In an effort to add value to pastors and church leaders, INJOY Stewardship Solutions has dispatched me to attend the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit. During the next three days, I will be bringing the top leadership lessons from the incredible faculty the WCA has assembled.
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The final speaker was Craig Groeschel. Craig and LifeChurch.tv are known for using innovative technology to spread the Gospel to multiple locations around the U.S. and globally via Church Online. With a passion for serving the Church and partnering to reach people for Christ, LifeChurch.tv shares its resources with churches worldwide, including the free Bible app from YouVersion.
The following are 39 Leadership Quotes From Craig Groeschel from the Global Leadership Summit:
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- A secure leader knows how to laugh at himself.
- As a leader when things get hard, be still and listens to the Father’s voice.
Craig Groeschel
- We’re not going to do this thing unless we do it right.
- Your brain doesn’t know what you’re body can do.
- There’s far more in you than you ever thought possible.
- There’s way more inside you than you can imagine.
- Capacity is what you can handle. Capacity is what you can do.
- As your organization grows, your mindset has to change.
- If you don’t change the way you think, you become the lid to your organization.
- If my organization starts to struggle, I assume I am the lid.
- What got you here, will not get you there.
- Build Your Confidence.
- Expand Your Connections.
- Improve Your Competence.
- Strengthen Your Character.
- Increase Your Commitment.
- Somewhere someone is speaking The Language Of The Lid. Your words are giving you away.
- The pathway to your greatest potential is straight through your greatest fear.
- You are not who others say you are. You’re who I say you are. And you’re called to ministry. – God to Craig
- If you show me who you listen to, I’ll show you who you’re becoming.
- You may be one relationship away from changing the course of your destiny.
- One relationship changed the course of my destination.
- Don’t try to copy what people do. Learn how they think.
- The Gift of Disorientation
- You want to get around people you don’t understand.
- Decide specifically where you need to improve – communication, listening, delegating, work ethic, feedback, hiring, recruiting, firing, cast vision, how you run meetings.
- When we delegate tasks we create followers. When we delegate authority we develop leaders.
- I am working on initiating rather than responding.
- My calendar gets full of what everyone else is asking me to do.
- Talent can get you to the top. Only character will keep you there.
- If your character is not strengthening, your future is weakening.
- We need to check our lives for leaks.
- In any area where I could be potentially weak, I am removing future temptations.
- Why would I want to resist a temptation tomorrow that I can eliminate today?
- You are only as strong as you are modest.
- It is time to deal severely with that which could take you out.
- There’s a big difference between “I kind of want this” and “I must do this.”
- We are not spiritual consumers. We are spiritual contributors.
- We are willing to do anything short of sin to reach people for Christ. We are willing to do things never done before to reach people never reached before.
- You want to be a better leader? I wouldn’t miss another Leadership Summit until Jesus comes back.
- What you want determines what you’re willing to do to get it.
This concludes the Summit. In my opinion, it has been the best Summit since 2000. If you have not already, don’t forget to click the image below for your free resource from INJOY Stewardship Solutions.
