Here are some of my favorite points and quotes from the 2020 Orange Conference.
Kristen Ivy
- The grace you give yourself changes everything
- Become all things to all people
- Paul was suggesting we need to understand people first
- It’s hard to give people hope before knowing why they need hope
- Understand their perspective
Simon Sinek
- How are we going to adapt our model to these new times?
- There’s an opportunity if we are willing to change
- Change actually highlights what doesn’t change
- Crisis gets us out of the weeds
- There’s no such thing as winning in education or your marriage
- There is an explosion trying to find belonging
- We can debate the route but the destination must be shared
- This younger generation is more of an activist generation
Danielle Strickland
- “No one can stop an idea whose time has come.” – Winnie Mandela
- Every revolution has an idea
- There are three components which make a revolution:
- 1. An incredible idea at the right time
- 2. A catalytic leader with a supportive community
- 3. A mechanism to communicate the original message
- The greatest revolutionary leader of all-time is Jesus
- Love is a revolution
- The idea is that God is love and you are loved by God
- There is no stopping this revolution because it’s based on love
- I cannot over-estimate the loving qualities of God
- Love invites us to know the truth about their own limitations but also a great power than us – Jesus
- Love empowers us the be the revolution the world definitely needs
- We’ve spent an entire generation trying to convince people that Jesus is God
- Now is the revolutionary time to convince people God is love
Andy Stanley
- What’s the faith of the next generation worth?
- The faith of the next generation is worth everything
- Churches without a plan for the next generation are not great churches
- Churches that have a plan for the next generation generally do better
- The churches who are fully invested in the next generation have more resources and have better leaders
- Organize your church toward the next generation in terms of budgeting, staffing, and everything else
- Organizations are dumb – they do what they are organized to do
- Love is their ethic, but it’s loosely and conveniently defined
- Frame the invitation into a dynamic faith around an invitation to follow Jesus
- This is about changing language, not changing your faith
- Love is our common ground
- What does love require of me?
