• The local church should be the best run organization in your city.
• The people in the marketplace should be asking how we get such great people to do such extraordinary things with such extraordinary passion.
• The organizational side of our church should be extraordinary.
• All truth is God’s truth.
• It takes us time to find chapter and verse, but it’s all God’s truth.
• We all have opposable thumbs… it enables us to do things that no other thing in creation can do.
• With our thumb and four fingers we can exert pressure to lift things.
• What allows us to make progress is that we are able to exert the right amount of pressure for the right amount of time.
• Pressure and tension happen every single day in our organizations.
• Tension is a necessity for any organization that wants to make progress.
• Unresolved tension is a part of any organization that is making progress.
• Great leaders don’t solve all of the problems and don’t resolve all of the tensions… they learn to use the necessary tension of organizations life for the sake of progress.
• If you try to solve all of the problems and all of the tension, you lose the ability to make progress.

Every organization has problems that shouldn’t be solved and tensions that shouldn’t be resolved.

• There are many tensions and problems inside of our organizations.
  • The tension between excellence and careful stewardship.
  • The tension between research/development and sales.
  • Tension between management and leadership.
  • Tension between local and global outreach.
  • Leading people versus developing people.
• We have a temptation to try to come up with a system or solution for our tensions.

If you resolve any of those tensions you will create new tension.

• You create a harsher climate for getting things done.
• If you try to solve tensions you end up wasting a lot of time and energy and impede progress.
• If you cut off your thumb you feel the effects immediately.

If you resolve any of those tensions you put a barrier on progress.

Progress depends on the successful management of tensions.

To distinguish between problems to solve and tensions that need to be managed, ask these questions:

1 – Does this problem or tension keep resurfacing?

• Do people keep asking the same questions?
• Do the same issues keep coming up?

2 – Are there mature advocates on both sides?

3 – Are the two sides of the tension really interdependent?

• Are they leveraging each other to be a tension in the first place?

The role of leadership is to leverage tension for the benefit of the organization.

• Tension results in progress when leveraged properly.
• Identify the key tensions to be managed in your organization.
• Create terminology.
• Inform your core.
• Continually give value to both sides.
• Our words, as leaders, weigh 1,000 pounds.
• We must get into the habit of methodically speak value to both sides.
• Don’t weigh in too heavily based on your personal biases.
• Our goal should be to make sure the important progress-critical tensions never drop out of sight.
• We can accidentally win the argument, trump opinions and cut off our thumbs.
• Understand the upside of the opposite side; understand the downside of your side.
• We have to make sure tension remains and learn to manage the tension.
• Don’t allow strong personalities to win the day.
• It’s not a win when somebody wins.
• You need passionate people who will champion their side but you need mature people who understand this reality.
• Don’t think in terms of balance; think rhythm.
• Leadership is more art than science.
• Don’t be a fair leader, just do the right thing.
• As a leader one of the most valuable things you can do for your organization is to differentiate between tensions that need to be managed and problems that need to be solved.
• Learn to leverage your tensions… they can be key to the growth and progress of your organization.

Bishop T. D. Jakes is founder and senior pastor of the legendary 30,000-member Dallas-based church, The Potter’s House. In a short number of years, his motivating messages have reached the world through best-selling books, award-winning music, critically acclaimed plays and record-breaking events. Named by Time magazine as “America’s Best Preacher,” Bishop Jakes’ message of healing and restoration is unparalleled, transcending cultural and denominational barriers within the church and beyond. His weekly television outreach, The Potter’s Touch, is a favorite throughout America, Africa, Australia, Europe and the Caribbean.

