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Craig Groeschel Opening Talk at the 2018 Global Leadership Summit

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Here are my notes from Craig Groeschel’s opening talk at the Global Leadership Summit (GLS 2018).

The opening addressed the Hybels scandal directly and I thought a lot of what he said about it was good. Nobody can accuse them of not addressing the issue as fully as it needed to be addressed at this event. At the same time, they moved on to the business of the day and didn’t dwell on failures of the past.

Craig Groschel GLS 2018 Notes

Yes, I’m convinced Craig Groeschel has three lungs. In the next 2 days, profound humility and furious resolve would come up a few more times. The line after the first few notes here is where he turned a corner and began his actual talk. Before that was intro.

Craig Groschel GLS 2018 Notes

That whole concept of

I notice.

You matter.

Is so relatable. Every part of any job I didn’t like could come back to those 2 traits lacking.

Craig Groschel GLS 2018 Notes

Here are links to the Bain Group Leadership Model that Craig Groeschel mentioned in his GLS talk.

Bain Leadership Model – 33 consistent ways leaders inspire

Craig Groeschel’s podcast about inspiring leader’s from August 2018

 

Craig Groschel GLS 2018 Notes
Craig Groschel GLS 2018 Notes

So many good notes on this page. The trick is that I’m not typically the leader that is the bottleneck – I’ve worked for the leaders that were the bottlenecks. Hopefully, I’ll learn from the good ones instead.

The Grander Vision #1 piece was amazing. A judge is viewing arrested prostitutes as sex trafficking victims and started a program to treat them as such.

WCAGLS14: Joseph Grenny, The Art of Crucial Conversations

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First up, Friday morning, was Joseph Grenny and Mastering the Art of Crucial Conversations. You can tell I liked this one a lot because I took 4 pages of notes. The best talks either get zero or a ton of notes.

One great takeaway was this:

“Everyone tells the truth in the hallway, where it doesn’t help anybody.”

Of course, we think it doesn’t hurt anybody either, which is why we say it in the hallway.

Read through this and see if any of it applies to your work/family/church. I’m sure some of it will.

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Unrelenting Wisdom Supplier

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If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. (James 1:5 NIV)

Yesterday my 9 year old son and I were talking about this verse. I said, “Isn’t it amazing that God says to ask for wisdom and He’ll give it without judgment or discretion?! It’s like He doesn’t even care if you’re a good guy or a bad guy, if you want wisdom, He will give it to you!”

And my son says, “That’s because He knows that all wisdom will help people get closer to Him.”

How great is that!? It’s true. Anyone that wants wisdom in any situation on any topic can ask God for it and He’ll deliver. He doesn’t want anybody to be a fool and perish. He wants everyone to be wise and know that He Himself is the ultimate and true source of all wisdom.

Jesus Shakes Up Our Wisdom

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23 He said to them, j “You are from below; I am from above. k You are of this world; l I am not of this world. 24 I told you that you m would die in your sins, for n unless you believe that o I am he you will die in your sins.” 25 So they said to him, p “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning. 26 I have much to say about you and much to judge, but q he who sent me is true, and I declare r to the world s what I have heard from him.”
John 8.23-26 ESV

Jesus says that He is from above and the people are from below, but that did not make Him go away from them or leave them to die there. He gives them many warnings, and few are as plain as this “Unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins” The opposite of that is in Jesus, ie: “If you believe that I am he you will live in my righteousness”

God cares deeply for the people of His creation, enough to send the Son into our midst to teach and to save.

Jesus loves the Father so much that instead of saying what He wants to say, He only says what the Father tells Him to say. (8.26) Jesus’ supernatural supreme wisdom was wrapped up more in obedience and fellowship with God than in what we think of as wisdom. Jesus didn’t teach out of this idea or this conclusion developed from this series of ideas, He spoke what The Father told Him to speak. That is the ultimate wisdom that the Pharisees knew nothing of, which is why, besides their hard hearts, His teaching was so hard for them to understand.

That is exactly how the wisdom of man does not reach the folly of God. In Hebrews 8 it says “And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‚ÄòKnow the Lord,‚Äô for they shall j all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.” We don’t need the repetitive teaching of “know the Lord, know the Lord” now, we can each go to our One Teacher and be taught! It really is available to the least and the greatest of all people.

The Pharisees, with their rules without a relationship, would die in their sin. Their steps and religious rules prevented them from coming to faith in Jesus. May that same religious spirit not blind us too.
(note: I hate to use the word relationship, because I think it’s been worn out in modern Christianity, but that is the real word with its real meaning that goes here.)