• Everyone is a creative genius. @ed_young 

• What’s keeping you from unleashing your uniqueness? @ed_young

• Creativity is turning what if into what is. @ed_young

• Creativity is problem solving. @ed_young

• Systems are important but don’t worship them. @ed_young

• Embrace chaos and conflict. @ed_young

• Don’t let finances limit your imagination. @ed_young

• See culture through the eyes of Bible. OS Hawkins

• Having the fear of the Lord is not fearing that God is going to put His hand ON you to hit you but rather that He would remove His hand (of blessing and anointing) OFF your life. OS Hawkins

• The secrets of the Lord are with those who fear Him. OS Hawkins 

• Unexpected things happen. @lisayoungfc

• Your spouse’s calling is my calling. @lisayoungfc

• It is in our disappointments where God shows up the most. @lisayoungfc

• People are watching how you go through things. @lisayoungfc

• Your response matters. Your reaction affects others. @lisayoungfc

• Let go of control. @lisayoungfc

• When I try to control what I can’t control I lose control over the things that I can control. @lisayoungfc

• Retrain your thinking from disappointment: Drop back, Talk back, Lean back, Look back, Bounce back. @lisayoungfc

• God is going to increase and expand your appointment through your disappointments. @lisayoungfc

• Never leave the details behind. @edshaikh

• You are not everything to everyone. @edshaikh

• Less is more. @edshaikh

• What you wear sends a message. @edshaikh

Panel session: Conflict of Interest

• Conflict is positive. 

• Conflict is proof the change is coming.

• We don’t use the term “conflict” but “clarify.”

• Ask: Is that person seeking truth or seeking to argue?

• Often times tiredness triggers conflict.

• Pull your emotions out if it. 

• Conflict is the distance between expectations and reality. 

• Ask: What problem are we solving?

• Words matter. 

• State the obvious so that others don’t live in oblivious. 

• Boundaries: Good fences make good neighbors. 

• Learn your leader’s patterns and rhythm. Become a student of your leader. 

• You don’t have to fight every fight. 

• If you need them (for affirmation and approval) you can’t lead them. 

• They come for a reason and stay for a season. 

• Don’t put your security in people. 

• Don’t communicate conflict in writing or through social. Do it in person. 

• Don’t hit send. When you send it you are forced to defend it. 

• Responsibility is the best word for leadership. 

• Be humble and listen. 

• Who does what by when?

Panel session: Beyond the Blank Page

• Develop the discipline of planning. 

• Plan within a team. 

• Plan Sundays at least 10 days in advance. 

• Communication is key. 

• Worst thing is wasting volunteers time. 

• Big ideas require big teams. 

• We are the side show, it’s not about us. 

• God prepared a table for you for intimacy. @louiegiglio

• People don’t have time for tables (sitting and waiting) nowadays. @louiegiglio

• We are so concerned with the world proving how spiritual we are that we have missed the moment. @louiegiglio

• The enemy wants a seat at your table. @louiegiglio

• You know the enemy is at your table if you keep thinking: It’s better at the other table. @louiegiglio

• You know the enemy is at your table if there’s a voice telling you: you are not going to make it and that you’re not enough. @louiegiglio

• What He paid for this dinner is unreal. @louiegiglio

• The table is surrounded by your enemies to show you that you can have peace in their midst. @louiegiglio

• Depression is real but not bigger than Jesus. @louiegiglio

• Any tree with beauty above ground also has a lot going on underground. @phildooley

• The power of the tree with in its longevity. @phildooley

• Trees see time as an advantage. @phildooley

• Time takes time. @phildooley

• Patience and impatience both produce something. @phildooley

• Consistency builds strength. @phildooley

• Fruit is product of a healthy tree. @phildooley

• The goal the health, the result is fruit. @phildooley

• A tree isn’t effected by its environment but it’s seed. @phildooley

• Always pray, not just in crisis. @charlesnieman

• Ain’t know blessing on being dumb. @charlesnieman

• At times you will be tempted to throw in the towel. @charlesnieman

• No army has ever gone into a fight with a white flag. @charlesnieman

• Don’t plan to surrender. @charlesnieman

• Life is not going to be easy and nice simply because your called. @charlesnieman

