30 Leadership Quotes and Lessons from Jeff Henderson

30 Leadership Quotes And Lessons From Jeff Henderson – Live Blog From The Rocket Company Training Meetings

April 29, 2013 0 Comments

In an effort to help churches succeed, the leadership of The Rocket Company wanted to pull back the curtain and show you how we train our team members.
This morning, Jeff Henderson of Gwinnett Church, one of the North Point Community Church campuses, provided some invaluable coaching for our team.  We felt the content was so rich that we wanted to share it with all church leaders.
The following are leadership quotes and lessons from Jeff on managing your life and achieving your goals.  After reading check out the information below on Preach Better Sermons which Jeff will be hosting this week.

1. In every marriage there is the Wow and the How.
2. If you don’t execute, a dream is just a nap.
3. Our dreams should outstretch us.  Where people get overwhelmed is the dreams  get stuck.
4. Five Life Goals – Family, Spouse, Financial, Career/Work, Health.  If Jesus doesn’t show up in these, I have failed.  Jesus doesn’t need to be a separate category.
5. My wife and kids are separated.  I didn’t marry my kids.  Many times when they go away to college, the marriage suffers.
6. I break down how I’m doing on my goals on a quarterly basis.
7. You have a 30-day review, a quarterly review, and an annual review.  But the most important is looking at it weekly because it helps me execute.
8. Life will lead you or you will lead your life.
9. I hire great people and get out of the way.
10. I cast vision, I raise money, and I encourage the staff.
11. What are the three things I’ve got to do this week?
12. A lot of people have big dreams.  They get impatient and then they walk away.
13. First, reflect on your last week.
14. What fuels things is how I feel.  If I don’t feel good, it affects how I am as a husband and how I am as a dad.
15.  Second, look at your weekly goals.  This helps focus on strategic relationships.
16. I have a goal of writing three thank-you notes a week.
17. Third is tools.  This ultimately leads to three goals, things I want to accomplish this week.  The secret is looking at this for two minutes a day.
18. I have a reading goal every week.
19. The best thing about this is it lets me know when I’m behind.
20. The goal is not perfection.  The goal is progress…I believe in steady plodding.
21. Only 3% of Americans have goals.  Only 1% write them down.  But that 1% exponentially achieves their goals over others.
22. There are curriculum goals and measurable goals.
23. Prepare your spouse to be a widow.  The people that didn’t have life insurance are the ones who needed it.
24. If I get wins early in the week, it gets me going for the rest of the week.
25. The most difficult person I lead is me.
26. There is humility and there is false humility.
27. For creative people, every canvas has a border.  Songs are three minutes on the radio.  Every great painting has a frame.
28. Steve Jobs says, “Real artists ship the product.”
29. In the church world, “I’m relying on the Holy Spirit” is code for I haven’t done the work.
30. Stephen King’s goal is to write a 1000 words-a-day six-days-a-week.

41 Leadership Quotes From Andy Stanley – Live Notes From Orange Conference ’13

April 25, 2013 0 Comments

I am so glad I work for The Rocket Company!  Our organization has a deep passion to help churches succeed.  Therefore, they have dispatched me to the Orange Conference in Atlanta, Ga to gather leadership lessons and insights to pass on to you.
In this morning’s main session, Andy Stanley destroyed many of our assumptions about how to effectively communicate to students and young people.
After reading these leadership quotes along with others from Reggie Joiner and Ken Coleman, please check out an amazing FREE offer from The Rocket Company on helping pastors preach better sermons.
Reggie Joiner

• Words matter and what you do every week matters.

Ken Coleman

• Words are strategically used in questions.
• Good questions inform.  Great questions transform.
• By the time we reach the 8^th grade, the average person is only asking 2-3 questions a day.
• Our education system is driving out curiosity.  We’re training them to answer questions.
• Great leaders are always asking questions.
• The most successful people are continually asking questions.
• We can become so obsessed with what’s next that we miss the now.  And by missing the now, we often miss what’s next.
• At some point life happens.