• As a leader you want to lead people as God leads you.
• As He takes you further you take them further.
• Our country is changing, our world is changing.
• As the world changes we have to change.
• The business world is changing.
• The understand you can’t cater to one people group, you have to cater to everybody.
• Being a leader means keeping up with the trends.
• Leadership is having the foresight to see where you are going.
• God has given us the challenge of reaching the world.
• God said, “Go into all the world…” but we act like He said, “Go into your community…”
• Our responsibility is to speak to all people and share what we have in an incredible way.
• We have the answer to the world; the solution to every problem… so why do we only share it with our community?
• As you contemplate great leadership, you may have to be prepared to take the risk of getting out front.
• If you get out front you’ll get shot at.
• They’ll pick you out if you are out front, not if you are in the crowd.
• We need to take the risk of being shot out because God has called us to be forward-thinking people.
• We can’t hold our treasure to ourselves.
• People who hang on the corner have a limited world view.
• We have to learn to lead outside of our comfort zone.
• Stay off the corner.
• What God has for us is not in the separate nuances of our comfort zone surrounded by everything we understand.
• What a tragedy to hide what we have!
• We need to get out into the thrust of things where the grass is green and where the harvest is plentiful.
• Our churches will become obsolete if we stick to our corners.
• Jesus told us to go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.
• As leaders God is going to do a new thing in your life.
• Our world has changed dramatically.
• The death of civility is present everywhere.
• It’s easy because we can hide behind a computer
• Our job as Christian leaders is not to allow anything that happens around us to force us back into our corners.
• If Ruth would have gone back to her corner she would have missed Boaz.
• You can’t change the world from the corner.
• God put His tabernacle, His glory, in the center of the tribe.
• The Tabernacle of God in 2010 will not be hidden from people that need it, we are going to put it down in the center of the camp.
• When people retreat because they can’t get jobs, etc… they retreat back into what’s safe.
• People who play it safe are not leaders.
• You can’t play it safe and be a leader.
• You have to get out front.
• You will be shot at.
• The angels of the Lord encamp around those who fear them.
• Greater is He that is in you than he who is after you.
• We have a broad reach today but are we armed with the language that reaches the masses… or does our language alienate the world?
• Does our language reach people or alienate them?
• The disciples had the challenge of taking what happened on the cross and translate it to the culture of the world around them.
• You can’t reach the world if you aren’t a multi-cultural person.
• You have to take the risk of bringing people into your life who are not like you.
• Leaders are forward thinking people that are stretched.
• You can’t be stretched and but insulated privately.
• Tension is good.
• Run the risk of saying something stupid.
• The only way to learn to not say something stupid is to say something stupid.
• We need to know the language of the masses to reach the masses.
• God can speak to anything or anyone.
• Who can you speak to?
• You can tell who you speak to by who you draw.
• If you want to know who you draw, do the cell phone test… see who’s in it. If every name in your cell phone is pretty much like you, this is the year to break the rule.
• Every culture has a language.
• Businesses and organizations spend time and energy researching and learning to relate to different cultures.
• Only the church doesn’t take the time to learn the language of the masses… we expect them to understand us.
• If you always do what you’ve always done you’ll always be where you’ve always been.
• Fish grow to the size of the tank you put them in… why are so many of our churches like small aquariums?
• God wants to release us into the ocean.
• Until we are willing to be uncomfortable we can’t grow.
• If people are always looking to you for answers, get out of the room.
• Get out of your element.
• God wants us to sail out into the deep… not drop us over a 10 gallon fish tank.
• ON YOUR MARK, GET SET, GO!
• GO needs to get so down in our spirit that we go to places we look at on TV that make us uneasy.
• We need to GO not just to teach but to learn.
• Every great speaker is a great listener; every great teacher is a great learner.
• If you cannot hear in the Spirit it affects how you speak.
• We need to listen and learn.
• It’s growing time.
• Our world is changing and Jesus knew it would change when he told us to go into it.
• Go nervous. Go praying. Go scared. Go uncertain.
• For God’s sake, just GO!
• What you will find is that people are hungry to know you.
• People are starving to be known.
• People want to be understood and loved for we are sharing the same air… dealing with the same stresses, fighting the same battles.
• God does not dwell in the corners… His House is in the center… all of the tongues, tribes, and nations gather around Him.
• When they all get together we will see we were created in His image and His likeness.
• No one people group represents the totality of who God is.
• When we all gather together, we reflect who God is.
• God does not allow sameness to procreate.
• Fruit is born when differences come together.
• Fight the fight of your differences.
• The differences bring truth.
• Diversity brings the blessing.
• This is the time for us to be more fruitful than we have ever been before.
• The only thing you must avoid is chicken.
• The reason the Bible talks about eagles the most is because the have the propensity to soar above the storms.
• Chickens can’t fly… everything they do is in one dimension.
• As you begin to grow and come out of the corner you have one decision to make: will you be an eagle and soar above the storms or will you be on the ground trying to get high?
• We need to spread our wings as far as they can reach to overcome the storms, hostility and lack of civility of our times.
• Let it push us up, not down.
• People need to irrigate our thinking with fresh perceptions of what is happening in the world around us.
• They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength and rise up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not be faint.
• Stretch beyond comfort, familiarity, and the mundane.
• You have to prepare the people around you for the changes you are about to make.

