I’m at the leadership summit with the team from Revolution Church. This is by far the best leadership conference of the year. This is my 13th summit and every year, God stretches me and challenges me. So much wisdom and inspiration wrapped up into two days. I always blog my notes, so if you can’t attend or missed something, I’ve got you covered.

Jossy Chacko talked about Unquestionable Ways to Expand Your Leadership Reach and really made me want to read his book Madness!: One man’s crazy Idea to transform ASIA and beyond.  He used Matthew 25 and the parable of the talents and how that applies to leaders and churches.

He talked about how to expand your leadership reach through enlarging your vision, empowering your people and embracing risk.

Here are some takeaways:

• All of us have been trusted with something, how are we proving ourselves to be trusted with more?
• Faithfulness is not sitting with what you have been given. Maintaining things is not God’s plan and God’s mission. Faithfulness is expanding.
• Multiply the small things God has entrusted with you, He will give you more.

How to Expand your Leadership Reach

Enlarge your vision.

• Don’t play it safe.
• Do you talk more about maintenance or multiplication of your vision?
• When people hear your vision, they should know the size and scale of your God.

• Trust what God has put in you, don’t listen to people who are against your vision or say it isn’t possible.
• Enlarging your vision is about staying focused and allowing your horizon to get bigger.
• If your vision is to keep what you have, you will miss the opportunities around you.

Empower Your People

• Focus on building the character before you empower them.
• People don’t fail because of lack of information but lack of character.
• Empowerment has to be through relationship.
• Agree on the right outcomes and systems.

Embrace risk

• Risk and faith are the same thing.
• Without risk (faith) it is impossible to please God.
• Without risk, we move from pioneering to preserving.
• See risk as your friend to love, not your enemy to be feared.
• Fear is not from God, that’s from the devil.
• Your vision needs to be hinged on the doors of risk.
• See comfort and safety as your enemies.
• Comfort, safety and risk cannot coexist.
• If you don’t take that step of risk/faith, who will miss out?

• To lead, you must increase your pain threshold.
• Your leadership capacity is in direct relation to your pain threshold.

Next steps

• Make a list of all the dreams and visions God has given to you.
• Put a date you will complete them.
• Put a name next to those dreams who will hold you accountable.