God is out of the box. Jangan batasi pekerjaan Tuhan di balik dinding gedung gereja. Benahi gaya kepemimpinan kita agar dapat menjadi berkat dimana pun. jadilah terang dan garam dunia.
I attend a number of leadership conferences each year. What I have discovered is we are in a golden age of Christian leadership content. Never has there been such breadth of knowledge and the skill to deliver it.
The best conference I attended in 2017 was the ReThink Conference this past April 26th and 28th. Put on by Carey Nieuwhof and Orange, this conference provides the most the relevant content on the issues facing today’s senior pastors and church leaders. If you only have enough budget to attend one conference per year, ReThink and Orange is the one.
The Orange and ReThink Leadership team are offering readers of this site a discount for early registration to the 2018 event in Atlanta. Click HERE or on the image above and save $60 if you register this week. Trust me – you will not be disappointed.
To give you a preview, the following are 70 Leadership Quotes From ReThink Leadership, The Best Christian Conference I Attended In 2017:
Culture is who you are, what you value, and how do you get things done.
Culture determines how you see staff. How you see staff determines how you treat staff.
Lead with vision, not job descriptions.
Trust is the foundation of empowerment. Micromanagement and control kills trust.
If you make the same mistake twice, you’re not learning.
When you can’t recruit with vision you have to buy them.
You’re not hiring an administrative assistant to make your life easier. You’re hiring an administrative assistant to make you more productive.
A great assistant will actually make you work harder.
Great teams are not afraid to have high standards.
I’m amazed in church how we avoid tough conversations. Most churches are one tough decision away from a breakthrough.
Equipping is training people for a specific ministry task. Developing is pouring into an individual so they become bigger, better person. Equipping is on the church’s agenda. Developing is on the person’s agenda.
Kara Powell
Young people give our church more vitality, innovation, passion, and even more money. They may not have money but their parents do.
The enthusiasm of young people is not your church’s problem. It is your church’s solution.
You have to have a vision caster. But you have to create vision carriers.
Nothing influences culture more than storytelling. Once you tell the story the culture recreates itself.
I can’t care about everything equally.
Andy Stanley
Sex before marriage is a sin.
I don’t want to do anything that hurts. I don’t want to do anything that would diminish your future relationship. I don’t want to be a regret. – On why not to have premarital sex
If you mistreat one of my kids, don’t invite me to lunch.
You do something for my children, you’ll be my friend forever.
Clay Scroggins
The influence and effectiveness of our team is most determined by our individual emotional health.
Great leaders are not necessary made up of people with high IQ. There made up of people with high EQ.
Emotional Health – The ability to recognize and manage our emotions as well as control our behavior in response to other people’s actions.
The worst form of white noise is the phone. Have you noticed how much prayer we’ve lost to scrolling on the phone?
White noise kills curiosity.
Identify the emotion. Men only have two emotions. We’re either angry or happy.
Jud Wilhite
I know we’ve built a crowd. Have we built a church? When you call your people to sacrifice, you know if you’ve built a crowd or a church.
Your best leadership in the downturn, not the upturn.
Your best leadership in the downturn when no one is watching is what enables you to celebrate when everyone is watching.
Define Reality – My job is to define reality. There’s nothing worse than following a leader who says everything’s great when it’s not great.
Don’t break faith before you break through. Ministry is hard. Ministry is crazy.
Pastors, you are the keeper of the keys to the funny farm. You are also an anointed, empowered servant of God who is on a mission.
Content is a commodity. So what is the distinctive for our churches – connection, conversation and community.
Information and knowledge used to flow from old to young. Now it flows from young to old.
Carey Nieuwhof
You can have a church with well-behaved senior adults or you can have kids.
The more you know the more cynical you get.
Unchecked, knowledge brings sorrow.
The best antidote to cynicism is curiosity. The cynical is never curious. The curious are never cynical. Cynics never ask questions.
Bob Goff
Make room for the things God has for you by making room in your schedule.
We don’t need to be arguing. Jesus doesn’t need a bunch of lawyers. He needs a bunch of neighbors.
Jesus doesn’t need your help. He wants your heart.