• Faith is believing and speaking. Believing drives our speaking. @charlesnieman

• Don’t just live a saved life but a called life. @charlesnieman

• To have grit means to be resolute. @charlesnieman

• If you quit, is your life going to get better? @charlesnieman

• Get back in the fight. @charlesnieman

• If you quit what are you going to tell your kids and church? @charlesnieman

• If you can’t take it, you shouldn’t have ever started.  @charlesnieman

• Grit is more important that talent. @charlesnieman

• Because He is in me I can always get back up. @charlesnieman

• If you quit, you won’t experience  God’s restoration. @charlesnieman

• When my wife left me (passed away) God didn’t. @charlesnieman

• Not everyone is building houses that can withstand storms. @priscillashirer

• Who will remain? @priscillashirer

• You don’t have to go looking for a storm, storms come to you. @priscillashirer

• What kind of house are you building? @priscillashirer

• You can’t quit a calling. @priscillashirer

• Remain in a leaving culture. @priscillashirer

• Remain because Jesus is coming. @priscillashirer

• When I get to heaven God is going to ask me about my house. @priscillashirer

• We are too concerned with each other houses. @priscillashirer

• When your little (young)your job is to know your father. @priscillashirer

• Too much weight on young legs will hurt you. @priscillashirer

• In your teenage years, the weight will bring out what is on the inside. @priscillashirer

• We need spiritual parents. @priscillashirer

• You commit to honoring Him and He will build your house. @priscillashirer

• People will remember how you left. Don Lichi 

• Get beyond sin management. Don Lichi 

• Have quiet time. Don Lichi 

• Ministry is rewarding. Don Lichi 

• Stay in a blessable position.  Don Lichi 

• Church workers: don’t confuse your work with your walk. Don Lichi 

• Just because you think something it doesn’t make it true. Don Lichi 

• Have a pain partner. Someone who will be a support for you during difficult moments. Someone who is willing to ask a second question (tell me more). Someone who won’t be overwhelmed with your honesty. Don Lichi 

• Stay faithful to the call. Don Lichi 

• Don’t question in the night what He revealed to you in the day. Don Lichi 

• To remain means: I’m moving in. Don Lichi 

• A secret revealed loses its power. Don Lichi

• You can’t bring back the glory of God without gladness. @bishopjakes

• Your attitude determines your altitude. @bishopjakes

• If the structure is right, you can place weight on it. @bishopjakes

• When it seems like God is not doing anything, He is doing everything. @bishopjakes

• Saul was worried about the position, David was focused on the presence. @bishopjakes

• On the road to destiny the “ox” will trip. @bishopjakes

• Just because you’re David (called) it doesn’t mean you won’t trip. @bishopjakes

• When your emotion start making decisions, you make bad decisions. @bishopjakes

• The world can rap, song, and dance too what’s going to make the Church different? @bishopjakes

• You didn’t come to get a cart but the glory. @bishopjakes

• What you give away is an indication of what you value. @bishopjakes

• His destiny was out on hold because of his values. @bishopjakes

• People now rather be on stage than at the altar. @bishopjakes

• Increase your hunger for God not your budget. @bishopjakes

• Don’t be a cheap copy of a rich original. @bishopjakes

• Take big steps- there is no time for small acting. @bishopjakes

For more information about C3, please visit: https://www.c3conference.com.

• Prayer helps you focus. @onteriogreen

• Fasting is waiting to hear from God. @onteriogreen

• Study God’s word because you’re hungry. @onteriogreen

• Integrity is who you are and what you do when know one is watching. @onteriogreen

• Stay planted. @onteriogreen

• You will reproduce who you are. @onteriogreen

• It's easier to recover from a black eye than a bad word. @onteriogreen

• You can’t change what they said about you but you can change what you think about you. @onteriogreen

