Along with over 78,000 others, I participated in The Global Leadership Summit of the Willow Creek Association on August 8-9. I was at one of the 269 Host Sites around the U.S. and Canada. A version of the Summit is now made available now in 100 countries during the months following the event through a combination of video and live presentations. I always feel that I have to provide a disclaimer to get my friends who are uncomfortable with megachurches to read a blog involving Willow Creek, so let me say that I attend the Summit for three reasons: First, Willow Creek Community Church, the “mother church” of the Willow Creek Association, does “big church” well, and they are transparent when they falter. The same spirit infuses the Summit. Second, the worship is always different from what I usually experience and that is not bad. I need to be “stretched” a bit. Third, the Summit organizers enlist some of the most creative and challenging leaders...
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