Carey Nieuwhof
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Speaker, podcaster and best-selling author of At Your Best. Founder of the Art of Leadership Academy. Former lawyer. I help people thrive in life & leadership.
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Competency may get you in the room. But character keeps you in the room.
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Early Christians didn’t attend church. They were the church.
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In ministry, your character will be tested more than your competency ever will be.
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In the future, churches that equip Christians will eclipse churches that gather them.
#2021
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Breakthroughs are often preceded by breakdowns. Hang in there.
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Leaders who refuse to listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.
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We live in an age of opinions that are strongly held and weakly formed.
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The future church will be filled with Christians who realize they're called to make disciples, not just be disciples.
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A Sabbatical isn't the solution for an unsustainable pace. A sustainable pace is the solution for an unsustainable pace.
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5 Keys to Attracting Leaders Who Are Better Than You Are:
1. Deal with your insecurities
2. Give away responsibilities, not just tasks
3. Share the spotlight
4. Make it your job to help others succeed
5. Create a culture of freedom
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Unchurched people aren’t looking for an echo of the culture, they’re seeking an alternative to it.
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Toxic people tell you everything about themselves. Healthy people wait to be asked.
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When parents skip church, kids lose far more than the parents.
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Sometimes the best leaders in your church aren't officially in leadership.
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People who disagree with you aren't always bad people. They just disagree with you.
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5 Tips for Every Young Leader:
1. Be chronically early
2. High character compensates for lower capacity
3. Don't gossip
4. Embrace the learning curve
5. Your network will help you more than you think
@Dillon_M_Smith
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If you’re winning at work but losing at home, you’re losing.
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If you want your church to grow, stop trying to attract people. Start trying to engage people.
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82% of people would come to church if a friend invited them. Only 2% of Christians bother.
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The promise of the local church is greater than the problems of the local church.
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Crisis is an accelerator. The future church is arriving faster than anyone expected.
Starting now, Sunday-focused churches will become every day-focused churches because people need to live out their faith every day.
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Want to deliver your talk without using notes? Don’t memorize it. Understand it.
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I think there’s a huge opening in our culture right now for moderate, compassionate, reasonable people.
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Leaders who refuse to listen will eventually be surrounded by people with nothing to say.
@AndyStanley
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Four things you can do to reach the next generation:
1. Stop criticizing young leaders
2. Find, fuel and fund the next generation
3. Flip the keys
4. Mentor, equip and convene
The next generation needs older generations. (They just don’t need them clinging to power.)
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Nobody is ever going to pay you to work on your character. They’ll just fire you if you don’t.
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In 2020 we all thought we were running a marathon. Just when we thought we were finished, someone handed us a bike and bathing suit. Then 2021 revealed that actually, it's not just a triathlon, it's an Ironman.
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As I was stepping off church staff after 25 years, I asked a mentor (now in his eighties) what I should prepare for. I'll never forget what he told me: They forget you quickly. He was right.
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You can't build the future church on people who live in the past.
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Unhealthy people love unhealthy cultures. Healthy people don’t. They leave.
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In a long marriage, at some point, your primary point of sanctification becomes your spouse. The flaws she sees and things that hurt her are the very things God most wants to address in you. Your spouse becomes a mirror through which you see where God wants to move next.
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You can't reach a secular culture by being more secular.
You can reach it by becoming more authentic.
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Great leaders don't mind being obscure leaders. They don't have to be noticed.
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If everyone in your church looks like you, acts like you, votes like you, believes like you and thinks like you, you're probably not the church.
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Sacrificing your family on the altar of leadership isn't leadership.
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You can’t build the future of the church on passionless, disengaged people.
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82% of people would come to church if a friend invited them. Only 2% of Christians invite friends.
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Assume what you do in private will be made public. Always.
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Churches that become passionate about people outside their walls will be far more effective than churches that are passionate about keeping the few people they have inside their walls.
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Cool church isn't nearly as powerful as authentic church.
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Churches with buildings but no people should give them to planters with people but no buildings.
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The churches who continue on the mission in this season will not only survive, they will thrive after this pandemic ends.
