to listen to voices of the majority world.”
2. “There is no institution as connected as the local church.”
3. “70% of India’s population of 1.3 billion is under 35.”
4. “How do live with all the burden around you?”
5. “Just over 1 in 1,000 call Jesus Lord (In Kolkata).”
6. “Power is neutral, neither good nor bad. It is simply the ability to move
things and make things happen.”
7. “There is no such thing as leadership without power.”
8. “Jesus knows all things are under His power.”

9. “A leader must be able to wield power, real power, in order to lead
effectively. At the same time, she must be genuinely vulnerable.”
10.“If knowledge is power, then surely the knowledge of God and Jesus is the
ultimate power.”
11.“Knowledge power can tend to fill us with intoxicating pride.”
12.“A leader’s power lies in her ability to influence people.”
13.“Great leaders refuse to influence for the purposes of intimidation.”
14.“The greatest gift you can give to your followers is to create the ultimate
safe place for them so they can soar to greater heights.”
15.“If you know the right thing to do, and do not do it, that for you is evil.”
16.“Leaders combine humility with fierce resolve.”
17.“The true secret of any great leader’s power is that when you feel the
weakest, that’s when you really are the strongest.”
18.“Those leaders who are lasting are the ones who realize their power
comes from God. And that power is to be used to build people up.”
Tyler Perry
1. “They are twins in the space in my head. (leadership and artistic
creativity)”
2. “My dad, who was a sub-contractor, was so happy when he made $700-
$800. I would then watch the man who owned the house sell it for
$100,00.”
3. “I didn’t want to be the man who built the house but I wanted to be the
man who owned the house.”
4. “The artist-side of me needs space and enough room to create.”
5. “I’ll dedicate three to four months to just write. I’ll then dedicate two days
to business.”
6. “Great artists, people have more respect for you when you respect other
people’s time.”
7. “Clear the noise. Clear the clutter. This is also what I do in my prayer life.
This is the only way I can hear from God.”
8. “What I do is try to surround myself with people like me. I was the
underdog.”
9. “Sometimes I will pass over the more-qualified person with not the best
attitude for the lesser talented person with a better attitude.”
10.“My dad despised me for so long.”
11.“Every Sunday morning my mom would wake me up and say, ‘Let’s go to
church.”’
12.“I want to know the God that makes my mom this happy.”
13.“She gave me what has sustained me through everything. That’s my faith
in God.”
14.“It takes an enormous amount of energy to get through betrayal and pain.
It takes the same amount of energy to forgive the doer.”
15.“What is scary about forgiveness is you give up the hope of that ever
being any different.”

16.“It’s not just about making them laugh but use the laugh as the anesthesia
to get to the issue.”
17.“I hope every generation gets a little better (regarding race relations).”
18.“If people would begin to open doors to other people and realize we’re all
the same. All the struggles are the same. I’m hoping the next generation
will be better.”
19.“Critics – it is a matter of your own opinion. While they’re writing my
shows and tearing it apart, I focus on my 12 million followers on Facebook
who say it inspires them.”
20.“My feast was prepared in front of my enemies. So watch me eat.”
21.“I’m my mother’s son and she had a heart for giving.”
22.“The first year I had so much money I gave it all away because I had so
much guilt.”
23.“When Forbes prints how much money you make, there’s a level of
expectation for you in a local church. When you feel like a number instead
of a soul, it’s a complete turnoff.”
24.“I hate the forsaking of the assembly. I have a lot of celebratory friends
who wish they could lay at the altar and there be no judgment.”
25.“People may forget what you said to them. People may forget what you
did to them. People will never forget how you made them feel.”
Louie Giglio
1. “I am a pastor of a new church plant in Atlanta, GA. The doorposts of the
Kingdom of God are humility and honor. Humility meaning we have been
with God and thanks to the people who made it happen.”
2. “Glory goes to God and honor goes to people.”
3. “There have been times in my life as a leader I’ve wanted to quit.”
4. “I want to thank you Bill Hybels for not quitting.”
5. “We are going to succeed in Jesus’s name.”
6. “A lot of times as a leader I don’t know what I’m doing. But I don’t let that
stop me from remembering God has called me to something great.”
7. “Sometimes you’re trying to lead but you just don’t know what to do.”
8. “You don’t know everything to know to get up the mountain you need to
take the next step.”
9. “We’re not going up any mountains without knowing that life is brief.”
10.“Most people don’t feel much urgency about the great things of life.”
11.“The stakes are too high for us to die with a small vision.”
12.“I wonder what it is God wants us to conquer.”
13.“Time is short. Life is short.”
14.“Life is short. But God is big. Successful leaders breathe this air.”
15.“All of my life is about the fame and glory of Jesus Christ.”
16.“The biggest idea of my life is believing Jesus’s fame is the biggest fame
in time and eternity and everything is about Him to His glory.”
17.“It’s all about Jesus.”
18.“You get up a mountain one step at a time. It is the only way to the top.”

