Last week I sold my old washer and dryer.

…this week I washed the check in my new one.

Jordan & Kristin Rippy
March 11, 2007

Jeb Bush delivered a great speech on leadership in the final session of The Forum. Jeb was governor of Florida from 1998 to 2006. I hope you’ve enjoyed these updates on each session. Click here to check out all of The Forum re-caps.

Six Common Features of Leadership

1. Leaders need to ask the ‘why not’ question.
2. The power of B-HAG’s. (Big-Hairy-Audacious-Goals)
3. Leaders stick with it.
4. Leaders must communicate.
5. Leaders have to have a servant’s heart.
6. Leaders need to say what they’re going to do and then do what they’ve said they’re going to do.

• “You’re either in your ascendancy or in your decline.”
• “The single-most indicator of poverty and despair is a dysfunctional family.”
• “Culture resists people who stick with it.”
• “The worthy things require hard work.”
• “The first step to communicating a message is having a message of substance that requires hard work.”
• “FUP = Follow Up Please”
• “Listen before you communicate.”
• “Things that never happen always happen.”
• “When you’re popular you are watched – not followed.”

Wayne Cordeiro pastors New Hope Christian Fellowship, one of the fastest growing churches in America. New Hope is located in Honolulu, Hawaii. This guys really sufferin’ for Jesus.

Four Levels of Leadership

1. Control Leadership
2. Corporate Leadership
3. Character-based Leadership
4. Christlike Leadership

• “You can teach what you know, but ultimately we will reproduce what we are.”
• “Don’t confuse the source of your income with the avenue by which your salary is provided.”
• “Don’t correct to data. Correct to the Word of God.”
• “Does the Bible take time or save time?”
• Amos 8:11 – There is a famine of hearing God’s word. We are so hungry, we’re eating everything except the Word of God.
• When we don’t learn to feed ourselves we develop a dysfunctional body.

Key Warren is the wife of Rick Warren. She is an author and humanitarian. Her most recent book is called Dangerous Surrender.

21st Century Disciples

• To be disciples we have to be dangerously surrendered, seriously disturbed, and gloriously ruined.
• “A surrender to God is a dangerous surrender not because God is bad but because God is so powerful.”
• “If it’s not a control issue that keeps you from becoming a disciple, it will be fear.”
• “Where is your point of dangerous surrender?”
• Jesus spent a third of his ministry healing. He obviously cares about the body and not just the soul.
• “We bring people to Jesus so that He can deal with their brokenness.”
• “Jesus preached an upside-down Kingdom.”
• “If you want to truly be a disciple you’ll be about the least, the last, and the lost.”
• Effective ministry comes not from a place of authority, but a place of identifying with those to whom you are ministering.
• People often find a seat at God’s table because someone offered them a seat at their physical table.
• “Your job as a disciple of Jesus Christ is to be the visible presence of the invisible God.”
• Guilt comes when we live our lives only for ourselves.
• The anecdote to evil is doing good in Jesus’ name.
• Rick Hick Warren?