Hillsong United Conference: Phil Dooley - “The Leadership Journey”

The last workshop was with Phil Dooley titled “The Leadership Journey”:

The reason many of us are on our leadership journey is because of someone else that said we could do it

Always be thankful for those people and honor them

Who are you going to invest into, the same as they did me?

Jesus was about putting the truth of God and His love into a hands of few, so that they could go put it into the hands of a few more, …

Leadership is a journey, so it should take the pressure off of leadership being a measurable thing that produces constant opportunity to grow

The greatest measure of leadership is the few individual lives that are standing strong for Christ when their world gets rocked

Your focus should be on strengthening their lives by investing in them

Three things to help with the leadership journey:

Have you ever had that realization that you’re in charge?

You won’t always have the answers all the time

If you are doing what God has called you to do, you don’t have to worry

Give the people you are responsible for your very best

It doesn’t matter if other leaders are better, funnier, etc. - God will provide His grace

#1 - Longevity

sometimes God moves through hiring for a position
however, most people on staff are simply getting paid for things they were doing for free previously
if you fight over benefits, pay, etc. you may not last long
if you adopt the attitude of just being there because you are called, you will experience longevity
longevity builds something that otherwise wouldn’t be built
Hillsong has had only 3 youth pastors in 20+ years - that builds community
trees don’t move from one place to the next and grow effectively
longevity allows mistakes to be made and learned from
it would have been easy to say “that’s not fair” or “that’s not right” and left, but the fruit would not have come that way it has

#2 - Always be prepared to embrace innovation

the last words of a dying church is “we’ve never done it that way before”
innovation is just new and creative ways of reaching people, presenting the gospel, doing church
often times it comes from empowering the next generation
Hillsong United came from putting ministry in the hands of the next generation
Paul said this to Timothy (1 Tim 4:14)
the young bring passion
the older bring coaching
at times you may be playing, at times you may be coaching, but at all times embrace an innovative spirit
Zec 4:10 - Does anyone dare despise this day of small beginnings? They’ll change their tune when they see Zerubbabel setting the last stone in place!”

#3 - Always encourage

have you ever come home at the end of the day and says “if one more person encourages me… that’s it!”?
if things get too intense, no one will want to hang around
encourage everyone around you for their effort, their skills, their talent, their willingness to be available and part of the team

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