19.“Whatever that step is you can do it. Whatever that step is you can’t do it.
Unless God does it it’s not going to happen.”
20.“God’s power is sufficient enough for you and me to take the very next
step He’s asking us to right now.”
21.“You were faithful in one campus I want you to reach the campuses.” –
God to Louis and Shelley
22.“In 1964, my dad created the Chick-Fil-A logo.”
23.“The whole time I was preaching to 60,000 college students (at Passion
2013 in the Georgia Dome) my dad’s logo was under my feet.”
24.“When everything looks like it’s going off the rails, God is preparing you for
a greater story.”
25.“There will be a day when we say, ‘Thank you God for bringing me through
that trial.”’
26.“I knew leading a church of 20 people in someone’s living room that if God
doesn’t do it it’s not going to get done.”
27.“There are a lot of exceptional leaders at this Summit but there are no
saviors attending.”
28.“We rest because what we do rests on God and not on us.”
29.“I had built my whole life on serving people and all of a sudden in an hour I
hated people.”
30.“People don’t like preachers. You got to get used to that but we pray for
the people.”
31.“It’s a luxury to do certain kinds of things but it’s a calling to bring the fame
and glory to Jesus’s name.”
32.“The storm galvanized us around our calling. Come hell what may we’re
going to proclaim the name of Jesus.”
33.“Nobody goes up the big hill on the first day.”
34.“Humility is what makes great leaders. It’s not a character trait we
develop. It’s developed from being with Jesus.”
35.“God’s grace is enough for you.”
36.“It makes us hungry to take the very last step which is in the arms of
Jesus.”
37.“The goal is not to get up mountains. It’s to get into the arms of Jesus.”
38.“A leader can’t have a Plan B. A leader has to be committed the finish. A
leader has to go all the way.”
39.“Jesus said, ‘Extract me out of the tomb.”’
40.“We’re not going to cash out.”
41.“There is only a Plan A and Plan A is we’re going to fall into the arms of
Jesus.”
42.“No price is too high. No sacrifice is too much. I’m so glad I kept going up
my mountain. Don’t quit.”
43.“Don’t stop walking in the confidence that Christ is enough to fulfill
everything He has called you to do.”
For more from Bill Hybels check out the following resources:
2012 Global Leadership Summit – 35 Leadership Quotes From Bill Hybels!

2012 Global Leadership Summit – 17 Leadership Quotes From Bill Hybels
2013 Global Leadership Summit – 55 Leadership Quotes From Bill Hybels
Catalyst
Reggie Joiner
1. “When you show up to an event like this, you’re going to be teaching us a
lot of things.” – Reggie to anyone 23 yrs of age or younger
2. “We need to hold things with an open hand and be willing to change what
needs changing.”
3. “100 years from now the only thing that matters is someone’s relationship
with God.”
4. “You Can Know God. The Creator of universe wants to have a
relationship with you and me.”
5. “You Can Become A Christian In A Moment.”
6. “The Bible Is All True. You can trust the Bible as the final authority of who
God is.”
7. “Trust Leads To Stronger Faith…The more you trust God the more you
know God can be trusted.”
8. “You Should Enjoy Going To Church.”
9. “We should work vey hard to create environments people enjoy going to.
The greatest sign of your church is people like being there.”
10.“You should measure how much people laugh.”
11.“Your Beliefs Matter. Your behavior will be determined by your beliefs.”
12.“God Has An Ideal.”
13.“God Is Good. His nature is fundamentally good and caring and loving.
When life is mean and the world is evil there is something in our core
being that one day God will make all of this right.”
14.“Just because things will be true doesn’t mean kids will be impressed.
What matters is how we handle these truths.”
15.“It takes more faith not to believe (in Jesus) than to believe.”
16.“I have a hard time reconciling how some Christians just don’t think.”
17.“5 years ago 17% of 18 to 30 years old said they doubted the existence of
God. Today it is 32%.“
18.“8 out of 10 people 18 to 30 years old say going to church is not
important.”
19.“Sometimes in our zeal to fight for what is true, we don’t fight for the
tensions that actually connect those truths to what is real.”
20.“When you remove the tension, you take away the energy. When you
remove the tension, you remove the influence. When you remove the
tension, you water down the truth.”
21.“Sometimes a truth can lose clarity when it’s divorced from the reality of
the other truths that amplify it.”

