All I can say is, wow.
HT: Provocative Church

Here is what I learned at the conference over the last 2 days:

From Shawn Lovejoy’s talk:

• Healthy leaders produce healthy churches and unhealthy leaders produce unhealthy churches.
• It take DISCIPLINE to be healthy.
• A lack of physical discipline will spill over into every area of your life.
• Being a disciplined leader gives the leader authority to lead.

From Steven Furtick’s talk:

•  From the promise to the payoff there is always a costly process.
• Courageous leadership is not a product of cut and paste, it must come from the inside out.
• You can’t mimic someone else’s miracle.
• The difference between a day dream and a burning vision is the audacity to act.

From Darin Patrick’s talk:

• The first point of Luther’s 95 thesis was “all of life is repentance”.
• Pastors are often the worst repentors.

From Mark Batterson’s talk:

• Don’t play the comparison game, its just pointless.
•  Success isn’t numbers, King Saul got hung up on that and it got him nowhere.
• Celebrate your failures because you learn a great deal from them.

The conference was very good, and possibly the best part was just networking and being encouraged by other church planters.