In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im are joined for the second time by Craig Groeschel, the founding and senior pastor of Life Church and author of the new devotional Daily Power: 365 Days of Fuel for Your Soul. During their conversation, they talk about the necessity of daily Bible reading, how to learn from failure in ministry and leadership, and learning from younger leaders.

BEST QUOTES

“There are a lot of lessons while walking on water, but there are also lessons in sinking in the water.”

“If we don’t know why something is working while it is, we won’t know how to fix it when it is not.”

“We were putting the wrong type of leader in the wrong place at the wrong type of season.”

“There are some leaders who are better at starting, some better at building, and some better at sustaining.”

“The most important lessons we learn are often not those most visible on the surface, but they get down to heart issues.”

“Rather than having 1 mentor, I want to have 10 people I am learning from in 10 different categories.”

“Some of the best things I have learned about ministry are from people who don’t do ministry.”

“Why would I go and fight off a temptation in the future if I have the power eliminate it today?”

“People would rather follow a leader who is real than a leader who is right.”

“You will vastly overestimate what you can do in the short run, but you will vastly underestimate what God can do through you over a lifetime of faithfulness.”

“Be faithful with a little bit today, and he’ll trust you with even more tomorrow.”

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

Daily Power: 365 Days of Fuel for Your Soul by Craig Groeschel

Pipeline West: Developing Leaders at Every Level

Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss

The Power of Moments by Chip Heath

The Four by Scott Galloway

Building a Story Brand by Donald Miller

Be Our Guest by Theodore Kinni

The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy