Top 100 Quotes About Church Leadership
#1. Would you like me to teach you how to trust God? Start with your money.
Johnny Hunt
#2. All the good you've ever done does not make it permissible to sin now.
Johnny Hunt
#3. God received from me something He didn't have on His own. My sin. I received something from God I didn't have on my own. His righteousness.
Johnny Hunt
#4. Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.
Pope Francis
#5. Leading a missional church is not for the faint of heart. It takes courage to push yourself beyond your comfort zone and to lead the church beyond it personal limits.
Gary Rohrmayer
#6. If you perceive right you receive right. If you perceive wrong you receive wrong.
John Paul Warren
#7. The end product of the successful preacher's input is transformation.
Christian Michael
#8. Having a good definition of spiritual leadership is critical to development
of leadership cultural throughout your church. You need to know what you are
shooting for if you are going to hit the target.
Gary Rohrmayer
#9. Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church.
C.J. Mahaney
#10. I don't want to lose the awe we get to help another human being.
Francis Chan
#11. [Pope Francis] is a humble man. He lives the faith out in his own personal life ... He's here to be a shepherd; he isn't here to be a scold. I think that's a good thing for the church and for the world, frankly.
Rick Santorum
#12. You must emulate the truth you exhort.
Johnny Hunt
#13. Leadership in church is one of the biggest challenges that the Church is facing because without strong leadership, the church rarely lives out its redemptive potentials.
Bill Hybels
#14. Some people only go to church for the social life. They like having all the friends in church or getting the praises of men by doing certain things, but they don't go there to actually worship God. They go there so others can worship THEM instead.
Lisa Bedrick
#15. I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.
John Ortberg
#16. God has been preparing me for what God had prepared for me.
Johnny Hunt
#17. When you go before God, you can only confess one person's sins.
Johnny Hunt
#18. The spiritual leader should outpace the rest of the church, above all, in prayer.
J. Oswald Sanders
#19. We are weak Christians simply because we have refused to be bondservants of Christ
Paul Gitwaza
#20. We can't really explain what the goal of mentoring is, until we understand what the church is for.
Rhys Bezzant
#21. Leadership calls for both wisdom and courage; the wisdom to know what to do is only half the battle. We must be courageous enough to actually do it.
Kellen Roggenbuck
#22. Error is human,perfection is divine!You are not God! Your mistake is normal.So forgive yourself.
Paul Gitwaza
#23. Don't try to transport something you don't possess ... I want this truth to be incarnational.
Johnny Hunt
#24. We are born with the need for a leader, someone to control the conflict between each individual's need. An alpha in the house, an alpha at work, an alpha in the church and in the White House.
Colin McAdam
#25. There has never been a meaningful life built on easy street.
John Paul Warren
#26. Resilient communities relied on informal networks of deep trust to contend with and heal disruption.
Andrew Zolli
#27. Leaders are passionate learners. Leaders are always seeking ways to improve themselves by sharpening their skills. They fully embrace the fact that growing leaders lead growing organizations.
Gary Rohrmayer
#28. The Church is Christ's witness to the world of a loving savior and His redemptive plan for man.
John Paul Warren
#30. The Roman Church has grown and grown, fueled by immigration but also renewed by two pontiffs who have seemed to understand what Tocqueville knew: People want guidance for their souls once they are convinced they have them.
Hugh Hewitt
#31. Authentic leaders are often accused of being "controlling" by those who idly sit by and do nothing
John Paul Warren
#32. The beginning of knowledge is to know thyself a sinner.
Johnny Hunt
#33. Those who criticize the innovative concept of multi-site churches must also remember that at one point stained glass and hymnals were new as well.
Braden Pedersen
#34. It's very different to live with a mask.
Johnny Hunt
#35. We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church.
Johnny Hunt
#36. Life seems to be fashioned and formed best out of the obstacles that seem unbearable.
John Paul Warren
#37. In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a problem.
Andy Stanley
#38. Will you ask God to bring you to the place where you're willing to be willing?
Johnny Hunt
#40. The last thing I want to do is pastor a church Jesus ain't at.
Matthew Carter
#41. As a pastor our main ministry is exhortation.
Johnny Hunt
#43. If the world is to hear the church's voice today, leaders are needed who are authoritative, spiritual, and sacrificial. Sacrificial, because this trait follows the model of Jesus, who gave Himself for the whole world and who calls us to follow in His steps.
J. Oswald Sanders
#44. The responsibility of building leadership in the Church belongs to the father and the mother ... As youth grow and mature through their teenage years and move toward adulthood, the Church picks up an important role in this process of giving youth an opportunity to lead, but it begins in the home.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#45. A woman never wrote, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." God wrote that. You sin first and foremost against God.
Johnny Hunt
#46. A wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ.
Mike Huckabee
#47. You cannot control sin. Sin will control you. Do not try to manage sin.
Johnny Hunt
#48. You don't have to be rich to be generous. You have to be generous to be generous.
Johnny Hunt
#49. Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON.
