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Everyone is running back to their seats…Bono is on his way.

Bill H is speaking about the difference between Aid and lifesaving acts of compassion. We are called to this while we are on the way to fixing the system through long term lifesaving empowerment and aid. We can sort this out under the leading of the Holy Spirit.

Trust in the Lord with all you heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your path straight. This path direction has lead him across the path of Bono. when the video was aired he was a bit unsure of how it would land.

The interview:

• 1963 Kennedy said that in a decade we would put a man on the moon. He lead this way, not waiting for others to approve, but he did it.
• We should be able to accomplish putting humanity back on the earth  since we sent a man to the moon. Clean water, saving the environment.
• Only love can leave such a mark.
• The church has done remarkable things….didn’t know the giant could run that fast.
• It’s an offense that we are not getting 2 pills a day…and the church is in the lead in accomplishing.
• Bed nets have malaria deaths down by 50%
• Rwanda has pediatric wards with no children because there is no need. ARV’s are now available. Love thy neighbor is a command. Can we enjoy the benefits of a globalized economy without participating in a helpful way.
• Eaglebrook Church in MN was keeping up with their own church growth…came to the conclusion that we must act globally. Watch where God is working and go there. People are ready to give but the leader is responsible to channel that. Visually and emotionally engage…Spiritual maturity is marked by fiscal generosity. Did you do anything for the least of these.
• Bono…when a new song comes to him he is blessed. Where the streets have no name is one of these…feels like God walks through the room. he wrote the lyrics in Ethiopia 20 years ago at a feeding station. He saw people that had been coming through the night to get food as the mist was rising.

Lyrics:

I want to run
I want to hide
I want to tear down the walls
That hold me inside
I want to reach out
And touch the flame
Where the streets have no name

I want to feel, sunlight on my face
See that dust cloud disappear without a trace
I want to take shelter from the poison rain
Where the streets have no name

Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
Were still building
Then burning down love, burning down love
And when I go there
I go there with you…
(its all I can do)

The cities a flood
And our love turns to rust
Were beaten and blown by the wind
Trampled into dust
Ill show you a place
High on ta desert plain
Where the streets have no name

Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
Still building
Then burning down love
Burning down love
And when I go there
I go there with you
(its all I can do)

• There are churches that built hospitals. There was a girl that became a face of the hospital campaign. Sacrifice and give. The emotion draws people. cutting back on lunch saved this many kids…there was a family that was saving up for infertility treatment. They gave the money to save lots of children. There was a move of God as they raised 500k when all they needed was 160k.
• Why did it take a rock star to make this kind of change?
• The government bail out says in a crisis we can find the money to take care of the banks. So someone crying out across the world for lifesaving is not a crisis!
• Why are you not affiliated with a church? Suspicions of denominational-ism. Happy just walking down a road. Tired of a lifeless ceremony. In a place where everyone is welcome. They want magic and a moment…
• Churches that would encourage the members to go and serve because they have been given an idea at the service. Unleash people to go do what God has called us to do.
• We need to put ourselves in the equation.
• We will better to stand for things than stand against things.
• Bono:The church tends to stand for what separate us. That is not grace. I’m moved when I see grace like in Africa. Shouldn’t be surprised that we are facing resistance. It’s an ongoing message of equality.
• 2 families sharing one bed. Makes you angry. Put the anger into action. These ’statistics’ have faces with blood running through their veins. It’s not ok for a child to die for lack of a .20 shot or someone to starve in the 20th century.

I might add that it is not ok to let people die without the chance to hear the gospel.

• failure is the early warning sign for success.
• We attribute things to people rather than there situation. We look at people rather than their circumstance.
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
• Let’s broaden opportunities for the workers. Sculpt the path so the elephant can succeed.
• When change occurs there is usually a
• A deep emotional appeal will draw people to the change. It directs the rider…the elephant goes that way.
• had problems getting online so this is why I’ve  not gotten a lot of good stuff here…you should get the DVD if you can.

