LEADERSHIP Summit: 11 take-away QUOTES

Tony Morgan, author of Killing Cockroaches: and Other Scattered Musings on Leadership (a book on my Kindle), gave his blog readers these take-away quotes from Willow Creek’s recent Leadership Summit:

Tony Blair:
“Sometimes the comfortable thing to do isn’t the right thing to do.”

Bono:
“What I really find hard to take is lifeless ceremony.”

David Gergen:
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” (quoting unknown person)

Dave Gibbons:
“In God’s economy, vision should move from the fringes to the middle.”

Gary Harnel:
“When an organization misses the future, it’s not because it was unknown–it was because it’s inpalatable.”

Dan Heath:
“When you find the bright spot, study it and clone it.”

Bill Hybels:
“When I listen to God slowly, he speaks more frequently.”

Carly Fiorina:
“People consider it compassionate not to be honest with people. It’s not. That’s disrespectful.” (dealing with poor performance)

Tim Keller:
“People who believe the Gospel are utterly different.”

Andrew Rugasira:
“There is no country in the world that has developed through handouts.”

Wess Stafford:
“What’s your cause? Does it move you to tears? What is it that moves you passionately?”

If you attended the Leadership Summit, any take-away quotes you want to add?

Dave Gibbons on the “third culture”

How willing are you to adapt your culture to share the Light of Christ and build bridges so that others may know God?

In his new book The Monkey and the Fish: Liquid Leadership for a Third Culture Church, Dave Gibbons defines “third culture” and the “third culture church” this way in his interview with Church Relevance:

Third culture in a word is Adaptation. In two words, Painful Adaptation. The longer definition is “the mindset and will to love, learn and serve in any culture even in the midst of pain and discomfort.”

It’s a church that is able to flow with the Holy Spirit, choosing to live out the two great purposes of the church: Loving God and Loving Her Neighbor. The Neighbor though being someone NOT like you even someone you would hate or not want to forgive. It’s a church that chooses obedience over passion as well as radical sacrifice over comfort.

Dave Gibbons is senior pastor of the multi-site New Song Church with locations in California, Texas, Mexico, London, India, and Bangkok. He knows something about cross-cultural ministry.

Greg Atkinson on Books @ Leadership Network wrote this about Dave’s book:

I especially like Dave’s insight into the second greatest commandment (“Love your neighbor as yourself”). My heart for the poor and homeless connected with his vision as he described our neighbor as “instead of being someone like him, was someone not like him at all, someone he would be uncomfortable with or even hate.” He goes on to say that the second most important commandment “is all about loving people we don’t understand… People who are misfits. People who are marginalized. People who are outsiders… Instead, it’s about people I would not normally choose to befriend, people who might make me feel uncomfortable to be around.”

Rockbridge Seminary students who have completed the online course “The Theology and Practice of Evangelism” may want to learn why Gibbons was not satisfied with terms like “diverse” and “multiethnic” when describing his church and why he started using “third culture”:

Also, see Charles Lee interview Dave Gibbons at The Idea Camp on The Digital Sanctuary