Craig Groeschel is the founder and Senior Pastor of LifeChurch.tv and author or multiple books. These are my notes from his talk at the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit:
- If you delegate tasks, you create followers…if you delegate authority you create leaders
- If you’re a part of the older generation don’t fear the younger generation or resent them, but believe in them because they need you
- If you’re have to ask yourself if you’re a part of the older generation…you’re a part of the older generation
- When I turned 40 I began to ask myself are my best days of ministry behind me? Can I still engage the younger generation?
- God values maturity and if you’re not dead you’re not done
- Embrace the season that you’re in, be yourself authenticity trumps cool every time
- You can be a spiritual father to those who come behind you Psalm 71:18
- The younger generation needs those who have gone before you more than you know
- #1 word that describes this new young workforce is entitled
- Because the younger generation feels entitled you over estimate what you can do in the short run but under estimate what you can do over a lifetime of faithfulness
- If you want to lead up then lead with honor
- Honor publicly results in influence privately
- Respect is earned but honored is given
- Some in the younger generation need to repent because you’re hindering what God could do if the generations worked together
- If you ever want to be over, you need to learn to be under with integrity
- Leadership teams and churches naturally age
- How the older generation and younger generation can work together:
- Create ongoing feedback loops from those who are older and younger
- Create specific mentoring moments
- Create opportunities for significant leadership development
- Don’t copy what successful people do, learn how they think
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