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Friends who tell you the truth rather than what you want to hear are better friends.
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Christian maturity is not marked by how much you know, it's marked by how much you love.
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People don't quit jobs these days. They quit leaders and cultures.
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I am more and more convinced that the future of the church is smaller. It's around tables, not stages. It's relational. It's formational. It's prayer-based. - John Mark Comer
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If your church members don’t invite their friends, don’t expect to grow.
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Pastors, rather than focusing on the people you've lost, focus on the people who stayed.
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Church leaders, you need to decide who you're going to lose: the people in your community who don't know the love of Christ, or the church member who thinks the church revolves around him (or her).
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The goal of digital content is connection, not consumption.
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One day you will retire from leadership. You will never retire from your family.
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Way too many people convince themselves that public adoration is more important than private integrity. Live in a way that the people closest to you to become the people most grateful for you.
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Pastors, rather than focusing on the people you've lost, focus on the people who stayed.
#churchgrowth
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Why is leadership so exhausting?
1. Your ratio of output to input is skewed
2. You’re never really off
3. And you’re never really on
4. There’s no finish line
5. Rest looks like weakness (it's not)
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Moving ahead a few years, the future church will consist of Christians who look, live and sound much more like Jesus than the political candidate of their choice.
#2021
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In seminary, I had to learn how to read Greek. It was difficult.
Little did I know how much more difficult it would be to lead people than it was to learn an ancient language. Yet we didn’t take a single class on how to lead people.
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Your mission is to lead people into a relationship with Jesus, not to get people to show up for an hour in a box every Sunday.
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Many pastors quit ministry or lose their effectiveness not because any one incident made them snap or quit – but rather because the loss that provoked their exit is tied to dozens or hundreds of ungrieved losses along the way.
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Church is messy, flawed, disappointing and at times deeply hurtful, largely because people are messy, flawed, disappointing and at times deeply hurtful.
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As surprising as this sounds, every time you make progress as a church, you'll lose people.
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Church leaders asking if online counts is like Sears asking if Amazon counts.
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Laziness is resting when you’re not tired. Resting when you’re tired and building in recovery days and even seasons can be the difference between you leading for years or leading well for decades.
Rest isn’t weakness. A rested you is a better you and a sharper you.
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What if the main purpose of church online is not to bring people to you but for you to bring the Gospel to people where they're at?
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If Christians prayed as much as they talked, we'd have a different church.
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If you're a Christian leader, there should never be a gap between your private walk and public talk.
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A lot of churches are perfectly positioned to reach a culture that no longer exists.
#churchgrowth
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Here’s the bottom line with young leaders: If you help them win, you’ll both win. If you merely want them to help you win, you’ll lose.
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Many churches aren't growing simply because Christians don't know any non-Christians.
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Preachers, people don't love listening to you nearly as much as you think.
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Churches that grow in the future will prioritize community. Real community.
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You can't reach a secular culture by being more secular. You can reach it by becoming more authentic.
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A healthy culture will weed out unhealthy people.
Unfortunately for many organizations, the opposite is also true.
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Publicly celebrating the people you envy breaks the power of jealousy. So praise them.
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A Sabbatical isn't the solution for an unsustainable pace. A sustainable pace is the solution for an unsustainable pace.
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Mission is the What. Vision is the Why. Strategy is the How.
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If you think you're being persecuted for your faith in North America, travel more.
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Challenge for you:
Tell me you're a leader without telling me you're a leader.
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A healthy culture spits out toxic people. And a toxic culture spits out healthy people.
Here’s the surprise. No one gets kicked out, they just leave when they can’t get traction or validation.
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When your church becomes a mouthpiece for a political party, you cease to be the church.
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In ministry, your character will be tested more than your competency ever will be.
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In the future, churches will shift their focus from Sunday to every day, because people need to find faith and live out their faith every day.
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If your definition of Christianity is full of hate and divisiveness, it's not Christianity.
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You can't hold people accountable for something you never explained to them.
Clear communication is key.
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Competency gets you in the room. Character keeps you in the room.
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It’s a shame when people come to church looking for God and only find us.
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A leader who prays for his team is a leader worth following.
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