This past Thursday I was able to attend an event called Catalyst One Day. It was a one day conference built specifically around leadership. Andy Stanley, the lead pastor of North Point Community Church, and Craig Groeschel, the lead pastor of Life Church, led the main sessions, and they absolutely knocked it out of the park every single time they spoke.

Anyway, I left with a couple of thoughts I couldn’t get out of my head. And I just thought it would be selfish of me to keep these thoughts to myself, so here are some of the best takeaways I received:

Andy Stanley- Part 1:

• “If you want to create momentum, chances are it will require something new.”
• “Established churches will always be tempted to tweak the old rather than launch the new.”
• “If you are not evaluating the areas where you are experiencing momentum, the clock on your success is ticking down.”

Andy Stanley- Part 2:

• “As culture changes, many of the questions remain the same, but the answers don’t.”
• “If we institutionalize an answer, the day will come when it is no longer an answer.”
• “What have we fallen in love with that’s really not as effective as it used to be?”

Craig Groeschel- Part 1:

• “What got you here, won’t get you there.”
• “We can reach more by doing less”
• “We can’t allow someone to hold back the mission of the church because we’re afraid we might hurt their feelings.”
• “Your church can grow when people leave. In fact, some people need to leave.”

Craig Groeschel- Part 2:

• “I will do today what I can do, to enable me to do tomorrow what I can’t do today.:
• “Create artificial deadlines” (I wish I could explain this more now, but it’s worthy of its own blog post)
• “Delegating responsibilities creates followers. Delegating authority creates leaders.”

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