22.“Tension doesn’t make a truth less true. It makes it more real. Your
challenge as a leader is how to learn to hold onto complex and multiple
tensions and make truths more real.”
23.“You can say. ‘You can know God’ and also say, ‘God is a mystery.”’
24.“You can say, ‘Yes, you can become a Christian in a moment’ and ‘Yes, it
will take forever to figure out what that means.”’
25.“You can say, ‘Yes, the Bible is all true’ and ‘Yes, everything true about life
in not in the Bible.”’
26.“Kids when they grow up are going to face some issues not directly
addressed in the Bible.”
27.“The Bible was not written to tell you how the heavens were built. The
Bible was written to tell you how to go to Heaven.” – Adrian Rogers
28.“What if something contradicts what the Bible says? Go with the Bible.”
29.“We can’t make life truths the enemy of Bible truths.”
30.“If you’re a leader in the church you’re primary job is not to teach the Bible.
You’re primary job is to lead people into a growing relationship with Jesus
Christ.”
31.“You can say, ‘Trust leads to a stronger faith’ and ‘Doubt can lead to a
stronger faith.”’
32.“If you don’t let teenagers process their own doubt they won’t own their
own faith.”
33.“It’s not the amount of faith you have that determines your walk with God.
It’s where you put the little faith you have…It’s the object of your faith that
makes the difference.”
34.“You can say, ‘Yes, you should enjoy going to church’ and ‘Yes, you can
enjoy living in the world.”’
35.“You can say, ‘Yes, your beliefs matter’ but ‘People matter more.”’
36.“If something you believe causes you to be mean to people, then there’s
something broken with what you believe…God cared more about people
than the theology of the day.”
37.“You can say, ‘Yes, God has an ideal’ and ‘Yes, God uses broken people.”’
38.“You can say, ‘Yes, God is good’ and that means you should do good.”
39.“We are the biggest hypocrites in the world when we say, ‘God is good’
and we do not do good.”
40.“We should do good to reflect His character.”
41.“It’s OK to believe like a Calvinist but date like it’s free will.”
42.“If you don’t say yes to the tension, you set kids up to reject what is true
because of what they will experience.”
43.“If you don’t say yes to the tension, kids could grow up to become bad
Christians or ‘that’ Christian.”
44.“Don't be irresponsible. Don't get stuck. Don't be a jerk. Don't be weird.
Don't be threatened. Don't be an idiot. Don' be shallow. Don't be
arrogant.”
45.“Don't judge other churches and organizations trying to live in the
tensions.”

Mark Batterson
1. “When you get into the presence of God it’s a game-changer.”
2. “When I first started coming to church National Community Church was
about 150 people.”
3. “The greatest tragedy are those who don’t know Jesus and know His
name.”
4. “A book sold is not a book sold. It is a prayer answered.”
5. “If you feel you didn’t accomplish anything today, remind yourself you
traveled 1,599,000 miles today (Earth around the sun)…But when is the
last time you prayed we would stay in orbit…We don’t because we trust
God for the big miracles. We need to trust Him for the little ones.”
6. “When you cut the miracles out of scripture you cut Jesus off at the knees.
You are left with a Jesus who is wise but weak.”
7. “I believe in a God of miracles.”
8. “You’re dreaming way too small.”
9. “Don’t seek miracles. Seek Jesus. If you seek Jesus long enough and far
enough you will find yourself in the middle of miracles.”
10.“ 5 + 2 does not equal 7 in God’s Kingdom.”
11.“He’s not just a God who makes bad people good. He’s a God who brings
dead people to life.”
12.“Never put a comma where God puts a period and never put a period
where God puts a comma.”
13.“We all hit spots where we think it’s over.”
14.“It’s amazing how much you know when you’re 22.”
15.“God cannot bring to life something that has not died.”
16.“Sometimes when you think it’s over God is just getting started.”
17.“Sometimes God wants to reveal another dimension of His power.
Sometimes it does get worse before it gets better.”
18.“The greatest miracle is we cross the space-time continuum into a place
called Heaven.”
19.“There are times in life when you will lose touch with reality because the
reality you’re holding onto is beyond your five senses.”
20.“Planning with prayer is a waste of time.”
21.“Our first year we averaged 20-25 people. Our income was $2,000 per
month. Annualized that is $24,000 a year.”
22.“I believe in long obedience in the same direction.”
23.“You don’t give up on something unless God releases you.”
24.“When God gives you a word, isn’t that awesome?”
25.“If one thing doesn’t die something else doesn’t come to life. God can’t
open one door without closing another. It’s a package deal.”
26.“You’re only as good as your last miracle…You have to be willing to look
foolish.”
27.“Our defining moments as leaders will be those times we look absolutely
foolish. Just make sure when you get out of the boat Jesus said, ‘Come.”’
28.“Eardrums dead for four days will hear the voice of God.”