Andy Stanley

• We have for generations, Evangelicals perceived ourselves as being the majority.  Anytime that happens, they speak with an element of authority whether they have that authority or not.
• We’re not the majority anymore…We keep talking like we’re the majority and we look foolish.
• In the first century they knew they weren’t the majority.  They were lion food.
• Once upon a time a handful of people believe Jesus raised from the dead.  2000 years later a third of world believes that.  It’s going to be OK.
• Whenever you’re in the majority, you outreach your authority.
• Approach determines people’s response to what we have to say.
• We must adapt our approaches to connect with our target audiences.
• How do you win as many as people as possible?  I change my approach.
• My goal isn’t to be right.  My goal isn’t to make a point.  My goal is to win those under the law.
• My goal isn’t for people who agree with me to agree with me.
• I adjust my approach depending on my audience.
• There is a goal and an approach.  When you prioritize the approach over the goal, you’re out of business.
• You have inherited an approach that assumes consensus among biblical authority.
• Engaging people with the text has more to do with your approach than the scripture.
• We live in a world that does not view the scriptures and Bible the same way you do.
• Anytime you choose a passage and stay there, this is a win in a biblically illiterate culture.
• A Bible “story” is a terrible word.  It’s better than a story.  We think it actually happened.  It’s not a story.  It’s history.
• Bring your energy to the text.
• Nobody reads anything because it’s inspired.  You read things because you want to read it and discover it’s true.
• Give people permission not to believe or obey the scriptures.  I Cor 5:12-13  When you give the permission not to believe or obey, they are more likely to believe or obey.
•  When you give non-Christians an out, they begin to lean in.
• The attraction of the church is looking at all of those one-anothers one-anothering one-another.  They will want to be a part of that.
• The attraction of the early church was looking at how they love one another.
• We don’t believe Jesus is the Son of God because the Scripture is inerrant.  We believe Jesus is the Son of God because Jesus rose from the dead.
• The foundation of our faith is not the Bible.  The foundation of our faith is an event in history.
• We’ve got to teach in a way that always ties things back to Jesus.
• Our approach that we’ve used has set our children up for disaster in college.
• The foundation of your faith is historical Adam and Eve.  The foundation of your faith is that people who expected to find a body did not find a body.
• Don’t refer to the Bible as a book.  The Bible’s not a book.  It’s way better than a book.
• Cite authors, not the Bible.
• Every single you say something about the author you tie that author to history.
• We shouldn’t expect rationale people to think Jesus raised from the dead because the Bible says so.
• Don’t ever use the phrase biblical marriage again ever.  Can you even think of a good biblical marriage?  Use the term Christian marriage…Just go home for a day, you don’t even need to believe this, and submit to one another.
• I submit to Sandra out of reverence of what Jesus did for me.
• Acknowledge the odd as odd.  There are some odd things in the Bible.  Don’t be afraid of that.
• You believe the Old Testament is true because Jesus believed the Old Testament is true.
• Don’t create the impression that one must choose between faith and science.
• Science is the search for natural explanations.
• Just say, “Oh, so that’s how God did it.”
• We want people to find natural causes.  We want people to find out the reasons why things work the way they work.
• It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. – Acts 15:18 NIV

Seeing People With Compassion

Seeing People With Compassion by Paul Borthwick

The Gospel of Matthew records Jesus encountering a crowd and seeing them as "harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd" (Matthew 9:36). In a similar encounter, the disciples urged Jesus to send the people away (Matthew 14:15). The difference is vision. Jesus saw people through eyes of compassion, while the disciples saw them as an inconvenience. We need to change the way we view people.

My attitude toward a seat mate on an airplane—or my neighbors, my co-workers or the international fellow who serves me at the supermarket—changes when I ask God to help me see them with eyes of compassion. That man sitting next to me is an eternal soul, with an eternal destiny. God also loves the people I encounter throughout the week, but they might not know it. When I see others through the eyes of Jesus, I realize that it's my privilege to be God's 24/7 available witness.

"Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have" (1 Peter 3:15).

Worship and Work

Worship and Work
TGIF Today God Is First Volume 2 by Os Hillman
Saturday, October 30 2010

"One man considers one day more sacred than another; another man considers every day alike" (Rom 14:5).

Avodah (Ah´-voe-dah) is a Hebrew noun used in the Bible that has two distinct yet intertwined meanings: worship and work. It is also derived from the Hebrew verb L'Avod which has two meanings; to work and also to worship. The dual meaning offers powerful wisdom for modern times for how we are to view our work lives.

Work, if done with integrity and unto God, is a form of worship in the biblical Hebrew context. There has never been a concept of segmenting our work from our faith life in the Bible. It is in the realm of the sacred to bring God into our everyday life. Hebrews did not set aside a "day of worship," such as Saturday or Sunday, but everyday is a place and time of worship. They did set aside a Sabbath day of rest.

It is a western idea to segment one's faith life from our work like. In the Middle East and Asia, their cultures would never separate their faith from their work life even though their faith foundations might clearly contradict Christian beliefs. When someone comes to faith in Christ from this area of the world, they have an easier time of assimilating their faith into their work because they have always done so.

God calls us to do our work as an act of worship to Him. Our work is not to be a place of sweat and toil, but an expression of our love, faith and adoration of Jesus Christ. Today, before you work, ask God to help you see your work in a new way--as worship to Him.