Recently, several members of our church staff attended the NewSpring Leadership Conference at NewSpring Church in Anderson, SC. In several upcoming posts, I will share some notes from the conference sessions.
Craig Groeschel is the Founding and Senior Pastor of LifeChurch in Edmond, Oklahoma. He spoke on the topic of "An Effective Leader's Constant Companion: Pain".
Avoid stupid pain. Step into purposeful pain.
Sometimes the difference in where I am and where God wants me to be is the pain I don't want to go through.
If you're not hurting, you're not leading. Pain is a part of leadership.
Becoming obsessed with what people think about you is the quickest way to forget what God thinks about you.
I can't please everyone but I can please God.
Do what's right and trust God with the results.
Three types of pain:
Pain of unjustified rejection and criticism
Pain of hard decisions
Pain of pruning
God will often break people privately before He uses them publicly.
Don't blame yourself for the decline because in the future you may take credit for the success.
You have everything in you to do what God has called you to do.
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