29.“Jesus turns tragedies into comedies.”
30.“The resurrection of Jesus Christ is not something we celebrate one day a
year. We celebrate everyday in everyway.”
31.“Jesus is Jesus. He’s not just the winemaker. He’s not just the water
walker. He’s the grave robber.”
32.“Work like it depends on you. Pray like it depends on God.”
Clay Scroggins
1. “There is a myth in leadership that says, ‘Until I am in charge, I cannot
lead. When I am in charge, then I will lead.’ Too often we mistake our
organizational positions with our leadership abilities. However, if
leadership is influence, all of us have influence. A hallmark of our
organization is pushing leadership to the lowest level possible, because
we are convinced everyone is a leader who can and should lead…even
when not in charge!”
2. “The church should be the best led organization in the world.”
3. “If you want to learn how to lead, start with what Michael Jackson said –
the man in the mirror.”
4. “I cannot lead better than I am leading myself.”
5. “Show me someone who is led well and I’ll show you someone who is
leading themselves well.”
6. “When I wait to be led, I reduce my leadership and you lose your
opportunity to influence.”
7. “Leading myself requires modeling followership.”
8. “We want to be behind the leader but we also want to be beside the
leader.”
9. “Leading myself requires monitoring my heart and my behaviors.”
10.“Ask the question, ‘What’s it like to be on the other side of me.”’
11.“Ask this question of your boss, ‘If you were me what would you do
different?”’
12.“If you lead yourself well, you will become the easiest person in your
organization to lead.”
13.“It’s easier to steer a horse than to get a horse to run.”
14.“If you lead yourself well, you will become the most desired person to be
led.”
15.“If you lead yourself well, you will become the quickest to lead next.”
16.“Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he
does from day to day to lead himself.” – Thomas Watson, former
Chairman and CEO of IBM
17.“Positivity is infectious.”
18.“Positivity is a choice.”
19.“The greatest benefit I bring my team are not my talents, gifts, experience
or education. It is my attitude.”
20.“Positivity is a fight for ‘we’ over ‘me.’’’

21.“When I am not a part of the decision-making process my default is to
advocate leadership.”
22.“In order to buy in, you have to let your team weigh in.” – Dave Ramsey
23.“Are you going to help this decision soar or are you going to sabotage this
decision?”
24.“Any idea will work if everyone gets behind the idea.”
25.“More important than making the right decision is owning the decision and
making it right.”
26.“Did it fail because it was a bad idea or did it fail because you didn’t get
behind it.”
27.“Are you wind in someone’s sail or are you wind against someone’s sail?
Someone today is feeling you.”
28.“Thinking critically is a skill. And if you can couple critical thinking with
positivity you have synergy.”
29.“We want every leader at every level thinking critically, thinking about how
we can make it better.”
30.“Critical thinking requires a switch from employee to owner.”
31.“By being fully present in relationships and environments, critical thinkers
have a high with-it factor.”
32.“Thinking critically is a skill. Being critical is a snare. Some people are not
thinking critical. They’re just critical.”
33.“A snare is not something you do to someone else. A snare is something
you fall into.”
34.“If you have thoughts on how to make someone else better, do you have
secret thoughts that you hope to make them better or do you have secret
thoughts that you hope they lose.”
35.“The clipboard is for giving a grade.”
36.“Jesus did not grade people’s feet. He washed people’s feet.”
37.“The towel is for lending a hand.”
38.“Reject passivity.”
39.“When you’re not in charge, it’s very easy to become passive.”
40.“At every level in our organization, there is information, experience, and
perspective that affects our direction.”
41.“Influence needs to be cultivated wherever you are.”
42.“If you have to tell people you’re the Governor of the state of Georgia,
something has gone wrong.”
43.“If you see leaders who have to use positional authority, it’s probably a
sign that have not cultivated influence.”
44.“When you have position, you will use the influence you learned how to
cultivate when you didn’t have the position.”
45.“When there is something to blame, there is nothing to work on.” – Tim
Cooper
46.“When I am only waiting for someone to hand me something, I have the
potential to become someone who will not be handed anything.”
47.“Leaders get busy and pick up things to do. Reject passivity.”

