25 Leadership Quotes And Lessons From Al Mohler

25 Leadership Quotes And Lessons From Al Mohler: Live Blog From Shepherds 360 Church Leaders Conference

In an effort to add maximum value to pastors and church leaders, INJOY Stewardship Solutions has dispatched me to attend the Shepherds 360 National Church Leaders Conference at Colonial Baptist Church.  During the next three days, I will be bringing some of the top leadership lessons from the conference designed to challenge and equip pastors and church leaders.
Tonight’s opening session was conducted by Dr. Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theoligical Seminary.  Dr. Mohler was called by Time.com as the “reigning intellectual of the evangelical movement in the U.S.”
The following are 25 leadership quotes and lessons from his challenging session on engaging culture:

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.