Back for Day 3 of the Orange Conference is wrapping up!  I want to thank Orange for allowing me to be part of their blogging team and Injoy Stewardship Solutions (ISS) for allowing me to attend this amazing event.

The final session I attend is the Senior Pastors Luncheon.  Led by Carey Nieuwhof, Jeff Henderson, Perry Noble and others.  This is my favorite session each year.  The following are 36 leadership quotes I captured during the session.  The quotes of each speaker are by their comments.

  1. Leadership is not as only as it needs to be. – CN
  2. When kids invite their parents to church the parents are almost guilted into going. – JH
  3. The secret sauce to North Point is incredible ministry to children. – JH
  4. I see three things in children’s ministry – Clean, Safe and Fun.  Parents don’t care about anything else. – PN
  5. Kids don’t care about theology.  They just want to have fun. – PN
  6. This generation is not as unchurched as we think they’re going to be. – PN
  7. Every church planter you meet wants to tell you why their town is the worst place to plant a church. – PN
  8. The sooner we can get students to start serving in the church the quicker they’re going to fall in love with the church. – JH
  9. Every family I see I get in my mind they’re just jacked up. – PN
  10. Everybody in the church we come from fallen backgrounds. – PN
  11. Everybody’s family we all have issues.  If we run away from issues we need to give up.  You need to be involved in one messy situation currently. – JH
  12. I would much rather have that conversation (a lesbian couple) than someone who thinks the music is too loud. – JH
  13. It’s O.K. if you disagree with the way I do ministry.  There’s two type of questions – Clarification, Condemnation.  You can take the questions on Condemnation and stick them where the sun don’t shine. – PN
  14. The person with an experience is not held captive by a person with an opinion. – Dave Ramsey
  15. I’m O.K. with someone who has a problem.  It’s the way they approach it. – PN
  16. We can focus on the table prepared for us or our enemies. – PN
  17. The world is watching us beat each other up. – JH
  18. My kids love the church.  Sundays is one of their highlights of the week. – JH
  19. Everything really does affect everything. – PN
  20. You can’t get over it because you never dealt with it. – PN
  21. I had 20 years of pent up emotions that were killing my soul. – PN
  22. I was a control freak and the church got so big I couldn’t control it. – PN
  23. If you’re struggle with something and the people of God fire you, you don’t have a lot of people who love God. – PN
  24. You believer two lies.  No one will understand me and I have no one to talk to about this. – PN
  25. More is a mirage. – JH
  26. If you have a big church, you think all your issues will go away.  They get amplified. – JH
  27. If I’m satisfied with Jesus, I’ll take what comes my way. – JH
  28. God couldn’t let it explode if I was not healthy…If you want to see your ministry grow, get healthy.  If you get healthy, slow down. – PN
  29. You need to have someone check in on you periodically.  Someone must be able to check on you and see where you are physically and emotionally. – JH
  30. Often in congregational ministry you just feel trapped. – CN
  31. The problem we face as pastors is we don’t have a release valve…We don’t have the safe environment. – PN
  32. Anybody on our staff that is struggling with anything can come forward, admit their struggle and not be fired. – PN
  33. Who can pastor the pastors? – PN
  34. I really do feel good about the future of the church. – PN
  35. You’re tweeting your burger but I’m tweeting someone coming to Jesus. – PN
  36. Just because the world’s in bad shape doesn’t give us permission to be in bad shape. – PN

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