Global Leadership Summit: My Takeaways
On August 8 and 9, I had the wonderful opportunity to once again attend the Global Leadership Summit, a vision of Pastor Bill Hybels and the Willow Creek Association. These two days of instruction, encouragement - and even rebuke - were game-changers. Over the next few days, I'll share a few quotes from several speakers, so you don't have to just take my word for it. Today I'll begin with... Pastor Bill Hybels, Willow Creek Community Church Pastor Bill Hybels opened the first morning, challenging leaders to be courageous , as God encouraged Joshua to be in Joshua 1:9. Courage, Bill said, must be paired with vision. And what is vision? "Vision is a picture of the future that creates passion in people." Have you ever experienced passion that had its genesis in someone else's vision? Better yet... has God ever given YOU a vision that created passion in others? It's an amazing thing. Yet Bill had a warning about vision. Vision can b...