• The weaker you are the more God can use you. @onteriogreen

• Fear is a destiny thief. @onteriogreen

• Fear wants to disguise itself as comfort. @onteriogreen

• Rest in what God has called you to. @onteriogreen

• Everything rises and falls on leadership. @randybezet

• Great leaders are learners. @randybezet

• He didn’t call me to grow the church but to simply be faithful. @randybezet

• Just because you’re in your calling doesn’t mean your development has ended. @randybezet

• Embrace the process. @randybezet

• Patience is developed not given. @randybezet

• He was more interested in being developed than discovered. @randybezet

• There is no progress for the leader who does not embrace the process. @randybezet

• Faithfulness leads to opportunities. @randybezet

• Every opportunity is for you to be developed. @randybezet

• It’s what you don't see, that separates you form everyone else. @randybezet

• Always honor authority. @randybezet

• You honor the position not just the person. @randybezet

• The kind of follower you are, is the kind of follower you will attract. @randybezet

• Vision remains a dream until you let it out. @onteriogreen

• Some of us are dream heavy and vision light. @onteriogreen

• If you can accomplish your vision on your own, it's not a God dream. @onteriogreen

• What you speak you give life to. @onteriogreen

• Vision gives: Clarity, Brings direction, Creates timing, & Pace. @onteriogreen

• Jesus got more done walking than He did running. @onteriogreen

• Slow down and you might be able to maintain the pace of the things you keep quitting. @onteriogreen

• Pressure can steal your vision. @onteriogreen

• If you don’t like diversity, you won’t like heaven. @onteriogreen

• Jesus is the prescription for heart rot. @crystaltgreen

• Your social media should be sending people back to a website. @battlebrandsco

• Focus on the quality not quantity of the posts. @battlebrandsco

• People are on social to engage with you. @battlebrandsco

• Listen to you audience. @battlebrandsco

• Your life and content should match. @battlebrandsco

• Don’t drop the human touch. @battlebrandsco

• Key with branding is consistency. @battlebrandsco

To learn about The Platoon Coaching Program, visit: https://www.onteriogreen.com/coaching

To purchase the audio (mp3) from the 2020 sessions, visit: https://squareup.com/store/onteriogreen

Want to accomplish more in less time? Here are 30 tips to get you to your best productivity.

1. Choose daily/weekly big 3.

2. Get away from your phone.

3. Clean your environment.

4. Write things down.

5. Use the ‘Golden Rule of Procrastination.’

6. Schedule email time.

7. Delegate & outsource tasks.

8. Eliminate items from your schedule.

9. Automate tasks and appointments.

10. Listen to music.

11. Learn to say ‘no.’

12. Batch similar events.

13. Eat foods that increase productivity.

14. Turn off notifications.

15. Go to sleep.

16. Wake up early.

17. Limit multi-tasking.

18. Organize your phone/computer.

19. Convert your driving/travel time.

20. Celebrate milestones.

21. Use a project management program.

22. Set deadlines.

23. Host better meetings.

24. Set reminders on your phone.

25. Use templates.

26. Don’t stop learning.

27. Do your most dreaded task first.

28. Measure twice, cut once.

29. Smile!

30. Take one step at a time.

Download the pdf version, click here.

Passages: Matthew 9:35-38, Matthew 10: 1-7

• We pray so God can send people but we prepare so we can steward them.

• You can build for growth or control. 

• Insecurity controls. Ignorance controls. 

• Give authority not just tasks; that’s empowerment. 

• Great leaders take the blame but give away the credit.

• In meetings the best ideas should win, no matter who they come from.

• It’s amazing what people will do when people think it’s their idea. 

• People matter. How well do you know your team?

• Jesus sent out his disciples with specific goals. 

• 3 C’s of Instruction & Training:

  • Community- Do they have community for relationships?

  • Correction- Have correction for growth. Correct in the right setting.

  • Clarity- Clarity for tasks.

• You’ll hit your ceiling if you hold on to everything. 

• Illustration: Teaching a child to ride a bike

  • Most churches don’t leave training wheels stage.

  • As you release control it will get scary and people will mess up.

  • Maybe the reason why you’re tired is because you’ve been running and holding the bike seat for too long.

  • Release the seat!

