Quotes & Sayings About Christian Leadership

I don't want to lose the awe we get to help another human being. — Francis Chan

True leaders demonstrate initiatives-They lead the way for others to follow — Ikechukwu Joseph

The end product of the successful preacher's input is transformation. — Christian Michael

Leaders don't watch but make things happen-initiate change — Ikechukwu Joseph

Some say you forgive and forget. Not true. You can't forget but you walk forward in forgiveness. — Johnny Hunt

An honorable man would never abandon his friend in time of need, especially if they were in a foreign country. Why? For fear of acting like a coward or of being boorish. I repeat, I admire the fact that, those persons have, through human respect, more courage than Christians and priests have, through charity or through their good intentions. — Vincent De Paul

People of vision gauge decisions on the future; the story of the past cannot be rewritten. — J. Oswald Sanders

As a pastor our main ministry is exhortation. — Johnny Hunt

Stop praying that God should make you a leader if you are not ready to do hard work. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

When you get honest with God, you can exchange the fig leaves you used to cover your sin with the righteousness of Jesus Christ. — Johnny Hunt

Human speculation is no match for divine revelation. — Johnny Hunt

The reason we're here today is because years ago God broke Reggie Joiner's heart over the state of children. — Andy Stanley

We just planted our 21st church. — Johnny Hunt

When Nehemiah's heart was broken he paid attention to his broken heart. — Andy Stanley

A controlling God, who is usually represented by a controlling church leadership, is just not good news. How can church leadership create freedom and not more rules? How can we bring out the best in human beings and keep it at the surface even as we deal with their problems and shortcomings? Can we empower others and release them to live from their best natures and from the truest reasons they are alive? Will we as Christian leaders, parents, and employers take on the responsibility to learn how to draw out the dreams and destiny in the people we lead? — Danny Silk

The Word that will change a man must first show the man who he really is. — Christian Michael

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart. — Mike Huckabee

No one should take away the wrong lessons from the Jewish and Christian plight in the face of the modern world. Can others presume to step forward blithely to take over the baton? Hardly. The modern world's challenge to religion is not escaped so easily. The sorry state of these two biblical faiths under the impact of modernity is actually a compliment to them and a caution to others. Those first hit by modernity are those worst hit, but this is a backhanded acknowledgement of their leadership. Similarly, those farther behind may appear to be better off, but only so long as they stay farther behind and don't engage with the challenges of the modern word. — Os Guinness

Predestined to a destiny that only Christ can fulfill, all other leadership assures failure. — Jonah Books

God gives enabling grace to go on. — Johnny Hunt

God blesses us more so that we can be more of a blessing to others. — Mark Batterson

We do a stewardship series every Sunday ... at offering time. — Johnny Hunt

What blame did Jesus have when He took the full blame for your sin? — Johnny Hunt

Feel the force of forgiveness. — Johnny Hunt

Never stop forgiving. — Johnny Hunt

Until you start thinking right, you will never start behaving right. Repentance always deals with the changing of the mind. — Johnny Hunt

We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church. — Johnny Hunt

Your passion is such that you pursue it for free because experiencing it is its own reward. — Aubrey Malphurs

The greatest mistake we can make is to stay on the ground after falling. — Victor Manuel Rivera

In a volunteer organization there has to be time for community. — Andy Stanley

Jason (Elam, a Christian) is the kid in high school who gets along equally well with the jocks, the brains, the geeks, and the slackers, and influences their behavior. — Stefan Fatsis

Where do you think you would be now if Jesus would not have saved you when He did. — Johnny Hunt

When God brings deep conviction and I agree with Him about my condition, God restores my confidence in Him. — Johnny Hunt

But for a younger generation of conservative operatives who would soon rise to power ... They were true believers who meant what they said, whether it was 'No New Taxes' or 'We are a Christian Nation.' In fact, with their rigid doctrines, slash-and-burn style, and exaggerated sense of having been aggrieved, this new conservative leadership was eerily reminiscent of some of the New Left's leaders during the sixties. As with their left-wing counterparts, this new vanguard of the right viewed politics as a contest not just between competing policy visions, but between good and evil. Activists in both parties began developing litmus tests, checklists of orthodoxy, leaving a Democrat who questioned abortion increasingly lonely, any Republican who championed gun control effectively marooned. In this Manichean struggle, compromise came to look like weakness, to be punished or purged. You were with us or you were against us. You had to choose sides. — Barack Obama

Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life. — Mitt Romney

God received from me something He didn't have on His own. My sin. I received something from God I didn't have on my own. His righteousness. — Johnny Hunt

If you have an offense against me, do you know you can't repent of my sin? You can only plead your own personal pardon at the throne of God. — Johnny Hunt

If God doesn't build the vision, He will tear it down. — Matthew Carter

Freedom is not doing what we want, but what we should. — Victor Manuel Rivera

Freedom keeps us soaring, but quarreling destroys our ability to fly. — Victor Manuel Rivera

It is estimated over 80% of all illnesses today are spiritual in nature. — Johnny Hunt

Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love. — Henri Nouwen

It is interesting to note that an overwhelming majority of citizens in the world's three largest democracies have different religions: India (81 percent Hindu), the United States (76 percent Christian), and Indonesia (87 percent Muslim). Two of them have elected women as leaders of their government. — Jimmy Carter

Men die the way they lived. — Johnny Hunt

We ought to love the sinner and hate OUR sin. — Johnny Hunt

The most miserable man in this room tonight is the Christian who is not right with Him. — Johnny Hunt

