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You are in an airplane. There is no fuel in it.
It is about to go down and the oxygen mask comes out.
The Summit is that oxygen mask.
Here at the Summit, we believe that leadership really matters.
Every leader can get better if they want to.
Your presence at this event is proof positive that you want to get better.
Leaders are learners, that is what you see over and over again.
I come away from the Summit with great, new ideas. God has spoken to me.
Bill said it best today, getting your bell rung.
Have you had your leadership bell rung recently?
Summits are supposed to ring leader's bells.
There is a concentration of different topics that you could not find anywhere else.
One reason I like coming to the Summit - not just pastors speaking to pastors.
I am getting the best of the business world as well.
We are all entrepreneurs, only too few of us get to practice it.
You do not go to school to learn when the War of 1812 was, it is easy to find out!
What we need you to do is solve interesting problems.
I think Cory Booker summarized the entire day.
This world has forces that will try to crush you.
Even worse than that, they will try to lull and seduce you into mediocrity.
Somewhere between our first breath and our last breath,
the extraordinary nature God placed in us is beat out of us,
broken out of us, lost to us.
The church needs to be the nurturer of the human spirit.
When Mama Maggie got on her knees and kissed the ground,
in that moment I felt there is nothing I could not do if that woman is praying for us.
If you want to be a hero, do what God wants you to do.
The quality and diversity of people, so you have someone like Cory Booker,
then you have a Coptic nun - that is godliness, that is what I want to be.
There are two completely diverse role models.
I am following a talk on humility, which I love,
I do not want you to think I am the most vulnerabale, humble guy in the world -
even if I am, even if I am.
Great leaders are approachable, have time for you, are other person-centered.
Speaker after speaker have a sense of authenticity.
If you want to see the land filled with water, dig some ditches.
The Summit has been an amazing experience for me.
It is an opportunity to grow and to be challenged.
Everyone of use has one of those moments in the course of the Summit.
Wherever you are, God has called you to be a steward over a vision,
for the specific reason of changing something in a community, or world, or family, or nation.
You tell me why your next 5 years could not be your best 5.
Why go out with a whimper? Why hobble to the end?
Why not break the finish line in a full sprint?!
Lead Where You Are