• Leadership is journey that we are on individually, but there are people that will help you. Introduce you to literature, etc.
• A teacher will not produce a leader…but can create a culture within the organization
• it’s not when students learn things but when they go and do things.
• How does a leader get better at leading? you must learn to lift yourself up…be a reflective practitioner.
• reflective practice…where you learn leadership is in the practice of it. You must read about it as well. Truman became self educated “not every reader is a leader, but every leader is a reader”
• Taking time to reflect is vital to develop your leadership potential. Journaling, reflection, discussion (blogging)
• we should not confuse motion with progress.
• Do a 6 week plan…then review it to see how far you’ve gotten in the process.
• Journaling: enables the opportunity to grow. Questions asked: how did we get here.
• When you are on the dance floor dancing it’s good to go up into the balcony to see the dance. (think of looking at the entire chess board.)
• someone that can look farther back enables you to look farther ahead. Nixon
• Ford was a decent man…nice guys finish last? On the contrary, we have come to prize decent people. ford looks better in the rearview mirror.
• Clinton-bright man. Tactical mind. He was resilient–a tragic figure always ready to get back up…tubthumper
• Reagan–best leader since Roosevelt. Principled man with a contagious optimism on life. “Be around leaders that always encourage people. it’s exciting and you are a part of building something.” These were tempered by the war (WWII presidents) and they understood common sacrifice as well as a sense of humor. They were bonded.
• Weaknesses: Nixon held everyone on the periphery. the struggle in his white house was between those that appealed to the good side and those that appealed to his dark side.
• Ford’s weakness: sometimes was a bit naive. People took advantage of him.
• Reagan: weakness was his detachment. Let others put their hands on the wheel. Then things went off the track. Then came back on the wheel. Entrust to the point of detachment is trouble. Inspect is as good as respect as a leader.
• Clinton: a parallel with Nixon. Character issues and questions. He made the worst mistake with Lewinski not with the action but with the way he handled it.
• Great leaders are greatly flawed. “it’s hard to find flaws in Jesus leadership” you CNN guys keep looking for great flaws in Jesus…laughter.
• We need to integrate the two sides, flaws and strengths, get your flaws under control enough so that you don’t harm those around you.
• How do you bring alignment between your private and public life? How do we square the man with the myth…I am not a saint. Get up every day and try to be better. (my perspective is that this is impossible…apart from the divine intervention of Jesus Christ). But we do need to be demanding of the public life but need to be tolerant of the private life.
• Leadership does not need to be lonely. the days of the Lone Ranger leader are over. Your goal should be a leader of other leaders. The world is too complex to try to do it alone. You need to work outside your group. We build things together.
• If you want to go fast, go alone. But if you want to go far, go together.
• Symbolism in leadership. It’s about trust and communications–through language and role modeling. What is your brand? Churchill gave the v for victory…ghandi and his loin cloth emphasized his simplicity. mandela and informal clothing…the prisoner. Reagan and the horse. These things are authentic.
• who the speaker is speaks as loudly as what they say. Who will we listen to in the midst of the cacophony? Do you trust them? You will not listen to someone that is just spouting off. Aristotle was the first to understand public speaking. 3 elements ethos/logos/pathos. Who is the person/what is the logic/what is the emotion.
• 15-20 minutes is the great span of the most effective speech. more than 20 minutes and the data says 25% will continue to pay attention, 25% will be fighting off sleep, and 50% engage in fantasy…much laughter!
• the emotional appeal at the end gets people up and give a call to action! when Cisero spoke people said Come let us think…when Demosthenes spoke people said Come let us march.
• Habits for good leaders

1. It is important to be physically fit. when you go flabby in your body you go flabby in your mind.
2. Build time in your day to reflect
3. build time to be with people that you cherish and who cherish you.

• what do you hope when you are walking up to a church…what do you hope will happen?

1. Where I can step back and  find inner peace from something larger than you
2. Would like to learn something from the text. Will go back and read them to see the context for the message.
3. Many young people today care deeply about social change and are on a spiritual journey. Spiritual foundation is important to leadership…it helps you find a moral compass. And it is important to have anchors in life. Your ego can get larger as you succeed. You think the rules do not apply to you (Clinton). Religion gives you the sense of things that are bigger than you. Be the change you want to see in the world.

