Gary Haugen leads International Justice Mission (IJM), a world-wide agency rescuing victims of violence, exploitation, slavery and oppression. Recognized by the U.S. State Department as a Trafficking in Persons “Hero” – the highest honor given by the U.S. government for anti-slavery leadership – Haugen is the author of three books and has been featured in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times and Forbes.
- There is one thing that stands between what you learn and what you do. And that one thing is fear.
- All of the finest leadership training in the world can be rendered useless by fear.
- That’s why on his last night with His disciples Jesus tells them not to be afraid.
- Fear is the silent destroyer of dreams
- Leadership begins with a dream
- Fear destroys the love that inspires the dream and replaces it with a preoccupation with self
- We are most likely to not know what scares us the most deeply
- Being brave is hard
- You must relentlessly inventory your own fears…what are you really afraid of?
- Switch from playing defense to playing offense. No great dream was built on the fear of what might go wrong
- If we are more impressed with bad men than a good God then fear is going to eat your leadership for lunch
- You cannot move towards a dream of love while retreating to a bunker of fear
- Hell is playing defense not the kingdom of God
- 46million people on the planet are in slavery today. More people than at any point in the history of the planet.
- Great leaders forge a community of courage around them
- Lone rangers do not make great dreams come true ever, lone rangers make movies
- If anyone was entitled to adopt a lone ranger leadership model it was Jesus…but what did He do? He forged a community of courage around him.
- Courage, like fear, is contagious
- Remember that we are only servants on the battlefield and that the real soldier is Christ Himself.
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