2 Mar 2012 Share this page

Confronting Peter Pan

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It’s the “Peter Pan Principle:” boys who don’t want to grow up.

Tony leads engineers designing the stuff the Air Force uses to defend America.  A leader valued by the Department of Defense, he also serves to lead a variety of companies in developing internships to equip budding engineers soon to graduate from Cal State, Fresno.  He does that on his own time.

But that’s not his true passion.  Tony sees the crisis of an America without fathers and he is moving to change the world.  His vision is to transform a generation, one boy at a time.  He leads his church in working to turn boys (of whatever age) into men.  He’s paying attention to what’s going on in our culture, and he’s not content to let somebody else solve the problem. 

Tony’s not delusional.  He knows the difference between a pipe dream and a vision.  (He's an engineer after all.)  He’ll tell you, unless we’re praying, we’re just playing games.  He recognizes that if God doesn’t move, we are all lost.  He also knows that a praying people can move the hand of God.

You may think he’s crazy.  I think he’s inspired.  And I think he’ll change the world because it is the Lord who is at work in him to will and to work for his good pleasure.

25 Feb 2012 Share this page

Kingdom Leaders

Kingdom leaders come out of unlikely places.

There’s the single mom who volunteers at Head Start where her pre-schooler gets a hand up.  She gets asked to be on a local committee, simply because she’s rarely late and never misses.   Her simple faithfulness gives her influence.  She’s a budding leader in the community, but at church she’s overlooked.

How ‘bout the Hispanic janitor at work?  Nobody sees him, but he sees everybody.  I’ll bet he has got some insight into the lives of people we bump into everyday, but never really see.

If we are reading the Bible well, we realize that it was the people everybody else overlooked who became the church and changed the world.  Who might you see if you looked just beyond the focus of the world?  How might you build into their Intimacy with God and instill in them a Passion for the Harvest?

Kyle
20 Mar 2010 Share this page

A Shopwindow for ILI USA, California

A message from Leadership Beyond Blog Site to all members of USA - California on MyILITeam!

We’ve started a blog called leadershipbeyond.org.  It fulfills a couple functions not served by MyILITeam. 
First, the blog is a "shop window" for ILI USA, California.  Because MyILITeam is an "invitation only" social network, (but invite all who take leadership seriously!), it's way to give people some insight about our “leaders equipping leaders” community in California.

Second, it provides an easy way to record learnings, discoveries, insights, and resources around the 8 core values.    We attempt to tag each entry by one of the core values (i.e. “intimacy” around an entry focused on prayer).  What it gives us is a growing, catalogued file for training, inspiration, and talk illustrations.

If you’re sharing the ILI story with someone new, there are a couple of places you can send them on the web.  The first place is iliteam.org.  This is the home site.  There’s lots of stuff there about our leadership, the core values, and what’s happening around the world.  Another place to go is iliteamusa.org.  This is a newer site, still underdevelopment, but it provides a window into what we hope to see happen in the USA.  Finally, you can invite them to go to leadershipbeyond.org.  If things develop according to plan, it will be a rich resource for leadership training ideas and a good introduction to our community.
This message is kind of a test.  By making the blog a member of the USA, California group, group messages should automatically post to the site, capturing the wisdom we share with one another in our leadership journey together.

Hope it works!
Kyle

22 Feb 2010 Share this page

i want to cry

This is an exchange initiated by a clear-eyed brother. 

We've got lots of work to do.

 


From: Kyle Phillips [mailto:123kylephillips@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 9:25 AM
To: 'Scott Roberts'
Subject: RE: i want to cry
Scott,

Sheesh.  This latest report from the Barna folks really does provide a snapshot of the crisis in the church.  Just coming from the ILI RC in Santa Clarita, the concerns posed are timely.  This statement does seem to get at a central issue:

    Yet, a new study from the Barna Group identifies an underlying reason why there is little progress in helping people develop spiritually: many churchgoers and clergy struggle to articulate a basic understanding of spiritual maturity. People aspire to be spiritually mature, but they do not know what it means. Pastors want to  guide others on the path to spiritual wholeness, but they are often not clearly defining the goals or the outcomes of that process.
Folks (in the church!) really don't know what it means to be Christian.  It is an amazing indictment that we can't articulate a shared understanding of maturity.  That's why these 8 core values in ILI are so valuable.  I like to talk about them as "practices" more than values.  They really do capture the multi-layered dynamic that is Christian faithfulness or maturity.  Our lives in the grace filled kingom of Christ really does produce a lifestyle, not just "beliefs" or "feelings" but regular behaviors that are a response to the Holy Spirit's presence in the midst of us.  It really is a dynamic of fruitfulness as Christ indwells us. 

 When I was a youth pastor years ago my vision was "Every youth a believer, every believer a leader, and every leader a servant."  The cluster of practices captured by the inter-dynamics of the 8 core values does paint a clear picture of Christian maturity.  All are critical, intimacy, passion, evangelism, leadership, multiplication, stewardship, family, integriy.  All are to lead and love. 

Lets get after it.

Kyle

 


From: Scott Roberts [mailto:scott@upheaval.org]
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 2:45 PM
To: Kyle Phillips
Subject: i want to cry

I knew that I was right, but its even worse.

barna

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