• Each of us is to bring a log to the fire…

• Compassion is 57 years old but in the last 4 years they have doubled in size.
• Speaking about pain, suffering and hardship.
• How do we leverage pain and suffering in our lives.
• It’s the catalyst for ministry.
• Where did my prayers go? Did I get the laziest guardian angel in heaven?
• No one cares what we know until they know why we care.
• Look at life from God’s side of the tapestry. not the knots side.
• Calling and mission came at the darkest point of life. Came at the age of 10. The boarding school experience with house parent. Had a candle with wicks burned on each end. Watching the candle burn he trembled. Learned of mercy for children in this difficult time.
• If my silence about the abuse would secure their salvation I would take it.
• He had received his call to protect children at the age of 10.
• His story has been redeemed and God leveraged his experience for good.
• Does your cause bring you to tears? What moves you passionately? Nothing? Don’t live like that, certainly don’t lead like that!
• We have worth because of who gives us worth…not the path we have taken.
• look in the mirror and ask who are you, where are you going.
• If you don’t forgive the people that have hurt you you are carrying them around on your back. Choose forgiveness so they get out of your heart , mind, and life. You took yesterday, you can not have tomorrow.
• Unforgivness is the #1 avenue Satan has into our lives (Neil Anderson)
• We have the hope of the return of Jesus who will wipe away every tear.
• But as he wipes the tears from my eyes he will wipe the sweat from my brow because when he came I was busy at work.

From Uganda. Good African Coffee.

• What thoughts come through your mind when you consider the word “Africa”. Typically death and despair from the influence of Africa.
• 900 million customers. They can survive on one dollar a day? Entrpeneurship enables life like living on $1 a day. let’s deconstruct the myth of Africa
• 53 countries…900 million people. How do we handle the solutions to Africa’s problems. in the 1800s, the scramble for Africa based on splitting the continent by colonial rule. They were put together to export raw commodities.
• How can Africans solve their own problems by training? Change the conversation that they are basketcases in need of handouts to people needing to pull themselves out of poverty.
• There is no country in the world that has developed through handouts. Why would Africa be any different. We use trade for economic growth because it is the only thing that will enable the climb out of poverty.
• Africa contributes just 2% of the global market. The perception of the continent is wrong…look at consumers and partners. Not looking to be pitied, but to get market share.
• How has aid been sustained as an argument in the face of the statistics of the inefficiency of the topic.
• Aid undermines accountability. A lot of time spent in reporting to donors instead of actually working. needs new thinking. What is the impact of our compassion. How to affect change while having compassion?
• You can buy African products that will employ someone that will enable the lift and climb
• Reconstruct the narrative that says kindness best shown is through handouts but kindness is shown through trade that will enable them to help themselves.

Dave Gibbons

What is a third culture leader? adaptation…painful adaptation. It’s normal to love someone like us…but the world stops when we love someone unlike us.

• How do we develop the third culture leadership ideal?
• They are focused on the misfit…perhaps AB Simpson was like this.
• to make a change you go with the early adaptors.
• It’s not the masses that lead (dooce.com) but the early adaptors. They lead the  movements.
• How does vision typically move? It starts with the leader then moves outward. But vision should move from the misfit outside to the center….it starts on the fringe.
• Love and serve the marginalized to make the difference.
• what hinders us? Our metrics. Success is defined with a rapid increase of numbers. Up and to the right! That is our dream. But this is not real life. This is an illusion.
• Reality has it going backwards and down…whoa.
• Failure is success to God. Your failure is your platform to the world…it is the gift from God to make a difference in the world because they may not understand success but failure.
• Let’s look at human resources, not finances. Strengthsfinder listens to a meta narrative…their personal story. Listen and take time to the individuals. SEE the PEOPLE when we look in their eyes.
• Weakness guides us more than our strengths.
• How do we quantify vision? Love God, Love your neighbor. Relationships trump vision…hmmmm. John chapter 5 says Jesus did what his father did, and Jesus was about relationship.
• Maybe it is what happens “outside the building” that matters more. Change our priorities.
• 70 Priority/30 secondary. Main task is to model equipping of leaders.
• Hang out with people that are not like us. Reach for the margins. The Medicci effect…you get multiple groups together there is a shine.
• Main center…satelite with its own set of metrics.
• Obedience is more important than passion for the third culture leaders. Jesus didn’t feel like going to the cross.
• Four acts of obedience….1) deeper collaboration across the city. 2) Communal living. Families that are in the same neighborhood. 3) prayer. The church does not believe in the Power of the Holy Spirit. If you really believed the power of Jesus is in you you would pray! 4) Radical sacrifice for the outsider. Are you willing to die to some of your material possessions? Ready to go to another culture?

Today is day 2 of the Leadership Summit. Yesterday was something else. Seems that each speaker spoke on a truly relevant topic. I’m going to try and see what I can do through twitter and this blog today. We shall see.