76 Quotes from the 2017 North American Christian Convention

The North American Christian Convention is the annual gathering for those in the tribe of the Independent Christian Churches and Churches of Christ. Whether you would align yourselves in our tribe or not, the following quotes will bless you and your ministry. This year’s NACC was full of great nuggets of leadership, inspiration, and challenge.

76 Quotes from the 2017 North American Christian Convention

“The key to success in any organization is identifying, developing, and empowering the right people.” – Craig Groeschel
“If we don’t empower and trust people, they won’t stay with us.” – Craig Groeschel
“Most leaders are trying to figure out the right strategy. The best leaders are obsessed with empowering the right people.” – Craig Groeschel
“We don’t find great leaders, we build them.” – Craig Groeschel
“The great commission clearly communicates the two currencies of empowerment: clarity and trust.” – Craig Groeschel
“[Jesus] trusted them to figure out the how because He told them the what and the where.” – Craig Groeschel
“The best way to find out if someone is trustworthy is to give them some responsibility and see how they perform.” – Craig Groeschel
“Clarity without trust produces fear and inaction. Trust without clarity produces work without direction.” – Craig Groeschel
“Clarity ensures that your team members’ work is aligned with your goals and mission. Trust is the necessary net that results in risk-taking.” – Craig Groeschel
“Guard the values. Surrender control.” – Craig Groeschel
“What you value determines what you do.” – Craig Groeschel
“An empowering leader knows that with time and coaching, they will do it better than us.” – Craig Groeschel
“You can have control or you can have growth, but you cannot have both.” – Craig Groeschel
“Want to limit the size of your organization? Control everything.” – Craig Groeschel
“The best leaders delegate differently. Most leaders tend to delegate tasks. The best leaders delegate authority.” – Craig Groeschel
“When you delegate authority, you create leaders” – Craig Groeschel
“Push decisions out.” – Craig Groeschel
“Anytime someone else can make a decision, give them the blessing of letting them make the decision.” – Craig Groeschel
“You must be willing to experience a temporary loss of excellence and effectiveness for an exponential explosion of influence.” – Craig Groeschel
“If you don’t trust the people around you, you either don’t have the right people or you don’t have the right mindset.” – Craig Groeschel
“If you urgently do right things, you will start to succeed.” – Craig Groeschel
“Success feeds pride. Pride kills urgency. Nothing fails like success.” – Craig Groeschel
“Urgency is not the default mode. Complacency is.” – Craig Groeschel
“Complacency is very difficult to see in the mirror.” – Craig Groeschel
“All success is temporary.” – Craig Groeschel
“Contemporary is the new traditional.” – Craig Groeschel
“We cannot follow a model that we think works all the time.” – Craig Groeschel
“As your organization grows, movement naturally slows.” – Craig Groeschel
“As your organization ages, most move from a bias for action to a bias for discussion.” – Craig Groeschel
“Fight against complexity.” – Craig Groeschel
“Make aggressive mistakes, not passive mistakes.” – Craig Groeschel
“Comfort is the enemy of progress.” – Craig Groeschel
“Find comfort being uncomfortable. Growth and comfort never coexist.” – Craig Groeschel
“Facts don’t move people to action. Emotion invokes action.” – Craig Groeschel
“We’re not just growing churches, we are filling heaven.” – Craig Groeschel
“God’s heart and God’s house are for everyone.” – Gene Appel
“The gospel that isn’t for everyone everywhere isn’t for anyone anywhere.” – Gene Appel
“When you’re confronted with your sin in front of you, all you can feel is shame.” – Trevor DeVage
“Jesus says, I want to be a part of your mess. But I want to redeem and restore it.”- Trevor DeVage
“With grace comes the expectation of godliness.”- Trevor DeVage
“It’s time we drop our rocks and give people the grace of Jesus.”- Trevor DeVage
“Individual salvation only exists so God can have a family.” – Derwin Gray
“Circumcision was an ethnic badge for Jews.”- Derwin Gray
“My ethnicity is in Christ.”- Derwin Gray
“Church is the last name of a blood-bought people.”- Derwin Gray
“Every one another in the Bible is to Jew and Gentile churches.”- Derwin Gray
“In order to do the one anothers, we have to be in relationships with people different from us.”- Derwin Gray
“Don’t ever be color-blind, be color-blessed.”- Derwin Gray
“Ethnocentrism, classism, sexism are crucified on the cross.”- Derwin Gray
“God the Father wants a multiethnic family that displays his kingdom through the local church.” – Derwin Gray
“You are where you are right now in your ministry for a reason.” – Tim Liston
“Your tribe needs your generosity. Your local church needs your generosity.” – Scot McKnight
“Leaders build cultures. Good leaders build good cultures. Toxic leaders build toxic cultures.” – Scot McKnight
“Our responsibility as leaders is to build a culture of generosity and hospitality to the poor.” – Scot McKnight
“Jesus has called us to be generous to the poor.” – Scot McKnight
“Christians who are not compassionate to the poor are not following Jesus.”- Scot McKnight
“One of our most profound acts of worship is to turn our money to God for the good of the gospel in the world.” – Scot McKnight
“This message of the gospel is for everyone.” – Jordan Rice
“Every other religion and way of life still have a cultural center… But not so with Christianity.”
“There is no one area that can hold the power of the gospel.” – Jordan Rice
“The first miracle of the Church was to decentralize the gospel so that it can spread.” – Jordan Rice
“There is no one place where this powerful message of the gospel can be contained.” – Jordan Rice
“The gospel is not just for me, but it is also for the heathen.” – Kyle Costello
“The gospel is not just for the heathen. The gospel is for the heretic.” – Kyle Costello
“Who in your life can you encourage, give them a practical opportunity, and develop?” – Ruby Clark
“We are a group of messed up people living in God’s grace.” – Kevin Haah
“The secret sauce is the gospel of Jesus Christ.” – Kevin Haah
“We are all more messed up than we think we are.” – Kevin Haah
“This changes everything. Welcome to the room of grace.” – Mike Breaux
“God’s building one kingdom and he’s doing it through his one people.” – Charlotte Gambill
“What are you committed to building in your church? Towers or tables? …When you lay a table, everyone has a seat.” – Charlotte Gambill
“We are called to set the table.” – Charlotte Gambill
“When you settle you are in trouble.” – Charlotte Gambill
“Don’t have an issue based church.” – Charlotte Gambill
“We are not called to build up, we are called to build out.” – Charlotte Gambill
“When you lay a table, everyone has a seat.” – Charlotte Gambill

To learn more about the NACC, visit gotonacc.org.

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