Innovate: Live Blogging What's Left When I'm Gone - Mark Beeson

• What direction are your feet pointing?
  
• If you turn your feet in a direction and day, after day take steps you will end up in the direction you are pointed.
• You cannot turn your feet in one direction and end up in a different direction if you continuously take steps.
• we have the tendency to think that if we keep going the direction we're going we'll end up in a new place
• we have to take responsibility and turn sometimes
• the direction you set your feet is most important
• we have to be intentional about pointing our feet and our lives to God
  
• we help people innovate to adapt to the things happening around them
• the direction of our feet matters
• Things happen
• to us
  
• in us
  
• with us
  
• for us
  
• by us
• You can't get what you could have until you let go of what you do have
• knowing the path and choosing the path are different
• the problem isn't getting information
• you used to have to apprentice
• we don't have to do that any more
• we go to leaders, mentors, and teachers to help us make sense of the information
  
• the challenge is to make sense of what's happening and then make good choices
• media piece about a church member's story (3:22)
• Great commentary on being for and with each other
• leaders need to be both with and for their staff
• staff need to be both with and for their staff
• Jesus was both with us and for us
  
• we need to get better
  
• work on your attitude or you'll hurt others
• work on relationships or others will hurt you
  
• work on your persistance or problems will defeat you
  
• work on your priorities or the insignificant will hamper you
• work on your credibility or no one will follow you
• if you don't get better and encourage others to do so, you will work with bozos
• some people won't learn
• just move on
• don't put them in charge of anything
• number 1 job of a Christian leader is to hear from God and bring that message back to the people of God
• people are not here to give you a successful ministry
• the people are your ministry