Leadership Summit session#2

Session#2: Greg Haugen (President & Founder International Justice Mission)
Just Courage: Charging The Darkness

Everyone wants their leadership to matter!

Leadership that matters to God is leadership that is involved in the endeavors that matter to God!

Just because I am leading and just because people are following doesn’t mean I am leading them to what matters to God.

God’s passion is for the world…(John 3:16)
The whole incarnation was motivated by God’s love for the world!
-25,000 children will die today because of lack of nutrition.

What is God’s plan to let humanity know that He is good? We are the plan!
You are the light of the world…

How are people supposed to believe that God is good?
We are the answer to show the world that God is good

As an American we are trained to think that I am a victim of injustice all day every day!

Injustice in the Bible is a particular sin---the abuse of power to take from people the good things God meant for them, their life, their liberty, (Eccl. 4:1)

20 million people in our world live in slavery today

There are 2 million children held in sex slavery in our world today

Psalm 11 the Lord is righteous He loves justice

What is God’s plan for doing justice in the world? We are the plan…
(Micah 6:8) (Isaiah 1:17)

If you want your leadership to matter lead in the things that matter to God!

If justice is not your thing that God is not your thing…

Leadership that actually matters leads when it feels discouraging, frightening and hopeless.

What have we learned from leading when the task seems hopeless?
We lead by re-centering the basis of our hope…hope comes from focusing on who God is and what God wants to do.

If God is passionate about getting it done He is also responsible for getting it done!
Example of the feeding of the 5000…Jesus just wanted to know if they would give what they had to Him…by offering what they had to God released a and brought about a miracle

The work is God’s and what He ask is that we give what we have! The results are on God.

What have we learned from leading when the task seems scary?

Jesus did not come to make us safe He came to make us brave…when the calling of God is scary we must remind our people of this very fact.

There are my Christians who are on the journey with Jesus but are missing the adventure!

Follow Jesus beyond your competencies and beyond the comforts of the crowd and you will experience…God!

What have we learned from leading when the task seems hard?

Effective Decisions Leaders Make:

* Choose not to be safe
Do we have a work that we could not imagine doing without prayer…

If you do not need God’s power to get the work done than it’s not work of the Kingdom!

* Choose to pursue deep spiritual health

The demands of high spiritual climbs require deep spiritual health

Majority of the spiritual things that I do are a result of the fact that I want to check them off my list and some how feel better about myself…this is not a deep pursuit of God.

Deep pursuit of God understands that I need His wisdom, direction and strength for the climb!

To get a deeper spiritual commitment out of people lead them on a more demanding climb where it is not safe to go without God

Our spiritual commitment must come out of a sense of desperation not obligation…we need God!

* Choose to do pursue excellence.

We must insist on quality, accountability and excellence.

Doing is about execution and motivation…it matters to those we do things for if we do things with excellence. Excellence communicates love…”Do unto others as you would want them to do unto you.”

Enough of the off balanced Christian scale of mediocrity…

* Choose to seize the joy!
The joy of the Lord is our strength!

“These things I have spoken so that my joy may be in you and your joy maybe made complete.”