Creative Church Conference- Session 4
Brian Houston is the founding and Senior Pastor of Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia. If you haven’t heard of him, you’ve certainly heard of the people he’s surrounded himself with. In fact, some of the greatest praise and worship songs in the last 10-15 years have come from this church. If you haven’t listened to any of the Hillsong, Hillsong United, or Hillsong Kids CD’s, you need to stop reading this blog right now and go download one of each from i-Tunes as soon as possible.
Here’s what Brian had to say
“The capacity to empower people has to be one of the greatest gifts anyone can have.”
“Jesus was empowered by the Father. Jesus empowered the disciples. The Holy Spirit empowers us.”
“Empowering is the language of the gospel.”“Our environments should be empowering environments.”
“When we build a culture of empowering, that is where creativity thrives. Thinking is enlarged and there is an openness to grow and change.”
“The only way you can miss an elephant is when you’re too big in the frame.” (I don’t have enough space to set this up, but trust me, this was profound!)
“When I get too big in the frame, the one thing that suffers is the empowerment of people.”
“Practice taking second place”
“An empowering culture is not one of independence, but one of interdependence.”
”There’s something about a heart that never gets too big to honor”
“An empowering culture is one that is not just about me and my world, but is about the kingdom of God.”