Leadership Summit Series

Hi everybody... yeah, don't rub your eyes, I'm posting on Sunday night! :) Even during a football game... yep, the Lord lead me, and... I have a DVR.

This week we started a video series in our Mini Congregation time. The series comes from Willow Creek church out of Chicago. These are a series of lessons focusing on leadership. Each week we will have a related, but not dependant lesson, meaning, if you miss, don’t be shy about coming the next time because there’s no quiz!

This week Bill Hybels (Willow’s head pastor) gave a message entitled “Vision to Die for”. It is about the vision of a leader, and how this can become a successful vision. In short, it can’t be just the leader’s vision, but it has to be owned by others in order to succeed. Hybels used the example of the Civil Rights movement, specifically the racial equality movement spearheaded by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Because people shared this vision, they were even willing to die for the cause, as was unfortunately displayed on Bloody Sunday in Alabama in 1965 where the nation saw that these men and women were willing to be beaten and die for Dr. King’s (an their own) vision.

Yeah, heavy stuff…

Next week there will be an interview with Carly Fiornia, former CEO of HP (Hewlett – Packard) and Victory Chairman for the Republican National Committee. Fiornia’s interview is entitled “Tough Choices”.

If you want to get more information on the series, you can download the accompanying handout from the Willow Creek website: www.willowcreek.com/summit/team07 The password is LSTE07 (that is a zero not an O).