Leadership Summit, Day #1
Like several others on this blogging community, I’m at Leadership Summit (via satellite in KC). It’s been a good experience so far. I’m such a learner, so I’m pretty easy to please with content, even if it’s not obviously applicable to collegiate ministry.
Yesterday we heard from Bill Hybels, James Meeks, Andy Stanley, and Peg Neuhauser.
Bill= Leaders love God, develop skills they need, raise up other leaders, and allow others to take their place at an appropriate time.
James= All healthy churches are growing. Christians are meant to reproduce other Christians (great commission). Why don’t churches grow? He gives 10 possible reasons, and really encouraged us to have faith that God desires for people to come to know Jesus. This has been adding to my restlessness of the fact that no one is coming to know Christ in my personal life and in our ministry. I’m not sure what’s going on, and I don’t know why, but the Lord has been making me very restless about this.
Andy= Don’t cheat your family for “church work.” When he was church-planting the church in Atlanta, he decided that he would not work for more than 45 hours/week with church stuff. After that, he goes home and spends time with his family, serving his wife, playing with his kids, etc. He’s not saying that is for everyone, but it’s just what he chose to do. He does, however, demand that pastors/staff stop cheating their family for their church out of a fear that things won’t get done and fear that the church won’t start/continue. Trust that God will build the Church. Give jobs to other people. There will ALWAYS be more to do, you have to draw a line somewhere. Andy also expects the staff not to cheat their families either. When you work, work hard. But at a good time go home. If he sees that someone is working alot, it’s not celebrating, but reprimanded. This was liberating for me to hear from a man like Andy. Praise God.
Peg= how to resolve conflict. yikes.
