Leadership - Mentor the next generation

Dr Kara Powell is the Executive Director of the Fuller Youth Institute (FYI) and a faculty member at Fuller Theological Seminary. Here are a few quotes from her talk at Rethink Leadership 2017

• Culture eats strategy for breakfast. – Peter Drucker
• Leadership culture eats strategy for breakfast.
• What kind of leadership culture was needed to grow churches with young people in the church?
• With the next-generation, it's more about grass roots activism and not top down great leadership
• It’s not about hip leadership culture. Pastors, we can put away our skinny jeans.
• Keychain leadership culture - hand the keys over - responsibility, power & authority. As you hand them over, your church will flourish.
• It is about Reciprocal Learning – Saying, if you see me doing something wrong, please tell me. 
• Think of me as a fellow patient who having been admitted a little earlier could give you some advice - C S Lewis
• We are all here today because someone handed the keys over to us.
• Take Baby Steps - To give someone their first lesson in the car you don't go to the motorway, you go to a deserted car park.
• The two biggest problems in the church are that we think too small and we live scared. Young people come with new ideas and courage to take risks.
• Young people give our church more vitality, innovation, passion, and money. They may not have money but their parents do.
• The enthusiasm of young people is not your church’s problem. It is your church’s solution.
• What revolution is waiting in the church as you hand over keys to young people who are ready for them and become a mentor to them?