Global Leadership Summit 2014

All glory to God! Another great summit. Congratulations to Bill Hybels and TEAM on this 20th celebration of the GLS.

 

Jeff Immelt (CEO of GE) was inspirational.
Michael Jr. also spoke on leadership. Go figure.
Patrick Lencioni was an ENFP exemplar extraordinaire.

Brian Dodd has captured some of the memorable quotes from the speakers. Check them on his "Brian Dodd on Leadership" blog.

Day 1 - August 14

Live Blog From The 2014 Global Leadership Summit – 59 Leadership Quotes From Bill Hybels

Live Blog From The 2014 Global Leadership Summit – 44 Leadership Quotes From Carly Fiorina

Live Blog From The 2014 Global Leadership Summit – 49 Leadership Quotes From Jeffrey Immelt

Live Blog From The 2014 Global Leadership Summit – 12 Leadership Quotes From Susan Cain

Live Blog From The 2014 Global Leadership Summit – 18 Leadership Quotes From Bryan Loritts

Live Blog From The 2014 Global Leadership Summit – 23 Leadership Quotes From Patrick Lencioni

Day 2 - August 15

Live Blog From The 2014 Global Leadership Summit – 18 Leadership Quotes From Joseph Grenny

Live Blog From The 2014 Global Leadership Summit – 12 Leadership Quotes From Erica Ariel Fox

Live Blog From The 2014 Global Leadership Summit – 59 Leadership Quotes From Don Flow, Allen Catherine Kagina and Wilfredo De Jesus

Live Blog From The 2014 Global Leadership Summit – 18 Leadership Quotes From Ivan Satyavrata

Live Blog From The 2014 Global Leadership Summit – 25 Leadership Quotes From Tyler Perry

Live Blog From The 2014 Global Leadership Summit – 43 Leadership Quotes From Louie Giglio

The Typical Millennial

Check out Kyle Rohane's piece re: The Myth of the Average Millennial. I would value your thoughts on this. Is there an "average" Millennial? (This is a rhetorical question.) Have a blessed, God-praising weekend.

"Son of God"

I watched the "Son of God" this week. In ~135 minutes the movie compressed the life of Jesus while he was on the earth for a little over 30 years.  The narrative was presented from the PoV of one of Jesus' disciples - the Apostle John. The film began with John as well as ended with John, on the Island of Patmos where he was exiled until his death in the late first century A.D.. It also provided an apocalyptic foretaste as the Book of Revelation has been attributed to John as well.

Although it was supposedly John's account, there were gleanings from the writers of the Synoptic Gospels; e.g. Matthew 27, Mark 15, Luke 23. I suppose watching a 2-hr movie could be quicker than reading 21 chapters of Scriptures for some people. It would certainly be visually entertaining. Alas barring some additions and some omissions by the movie purveyors, and to coin a phrase/book by Rich Stearns: "The Hole in our Gospel," here lies my disconcertment. There's a hole in the movie.

The movie gave a travelog of the beautiful landscape of the Holy Land (Galilee, Jerusalem). It presented snippets of where Jesus had walked, some of the things Jesus had done and said, some of the people Jesus had met and confronted. Since the Gospel according to John (which scholars believe was written while John was at Ephesus) dwelled much on Jesus' miracles, the movie highlighted some of them. So we can see some of the What-Who-Where-When, and How Jesus lived and died! But Why? Why did Jesus come - the Son of God Incarnate? Why did Jesus live on earth? And WHY did Jesus die? In short, where is the good news in the movie? It was bad news, then sad news. Is the movie supposed to be apocalyptic and we have to wait for the Alpha and the Omega to return?

Why was there no mention of sin? What happened to some of the most powerful words that Jesus said which John had recorded in chapter 3?

There have been both positive and not-so-positive reviews of the movie. Just like the co-quel to this movie, viz. "The Bible," the Christian movie purveyors told the stories in docudramatic form. They accomplished their goal to motivate ppo to pursue more; e.g. go to church, spiritual speak. However may we not stop at the movie but go back to the Bible. Read, ruminate, digest the Word of God, for we cannot live by bread nor movie alone.

As we enter this season of Lent, may we look forward to celebrate the Easter morn, to praise and give glory to the living Word. God is NOT dead.

For coffee aficianados ...

How do you like your coffee? Straight UP, unadulterated, pure, one nature, Arabica or Robusto, hot or cold or lukewarm, ...?  Take a look at the history of coffee throughout the history of the Church: Coffeedoxy and Heterodoxy on the Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy weblog. Many thanks to Rev. Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick for his research.  ;-)
NB: Continue reading the ensuing thoughts to his blog post.
 

10 Leadership Theories

I came across this brief overview of leadership theories by Professor Michael Zigarelli. It's concise but comprehensive. Enjoy.

Hey. Welcome to my weblog. Once in awhile I will post my musings on topics such as:

• Church Ministry
• Leadership
• Millennials

When I find interesting info on these related topics, I will include them for your reading enjoyment. I would not take credit for those musings, but will attribute to their original source(s) and would have their permission to share them with you.

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