Craig’s creative leadership skills are changing the way church is done worldwide. Under his leadership, LifeChurch.tv has become one of the country’s first multi-campus churches, with over 50 weekend worship experiences at 13 different locations throughout the United States.

Craig is the author of five books, Chazown: A Different Way to See Your Life, Confessions of a Pastor, Going all the Way, It: How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It and his most recent, The Christian Atheist.

• The enemy divides the church into denominations so we aren’t a unified church.
• The enemy divides the church generationally so we don’t work together.
• When it comes to the generations in ministry, division is bad but the tension can be good.
• We absolutely and desperately need  each other.
• We need what God is doing and the wisdom, energy and passion between generations.
• What we are able to today is a result of those who believed in us in the past.
• We stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before us.
• God puts people in our lives who believe in us and help pave the way.

To the Older Generation

• If you ask if you are in the older generation, you are!
• I would beg you not to resent, fear, or judge the next generation of ministers… believe in them, invest in them.
• Find it as one of the greatest callings of your life to pour your life into the next generation.
• They are not the church of tomorrow, they are the church of today.
• They are not the the church of the future, they are the church of today.
• They are different just like you were different.
• Don’t get off on the style or appearance, believe in them and invest in them.
• One of the reasons why it’s difficult for the older generation to invest in the younger generation is because of insecurity.
• When you lead from a place of insecurity, things don’t go well.
• Don’t delegate tasks, that creates followers… delegate authority, that creates leaders.
• Give people freedom to make mistakes.
• Don’t be cool, be real.
• The next generation craves authenticity.
• Be yourself, show up and listen.
• Your age and experience is not a liability, it’s your greatest asset.
• If you’re not dead you’re not done.
• Embrace the season you are in.
• One of the greatest honors we can have is to become like a spiritual parent to the next generation.
• Don’t be cool or be a coach, be a parent.
• Embrace that you can be like a parent to those who are to come.
• Psalm 71:18 – “even when I’m old and gray, do not forsake me until I declare your power to the next generation…”

To The Younger Generation

• You need those who have gone before you.
• The #1 word used to describe the next generation of workers but the older generation is the word entitled.
• It’s not our fault, it’s because how we were raised.
• We’ve been protected.
• The challenge in ministry is that we feel like things should come very easily for us.
• We tend to overestimate what God wants to do through us in the short run.
• We feel disillusioned.
• Because we overestimate, we simultaneously underestimate what God wants to do with us in the long run.
• Do not underestimate what God wants to do through this generation.
• There is spiritual greatness in us.
• Thing bigger, bigger, bigger, and bigger in the long run.
• Because we feel we feel so entitled we don’t show honor.
• “Honor publicly leads to influence privately.” – Andy Stanley
• If you want influence those above you, honor them.
• Mark 6:4-6
• He could not do any greater miracles because he was without honor and there was no faith.
• One of the reasons God isn’t doing much in our churches is because there is not much faith in the leaders above us.
• One of the reason there is no faith is because there’s no honor for God in our lives.
• When we truly honor God we will honor the authority of the leaders he put above us.
• If you want to be over, learn how to be under well.
• Be in a position where you are under authority and submitting willingly and humbly.
• Honor – value, respect, highly esteem, treat as precious, weighty or valuable.
• Honor lifts up; dishonor tears down.
• Honor believes the best; dishonor believes the worst.
• Honor values; dishonor devalues.
• If you ascribe honor to people they will rise to it.
• Honor the leaders God has put above you and watch what God will do.
• There’s a big difference between respect and honor.
• Respect is earned; honor is freely given.
• When we ascribe honor people they become honorable.
• We need to repent of our lack of honor towards the previous generation.
• Repent because you’ve been dishonoring.

