Bill Hybel’s on Leaders

01/02/08 13:08
1. Leaders always feel restless in the dock. (There’s more than this!) take the comfortable and make them uncomfortable

2. Responding to the prompting is as important as developing leadership. Always side on the prompting. A heart that is cooperative with the holy spirit.

3. Leaders have an impressionable determination to get where god is leading.

4. Ask your self, “do all people matter?” the people under your leadership know who you value. Whoever is missing matters!

5. Love the redemptive drama we get to be a part of.

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How CS Lewis came to understand the gospel and place his faith in Christ.

01/02/08 13:00
This is more of an excerpt than a quote but, I quote it often times when talking about stories and the Gospel:

CS Lewis loved reading and thinking about myths, but he could not regard them as being at all true. To this, J.R.R Tolkein responds, “Myth’s originate in God, they preserve something of God’s truth, although often in a distorted form. In presenting a myth, in writing stories full of mythical creatures, one may be doing Gods work.” Tolkein goes on to explain that the Christian story was a myth invented by God who was real, a God whose dying could transform those who believed in Him. If Jack(CS Lewis) wanted to find relevance of his story to his own life, he must plunge in. He must appreciate the myth in the same spirit of imaginative understanding that he would bring to say, a Wagnerian opera.

Ernest Shakleton on what he thinks of sissies

01/02/08 12:59
"MEN WANTED: FOR HAZARDOUS JOURNEY. SMALL WAGES, BITTER COLD, LONG MONTHS OF COMPLETE DARKNESS, CONSTANT DANGER, SAFE RETURN DOUBTFUL. HONOUR AND RECOGNITION IN CASE OF SUCCESS."


SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON

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Martin Luther King on Greatness

01/02/08 12:43

If you want to be important-- wonderful. If you want to be recognized-- wonderful. If you want to be great-- wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness. And this morning, the thing I like about it: By giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato or Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. And you can be that servant.
— King, Martin Luther, Jr.

The Drum Major Instinct
Atlanta, Ga.
4 February 1968

First Things First

01/02/08 12:43
   “It is impossible for a believer, no matter what his experience, to keep right with God if he will not take the trouble to spend time with God…….Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don’t neglect Him”
Oswald Chambers

01/02/08 12:42
dream no small dreams for it stirs not the heart of men.

Small dreams have no power to move the heart of men.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Editor: If a cause is not big enough, people are seldom moved.

01/02/08 12:42
operate out of the measure of my faith, quit being scared about going after the good ideas

Sharing the Gospel

01/02/08 12:41
"Often we don't share the gospel because we are not experiencing the Gospel"

Mark Gauthier

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Joe Stowell on People

01/02/08 12:39
people who are driven by devotion are intentional. they don't wake up in the morning saying, "I have to follow christ." They wake up and say, "I want to follow christ." If we are driven by christ we will be intentional about people.

Joe Stowel

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CS Lewis On Apologetics

01/02/08 12:37
The difficulties of the Christian writer or lecturer arise from the fact that the culture is not at all Christian. This means the influence of a Christian lecturer or article will be undermined very quickly by the influence of films, newspaper, and novels in which an opposing point of view is taken for granted. This makes it impossible for the Christian writer to achieve widespread success. What is wanted is not more “little books about Christianity,” but more books by Christians on other subjects in which Christianity is latent.

CS Lewis on Christian apologetics in 1945 to the Anglican priesthood youth workers.

Undeceptions: Essays on Theology and Ethics
London, 1971
Church of Wales Assembly

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