These are my raw, unprocessed notes:
Bill Hybels
Session 1
Questions for making decisions
1. What does the Bible have to say about this?
2. What would smart advisors advise?
3. P/G/E - What does the pain or gain of past experiences teach you?
4. Does the spirit prompt you?
After asking these questions, make a trial decision. Spend some time imagining that you have already made the decision. Does it bring life and peace? Does it bring worry and anxiety?
Develop personal proverbs or axioms. This condenses the process of decision making and develops a language for your culture.
Some of Bill Hybel's Axioms:
Create motion for the sake of motion. If motion is not intentionally created, people will stagnate.
Leaders call fouls. Call people out when they do something inappropriate, and be prepared to call yourself out.
Take a flier. Take a calculated risk. Sometimes you just need to do something crazy to get the juices going.
This is church. Church isn't about programs and organizations and Sunday morning, church is about one-on-one, life bringing discussion; church is about raising each others kids; church is about taking care of those in your community that are in need.
Gary Haugen
Leads International Justice Mission, addressing human rights abuses all over the world.
What is leadership that matters to God?
Are Jesus and I really interested in the same things?
We are God's plan for justice in the world, and he has no other plan. We are the proof to the world that God is good. We are the body of Christ, this implies that we are to do what we know God wants to do in the world, this is what it means to give up our lives for God as living sacrifices.
Biblical injustice is the abuse of power to take from people the good things God intended for them.
How do we lead when the going seems helpless/scary/hard?
Helpless? Despair comes when we look at what we do not have the capacity to do, hope comes when we look at infinite power and love of God, and trust that he will do regardless of our capacity.
Scary? Jesus did not come to make us safe, but to free us to be brave.
Hard? Take your strengths on a more demanding climb.
1. Choose not to be safe.
2. Choose deep spiritual health.
3. Choose to seek excellence.
4. Choose to seize the joy.
I don't want us to be devoted to prayer and the acts of the early church just because they were. We shouldn't create structure for structure's sake. I want us to be devoted to prayer because without it we will surely fail.
Seize the joy - I have been processing this for a while. It should make us laugh every day that God uses such broken, goofy people to fulfill his purpose.
Daily prayers:
1. God, have mercy.
2. God, fill me with your joy.
3. God, I want to walk in step with the spirit.
How to fill the hole of leadership:
1. Where is there real need?
2. Can I add value?
3. Is anyone else already doing something about it?
And then, persevere!
Bill George
Session 3: Finding Your True North
Are we doing all we can to be a light?
Authentic leaders - be genuine, be yourself.
Leadership is responsibility
Leadership is not about followers, it's about empowering people to step up and lead.
Align, empower, serve, collaborate
Developing Leaders
1. Understand the purpose of their leadership (calling)
2. Gain self awareness - get out and do, get feedback, introspection
3. Have values and integrity
4. Follow intrinsic motivations, strengths, and talents
5. Build a support team
6. Lead an integrated life - don't worry as much about balance, but make sure that you are the same person in every area
Wendy Kopp
Session 3: Stand Up and Lead
It's easy to be a leader when you deeply believe in what you are doing
Impact does come from well managed, strategically operated organizations
Cast your vision and then:
Be purposeful - maximize your time
Be relentless - towards your vision
John Burke
Session 4: Leading in New Cultural Realities
What kind of soil do we need for the people we are leading? It is a leaders job to cultivate the soil for people.
What would it look like to create the right environment for God to move in people? Does it provide room for broken people?
Soil needs grace giving acceptance.
Soil needs authentic confessing community.
Stay connected, fruit happens.
Spiritual leadership is getting people to stay connected together.
Efrem Smith
Session 4: Leading in New Cultural Realities
Culture is expression, one must engage the culture we live in.
We must be willing to lead multinationally and multiculturally
If you cannot love across racial/cultural lines, you are going to have a hard time leading
Pot luck idea - bring a meal that represents your upbringing
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