• Our culture has experienced dramatic change.
• It’s nothing beyond enormous.
• 9/11 has entirely shaped a new generation.
• There’s three major things that are colliding and creating sea change in our culture.
• We have to understand the context we are entering.

Culture Today

• We live in post-modern culture… a skepticism towards certainty.
• When we approach people with anything confident and certain, we are met with resistance.
• We complicate that because our church culture has become very post-Christian.
• The Church used to sit in the center of culture.
• The Church is no longer at the center of culture; it’s in on the periphery.
• Our nation was founded on an idea of religious liberty, but the Judeo-Christian ideals that have guided us have dominated the public square.
• Today, all faiths are celebrated, not just tolerated.
• Everyone is in the discussion.
• Many Christians don’t know what to do about that.
• We can either react and respond in fear.
• Or, we can understand this is our new reality… our new normal.
• In this place it is still possible for the Gospel to gain traction.

Where We’ve Been

• We reacted to culture by separating from it.
• We thought we needed to get as far away from the world as possible.
• Our role in culture was to “fight the enemy.”
• We’ve also tried to copy culture, being Christians by label mainly.
• 76% of Americans define themselves as being Christians.
• The label of Christian has become a cultural identity, a label.
• There’s a new story developing as to how Christians are thinking about the world.
• We’re not sure how to define or articulate it.
• The new generation has captured the heart of the Gospel, and they’ve been restorers.
• They aren’t going to separate or blend in… they are going to come along and restore.
• As they restore, one of the biggest questions we have to answer is the one about the Gospel and what it says about the world and how we are to live our lives in it.

Restorers

• Restorers are finding their place in God’s Story.
• The separatist mentality only looked at the fall and redemption.
• It made our job to make people make a decision for Christ.
• Cultural Christians understand creation and that our role is to restore… do good works, better our world, schools, do good work, etc.
• Good deeds have been disconnected largely from the work of Christ.
• Restorers understand it’s all of the story.
• Restorers understand are created in the image of God, sin has separated, Christ has redeemed, and our opportunity is to partner with God for the renewal and restoration of all things.
• This is Good News for the rest of the world.
• “We have the ministry of reconciliation…”
• This is the call of the restorer.
• The restorer understands first things are first things.
• It’s because of the Gospel that we are then called and responsible to go into the world and use our talents and giftings to restore the world.

The Next Christians

• The new generation is thinking in a new way.
• Instead of being offended by culture, sin or brokenness, they are provoked to engage.
• They get involved in the brokenness in the world and they go to where it is.
• They don’t just talk, they don’t critique it, they create.
• They create culture.
• They create using their talent and the burden in their heart to be restorers.
• They aren’t critics, they are creators.
• Next Christians are recovering the idea of calling.
• People are struggling with meaning and purpose… people can’t figure out their calling.
• This is one of the greatest opportunities the church has in this generation.
• Every person in our church is out working in the world.
• Our congregation is an army of people already on mission.
• When we affirm and celebrate people who are living out their calling in their vocation is when we will see a revolution, an awakening.
• The heart of God is for everyone of us to understand our calling and our mission the world.
• It’s something every person struggles with.
• Of all channels of culture, the only channel that convenes all of the channels is the church.
• Our opportunity is enormous as we influence people engaged in the various channels of culture.
• Sometimes we deep in the work of our calling and sometimes our calling finds us.
• If we have a restoration mindset we’ll realize our job is to not state the Good News but to show up and be the Good News.
• Isaiah 58
• …we will be restorers of streets to dwell in.
• This is our opportunity.
• The next generation isn’t leaving the Church because they don’t want to be Christians.
• The next generation is leaving the church is because they are looking for a church that is showing them how to be a Christian in a culture that is changing.

Seth is a renowned speaker as well. He was recently chosen as one of 21 Speakers for the Next Century by Successful Meetings and is consistently rated among the very best speakers by the audiences he addresses.

Seth was founder and CEO of Yoyodyne, the industry’s leading interactive direct marketing company, which Yahoo! acquired in late 1998. Godin worked as VP Direct Marketing at Yahoo before leaving to become a full time speaker, writer and blogger.
He holds an MBA from Stanford, and was called “the Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age” by Business Week.