Carlos Whitaker
It is so easy to confuse leading out of a place of pain rather than a place of promise.
Social media is not real. It’s edited. It’s produced.
Ryan Leak
People come to church and leave the church for the exact same reason. They come for the preaching. They leave for the preaching. They come for the music. They leave for the music.
Jon Acuff
If you are a high performance leader, you are likely a high anxiety leader.
I can’t try to prevent failure that hasn’t happened yet.
You don’t get smarter the later you stay up.
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As expected, Oklahoma Sooners quarterback Baker Mayfield was named the winner of the 2017 Heisman Trophy signifying college football’s best player. Because of his on and off-field behavior, Mayfield is one of the more controversial winners of the award.
Quarterbacks are over-valued in the NFL draft process and many general managers and coaches are desperate for a quality signal caller. Therefore, despite size and character concerns, I feel Mayfield will be a first round selection.
The following are 10 Leadership Quotes From Baker Mayfield’s Heisman Trophy Speech I captured from ESPN’s telecast. Comments from others are included as well as additional leadership quotes from ESPN College Gameday and Sports Illustrated features on Mayfield..
“Stat wise Lamar Jackson will go down as the best football all-around quarterback, player to ever play the game. Ever.” – Lee Corso
“I don’t know if I’ve seen a player where the defense, the coaches, the entire offense feed off his energy… Watch how he wills his team.” – Kirk Herbstreit on Mayfield
“I just try to stay humble.” – Jackson
“I see myself as a quarterback (in the NFL)… I’ve always been a quarterback. I’ve never played another position.” – Jackson
“That is what I do is play football but I feel like just being able to contribute to the world and being there to take care of others would be amazing.” – Stanford running back Bryce Love
“It takes a village to raise a young man like this… We really tried to keep it positive with him and he was great at setting goals.” – Chris Love, Bryce’s father
“Injuries are part of the game and you ultimately have to push through them.” – Love
“No one who has ever won the Heisman Trophy began his career as a walk-on.” – Chris Fowler referring to Mayfield
“There something’s to be said for having to earn it.” – Mayfield
“I’ve apologized for mistakes and learned from it. I’m moving forward.” – Mayfield
“I don’t have it all figured out.” – Mayfield
“God has put me in a position to be so blessed.” -Mayfield
“The thing I’m most thankful for is you hiring Coach (Lincoln) Riley.” – Mayfield to former head coach Bob Stoops
“To the kids out there, don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.” – Mayfield
ESPN College Gameday, December 4th
Leaders Do Not Always Determine The Type Of Legacy They Will Leave – “I want my legacy to be inspirational, motivating for kids… keep on fighting. Never give up on your dreams.” – Mayfield
Sports Illustrated, December 4th
Successful Leaders Must Thrive In Hostile Environments – “I think I was truly born to thrive in hostile environments. I find it fun to have a little back-and-forth conversation with the opposing fan base.” – Mayfield
The First Responsibility Of Leadership Is To Properly Evaluate Reality – “That’s who I am, an emotional guy, a fiery guy, always played with an edge. The coaches that are here with me, they love it, cause they know that’s when I’m at my best. I would never say I take it over the top.” – Mayfield
Most Successful Leaders Always Feel They Have Something To Prove – “They (Texas A&M) saw that I was the size I was, and I could tell that they were not interested at all. They looked at me like I didn’t deserve to be there. It was a slap in the face.” – Mayfield
Successful Leaders Have Strong People Skills – “He’s made real friends with almost everyone here.” – Sooners teammate Jaxon Uhles
Successful Leaders Have Proper Perspective – “He’s hardheaded in a lot of ways. And he’s very comfortable in his own skin. And sometimes that can lead you to not having perspective, not really looking at a situation, and maybe not handling it the best way.” – Oklahoma Sooners head coach Mike Riley
Successful Leaders Are Special – “No matter how long I go on coaching, whatever the rest of my career ends up being like, I don’t know that I’ll ever have a player that’s as special to me as he is… He’s the best football player in America. He’s got a great heart that a lot of people don’t get to see like I do, and I’m proud as hell to be his coach.” – Coach Riley
What is one lesson you can learn from Baker Mayfield which will make you a better leader?
