By Carey Nieuwhof (summary by Jeffrey Bush)
- The world is better when the church is at its best.
- Growth is healthy. But don’t go to the extreme thinking growth means you’re doing
everything right, or the lack of growth means you’re doing everything wrong. - The greatest enemy of your future success is actually your current success.
- Many leaders overthink and underact.
- Activity does not equal accomplishment.
- Focus on who you want to reach, not who you want to keep.
- If you have a church that engages teenagers, it will most likely engage the church
people as well. If your own teenagers do not want to grow, you cannot expect the
church to want to grow. - If you are going to grow, you have to give it to your team leaders that will lead.
- Identify your biggest obstacle to growth, and make a six-month plan to work on it.
- Assigned responsibilities and accountability, then meet often to evaluate progress.
- People admire your strengths, but they identify with your weaknesses.
- Christian leaders can be tempted to depend more on substance than on God (food,
entertainment, overworking, etc.). - In some circles, it is popular to brag about not getting enough sleep, but a leader
needs 7–8 hours of sleep, as well as naps and downtime. - No one is impressed with your 20 hour workdays, not even God.
- When it comes to trusting leadership, most people start out with suspicion, instead
of trust. Trust is gained slowly and lost instantly. - Most people will not change because they like the status quo.
- Our world is changing; history belongs to the innovators, those willing to change and
make better. - You can embrace the past for improvement without erasing the past.
- You can learn from the past without living in the past.
- If you don’t become part of the solution, you will become part of the problem.
- Those that are going to last the future, not only see the benefit of changing, but they
will learn how to navigate through changes.