• Do you know what time it is?
• Of course. We have a watch.
• Why do you have a watch?
• The system demands we show up at the right place at the right time.
• it’s about maximizing, centralizing, monetizing.
• The system is pretty new.
• We’ve only had time zones for 150 years.
• Professional wrestling is fake.
• Somewhere along the way someone told you pro wrestling was fake and you believed it.
• It changed the way you looked at professional wrestling.
• You came to understand that there’s a difference between what is and what you are expecting.
• As soon as you realized the truth you could realize the artifice and that
• The economy drives our country.
• 4,000 years ago when we were nomads of tribes of 150 people we had a spiritual and cultural life that matched that.
• The Roman Empire demanded a new type of living. It was a new way of living, from the top down.
• Princes, merchants, banks, imperialists and kings shifted our spiritual and cultural lives.
• The life we know today is driven at every level by the economy we live in.
• The economy changes the way we see things.
• Seth made $40 Billion dollar mistake.
• In 1992 he had a small internet company.
• He compiled a list of the best websites in print.
• Made t-shirts and sold 800 copies of the printed book.
• At the same time, a company started with the same resources called Yahoo.
• They saw the same thing Seth saw… he saw a book idea; they wanted to change the world.
• The record industry is over, dead, it’s toast.
• It used to perfect in so many ways.
• You owned a record, lent it friends and would have to go to a store and buy one if it wore out.
• Then, it changed.
• The old idea was: if you have something people want or want to reach the masses, make it average for average people and yell about it.
• Henry Ford realized the power of mass production.
• Mass production allows you to become more and more efficient because it’s so efficient.
• In order to make the factory efficient you need interchangeable parts and interchangeable people.
• The model of a factory is built into all of us.
• Factories led to schools.
• Factory workers were freaking out because it’s hard to train someone who’s not expecting it.
• Factories trained workers in schools.
• Schools trained our kids to be obedient, to sit in straight rows, to do what they are told and use a #2 pencil while they do it.
• They trained us to buy stuff.
• It was all invented to feed the factory system.
• No one ever taught students how to solve interesting problems… how to do work without a map… how to develop autonomy.
• The factory wants you to fit in so they can ignore you.
• The factory isn’t just a factory or a business, it can even be the spiritual institutions we work for.
• The factory changed us… it put in our heads that what is valuable is a building.
• The factory
• We’ve been brainwashed to have a place of worship we had to have a building.
• Making a light saber isn’t hard… what’s hard is conceiving the idea of a light saber.
• In the world of Google, competence is no longer a scarce commodity.
• There’s always people who can do your job just as good.
• There’s a problem bordering on a crisis.
• We are bowling all day long… avoiding the gutter, aiming for a strike.
• We incrimentally follow the steps and feed the system.
• The problem with factories is that they will die because they race to the bottom.
• If someone is racing to the bottom you don’t want to win that race.
• Someone is always going to beat you.
• Someone will always be better.
• You have to race to the top if you want to win.
• There is a revolution.
• A revolution is destroying the industrial revolution.
• Every revolution destroys the old revolution before it creates a new one. – Clay Shirky
• What can you count on?
• You can count on that we are now connected more than ever before, you can make things more than ever before.
• All that’s left is to make a difference.
• All that’s left is to connect.
• All that’s left is to matter.
• All that’s left is to do work that matters so much that people will miss you when you are gone.
• Will you be more obedient than everyone else or more graceful than everyone else?
• We weren’t taught to do this in school.
• Being graceful is doing work and art that matters.
• Being graceful means when you leave a room people are sad to see you leave.
• The factory was around for a long time… it created institutions that embraced compliance.
• We’ve been trained to be complaint cogs in a system.
• We have a choice.
• We live in a connected revolution.
• We are only 6 handshakes away from everyone.
• You don’t win by being complaint, you win by being connected.
• North Korea is filled with compliance.
• You can’t comply yourself to success.
• You get better at making cupcakes progressively as you veer from the directions.
• Some people fail and go back to the rules; or they choose to fail by trying something different.
• Cupcake failure is not fatal.
• If we want to create a world where we can do our work, the work, we have to be prepared to fail.
• Every coin has two sides.
• You have to prepare to fail and embrace it as a part of growing.
• Tribes are at the heart of marketing, institutions and how ideas spread.
• No one joins a boring tribe.
• CMO = Chief Movement Officer
• If you are going to win, you are going to make a movement.
• You won’t create a movement by being complaint or demanding compliance.
• You make a movement by doing things people hate.
• We bought iPhones because we are part of the tribe… it’s jewelry that has a function.
• Apple realizes they aren’t in the technology business… they are leading a movement and a tribe.
• They win because they chose to create a movement that was easy for people to join.
• Their movement grows because people talk about.
• Boring and bureaucratic doesn’t work.
• People talk about geniuses… people who solve interesting problems, who connect with people and who know what it means to be a human and make a difference.
• If you’re going to be a genius, you can’t have a boss sitting around telling you what to do all day.

