Quotes About Leadership In Church

#1. 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

#2. It is most remarkable that Lincoln, when he saw so much that was vulnerable in the leadership of the Church, did not move to the opposite error and become a scoffer.

Elton Trueblood

#3. Too many in the Church today are likes babies in the nursery,they put everything in their mouth.

John Paul Warren

#4. We have created a culture of leadership "development" in the Church at the expense of ignore the ministry of the Church to making disciples.

John Paul Warren

#5. I watched my parents in their leadership callings in the Church and the community. We just grew up knowing that we should serve and do whatever we could do to make things grow.

Margaret D. Nadauld

#6. The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed over the years. But for some reason, the last thing to change is the structure of leadership.

Andy Stanley

#7. Moving forward implies MOTION when in all actuality it may be simply standing STILL and seeing the salvation of the Lord.

John Paul Warren

#8. Sin regardless of how you get there is a vulnerable and a dangerous place to be. Living in unforgiveness is living in an unsafe place.

Johnny Hunt

#9. God exposes your sin ... And you see yourself as small as you are in the presence of a holy God.

Johnny Hunt

#10. Since the Icelandic volcano obviously needs a virgin sacrifice and the Catholic Church obviously needs new leadership the Pope must volunteer to jump in the volcano. Pontiff, don't think of it as endorsing paganism, think of it as supersizing Ash Wednesday.

Bill Maher

#11. If a church is good at making disciples it will be good at making leaders because in the end, a good spiritual formation plan will lead to an accelerated spiritual multiplication.

Gary Rohrmayer

#12. Coming to the END of MYSELF and all SELF effort ... seems to be the very point that God steps in and shows HIMSELF to be more than ENOUGH.

John Paul Warren

#13. To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human.

J. Oswald Sanders

#14. In a team setting, leadership is shared by a community of people, which counters the tendency for pastors to form congregations in their own images.

Adam S. McHugh

#15. The problem is that we don't have a "missional" problem or a leadership problem in the Western church. We have a discipleship problem.

Mike Breen

#16. When God brings deep conviction and I agree with Him about my condition, God restores my confidence in Him.

Johnny Hunt

#17. The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement ... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

Andrew Greeley

#18. The church should be setting the pace. The church should be taking its proper place of leadership in the nation ... God help the church to wake up!

Billy Graham

#19. The prayer level of a church never rises any higher than the personal example and passion of the leaders. The quantity and quality of prayer in leadership meetings is the essential indicator of the amount of prayer that will eventually arise among the congregation.

Daniel Henderson

#20. Leadership that is not well-grounded in followership - following Jesus - is dangerous to both the church and the world.41

Robert Banks

#21. The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.

J. Oswald Sanders

#22. Other men look to him as someone to emulate. His church calls on him for strength and leadership. He is a preserver of culture and a champion of society to keep out evil and usher in good.

Tony Evans

#23. You must not wait to be elected into office, before you begin to serve. Begin to serve every where you are; in the home, community, school, university, work, hospital, church, market, society, nation and among many other places.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. [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

#27. 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

#28. The spiritual leader should outpace the rest of the church, above all, in prayer.

J. Oswald Sanders

#29. 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

#30. We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church.

Johnny Hunt

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON.

John Paul Warren

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#38. We take in more a week now than we did in two years when I first came to the church.

Johnny Hunt

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. Are you serving in your local church or your are being served?

Saji Ijiyemi

#42. In every growing church you will find leadership that is not afraid to believe God.

Rick Warren

#43. 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

#44. 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