Leadership Summit Day 2

My head is still spinning from everything I heard and how God touched my heart through this experience. My pastor was one of the hosts for the satellite location and after the first session of the day he got up on stage to let everyone know next steps. He said something to the effect of 'Are you as messed up as I am after that last session?' He couldn't have put it better. I was broken and in need to solitude to process what I had heard. God reached down and touched my heart in ways I didn't know it needed to be touched.

So here is a quick summary of the day. I will dive into the few teaching that impacted my world the most later.

Craig Groeschel

• The local church is the hope of the world - I am the local church
• We have all that is necessary, we have the spirit of God
• God makes it happen - it is by him and for him
• Have a laser focus: "In order to do reach people that no one is reaching, you have to do things that no one is doing, but we can't do the same thing everybody else is doing."
• See opportunities where others see obstacles: "God guides by what he doesn't provide."
• Be willing to fail, it is a necessity: "Shake it off and step up."
• When you have it in here (your heart), you get it out here (to other people)
• What has God called you do do that you are afraid to attempt? (Wow, so many things!)
• Let God break your heart all over again.
• Craig prayed a Franciscan Prayer over the participants. Here it is:

May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart.
May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom and peace.
May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, and war, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain in to joy.
And may God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done.

Chuck Colson

• Survey the field - what is your environment
• Serve your troops - train and equip them
• Give them a bigger vision - they need a cause greater than themselves
• Follow me - that is what Jesus asked of us
• Judgment comes first in the house of God - which means in us who call ourselves Christ followers because we ARE the house of God.
• Lead people with TRUTH

Catherine Rohr

• One act of obedience at a time
• God just needs me to follow his instructions
• Just show up, get your orders for the day, and execute them
• It's not about what I am missing, it's about what I would be missing out on if I didn't follow God's prompting

Brad Anderson

• Watch other people lead
• Authentic leadership - servant leadership
• We tend to separate things that are not separable
• Results are better when more direct responsibility is given

Bill Hybels

• Refuse God nothing, say yes, every time
• Do his bidding without delay
• Honor God when no one is looking
• God is determined to use human beings as his agents of change
• If you were God for a day, would you choose you?
• What do you do when God taps you on the shoulder and tells you to step up?
• God does his purifying work when it seems as if the dream may die
• Wait as long as it takes, outlast the opposition
• Callings are holy things, precious commodities... treat them as such