Without a boss in a new economy, who exactly setting your agenda?

• Is it about compliance or relentless curiosity.
• The heart of it is art.
• 1/3 of all of the oil paintings in the world are painted in China.
• Art isn’t painting.
• Art is a human act that changes someone and its generous.
• It’s a gift you can’t sell.
• The act of being able to help someone is the work of art.
• We get paid for doing what someone needs us to do.
• It’s gift-giving and connecting with people that changes people.
• Doing acts that bring us closer together is at the heart of what makes a connection economy work.
• The thing we need to do is our art.
• When you figure out what your art is you figure out what your purpose is. They are the same thing.
• People don’t learn by understanding they learn by some other way. The world changes.
• When you figure out why something works you understand.

Art demands emotional labor.

• We get paid for a different kind of labor.
• The labor of exposing ourselves is an intellectual risk.
• The labor of exposing ourselves to people who might not like us.
• Emotional labor is work worth doing.
• We need people who care opposed to people who are just doing their jobs.
• We need people who can make a human connection.
• We need people who can make change even if it means failure in the short term.
• A resume is a list of names proving you are good at following the rules.
• Do you fire people who don’t make mistakes or those who do?
• What are you rewarding?
• What are you attracted to?
• Why do we do what we do?
• Do we do it because it’s safe or because it’s what we are supposed to do.
• The more change we can make it’s more likely the tribe will join us.
• How tight is the tribe?
• That is our opportunity.
• Would the tribe miss you if you were gone?
• If the tribe disappeared how long could it be replaced?
• If you are at the center of a tribe that matters people will miss you.

That’s fine, but my boss won’t let me…

• Of course they wont!
• Your boss won’t let us try new things.
• Change is made by individuals who stop seeking deniability.
• That’s what we spend most of our day doing…
• Change is made by people who eagerly accept responsibility.
• You accept responsibility while not commanding authority.
• You must give away credit.
• You can never fit in enough…  You will never fit in all of the way.
• Stop trying!
• Emotional labor is hard.

The Lizard Brain

• Deer killed more people than sharks last year.
• Why did the chicken cross the road? Because his chicken brain told him to.
• We all have a lizard brain. It’s responsibility for anger, revenge, and reproduction.
• Animals are wild because their lizard brian tells them to.
• We all have a lizard brian.
• The lizard takes over when it’s upset.
• Stephen Pressfield calls the voice of the lizard the resistance.
• It’s the voice that tells us we can’t do it, we aren’t good enough, etc.
• The Resistance forces us to choose safety.
• The Resistance is our enemy.
• The lizard brain prevents us for doing work that matters.

The Downside of Tribes

• We’ve created a culture filled with politicians who divide us.
• Why is it so important for the tribe win?
• Is it about winning, really?
• Is that what we need to focus on?
• There’s a difference between scarcity and abundance.
• We are moving to a connected, revolutionary world.
• What happens when you give gifts instead?
• Is that seat taken?
• How many people would give everything to have our seat?
• How many people would want to have the opportunity we have.
• Do not waste the revolution.
• Do work that matters.
• Hurry.

Christine is the author of Stop Acting Like a Christian … Just Be One!, A Life Unleashed, and Youth Ministry – Principles for the 21st Century.

