Thoughts from Catalyst

Team,

Most of you know I went to the Catalyst Leadership conference a couple of weeks ago.  I ordered the DVDs of the conference and will share portions of them with you when they arrive.  Until then, however, here are a few thoughts from some of the speakers/leaders who were there.

God bless!

PC

Andy Stanley’s talk to begin to conference was “vintage
Stanley!”  Some of the things that stood out…

• Moral authority is what we have when people people perceive that our creeds
  are our deeds–that we are living what we say we believe.
  
• Moral authority takes a long time to gain and can be lost in an instant.
  
• (To church leaders) Our message is forgiveness–we should be the first to
  forgive.

Brenda Salter McNeal

• If we are looking at God then there is no way we can stay the way we are. 
  (I LOVED that quote!)
  
• God came to shake things up, in Acts He shook things up, God always wants to
  shake things up!
  
• The disciples didn’t realize how much God was going to have to shake them
  up.

Steven Furtick

• LOVED his talk…PASSION was ALL over him!
  
• “There is a process between the promise & the payoff!”

Seth Godin

• People ask two questions when invited to something, “Who is going to be
  there & Who is going to lead us?”
  
• You have to be willing to do something other people will criticize–people
  are not looking for a safe leader.

Craig Groeschel

• Please do not insult the work of God by saying careless things about it.
  
• There is a big difference in building “His” church and building “my” church.
  
  
• Three prayers he is praying is, “God stretch me–God heal me–God ruin me!”
  
• We need to let God break our hearts with the things that break His heart