Yesterday we held our first annual Pipeline Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, which is a gathering for leaders dedicating to developing leaders at every level of your church or organization. Far from the typical conference, Pipeline goes in-depth on practical strategies that will change your church or organization from the inside out.
Here are some powerful quotes from our time yesterday:
The best way to make leaders who serve God’s world is to develop people who love God’s Word. -Trip Lee
We aren’t meant to follow Jesus alone; we are supposed to follow Him together in unity. -Trip Lee
There is no such thing as a believer who can follow God in an isolated way. -Trip Lee
Your ministry is shaped by the condition of your heart. -Paul Tripp
Your Kingdom come. That’s the most dangerous prayer you can pray. It destroys the kingdom of self. -Paul Tripp
By God’s grace, I am regularly rescued from me. -Paul Tripp
Discipleship is always an inescapable war between the kingdom of self and the Kingdom of God. -Paul Tripp
The cross allows us to be the most honest community on earth. -Paul Tripp
Discipleship is profoundly more than strategies or workable systems. It is transformation of the heart. -Paul Tripp
Jesus took every ounce of rejection so that we would never again see the back of God’s head. -Paul Tripp
Lasting change always begins with prayer. -Thom Rainer
We are in desperate need of more leaders who are conformed to the image of Christ. – Kevin Peck
Dumping information doesn’t produce transformation. -Mac Lake
Discipleship is not just helping someone live like Jesus. Discipleship is helping someone lead like Jesus. -Mac Lake
Effective leadership earns influence through relationship rather than through authority. -Jenni Catron
Collaboration is not an event. It’s a culture you create and embody. -Jenni Catron
God chose to work with us. One of the most important things leaders do is to invite others to work together. -Jenni Catron
We cannot over-communicate with our teams. -Jenni Catron
People serve people. Programs and platforms don’t serve people. -Will Mancini
We must begin to develop people more than we develop programs – discipleship is our mission. -Will Mancini
We’ve traded the leadership pipeline of Jesus for the constructs of cultural Christianity. -Will Mancini
Drive engagement – people passionate about giving, serving, growing. Attendance will take care of itself. -Carey Nieuwhof
Leaders, don’t build a system around yourself for yourself (because you need to be needed). -Eric Geiger
Ministry leaders do not primarily perform ministry. They prepare others to do ministry. -Eric Geiger
Leadership in the kingdom of God is finding those who are faithful and helping them be able. -Eric Geiger
We cannot sacrifice what is biblical, effective, and efficient on the altar of tradition. -Todd Adkins
When you provide clarity, leaders will respond. -Todd Adkins
Steward what you have, don’t make excuses for what you don’t have. -Brian Dodridge
