The following are a smattering of my notes taken during this afternoon's Innovate '08 keynote session led by LifeChurch.tv's Directional Leadership Team: - All organizations are a reflection of their leadership.
- The difference between where you are, and where God wants you to be, is the pain you're unwilling to endure.
- It is almost always easier to keep doing what you are doing-- not altering the status quo-- because change is difficult, and many times painful. Change is especially difficult when the decisions you make as a leader affect people you know and love.
- Certain decisions leaders make will inevitably turn out to be bad ones. But God's leaders can't be afraid to step forward and challenge the status quo, or be unwilling to make decisions, out of fear of making a bad decision.
- God will not expand our opportunities as leaders until we obey what He's already called us to do.
- Our capacity as leaders will be found in our ability to endure pain.
- What decision is God calling you to make? Is there a decision God has asked you to make that you have avoided?
