Friday, August 8
At the Leadership Summit…
I returned home from Evansville (National Student Conference) on Wednesday evening…(What an amazing time it was there with those students). I unpacked one bag and packed another to head to the Leadership Summit at a satellite site in Johnson City, TN.
The Summit is an amazing event put on by Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago. It is broadcast to hundreds of satellite sites all over North America. Johnson City is the closest for us…
Some highlights…
From Craig Groeschel’s session this morning… (Groeschel is the lead pastor at LifeChurch.tv in Oklahoma, a multi-site church---13 sites, spread among 6 states)
He shared about ‘Four qualities that are most often there when a church has IT’.
He doesn’t define ‘IT’, but he says, “You know when a place has it, don’t you?”
1- They have a laser focus…
-In order to reach people that no one is reaching, you’re going to have to do things that no one is doing…
And the question: What are you doing that you need to stop doing?
2- They see opportunities where others see obstacles…
-‘you have everything that you need to do everything you need to do’
And the question: -what is God trying to show you through your greatest limitation?
3- They are willing to fail…
-failure is a necessity and is often the first step toward seeing God…
And the question: What has God called you to do that you are afraid to attempt? Now when are you going to do it?
4- They are led by people who have IT…
-you need to have IT for people in your community to get IT
-your ministry will not have IT if you don’t have IT
And the question: If you don’t have IT, what are you going to do to get IT?
It was great stuff...
Mark Nelson at 1:16 PM 3comments
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at 1:55 PM
The Adkins Family said... I really, really, really like Groeschel.
He spoke at Catalyst last year and it was the highlight for just about everyone in our group. That brother brings it.-
at 4:11 PM
Mark Nelson said...
Yeah...he really 'brought it'...
Good style, good rhythm...now he was speaking from his new book's content, but, even knowing that, it was great...-
at 4:20 PM
said... I started reading your post as "I" "T" as "information technology." This is a new low of geekiness for me.