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Summary of Posts from Day 1 of the Leadership Summit

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Here’s a list of all my posts from the first day of the Leadership Summit yesterday:

General Reflections at the Start

Bill Hybels

Len Schlesinger

Cory Booker

Brenda Salter-McNeil

Seth Godin

Steven Furtick

Audacious Faith, Part 2

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Notes from the rest of Steven Furtick’s message:

“We can learn and position ourselves and get great teaching, but only God can make it rain.”

“I can’t expect God’s blessing on my work unless I do it God’s way.”

“How are we going to get from inspiration to implementation? If all you have are some good ideas does not make you a visionary. It makes you a daydreamer. You need the faith to get started.”

“If your vision is not intimidating to you, it is probably insulting to the Lord.”

“So many of us don’t see any rains and don’t see any clouds, and so we don’t get to work. But faith believes it before it sees it. It doesn’t sit around waiting for it to happen, but digs a ditch.”

“Some of you have let time talk you out of your dream, but it’s still there in your heart. Life can beat your dream out of you, but I believe you are here to have it put back.”

“One of the reasons we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with other people’s highlight reel.”

“If you will dig the ditches, God will send the rain. If you will do what you can do by faith, he will do what he can do.”

“I may not have all the resources right now, but I have exceeding promises in God’s word.”

“Sometimes it doesn’t seem like anything is happening. But you don’t know what God is doing behind the scenes.”

“Expect God to do great things through your life.”

Noah: Building a boat until the flood came. “When the vision God has put inside you doesn’t match with what you see, close your eyes and keep going.”

“If you’re a preacher, I want you to preach this weekend like Billy Graham at a Tokyo Crusade in the 80s. Believe God for great things and go do them.”

Steven Furtick – Audacious Faith

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Craig Groeschel on Furtick: “He doesn’t know what cannot be done. He’ll call me and say ‘I’m praying for 2,000 people to come to Christ this weekend. And I treat it like my son saying he wants to be an astronaut when he grows up. Then he calls the next week and says 2,400 people came to the Lord.”

“One thing I believe I’m an expert at is being ‘dumb enough’ to believe God can do anything. That is one of the blessings of youth. The other faculty members here will help you get the wisdom you need, and I’ll help you believe you can do anything he’s written in his word.”

“I want to help you raise your faith today. Audacious faith, believing God for the impossible, is the theme of my life.”

At 16 he read a sentence in Jim Cymbala’s book Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire that said “I despaired at the thought that my life could pass without God showing up in a big way. I knew then that God wanted me to plant a church.”

“I don’t just want to have a comfortable life and good retirement account. I want to have stories to tell of God showing up in a big way.”

(You can find Furtick”s blog here.)