Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.  –  C.S. Lewis

Since I believe in the infinite importance of Christianity I seek to grow in the area of spiritual leadership by attending the Global Leadership Summit every year.  This year was an AWESOME Summit!  Here are just a few thoughts that from the Summit that I will be reflecting upon:

Bill Hybels

You do your best work just above the level of being appropriately challenged.

If you don’t deal with challenging people in your organization, you discourage and de-motivate your best people.

The Life Cycle Exercise: Accelerating, Booming, Decelerating, Tanking.

What 5 words best describe the Good News of Jesus Christ?

• Love
• Evil
• Rescue
• Choice
• Restoration

Your God-given job as a leader isn’t to preside, pontificate, or preserve… your job is to move an organization from “here” to “there.”

Len Schlesinger

We are all entrepreneurs, only too many of us don’t get to practice it.

If you can’t predict the future, create it.

Action enables you to have more times at bat.

Cory Booker

Everyone is born an original, sadly most die copies.  Booker T. Washington

The world you see outside is always a reflection of what’s inside of you.

When sticks are in a bundle they can’t be broken.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Brenda Salter McNeil

We need Christian leaders that view catastrophic events as catalytic moments for the spirit of God to break in.

What you decide right here and right now may be the spark that lights a fire to transform your church.

Seth Godin

Someone here is going to do something that matters.

The TV-Industrial Complex: Buy Ads > Get More Distribution > Sell More Products > Make a Profit > REPEAT

There is something beyond jobs… art.

There is no map for being an artist.

Don’t wait to get picked. Pick yourself.

Just because the tide is out, it doesn’t mean there’s less water in the ocean.

We are constantly looking for a reason to not do our art.

Steven Furtick

“I despair at the thought that my life might slip by without God showing Himself mighty in my life.” – Jim Cymbala

If the size of the vision you have isn’t intimidating to you there’s a good chance it’s insulting to God.

If you want to see the land filled with water you need to dig some ditches.

If you will do what you can do God will do what only He can do.

Noah looked stupid building a boat until it started to rain.

Mama Maggie Gobran

When one has nothing God becomes everything.

We are forgiven much but live so little.

Silence your spirit to listen to His Spirit.

In silence you leave many and meet with the One. (Wow!)

Michelle Rhee

Instill a hard work ethic and hold extraordinarily high expectations.

I would rather deal with anger over change instead of apathy.

Change is an essential part of leadership

Henry Cloud

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting results.

Take the leadership challenge to not let someone’s character problem stop the mission God has called you to from moving forward.

John Dickson

Humility is not just another leadership technique. Humility is a reflection of the deep structure of reality. At the center of history is a cross… the self-giving of the Almighty. If that is true, the cruciform life is a life in touch with reality. Your attitude should be the same of that of Christ Jesus.

Patrick Lencioni

Vulnerability requires transparency, openness, sacrifice and selflessness.

Erwin McManus

Why do we allow the man who says, “everything is meaningless” shape our worldview?

“Behold, I will do something new, Now it will spring forth; Will you not be aware of it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness, Rivers in the desert.”  Isaiah 43:19

What is the future?  It’s what you choose.  (The best way to predict the future is to create it.)

There has never been an ordinary human being ever born; most of us die painfully and tragically ordinary.

What is spiritual leadership if we do not set the human nature free?

Whoever tells the best story shapes culture.

It’s not hard to evangelize when you tell a story in which they find themselves.

We are a mosaic… broken and fragmented pieces brought together by the masterful hand of an extraordinary Creator.

I invite you to join me next year at the Summit – it’s already on my calendar!