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Leadership Summit – Day 2 – Chuck Colson

Chuck Colson, known for his unbelievable prison ministries, is up now. When he started prison ministry, 229,000 people were in prison. Now there are over 2.9 million…

The job of a leader is not to pander to your people, but lead them.

Are we captive to the culture? 

From his latest book, The Faith,  there are a couple of questions/ideas to think about:
1) What is Christianity?  - it is seeing everything through the eyes of God  
2) What is wrong with us? the world? society? It’s us…because of the fall. Man chose the Non-Good path.
3) The birth of Christ is about God coming in the flesh to conquer Satan.
4) God is the Triune.
5) We are reconciled by the cross.

Christianity isn’t about imposing, but proposing. We believe in free will, free markets, free government, and human freedoms, the essential thought of the Gospel.

Lead your people and equip them, giving a vision that your people can’t help but follow.

Leadership Summit – Day 2 – Craig Groeschel

We (Cornerstone Staff) are at the Summit today, over at CCCEV. Craig Groeschel (from LifeChurch.tv is up now talking about IT.

 

What is IT? How do we get IT?
LifeChurch.tv campus growth – Tenn campus up 30%, NY campus up 145%, Craig’s own campus down 3%. What is IT?

How do we get IT? Don’t know…
Looking at the old church – Acts 2:42-47 – Clearly these guys had it.

Looking across his campuses that have IT, there are 4 things that he has noticed: 
1) They have a laser focus.
2) They see opportunities when others see obstacles
3) Organizations that have it are willing to fail.
4) Organizations that have it are led by people that have it.

Questions:
What are you doing that you need to stop doing?
What is God trying to show through your greatest limitation?
What has God called you to do that you’re afraid to do?

When Craig says he lost IT, he took a journey to find it. He stopped reading other Pastor’s books, and read the Bible only. He started fasting again. He went to a foreign country that held a baby that wouldn’t live a week after he left. He opened his heart and found IT again.

Craig wrapped up with a Franciscan benediction:
May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart.

May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom and peace.

May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, and war, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain in to joy.

And may God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done. 

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excitement, sadness, & then a trip to Apple

Well, I was really excited to shoot this wedding on the west side, but apparently they called it off. We found out when we were rolling in to shoot prep, and no one answered the door. Me and my lovely second (my wife) grabbed lunch and finally tracked down the MOB. She told us the sad news, so we headed out. 

On the way home, we headed up to the brand spanking new Apple store and scored some free tees. If anyone is interested in visiting it, it is very similar to the San Tan store in shape and design. Enjoy the photos.