To learn more about Justin Dailey, visit https://www.instagram.com/justindailey/.

To learn more about Action Church, visit https://www.theactionchurch.com/.

Oh! Teach us to live well! Teach us to live wisely and well!

Psalm 90:12 MSG

From a very young age I became fixed on the subject of Personal Growth but I soon began to notice a pattern in my life that led me to learn that time management isn’t enough. I had the time but I didn't have the energy.

Have you ever said this prayer- if only I had more time.

The truth is more time wouldn’t help.

More of something doesn’t change you, it reveals you. 

Example: money, time, opportunities, etc...

Time is finite. We only get 24 hour a day.

We can’t create more time but we can create more energy.

Our goal is not to work harder. Our goal is to manage energy smarter. @craiggroeschel 

The 4 Types of Energy (Energy Tanks)

1. Physical Energy- Ask yourself what rhythms, supplements, diets, exercise routines, rest, or recreation creates peak production, strength, and energy. Each person is different. You cannot manage what you do not measure, so experiment and see what works best for you. 

2. Emotional Energy- When you make difficult decisions, have difficult interactions, or try to solve difficult problems, you drain your emotional energy. When you are emotionally depleted, it’s wise to know specifically what refills your emotional tank. It may be spending time with others or taking time alone to listen, think, or journal. If you don’t know what refuels you emotionally, you will often find yourself emotionally depleted. 

“You cannot lead at the highest level or love from the deepest part of your heart when you are emotionally empty.” @craiggroeschel 

3. Mental/Creative Energy- One way to refill your mental tank is by taking in and by giving out. Take in new information, perspectives, and ideas by spending time with people who challenge you, learning new concepts in books, podcasts, or articles. Turn down time into learning time.

You can also refill this tank by giving out. Creating helpful content might energize you, but balance the intake with the output. If you have no outlet, you can easily be left frustrated. If you put out too much without refilling your tank, you’re in danger of burning out. 

4. Spiritual Energy- We are also spiritual beings, the best place to find strength, energy, purpose, and passion is not just success in the world, but in living for a higher purpose and from a higher power. 

Exercise:

Do an Energy Audit

Identify Energy vampires: What drains you?

Identify Energy empires: What sustains/replenishes you?

Questions:

1. Of the four energy tanks, which one needs refilling?

2. What are you going to do to fill that tank?
   

Your energy matters.

Download the pdf, click here.

• God is looking for bold creatives. @nikgoodner

• Never sacrifice people on the altar of excellence. @johndavisharris

• Vulnerability is crucial to being a healthy human. @themartytaylor

• People are hungry for authenticity. @themartytaylor

• Find people whose starting point is further than your ending point. @jasonvernon_

• Are you just the leader or are you leading? @jasonvernon_

• You work for your team, they don’t work for you. @jasonvernon_

• People will remember how you make them feel. @jasonvernon_

• Outwork the vision. @jasonvernon_

• Honor yesterday, inspire tomorrow. @jasonvernon_

• Discretion and discern. Maturity has both. @chariorozco

• Your church job is not to build your portfolio but His Kingdom. @chariorozco

• God did not come for a title but a cross. @chariorozco

• It’s your roots that sustain you in a storm, not your fruits. @chariorozco

• Be good where you are at. @chariorozco

• Just because it’s hard doesn’t mean it’s not from God. @chariorozco

To learn more about CRTV CHURCH, visit https://crtvchurch.com/.

Rich Wilkerson Jr @richwilkersonjr

• The hope of any community is found in the believers of that community. 

• In Jesus last prayer He prays for unity on the believers. 

• The devil doesn’t fear a big church but a United Church. 

• Comparison steals your contentment. 

• God will not multiply what you don’t maximize.

• Half the people you are competing with you aren’t even competing with you.

• If your heart can’t feel it, make your mouth say it.

• Authenticity comes from identity.

• A critical spirit leads to a doubting heart.

• Charisma gets man’s attentions but character gets God’s attention. 

• Whatever your gift starts, your character will finish. 

• The Holy Spirit has two jobs: restrict and release.
  

