Favorite Quotes from the Leadership Summit

I had a great time at the Willow Creek Leadership Summit on Thursday and Friday. I now have much more to think about, to apply, and to talk endlessly to my wife about. (She loves it - although she will deny that). On top of that, our church won an award for work with HIV/AIDs in South Africa, India, and Thailand. The really cool part is that the award came with money to put into our work there!

Here are some of my favorite points:

"Success is a self-correcting phenomena." - Gary Hammel
We must stay humble during success so that we keep reaching out for new ideas, and don't let everything get stale why we look on with overconfident denial. In our connected, and fast changing world, if we depend only on our own ideas or position, we will get left behind. We must change at least as fast as the world around us.

"It's easy to confuse motion and progress." - David Gergen
We need to become reflective practitioners - constantly evaluating and learning what is effective.

"There are two ways to be your own savior: immorality and morality ... we must not only confess our wrong-doing, but also the wrong reasons for our right-doing" - Tim Keller
If we want the Father's stuff rather than the Father, we will be spiritually dead. This applies both to trying to grab the Father's stuff on our own (immorality) or trying to do everything right to earn the Father's stuff (morality).

"Start speaking to hearts instead of pounding on wills" -Tim Keller

"Your job is to equip members, not just add staff." - Harvey Carey (speaking to the church)
YES!! IMHO, most churches spend far too little time on equipping members to do the work.