Leadership Summit 2009, Stillwater UMC

Sitting here at the Willowcreek Leadership Simulcast at Stillwater UMC. Hybel's opening talk is always worth the price of admission for me. Gary Hamel though stole the show, well worth looking him up and buying any book he has written. Great talk. My favorite line: "Sometimes we're so far stuck in a rut, that the edge of the rut looks like our horizon." As the speed of change increases are we keeping up with our reality, or are we increasingly losing our influence in the world??? The statistics show the latter. Four times as many atheists in our country today than there were in 1990. Only 17% in our culture are in church on any given Sunday morning. Oh God, what is it You want to do in me to help You reach the rest of the world? Hamel: "We are in a race to uncover our own orthodoxies." What do we take for granted that we can't any longer? What it means to be the Church? Where it has to be? What it has to look like? Who is included in it?