48.“Learn to reject passivity while under authority and you will become a
leader worthy of authority.”
Carl Lentz
1. “God’s doing great things all over the globe.”
2. “Preach like a dying man to dying people.”
3. “You’re doing better than you think you are and God’s doing more than
you think He is.”
4. “Part of being a Christian is telling yourself the truth whether you like it or
not because the truth is the truth.”
5. “Whether the world likes it or not we need a Shepherd.”
6. “I need Jesus leading my life. I need the Shepherd.”
7. “We no longer have to chase the right situation. All we have to do is
chase the Shepherd everyday of our lives.”
8. “I no longer chase anything but the cross. Jesus is my desire. I’m only
chasing Him.”
9. “When you see Christian leaders chasing things, it’s a symptom that they
can’t hear the voice of Jesus.”
10.“I wonder if people would put as much attention on Jesus as they do
apps.”
11.“Forgetting helping people on their journeys? We’re too busy rerouting
ours.”
12.“If Jesus is the real voice in your life, you won’t miss the supernatural
chasing the spectacular.”
13.“It’s easy to get your eyes off the only ministry that matters – people.”
14.“Sheep don’t strive. Christians are the biggest strivers in history.”
15.“I love leadership conferences but we need more followership
conferences.”
16.“This is a simple message. I don’t have any other kind.”
17.“I know girls who say, ‘I want a man of the cross.’ 9 months later they
says, ‘I just want a man with a tattoo of a cross.”’
18.“A good shepherd always corrects. Correction has become a cuss word.”
19.“We have a lot of people who cannot be led.”
20.“A little correction saves you from big problems.”
21.“Our generation loves the grace side of the Shepherd. And they fail to
read the entire scripture.”
22.“You gotta fight over-sensitivity that leads to over spiritual inactivity.”
23.“Maybe you were brought to Catalyst not to get an outward victory but get
an inward correction.”
24.“Use your limp to shed some light.”
25.“The devil has tricked you in thinking your limp disqualifies you. I think
your limp qualifies you.”
26.“The Shepherd always protects.”
27.“Sometimes you need to take a praise break for those times God
protected you from you.”

28.“You’re not stepping out. You’re stepping behind because God goes
before you.”
Andy Stanley
1. “Who are you and what breaks your heart?”
2. “What breaks my heart is every single adult doesn’t go to bed on Saturday
night looking forward to Sunday morning.”
3. “There are hundreds of thousands of adults who don’t attend church
because the church has been marginalized.”
4. “On this day there are over 400,000 children in foster care.” – Sandra
Stanley
5. “Children in foster care are four times more likely to be exploited in foster
care.” - Sandra
6. “Children many times leave foster care in far worse shape than when they
entered.” – Sandra
7. “John Maxwell is who introduced the topic of leadership into the church
culture.”
8. “There’s an inexorable correlation between leadership and change.”
9. “Great leaders make things better.”
10.“Every time you make things better something must change.”
11.“Status quo is supposed to drive you crazy.”
12.“Where there are leaders leading you will find change.”
13.“Great leaders love to fix things that are broken.”
14.“We hate to see broken things continue to be broken. But when you try to
fix things you introduce change.”
15.“Great leaders don’t blame.”
16.“Blame is perhaps the most effective change strategy.”
17.“If you are blaming you have advocated leadership.”
18.“Broken-hearted leaders change things that go beyond their current
generation.”
19.“Catalyst is about bringing together leaders who love the local church.”
20.“We are not just all leaders. We are called leaders.”
21.“Nehemiah’s broken heart was part of a divine design.”
22.“If you are a leader you are called by God to bring about change in the
things that break your heart. You are not called to change the world but
you are called to change something.”
23.“If you opt for purposelessness because of fear, there will come a day
where you will wish you could come back to the thing that scares you to
death but breaks your heart.”
24.“What many years from now would you like people to line up to thank you
for?”
25.“What God originates God orchestrates.”
26.“If God has originated a broken-heart in you ‘how’ is not a problem.”
27.“Leaders address the ‘how.’”
28.“God is the God of How.”

