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In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast Todd Adkins and Barnabas Piper visit the offices of Q to talk with Gabe Lyons. Gabe is a best-selling author and a leading voice on Christians engaging culture well. He and his wife, Rebekah, started Q several years ago to create a context for healthy, curious, civil conversations about pressing issues of faith, life, and culture form a distinctly Christian perspective. Gabe is also the co-author of Good Faith: Being a Christian When Society Thinks You’re Irrelevant and Extreme with David Kinnaman.
BEST QUOTES
“How else to people end up in leadership unless they get thrown into the deep end at some point?”
“Always seeing a person in the image of God is a basis for kindness.”
“Maybe an idea is a bad idea, but that doesn’t make the person a bad person or the enemy.”
“Christians should be engaged in every area of culture.”
“Orthodoxy matters and being rooted in Christ.”
“Leadership in a younger generation is not really a positive word.”
“People want to be influencers, world changers, or culture creators –all of which are expressions of leadership.”
“People who are not Christians tend to view Christianity as extreme.”
“Many Americans think people of faith are part of the problem now.”
“47% of millennials are afraid to speak up for their beliefs.”
“When you fine tune the love, the believe, and the live parts of your life that is good faith.”
“I’ll have to answer for what God called me to do, not what you think God called me to do.”
“Leadership is about trying to serve each of my children in areas where I see God has uniquely gifted me to be their father.”
“One of the biggest indicators of whether young people leave the church is their view of the authority of Scripture in their life.”
“Engage scripture as a driver for life instead of a legalistic heavy thing.”
“Leadership is about people and relationships, not about achieving results.”
“Your words matter way less than what your life speaks.”
“Reaching potential doesn’t just happen because you’re smart; it takes hard work.”
“All the strategy and tactics in the world can’t make up for what God can do in a moment.”
“One of the hardest things for a young leader is patience.”
“Daily disciplines make or break what your dream is built on.”
“Faithfulness where you are will change your world.”
RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
Good Faith by Gabe Lyons and David Kinnaman
UnChristian by Gabe Lyons and David Kinnaman
The Emotionally Healthy Leader by Pete Scazzero
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
Culture Making by Andy Crouch
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