Live Blog From Velocity 2015 Conference: 14 Leadership Quotes And Lessons From Shawn Lovejoy

In an effort to add value to pastors and church leaders, today I am attending the Velocity 2015 Conference for church planters.

The opening session’s speaker was Shawn Lovejoy, the Lead Pastor of Mountain Lake Church and Directional Leader of ChurchPlanters.com.

The following are 14 Leadership Quotes and Lessons from his challenging session on self-leadership:

1. There are many methods and one Lord.
2. It’s easier to fix everbody and everything around us than it is to fix ourselves.
3. Extraordinary leaders are not great leaders of other people, they’re first and foremost great leaders of themselves.
4. Extraordinary leaders don’t lead from the outside-in but the inside-out.
5. The condition of our heart determines the outcome of our ministry.
6. No one taught us to read a spreadsheet in seminary but we had to learn…The most difficult thing to monitor is the condition of my heart.
7. We said “Yes” to spiritual attack 365.
8. Ever done “church planter match” and it didn’t turn out the way you added it up?
9. God is more interested in our motives than the size of our ministries.
10. A clean heart is a heart that is fully-acceptable and can be used by God.
11. The longer you do this the more it’s about ministering to those closest to you.
12. We live in the age of pastor church planting conferences.
13. No of it (systems) are as important as our hearts.
14. Do you want to see God do what only He can do or do you want to see what you can do?

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