29.“People will name their sons James and John and name their dogs Nero
and Caesar.”
30.“If this is possible, you need to ask bigger. If this is possible, you need to
dream bigger.”
31.“As Christians we should be baffled by pride and arrogance.”
Christine Caine
1. “We need do more than lean in. We need to thrive in the name of Jesus
Christ.”
2. “When I was in delivery I discovered the fourth member of the Holy Trinity
– God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, and God the
Epidural.”
3. “It is true God looks at the heart but it is also true He is the only one that
often looks at the heart.”
4. “It’s the boring stuff that’s going to sustain us.”
5. “If we do not give attention to strengthening our spiritual core, if our core is
not strong, at some point our world is going to collapse.”
6. “The reason you see many start well but not finish well is that their core is
not strong.”
7. “I am astounded by how many start but do not finish.”
8. “All of us love our neighbors as ourselves. We just don’t love ourselves.”
9. “We have a whole bunch of Christians wanting to change the world but not
change themselves.”
10.“The heart is the seat of our passion. If God has our heart, He has us.”
11.“You don’t what you want to for passion.”
12.“Somewhere if we don’t ruthlessly guard our hearts, out of it will flow every
issue of life.”
13.“If your heart is so full of yourself, you don’t have enough room for anyone
else.”
14.“Our heart will take us to our destiny.”
15.“If your heart is toxic it will seep into every area of your leadership.”
16.“At 48 I feel like I have more energy than most 25 year olds.”
17.“Get your face off Facebook and get it in the Book.”
18.“Skinny jeans and a tattoo does not make you a leader.”
19.“My latter days will be greater than my former days.”
20.“Get the junk out of your heart. Deal with it.”
21.“If our soul was damaged before we were saved, praying a salvation
prayer does not heal your soul, it saves it. It still needs healing.”
22.“If we have damaged souls we seep like pussy souls over the people we
lead.”
23.“Some of us are not willing to embrace the pain of recovery. And
sometimes the pain of recovery is greater than the pain of the injury.”
24.“We don’t want God to come in deep. We just want to visit with God. God
doesn’t want visitation rights. He wants to move in.”

25.“We can’t reach the world because we’re keeping Christians on life
support.”
26.“Thoughts are like a train. They’ll take you somewhere.”
27.“As leaders we often don’t even think about what we think.”
28.“We ought to be ruthless about what goes into our minds.”
29.“I didn’t need W-O-R-R-I-E-S. I needed prayer W-A-R-R-I-O-R-S.”
30.“My fight was not against cancer. It was against fear.”
31.“As leaders, let’s make a decision to jump on the right train of thought.
Let’s believe what God says.”
32.“God never sleeps or slumbers. He’s staying awake. Tell the devil I’m
going to bed.”
33.“The degree to which we are free and the degree at which we are healed
is the degree at which we will lead people.”
John Perkins and Mark DeYmaz
1. “If the Kingdom of Heaven is not segregated then why on earth is the local
church.” - MD
2. “Though 56 million were added to roles of the United States in the last
decade, 446,500 joined churches. Less than 1%.” - MD
3. “America remains divided over all things ethnic.” – MD
4. “The New Testament Church was multi-ethnic.” - MD
5. “Every church in the New Testament outside of Jerusalem was multiethnic.”
– MD
6. “When your church is multi-ethnic, missions isn’t a program. It is who you
are.” – MD
7. “God is using race to heal the church.” - MD
8. “I want to preach a gospel that reconciles black, white, Jews and Gentiles
in one body.” – JP
9. “The Kingdom of God is going to reflect all races.” – JP
10.“I want to see this new generation put new wine in new wineskin.” - JP
11.“The last thing you want to do is split a church in the name of unity.” - MD
12.“The Christian life is the out-living of an in-living grace.” - JP
13.“It’s not about building buildings. It’s about a black man and white man
walking together, worshipping together.” – MD
14.“We’ve been making them Christians without making them disciples…You
have to preach the full gospel of Jesus Christ.” - JP
Tim Keller
1. “I’ve seen a lot of Christian leaders go down because of character flaws.”
2. “You have to know the magnitude of your sin problem.”
3. “No of us know how serious our sin is.”
4. “The sins that can most destroy you, you are blind to.”
5. “Be killing your sin or your sin will be killing you.”
6. “Sin is rebelling against God by putting yourself in the place of God.”

7. “You’re using the poor for your sake. So you can feel better about
yourself.”
8. “The effort of maintaining a certain self-image is a release valve of secret
sin.”
9. “When you see Jesus Christ losing His beauty to make you beautiful
makes Him beautiful.”
Robert Madu
1. “Many leaders cannot run the race set before them because they have
their eyes on the lane beside them.”
2. “Who are you racing? Are you racing according to their pace?”
3. “If you preach from your weakness you’ll never lack for material to
preach.”
4. “Comparison is the #1 destructor of destiny.”
5. “Comparison is the thief of joy. It is the cancer to contentment.”
6. “Comparison will consistently cloud the clarity of God’s call on your life.”
7. “We need leaders who don’t approach what they do as career but a
calling.”
8. “A career is what you get paid to do. A calling is what you were made to
do.”
9. “Stop complaining to the Master about the pieces you didn’t get and start
praising God because you are a masterpiece.”
10.“If the Bible says you’re good looking ain’t nobody can tell you you’re
ugly.”
11.“If the brightness of the blessing blinds you to the Blesser it becomes a
curse.”
12.“Goliath is big enough to eat hay and dumb enough to enjoy it.”
13.“Comparison is the beginning of the end.”
14.“Comparison always starts with ‘But me.’”
15.‘“But me’ people can’t celebrate success.”
16.“Our computers have become mirrors to see how we measure up to
someone else.”
17.“God has given you grace to run your race.”
Craig Groeschel
1. “A few hundred years ago the church was the epicenter of creativity. It
drove the arts. It was the center of the city.”
2. “What organization in the world is better equipped to get the Word of God
out rather than a local church?”
3. “In the church world, we’ve delegated innovation to Apple.”
4. “We’ve handed off relationships to Facebook.”
5. “For far too long, anything Christian has been viewed as second rate.”

