Thursday, March 31, 2011
Leadership Summit
Bill Hybels and his team started the Leadership Summit several years ago to equip leaders of both non-profits and business to become more effective leaders through training. Each year the Summit speakers come from a variety of spheres of influence including academics, business, politics, churches, and individuals with vision and raw passion. In the past, the Summit includes some speakers that are not Christ-followers (Hybels believes that all truth is given by God). Each of the keynote speakers share the obstacles and struggles that they have faced and overcome in making a difference in the lives of others. The Leadership Summits are sponsored by The Willowcreek Association, which provides a multitude of resources including DVDs, Web Seminars, and more to empower leaders to develop others. Some of the writer's favorite resources include: "A Vision to Die For," "Holy Discontent," and "The Land Between." The topics are relevant, inspiring, and challenging to create vision, passion, and ministry that creates fully devoted followers of Christ. The WillowCreek association also trains people for small group ministry, art and worship, youth, and children ministries. The leaders frequently reflect on what is working well, what is not working well, and what can be improved to be more efficient and effective. Now the WillowCreek Association provides training to several pastors and leaders under resourced countries throughout the world.
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Tina, I am encouraged to learn about Willow Creek Association. This is a good resource for present and future leaders to learn, develop, and grow into Kingdom leadership. I hope other people take advantage of this opportunity. People have a habit of thinking that they do not need leadership training. This, to me, is foolish thinking. Everyone needs some type of assistance and surely there is a great need for spiritual leaders with integrity, vision, and character within the Kingdom of God. I firmly believe the core of leadership is servanthood. A number of people do not understand the definition of minister, minister means servant (Greek-doulos). Being a servant within the Kingdom of God is one of the highest honors a person can achieve. A servant is defined as a slave, bondman, man of servile condition; a slave, devoted to another to the disregard of one's own interests. One of greatest qualities of a servant is humility or being humble. Humble (Greek-tapeinoo) is defined as to make low, bring low; metaphor to bring into a humble condition, reduce to meaner circumstances. There are many scriptures which tell us our position within the Kingdom of God when we become servants. (Mark 9:35, 10:44; Matthew 25:21, 18:1, 4; Luke 12:43 ; and John 12:26)
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