Summit

If you couldn't make out my blog yesterday, I believe the problem is fixed...so, you can check it out again.

Today I went to the Leadership Summit conference, put on by the Willow Creek Association. It was really amazing to see the different viewpoints of the various leaders in our country as well as internationally. Just today, I heard from leaders of our world such as Tony Blair, Bono, Wes Stafford ( Compassion International), David Gergen (political analyst for CNN), Andrew Rugasira (founder of Good African Coffee and passionate about empowering Africans with trade instead of Aid), as well as two brothers Dan and Chip Heath who shared on the power of failure...and why maybe it's not such a bad thing.

The idea that maybe failure is just the first sign of eventual success is an amazing perspective. It seems to me that many people (and many leaders) do not allow any margin of failure...and because of that there is no margin for greatness or for God's movement. They must control all situations, all people, and all viewpoints. God wants us to try new ideas or he wouldn't have given us the power to think of new ideas. He wants us all to be of different personality or else he would have made us all the same and life would be very boring. When we are so afraid to step out and try something that God has placed in our hearts, because of failure or because of a fear that others will ridicule our failure then we don't move. We stay in the same place forever and ever. To accomplish great things in God's kingdom, we must move. And to move, we must be willing to fail. We must also be willing to allow others to fail and learn.