6. “To be innovative you need limited resources (most people think you need
a lot) + a willingness to fail + an increasing passion to share the goodness
of God through Jesus Christ = Exponential Innovation.”
7. “So often we think with a scarcity mindset instead of an abundance
mindset.”
8. “Too often we say, ‘We can’t because we don’t.’’’
9. ‘We have an all-powerful God who has given us everything we need to do
everything He wants us to do.”
10.“God has given me everything I need to reach as many people as He
wants us to reach.”
11.“Limited resources are not a hindrance. They are a catalyst to do more
than you ever thought possible.”
12.“Sometimes God guides by what He withholds.”
13.“A community of change-makers says, ‘We can because we don’t.”’
14.“So often the mindset in churches is ‘Failure is not an option.”’
15.“Failure is a necessity to move the ball forward and learn as we make
mistakes.”
16.“The fear of failure drives us to stop taking risks.”
17.“Not taking risks ultimately leads to failure.”
18.“The greatest lessons I’ve ever learned were through failure.”
19.“Be careful not to blame yourself for the declines because one day you will
then take credit for the increases.”
20.“God must do something in me than before doing something through me.”
21.“The pathway to your greatest potential is straight through your greatest
fear.”
22.“Failure is not who you are.”
23.“You are not a failure.”
24.“If you are not failing every now and then you are playing it too safe.”
25.“We don’t WANT to reach people for Christ. We HAVE to reach people for
Christ.”
26.“With our actions, the church is saying, ‘You can go to hell.”’
27.“Sometimes you got to dig through a little manure to get people to Jesus.”
28.“We will do anything short of sin to reach people for Jesus.”
29.“Argue all you want if it’s effective but argue yourself out of the way.”
30.“If you want exponential innovation you will have to break some rules.”
31.“The things closest to the heart of God is offensive to Pharisees.”
32.“You’re going to have to make some Pharisees mad.”
33.“Woe to us if we don’t preach the Gospel.”
Sergio De La Mora
1. “Those in ministry are not protected.”
2. “Maybe you’re here today because of self-imposed failure.”
3. “We’re constantly prepared for struggle but very few are prepared for
success.”
4. “Many sabotage their success.”

5. “God wants you to recapture your dream again.”
6. “It’s so easy to lose your dream because of someone else.”
7. “It hurts sometimes to help people.”
8. “Coincidences are often opportunities.”
9. “You ain’t ready to die.”
10.“You ain’t ready to die until you’re ready to conquer what has conquered
you.”
11.“I’ve been called for more. I was born for more. I’m ready to dream
again.”
Andy Stanley
1. “Only the leaders stay for the last session.”
2. “I save the best stuff for last.”
3. “I don’t think of losing staff. I launch staff.”
4. “Creating organizational change requires you craft a laser-focused vision
statement.”
5. “Memorable is portable.”
6. “Cast it over and over and over and over and over again to infinity and
beyond.”
7. “You then organize to your vision statement.”
8. “You weren’t giving something up. You found something better. Leaders,
point them in the direction of something better. They’ll never know they’re
giving something up.”
9. “The worst place to begin a conversation around change is what you want
changed.”
10.“Leaders help other people discover a better future, a preferred future.”
11.“Catalyst leaders aren’t just church leaders. Catalyst leaders are leaders
who love the church.”
12.“The church should be the safest place on the planet for students to talk
about anything.”
13.“If you don’t talk to them, they may get bad information from people who
may be bad.”
14.“At our middle school event, we had 1,030 6 th graders.”
15.“The church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while
insiders act like outsiders.”
16.“As we throw truth grenades we look stupid and lose our credibility.”
17.“You say, ‘I’m a prophet.’ No, you’re not. You are not a prophet. You are
a member of the Body of Christ.”
18.“If every Christian just took a 3-month vacation from Porn, Weed,
Premarital Sex, Adultery, Taxes, and every church foster a couple of kids,
we would feel a change in our culture.”
19.“Why don’t we as Catalyst leader just knock that off for a while?”
20.“The church has created so many loopholes about divorce and remarriage
we have to make it up.”
21.“Jesus doesn’t take sides. He takes over.”