• She and her husband were in Italy and went to an old cathedral and went to the top of the steeple to see the city.
• When they got to the top of the steeple she saw hundreds of tourists.
• She broke down crying over what she saw.
• What was once a testament of God’s goodness, a place that was once the center of the community, was now a dead empty monument of what God once did.
• She said she would hate for people to go to Australia and go to Hillsong and say, “Oh, wasn’t that the place where people used to sing…”
• This is what happens when the Church stops being the Church and starts doing church.
• We aren’t called to do church we are called to be the church.
• We have a passion deficiency syndrome.
• We’ve lost passion and our hearts aren’t beating for what God’s heart beats for.
• Luke 15 – God is so passionate about the world.
• God talked about the lost in 3 different ways in 3 different parables.
• We are God’s spiritual GPS system.
• We are called to seek and save that which was lost.
• We lose our passion when we get caught up with doing things outside of pursuing the lost, and we do things out of obligation instead of our passion.
• You do what you want out of passion.
• No one has to make you do what you are passionate about.
• God is passionate about a lost and broken world.

Lost Sheep

• Sheep don’t wake up and intend to get lost.
• Sheep are grazing and aren’t paying attention to the rest of the fold.
• We live in a world where people are preoccupied.
• People are trying to cope with life.
• Their preoccupation led to them being lost.

Lost Coin

• The coin was lost because the woman was careless with it.
• Some people have been careless with our lives.
• We have a generation where people are being careless with their lives.
• They aren’t lost out of their own fault, they are lost because someone

Lost Son

• The lost son miscalculated.
• He thought a life without the father would be better than life with the father.

People End Up Lost

• Our job is to seek and save that which is lost.
• We are to reroute people on the journey of life.
• We are point them to a relationship with God.
• We are to be a GPS system.
• There are 27 million slaves on earth today.
• We aren’t the Good Samaritan, we are like the Levite or the priest.
• We see the suffering but pass it by.
• The Good Samaritan had compassion and went to the man.
• We confuse compassion, empathy, and sympathy.
• Compassion is never compassion until you cross the street and invest of your time, talent or treasure.
• Too often we let our “buts” get in the way of what God wants to do through our lives.
• We need a “butt-ectomy” in the Church… it’s not about our limitations but about God’s supernatural ability.
• We have a responsibility to rescue a lost and broken generation.
• Numbers are nameless, faceless, and dehumanizing.
• A million is just a statistic until you meet the one.
• The started the A21 Campaign to combat human trafficking.

• Christine met a girl who was trafficked and the girl told her, “if what you are telling me about what God is true, why didn’t you come sooner?”
• We are just doing church today, and we are afraid of the darkness.
• Her daughter loves flashlights and asked her, “Mommy, can we please go and find some darkness?”
• We are to go into the darkness.
• We don’t need much.
• We need to take risks.
• We need to plunder the darkness with the light of Christ inside us.
• We have to take light in the midst of darkness and no longer go to sleep… “awake o sleeper.”
• We need to wake up to the reality that there is a lost and dying world around us.
• We need to get involved in the brokenness and messiness of humanity.
• We have a message of rescue, hope and restoration.
• Get passionate about love, grace, and mercy of God… step out of the comfort zone.
• Don’t just do church, be church.
• Bring hope, life, and light.
• Make a decision to go out into the darkness and illuminate it with the light of the world, Jesus Christ.

Daniel H. Pink is the author of several provocative, bestselling books about the changing world of work. His latest is Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, which uses 40 years of behavioral science to overturn the conventional wisdom about human motivation and offer a more effective path to high performance.  Drive reached every national bestseller list in its first month of publication and is now in its eighth week on the New York Times list. Over the next year, it will appear in Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, French, German, Spanish, and 15 other languages.

A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future charts the rise of right-brain thinking in modern economies and describes the six abilities individuals and organizations must master in an outsourced, automated age. A Whole New Mind is a long-running New York Times and BusinessWeek bestseller that has been translated into 21 languages.

His articles on business and technology appear in many publications, including the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Wired, where he is a contributing editor. He has provided analysis of business trends on CNN, CNBC, ABC, NPR, and other networks in the U.S. and abroad. He also lectures to corporations, associations, and universities around the world on economic transformation and the new workplace.

