Leadership Summit 6 of 11

Over the next five blogs I will be re-posting quotes from the Leadership Summit at Willow Creek that happened last week.  Bill Hybels heads up this conference and brings in some of the most influential leaders in the country each year to be a part of the process.  I am simply re-posting what Tony Morgan has on his blog www.tonymorganlive.com, these are not my quotes or comments.  These quotes may or may not apply to you or the position you may hold but if you can benefit from any of the truths that are written than run with it.

Leadership Summit: Wess Stafford

• Wess is the CEO of Compassion International.
• The organization is 57 years old, but they’ve doubled in size in only 4 years.
• “If you are a leader here without your team, you are missing a golden opportunity.”
• “Terrible things can happen when children are considered the lowest priority.”
• “I was beaten in that place 17 times a week.” (boarding school)
• “God must hate me.”
• “There was no one to protect us.”
• He said, “There will be Africans in hell because of this little boy.”
• “How is Daddy doing his work without me?”
• “I had gone from a victim to a victor. I received my calling.”
• “Last year, 187,000 children accepted Christ. And 50,000 of them were little Africans.”
• “I may never have the courage like I had when I was only 10 years old.”
• “It was a story that God intended for evil, but God redeemed.”
• “By God’s grace, I’m still useful.”
• “What’s your cause? Does it move you to tears? What is it that moves you passionately?”
• “If it’s nothing, don’t live like that.”
• “We have worth because of Who gives us worth, not because of what we do.”
• “You took yesterday. You cannot have tomorrow.”
• Revelation 21:4

Leadership Summit 5 of 11

Over the next seven blogs I will be re-posting quotes from the Leadership Summit at Willow Creek that happened last week.  Bill Hybels heads up this conference and brings in some of the most influential leaders in the country each year to be a part of the process.  I am simply re-posting what Tony Morgan has on his blog www.tonymorganlive.com, these are not my quotes or comments.  These quotes may or may not apply to you or the position you may hold but if you can benefit from any of the truths that are written than run with it.

Leadership Summit: Andrew Rugasira

• Andrew is from Uganda. See “Good African Coffee.”
• Here’s the link to their site: www.goodafrican.com
• About Africa: “We have entrepreneurs, but we don’t celebrate that.”
• 53 countries in Africa. 900 million people.
• “Africa produces products but they do not consume.”
• 14,000 coffee suppliers in his company.
• Handouts don’t generate change.
• “There is no country in the world that has developed through handouts.”
• “Trade is the only sustainable way to take a country out of poverty.”
• Africa contributes only 2% of world’s merchandise.
• “Every time we look at Africa, we only see the problems and not the opportunities.”
• “Aid is not effective. Aid is not really aid.”
• “Aid undermines accountability.”
• [He's talking about how government aid is making things worse in Uganda. Yet, this is the same strategy we use to fix problems in the U.S. Go figure.]
• “The best kindness you can demonstrate is by helping people help themselves.”
• “That’s how the most advanced economies developed.”
• “Trade not aid.”

Leadership Summit 4 of 11

Over the next eight blogs I will be re-posting quotes from the Leadership Summit at Willow Creek that happened last week.  Bill Hybels heads up this conference and brings in some of the most influential leaders in the country each year to be a part of the process.  I am simply re-posting what Tony Morgan has on his blog www.tonymorganlive.com, these are not my quotes or comments.  These quotes may or may not apply to you or the position you may hold but if you can benefit from any of the truths that are written than run with it.

Leadership Summit: Dave Gibbons

• “Third culture” = adaptation
• “It’s normal for us to love someone like us.”
• “Third culture leader is focused on the fringe.”
• “It’s about the misfits rather than the masses.”
• “The margins lead the movements.”
• “In God’s economy, vision should move from the fringes to the middle.”
• “Who is the outsider?”
• “Third culture leaders have a different set of metrics.”
• “Failure is success to God. It’s your platform to humanity.”
• “Do you have time to listen to people’s stories at your church?”
• “When you walk through the crowds, walk slowly.”
• “Weakness guides us more than our strengths.”
• “Relationships trump vision. You can’t have a great vision unless you have a great relationship with God.”
• “We don’t need more visionaries. We need more relationaries.”
• “I spend most of my time on leadership development.”
• “Let the local leadership lead the way.”
• “Obedience is more important than passion.”
• “I don’t think Jesus ‘felt’ like going to the cross.”
• “If you were dependent on the Holy Spirit, you would pray.”

Leadership Summit 3 of 11

Over the next nine blogs I will be re-posting quotes from the Leadership Summit at Willow Creek that happened last week.  Bill Hybels heads up this conference and brings in some of the most influential leaders in the country each year to be a part of the process.  I am simply re-posting what Tony Morgan has on his blog www.tonymorganlive.com, these are not my quotes or comments.  These quotes may or may not apply to you or the position you may hold but if you can benefit from any of the truths that are written than run with it.

Leadership Summit: Tim Keller

• Tim Keller has just taken the platform and begun his talk.
• Tim is talking about the parable of the prodigal son.
• Both sons loved the Father’s things but didn’t love the Father.
• Both sons rejected God–one was moral and one was immoral.
• “The ‘bad boy’ is saved at the end of the parable, but the ‘good boy’ is lost.”
• “Elder brothers are obeying God to get things.”
• “People who believe the Gospel are utterly different.”
• “Older brothers get angry when their life doesn’t go well. They believe God owes them.”
• “The one thing elder brothers rarely do is just enjoy God.”
• “It’s impossible for elder brothers not to be constantly loathing people.”
• “Elder brothers can’t forgive. You have to have a fair amount of pride to stay angry.”
• “Until you have learned to repent for the motivation for your right doing, there’s no renewal.”
• “You, the leader, have to work this into your heart yourself.”
• “If you are a preacher, move beyond biblical principles to the Gospel.”
• “Get a group of leaders and help them through this process.”
• “Work it into your congregation.”
• “Pray for this.”

Leadership Summit 2 of 11

Over the next ten blogs I will be re-posting quotes from the Leadership Summit at Willow Creek that happened last week.  Bill Hybels heads up this conference and brings in some of the most influential leaders in the country each year to be a part of the process.  I am simply re-posting what Tony Morgan has on his blog www.tonymorganlive.com, these are not my quotes or comments.  These quotes may or may not apply to you or the position you may hold but if you can benefit from any of the truths that are written than run with it.

Leadership Summit: Gary Hamel

Leadership Summit 1 of 11

Over the next eleven blogs I will be re-posting quotes from the Leadership Summit at Willow Creek that happened last week.  Bill Hybels heads up this conference and brings in some of the most influential leaders in the country each year to be a part of the process.  I am simply re-posting what Tony Morgan has on his blog www.tonymorganlive.com, these are not my quotes or comments.  These quotes may or may not apply to you or the position you may hold but if you can benefit from any of the truths that are written than run with it.

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