22.“Jesus said, ‘If you remarry you commit adultery.’ You cannot unone what
God has made one.”
23.“If we dumb down what God has made clear, where does that stop?”
24.“Everywhere Jesus went did He raise the standard or lower it? He raised
it so high.”
25.“It is OK for people to feel bad for what they have done because we need
a savior.”
26.“Women flocked to the early church because it was the safest place for a
woman because men looked at them like sisters rather than property.”
27.“The church must capture and keep the hearts and minds of students.”
28.“Cause when you’re fifteen and someone tells you that they love you you
are going to believe them.” – Taylor Swift
29.“Do you know how many songs are written about 50 year olds. Zero.”
30.“What is generation of students worth? Everything.”
31.“You got to figure out what breaks your heart and burdens you.”
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Al Mohler
1. “What does it mean to engage the culture? This is a question most
Christians don’t ask until they are forced to do so.”
2. “The City of Man can show man at our best and our worst.”
3. “God left us here so the church’s presence can make a difference.”
4. “As the church is in this world, the church has its ultimate citizenship in the
Kingdom of Heaven.”
5. “The City Of Man is the going thing, not the coming thing. The City of God
is the coming thing, not the going thing.”
6. “Our emergency is staying faithful in an adversarial culture.”
7. “The first thing necessary for a moral revolution is that which was
condemned must be celebrated.”
8. “The second thing is that which was celebrated must now be condemned.”
9. “The third thing is those who refuse to celebrate are condemned.”
10.“In the United States we are experiencing the evaporation of cultural
Christianity like the evaporating of a morning mist.”

11.“Mainline liberal Protestism is collapsing everywhere.”
12.“What is being lost in the United States is the binding authority of
revelation. What is lost is there is one true God and He has spoken.”
13.“Christ did not tell us to withdraw. He told us to go into all the world and
preach the Gospel.”
14.“Idolatry is the elevation of culture to the point of worship.”
15.“The most religious nation on earth simply in terms of just religiosity is
India. The least is Sweden.”
16.“Hell is going to be filled with spiritual people. Religion doesn’t save.”
17.“Our response to engaging culture should not be to RUN. But to GO and
engage in the arguments.”
18.“Too many evangelical Christians have insertions but have no arguments.”
19.“We acted as if the millenials, the culture would just leave them alone.
The Christian worldview is not just insertions, but arguments. We reason
on the basis of Scripture.”
20.“I was on the Larry King Show over 40 times.”
21.“A definition of evangelism – We are to bring strange things to many ears.”
22.“Polytheism separates the Creating God from the Judging God.”
23.“We are not cosmic accidents. We are cosmic off-springs.”
24.“The Gospel is not an offer but a command from God to repent and
believe.”
25.“If you let the world tell you what an upright person looks like you won’t be
in a Bible-believing evangelical church.”
Erwin Lutzer
1. “In Chicago it was so cold the politicians put their hands in their own
pockets.”
2. “In most of church history, the state has viewed themselves in the role of
God.”
3. “The state is once again playing the role of God.”
4. “Apart from the direct intervention of God from coast to coast we cannot
reverse what has happened in our country.”
5. “God says, ‘If I don’t have your hearts, I don’t care about your buildings.
Our hearts should break for Washington D.C. If I don’t have America’s
hearts, I don’t care about your buildings.”’
6. “When you come to scripture, you come to an accurate history.”
7. “When a state becomes God, one of the things it changes instantly is its
laws.”
8. “I expect people to take notes tonight.”
9. “God has a hidden agenda doesn’t He?...He has His hidden purposes.”
10.“Why is it so hard to believe God? It is the unpredictability of God. We
don’t know what He is going to do.”
11.“We do not trust God because of explanations. We trust Him because of
promises.”

12.“No matter what we walk through in the coming days Jesus is there with
us in the fire.”
13.“I am proud to be an American.”
14.“Persecution should be accepted and expected.”
15.“The Bible and Christianity is an enemy to the secularism of the day.”
16.“Can I say it out loud, ‘We’ve gone crazy.”’
17.“We must learn to stand alone.”
18.“When I think of persecution I immediately think of our children and
grandchildren.”
19.“We have people who are Christians who are so ashamed of the Gospel.”
20.“700 pastors went to Jewish concentration camps. The church could have
done more but the church was the only thing standing in front of Hitler.”
21.“We must fear God more than the furnace.”
22.“The fire that purifies us is also the fire that sets us free.”
23.“There is a fire that will not be quenched. A fire no one will escape from.
The fire of hell.”
24.“It is not necessary to have freedom of religion to be faithful to God.”
25.“Throughout history Christians have been faithful to pay any penalty to be
faithful to God.”
26.“The future (eternity) changes what is happening today.”