John Paul Warren
#50. Who influenced you? When did they influence you? How have they influenced you? What have you done with their influence?
Johnny Hunt
#51. If God can save Paul, He can save anybody. If God could use me, God could use anybody.
Johnny Hunt
#52. Three, Christians who practice repentance should be the only ones allowed into church membership and leadership.
Mark Driscoll
#53. If you choose to be obedient to God, God meets you with divine enablement.
Johnny Hunt
#54. If you're not remarkable, you're invisible.
Simon Sinek
#55. There is a long and well-documented tradition of wisdom in the Christian faith that any venture into leadership, whether by laity or clergy, is hazardous. it is necessary that there be leaders, but woe to those who become leaders.
Eugene H. Peterson
#56. The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.
Charles Williams
#58. There's a lot of us who do not accept the culture of the bubbles.
Mike Huckabee
#59. The family of God is about enjoying the bounty of God's table and fellowship with one another and with the Holy Spirit.
Ross Parsley
#60. If you are a local church or non-profit, you live and die with volunteers.
Andy Stanley
#62. Anxious systems also fail to get a clear view of things. Embedded in their dread, they lose a sense of proportion. They have little awareness of what is happening and how it is being mutually maintained. Emotionally cramps the broader view.
Peter L. Steinke
#63. Jesus did not command us to "develop" leaders. He commanded us to make "disciples". The world "develops" leaders, the Church "disciples" them. The two are not the same.
John Paul Warren
#64. Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.
Alan Hirsch
#65. The church should train the Ritz Carlton on how to serve people.
Jeff Henderson
#66. If all you are doing is spending time with the struggling members of your church and you are not building proactively into your church's culture, and you are being shortsighted and limiting the effectiveness of your ministry.
James MacDonald
#67. Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#68. This is one beggar who has found bread telling others where to find it.
Johnny Hunt
#69. Forgiveness is not cheap even though it's free.
Johnny Hunt
#70. We take in more a week now than we did in two years when I first came to the church.
Johnny Hunt
#71. Effective leaders are good spotters. They are on the lookout for
potential leaders. They have the ability to look beyond other's deficiencies to
see their possibilities.
Gary Rohrmayer
#72. Human speculation is no match for divine revelation.
Johnny Hunt
#73. The first thing Jesus tells the church of Ephesus that He loves about them is they have sound doctrine.
Matthew Carter
#75. I wonder what really goes on in the minds of Church leadership who know of the data concerning the Book of Abraham, the new data on the First Vision, etc ... It would tend to devastate the Church if a top leader were to announce the facts.
Thomas Ferguson
#77. What breaks my heart is in the United States hundreds of thousands wake up on a Sunday and church never crosses their mind.
Andy Stanley
#78. Many churches approach ministry to people through the lens of an educational system instead of through the analogy of the family.
Ross Parsley
#80. One of the landmines that church planters never dodge is the landmine
of leadership development. I will never forget the day when I realized
that there are no such things as 'ready-made leaders'.
Gary Rohrmayer
#81. Are you serving in your local church or your are being served?
Saji Ijiyemi
#84. In every growing church you will find leadership that is not afraid to believe God.
Rick Warren
#85. The most important task that every pastor has is to get all his church members involved in some kind of ministry. That should be one of his main priorities. 3
Sunday Adelaja
#86. What is this generation of students worth? It's worth everything.
Andy Stanley
#87. If you have an offense against me, do you know you can't repent of my sin? You can only plead your own personal pardon at the throne of God.
Johnny Hunt
#88. 80% of the people who come into a Christ-following relationship is because a friend, co-worker, family member or neighbor invited them to church.
Johnny Hunt
#89. Church leaders raised on rationalism lead ministries where the supernatural, the Vertical, is suppressed and where God Himself is at best an observer and certainly seldom, if ever, and obvious participant in church.
James MacDonald
#90. You can cross the line but you can also be forgiven.
Johnny Hunt
#91. Unconfessed sin is a terrible, heavy burden to carry. God loves us too much to have unconfessed sin.
Johnny Hunt
#92. We have taught this generation how to "market" the Gospel but we have neglected to encourage them to "preach" the Gospel.
John Paul Warren
#93. Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.
Nancy Pearcey
#94. You can know you're a Christian if, not are you dealing with your sin before God but is God dealing with you about your sin.
Johnny Hunt
#95. you cannot "save" a church without focusing on the important things that make it a church - scriptural authority, biblical leadership, teaching and preaching, ordinances, covenant community, and mission.
Ed Stetzer
#96. Prayer-leadership preserves the spirituality of the Church, just as prayerless leaders make for unspiritual conditions.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#97. Charisma on stage is not necessarily evidence of the Holy Spirit.
Andy Stanley
#98. To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human.
J. Oswald Sanders
#99. Any sin you cover, God uncovers. Any sin you uncover, God covers.
Johnny Hunt
#100. Too many in the Church today are likes babies in the nursery,they put everything in their mouth.
John Paul Warren
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