A free agent himself, Dan held his last real job in the White House, where he served from 1995 to 1997 as chief speechwriter to Vice President Al Gore. He also worked as an aide to U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich and in other positions in politics and government.

He received a BA, with honors, from Northwestern University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a JD from Yale Law School. To his lasting joy, he has never practiced law.

Dan lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and their three children.

• Human beings have biological drives.
• We are more than a biological drives.
• We are motivated by rewards and punishment.
• We have other motivators.
• We do things because they are interesting, because they are the right thing to do, because we have faith, etc.
• What are you doing here?
• We are here because we a  part of a community, want to make an impact, etc.
• Too often we stop at the second drive, we have a two-dimensional view of human beings.
• We think we get by by punishing behavior we don’t approve of and rewarding behavior we like.
• It’s wrong.
• Over the last 50 years, social scientists and sociologists have studied human motivation.
• Science calls many orthodoxies into question about motivation.
• It’s not about rewarding or punishing… it’s about the third drive.
• Larger rewards lead to poorer performance.
• Solving a new problem requires hard work.
• Rewards work for simple tasks; not for complex ones.
• How many of you day to day work draw on rudimentary cognitive skill?
• Jobs today no longer require manual, laborious tasks because of technological advances and outsourcing.
• We have to do more creative work today.
• We have to do work like artists do work.
• We are all artists… trying to give the world something they didn’t know they were missing.
• We all do commissioned work.
• In art, the commissioned works were rated as significantly less creative than the noncommissioned works, yet they were not rates is different in technical quality.
• Too often we follow a fundamentally misguided road of rewards.
• Rewards don’t work.
• Money is a motivator.
• In the world of work people are acutely attuned to fairness. You have to treat people fairly and pay them appropriately.
• The best use of money as a motivator enough to take the issue of money off of the table.

3 Elements in Enduring Motivation: Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose

Autonomy

• Think about the word management.
• We think management emanated from nature or was delivered to us from God.
• Management is something that someone invented.
• Management is a technology for organizing people into productive capacities.
• It’s a technology from the 1850′s.
• How many technologies from the 1850′s do we use today?
• The whole purpose of management is designed to create compliance… getting people what you want them to do the way you want it.
• We don’t want compliance today; we want engagement.
• People don’t engage by being managed or controlled.
• People do their best work by having autonomy.
• People need to have autonomy over their time, task, team, and technique.
• People will do better work when they have autonomy.
• FEDEX Days – companies allowing people to use 20% of their time working on whatever they want to.
• This 20% margin gave birth to things like Gmail, Google News, etc.
• Carving out islands of non essential work creates space for creativity and innovation.
• Try a FEDEX day. The first will be OK. The second one will rock.

Mastery

• Our desire to get better at stuff.
• Getting better at something is inherently satisfying.
• The single most motivating factor at work is making progress.
• The only way to make progress and achieve mastery is through feedback.
• What’s our main mechanism for giving people feedback? Annual performance reviews.
• The problem with them is that they are annual.
• Boomers have misstated the need for feedback in Millennials as neediness.
• We live in a feedback rich world today… we post or click and people respond.
• DIY Performance Reviews – set out your goals [learning and performance] at the start of the month. At the end of the month, call yourself into the office and review, give yourself feedback.
• High-performing teams already do this.
• You have develop the ethic of doing your own evaluations.

Purpose

• The profit motive has limits.
• It’s a good thing morally and for efficiency.
• It’s not the only thing.
• It’s insufficient.
• If the rally cry is to “earn earnings per share,” it’s a good goal but it’s not going to cause people to leap out of bed.
• When the profit motive gets unhitched from the purpose motive, bad things happen.
• Things get mediocre, blah, and unremarkable.
• When we marry profit and purpose great things happen.

Carrots and sticks are so last century. For 21st Century work we need to updgrade to autonomy, mastery, and purpose.

Exercise on Purpose

• “A great man is a sentence…”
• People who do things that last aren’t trying to do many things in a mediocre way, they are trying to do a few things in a big way.
• You can distill what great people do to a single sentence.
• Do you have a sentence or a paragraph?
• What’s your sentence?
• Ask yourself: Was I better today than yesterday?