26 Leadership Quotes And Lessons From Erwin Lutzer: Live Blog From Shepherds 360 Church Leaders Conference

26 Leadership Quotes And Lessons From Erwin Lutzer: 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 session was conducted by Erwin Lutzer, senior pastor of Moody Church in Chicago and legendary radio presence.   The following are 26 leadership quotes and lessons from his challenging session on standing alone in a hostile culture:

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 when 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.