missio

Every once in a while, I go through my old thoughts and jottings. Recently, I re-read my journal from the Catalyst Conference in Atlanta this past year. This is a quick post of one-liners (thereabouts) that I gathered from the speakers. I’ve posted these before, but then I deleted my website. D’oh. It’s a quick rundown from what I got out of Atlanta. My personal favorites are bolded. Here we go:

• Is there life before death? (Shane Claiborne)
• We didn’t invent Christianity, we domesticated it. (Shane Claiborne)
• Where would Jesus be? (Chris Seay)
• Everything is sacred. It all belongs to God. (Chris Seay)
• We need to break the contract that says leaders are “answer men”. (Chris Seay)
• The things that are beautiful are true. Thomas Kincaid is fake. It’s not art. (Chris Seay)
• Don’t build the church. Be the church and build the Kingdom. (Rick McKinley)
• What do heaven people look like? (Rick McKinley)
• The Gospel is this: God’s kingdom is coming and inbreaking daily through the redemption Jesus accomplished on the cross. (Rick McKinley)
• Lead hard. (Rick McKinley)
• Call others to repentance. (Rick McKinley)
• Leadership is a stewardship. It’s temporary, and we’re accountable. (Andy Stanley)
• We’re Jesus’ sub-contractors. (Andy Stanley)
• Find out what’s unique about a person, and capitalize on it. (Marcus Buckingham)
• If you work on “bad”, you get “not bad”. (Marcus Buckingham)
• We’re in a war. Think strategically at all times. (George Barna)
• Delegate your weaknesses. (John Maxwell)
• Jesus left 9 disciples alone, a lot. Jesus wasn’t fair. (John Maxwell)
• Increase in any area only goes up about 2 numbers on a 1-10 scale. (John Maxwell)
• On our best day, we are sheep leading other sheep. There’s only one Great Shepherd. (Jeff Foxworthy)
• The American church’s view of suffering isn’t suffering. It’s inconvenience. (Rick McKinley)
• We are sent. The Father sent the Son, the Son sent the Spirit, and the Spirit sends us. (Rick McKinley)
• If you protect yourself from culture, you lose your voice in it. (Rick McKinley)
• It’s OK to fail. (Louie Giglio)
• Genius atrophies. (Kevin Carroll)

Of course, there was a lot more said by other people. These were some that stuck out to me.