Lessons from Catalyst Conference

December 2, 2009 in leadership with 0 Comments

I know. The world has moved on already.

But this past October over 12,000 leaders were able to attend the Catalyst conference that’s held every year in Atlanta, Georgia, and I have about ten notebook sheets that are full of my notes that I wanted to take some time to process and share about.

I’ll do a little series sharing some of the leadership lessons and quotes that were shared.

The first was from Andy Stanley. If you don’t know Andy Stanley, he’s the lead pastor of North Point Ministries. At this time I believe it’s the third largest church in North America. He opened the conference by teaching on the story in Joshua 5:13-15. This is the story in which the Angel of the Lord appears to Joshua and he (Joshua) asks Him, “Are you for us or for our enemies.”

Here are some of the great quotes that ensued:

“Every leader leaves a mark, it just depends what kind of mark you’ll leave.”

“Before you make your mark, you need to be a leader who’s under authority, under submission to God.”

“Am I willing to submit my gifts to a larger story? I’ve been invited to play a role in His story.”

“When God does His greatest work in us we won’t know. But we don’t want to miss it.”

“Living to make my mark is too small a thing to give my whole life to.”

So were any of you there? What other quotes or lessons stood out to you from this talk?

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