DawnChere Wilkerson @dawnchere

• LIVING the dream is different than DREAMING the dream.

• God is not honored by your dream but by your faith.

• A dream is not worth dreaming of it is not centered around Jesus.

• Live with faith, fortitude, and forgiveness. 

• To live out your dream you will walk through pain and adversity.

Register for Vous Conference 2020: http://vousconference.com/

Success for me is when what I see looks like what I saw inside. 

Not knowing is is painful. 

You can do more sometimes when you don’t know. 

Sometimes your enemy is that you know too much. 

Wait to connect to something strong enough that can support what you have. 

Don’t stop being curious. 

If you stay comfortable with unknowing you will keep growing. 

He ran past you because he doesn’t know not because he’s better than you. 

Be a fool again. 

Come to the text with more questions than answers. 

Shatter your truth. 

When God is going to train a leader he makes them unstable. 

Workout illustration: leaning on a ball, you have to get it from your core. 

Now you have to walk by faith. 

You earned this test. 

You graduated to this test. 

You need people with fluidity. 

You cannot be creative when you already know or are not curious. 

Someone is going to kill your Goliath with less. 

Wonderment- Because you don’t approach her without wonder, you won’t discover her. 

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision. 

Blind with your eyes wide open. 

It’s easier to critic than change. 

Be an artist again. 

Have a crisis management plan. 

Who speaks and who doesn’t. 

When did being right become more important than being married? 

Alternative facts will kill your organization. 

The people who have access to you will either make you or break you. 

Just because you have a title doesn’t mean you have influence. 

You cannot make great decisions with bad information. 

It’s ok to say ‘I don’t know’ and ‘let me find out’. 

There’s more in your spouse than you know. 

Mark 8:22-26

Jesus took him out of the city.

Blind people survive knowing their environment.

You’re trapped in what you know. 

You don’t need a vision when you have a tradition. 

I got to get out of here! 

There are no miracles in the familiar. 

If you ain’t scared you ain’t living.

Your problem is not your sight but your environment. 

Why do we cling to what is killing us. 

Out of the city to a place of total dependence. 

The miracles started when the familiarity ended.

This will not be that!

To learn more about the International Pastors & Leaders Conference please visit: http://pastorsandleaders.org/.

God is about unity.

The third option is that we honor what we have in common. 

We have more in common than we think. 

Activist chose a side and have to defend it. 

We have been called to be prophetic. 

Our differences become assets. 

Sociology: Grouping 

In group- you understand 

Out group- you don’t understand 

With my out group there is a lot of space for education. 

When you come into a conversation with the assumption that you’re going to get along you do. 

What assumptions am I making?

1. Acknowledge you have a blind spot. 

2. Rename them as your Brother and Sister. 

3. Give in group love to your out group. 

4. Acknowledge your brothers/sisters color. 

5. View ever conversation as a race consultation. 

6. Give your heart to those not like you. 

The only thing faster than light is darkness running away.  

#thethirdoptionchallenge

Take a 60 second video with someone who does not look like you and tell them when you love them. 

To learn more about the International Pastors & Leaders Conference please visit: http://pastorsandleaders.org/.

• God dreams change everything! @chrisrailey5

• Goals are about what we can do, dreams are about what God can do.  @chrisrailey5

• He doesn’t call us to be successful but faithful. @chrisrailey5

• He appointed you a prophet: speak like one, act like one. @pastorchoco

• Undertaking can wait, obedience cannot. @pastorchoco

• If God said it I believe it. @pastorchoco

• God knew your limitations before you knew His expectations. @glynbarrett

• God won’t lower His expectations because of my limitations. @glynbarrett

• God’s only limitation is my expectations. @glynbarrett

• No matter what you achieve you will always be His child. @priscillashirer

• When I get to Heaven, He is only interested in what I did with His son Jesus. @priscillashirer

• You don’t have to be great just be faithful. @scottwilson7

• After faithful comes fruitful. @scottwilson7

To download my complete sermon and breakout session notes, click here.

For information on CMN Conference 2020, click here.

To listen to CMN Conference 2018, click here.