“We have to understand that God leads through pain. And every leader I know walks with a limp.”
“Pastors as a profession, as a vocation, as a calling, see more of the wear and tear of life than any other human endeavor.”
“As long as you are pastoring the church as a senior pastor, you will never have another vacation or holiday in your life.”
“I would encourage everybody to say, who are my pain partners, who is willing to walk this journey with me?”
“If your paradigms are mere tweaks of what you were doing a few years ago, you’re going to crash. We are living in a time in which you have to re-engineer, call it ‘re-church’ if you want to.”
“There was a time that the pastor could come into [the] staff meeting and throw something on the whiteboard and say, ‘This is what we’re thinking about doing. This is the why, this is the how and where and so on and so forth,’ and go into a planning mode. Now you have to encourage them to be part of the decision-making.”
“It’s going to be a chaotic moment because people are looking for stability right now.”
“Everything within us as human beings wants to move from the uncertain to the certain, from the unknown to the known. But in the Bible, every biblical character, God has moved them from the known to the unknown, from the certain to the uncertain.”
“Leading in ambiguity, in my opinion, is the highest level of leadership.”
“If [your church staff] take[s] the journey with you and really buy[s] into the [fact that] change has changed, then the strategies and the tactics that might emerge from that will have much more Velcro stickiness to them than if you were to stand up there and say, ‘Hey guys, let me tell you three things that have changed.’ That’s a non-starter in the world we’re living in now.”
Mentioned in the Show
“Change Has Changed: Time for a Strategic Reset” by Sam Chand
“Culture Catalyst: Seven Strategies to Bring Positive Change to Your Organization” by Sam Chand
“How Leaders Create Chaos and Why They Should” by Sam Chand
“Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth” by Sam Chand
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