Bill Hybels’ opening of the Global Leadership Summit is always a good one. He did about 4 different mini-talks in 2017, but they were mostly all good. Here are my notes from one of them.
One of the best quotes was this one:
The world is still wondering if there are still leaders that put others’ needs above their own.
It’s true, isn’t it? The whole part of his talk was about inspiring others to do great things. It reminds me of the Paul quoting Jesus:
[35] In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
Even in leading things, you get more joy out of giving that leadership over to others than you did when you were doing it yourself. If that isn’t true, then you’re doing it wrong and you’re back to just leading to
please yourself. I’ve worked with people before that lead by receiving from others. It’s awful because they suck the life out of everyone that works for them.
Considering that there really isn’t a line between our spiritual life and our work life, this shouldn’t be any surprise. Giving is better than receiving in terms of gifts, money, time, care, etc. no matter what realm it is in.
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Hosea 10?É¬Ø v. 5 The people who live in Samaria fear for the calf-idol of Beth Aven. here Hosea shows that God has renamed Bethel (House of God) to the House of Wickedness. The people are worried about their god being taken away by the Assyrians. Can you imagine their fear? “Oh, I hope they…
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Idol worship in Hosea 8 v.5 ‘Throw out your calf-idol, O Samaria! My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of purity?’ Israel’s idolatry has made righteousness impossible for them. They can go to the temple and have their feasts and sacrifices, but it does no good-the idols are still in place….
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This study started in Hosea 8Jeremiah 11:13 You have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah; and the altars you have set up to burn incense to that shameful god Baal are as many as the streets of Jerusalem. Israel was turned so far from the Lord. He was about to bring affliction…
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Hosea 4-5?É¬Ø 4:6 “My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.” The same things is happening today, but it need not be God doing some kind of spiritual cleansing. By simply not knowing Him and disobeying Him, people are pouring judgement on themselves through disease, criminal suffering, starvation as a result of greed, addiction, and…
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Hosea 12:8 in the NRSV says “Ephraim has said, “Ah, I am rich, I have gained wealth for myself; in all of my gain no offense has been found in me that would be sin.” Ephraim knows that he has made himself rich by less than honest means, but none of the means were flat…
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Hosea 14:4 "I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them." All of the rebukes from Hosea to the people and this is how He reassures them in the end. Man o man have we been wayward. So wayward that we cannot even do right if we…
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