Live Blog From The 2014 Global Leadership Summit – 18 Leadership Quotes From Ivan Satyavrata

In an effort to add maximum value to pastors and church leaders, INJOY Stewardship Solutions has dispatched me to attend the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit.  During these two days, I will be bringing some of the top leadership lessons from the incredible faculty the WCA has assembled.

The second day afternoon’s first speaker was Ivan Satyavrata, Senior Pastor of Assembly of God Church in Kolkata, India, who spoke on the Power Of Pardox.  The following are 18 leadership quotes and lessons from his challenging session:

1. Thank you for your humbleness to listen to voices of the majority world.
2. There is no institution as connected as the local church.
3. 70% of India’s population of 1.3 billion is under 35.
4. How do live with all the burden around you?
5. Just over 1 in 1,000 call Jesus Lord (In Kolkata)
6. Power is neutral, neither good nor bad.  It is simply the ability to move things and make things happen.
7. There is no such thing as leadership without power.
8. Jesus knows all things are under His power.
9. A leader must be able to wield power, real power, in order to lead effectively.  At the same time, she must be genuinely vulnerable.
10. If knowledge is power, then surely the knowledge of God and Jesus is the ultimate power.
11. Knowledge power can tend to fill us with intoxicating pride.
12. A leader’s power lies in her ability to influence people.
13. Great leaders refuse to influence for the purposes of intimidation.
14. The greatest gift you can give to your followers is to create the ultimate safe place for them so they can soar to greater heights.
15. If you know the right thing to do, and do not do it, that for you is evil.
16. Leaders combine humility with fierce resolve.
17. The true secret of any great leader’s power is that when you feel the weakest, that’s when you really are the strongest.
18. Those leaders who are lasting are the ones who realize their power comes from God.  And that power is to be used to build people up.

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