When someone grows up in poverty they never know that's going to be a benefit to their child. — Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

Charitable giving in the United States has remained at 2% of GDP since 1970. — Jeff Henderson

Satan will try to use our troubles to worry and weaken us. But God uses them to strengthen us. — Johnny Hunt

Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete. — Bill Hybels

The last thing I want to do is pastor a church Jesus ain't at. — Matthew Carter

When a person is carrying their sin, it can be quite a load ... I don't know what else to do with your sin but confess and ask God to forgive it. — Johnny Hunt

Excellence is a signal to God that we are going to dig our ditches but if You don't make it rain, all of this is a waste of time. — Jeff Henderson

You can't touch the world by giving up a Starbucks ... We've dumbed it down. — Johnny Hunt

Apart from Jesus Christ you are spiritually bankrupt. — Johnny Hunt

Take a guy who can walk on water, who can raise people from the dead, who can look at you and tell you what you had for breakfast ... if a guy like that can't find twelve trustworthy mates, who can? Stop at eleven and call it done, that's the moral of that story. — Liam Perrin

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

A woman never wrote, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." God wrote that. You sin first and foremost against God. — Johnny Hunt

We've got to build scale. We're going to hire the best people, build the best systems, and find solutions. — Jeff Henderson

The word "conviction" means to expose. — Johnny Hunt

Who influenced you? When did they influence you? How have they influenced you? What have you done with their influence? — Johnny Hunt

The enemy can steal your song. — Johnny Hunt

When you harness your leadership skill to your broken heart change happens. — Andy Stanley

Effective spiritual leadership does not come as a result of theological training or seminary degree, as important as education is. Jesus told His disciples, "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you" (John 15:16). The sovereign selection of God gives great confidence to Christian workers. We can truly say, "I am here neither by selection of an individual nor election of a group but by the almighty appointment of God. — J. Oswald Sanders

Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer? — Aiden Wilson Tozer

God is not a taker. God is a giver. — Louie Giglio

When your vision is a biblical vision, the people arguing with it are not arguing with you. They are arguing with God. — Matthew Carter

Some people say I would love to take a selfie with Moses. Do you understand the gap between Moses and God? — Francis Chan

How can we help my kids step into the shoes of another child? — Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

Apart from Jesus I am a greedy man. — Johnny Hunt

The dirtier your Bible, the cleaner your heart! — Victor Manuel Rivera

Excellence requires us to prepare in advance. — Jeff Henderson

Lord, give us a ministry where the sun will never set. — Johnny Hunt

Relational depth often emerges from intentional dialog — Brad Lomenick

I eat "NOs" for breakfast. — Jeff Henderson

The call to be an elder is neither a call to mediocrity nor taking a title of honor while sending others on ahead. — Jonah Books

Serve one another with great humility. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every cult of personality that emphasizes the distinguished qualities, virtues, and talents of another person, even though these be of an altogether spiritual nature, is worldly and has no place in the Christian community; indeed, it poisons the Christianity community. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I've grown up in a generation that questions God for setting boundaries. Does He have the right to set boundaries? I've grown up in a generation that thinks where meeting with a God is an ordinary thing. — Francis Chan

You're a leader. It's your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don't apologize to anybody. — Bill Hybels

The enemy just hates our prayers. — Francis Chan

Too many in the Church today are likes babies in the nursery,they put everything in their mouth. — John Paul Warren

1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits. — Derwin L. Gray

Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader. — Andy Stanley

Leaders make things better and that requires change. — Andy Stanley

If you want to know if I'm a Godly man, follow me home. — Andy Stanley

You have access to the Tent Of Meeting. — Francis Chan

I think personal diplomacy has caused a lot of mischief and harm, and has impeded the progress of peace in the world. It leads to a very great fallacy - the almost pathetic belief of some Foreign Ministers - that, if they had lunch with someone and called him by his Christian name, they have changed the fundamental facts of relationship between nations. — Paul Hasluck

Fundraising requires looking someone eye-to-eye and say, "Will you help me" and don't say another thing. Just listen to them. — Jeff Henderson

When a person gets right with God, my eyes are upward ... I'm poor in spirit. I'm spiritually bankrupt. — Johnny Hunt

My only prayer for my time with you is, "God I just want these men and women to long for you." — Francis Chan

We can lead others only as far along the road as we ourselves have traveled. merely pointing the way is not enough. If we are not walking, then no one can be following, and ware not leading anyone. — J. Oswald Sanders

In abdicating responsibility throughout God's kingdom at large, Christians have created a cultural vacuum of labor, influence, and leadership which the ungodly have come in to fill. The fact of the matter is, someone is going to exercise rulership in the earth. If not the godly, then the ungodly. If the righteous retreat completely, they have no reason to be surprised when they wake up one day to find their inheritance usurped by those who do not know God. — Christian Overman

Leaders need 5 core competences: soul, head, hand, heart, body. Where do you need to grow? — Aubrey Malphurs

Asking for money is better over coffee than over a computer. — Jeff Henderson

Make sure your vision is biblical. You want to make sure you can defend the vision biblically. — Matthew Carter

Non-profits find the very best Who and put them on their Boards because they don't want to pay them. — Jeff Henderson

There are two kinds of leaders, cowboys and Shepherds. Cowboys drive and Shepherds lead. — John Paul Warren

You can cross the line but you can also be forgiven. — Johnny Hunt

When u have concepts(revelation) the way u live changes — Ikechukwu Joseph