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.

Here are some takeaways from Danielle Strickland’s talk using Judges 6 as her outline:

• True peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of justice. -Martin Luther King Jr.
• Peace (“Shalom”) in the bible is everything that is wrong being made right.
• The world is crying out for rightness, for truth, for goodness, for all things to be made right. As leaders, we can be used to bring this about through the power of God.
• True humility is agreeing with God about who you are.

• God calls Gideon out for who he already is. God calls us out, not through the eyes of others, but for how God sees us.
• God calls Gideon to go in the strength you have. God calls out what already exists in us.
• God wants you for who you are and he calls it out.
• If you have true humility, it will lead to true dependency.
• True dependency is agreeing with God about who He is.

• You can’t be dependent on God if you are self-sufficient.
• You have to create pockets of dependency, places where only God can show up.
• True humility and true dependence helps you to experience the shalom of God and then you take that into a world longing to be made right.