Global Leadership Summit 2015 Session 4: Albert Tate
Trey McClain
I’m peacock proud and hyena happy to be here today.
Who to believe: lies in truth’s clothing or the naked truth?
We’re not suppose to leave it all on the field. We don’t live on the field; we just play on the field. If we leave it all on the field, we go home with nothing left.
We need to live not for our resumes, but our eulogies.
John 6 – Jesus feeds the crowd
“Where can we buy bread for all these people to eat?” is a roll-your-eyes question.
What about the moments when Jesus asks “dumb” questions? Because he wanted him to add it up and see that this won’t work logically, under our own resources.
It’s not in my power; it’s not in my strength.
Jesus’ dumb question gives way to a dumb idea. Andrew comes up with a little boy.
The power of a dumb idea.
Jesus specialized in dumb ideas.
Here’s a dumb idea: let’s start a bakery for gang members. Homeboy Industries now employs hundreds of people.
Create a culture where dumb ideas get attention on the floor.
Why is the little boy the only one with a lunch?
Jesus used what he brought. What if nobody brought anything? What does it look like for you to pack your lunch?
He gives his lunch to Jesus and gets out of the way. One of the most key things that we can do is pack what we have, give it Jesus and then get out of the way.
Some of us give it to Jesus and then we try and instruct Jesus. He gives it to Jesus and then gets out of the way.
He’s able to discover the awe and wonder of Jesus.
Some of you brought all you had, now get out of the way so that you can experience the awe and wonder of God.
When is the last time that your neck had to turn because you were amazed by what God did?
Warden Cain, warden of Angola, want to talk about a dumb idea. Murders became missionaries. The bloodiest prison in the country became the most blood-bought prison in the nation.
I flunked out of high school. I got my GED. God saved me, called me to ministry. I planted a church and now I’m on the faculty of The Global Leadership Summit.
If you’ve got a spreadsheet but don’t know how to spread out on the floor and pray to the Almighty God, you’ve missed the point.
I’m from Mississippi. I know what it means to be full. I know what it means to be so full you’ve just got to stretch.
They ate until they were full. It’s the picture of abundance, capacity. It’s the picture of the abundance of God.
I don’t know what they did with the left overs, but I believe they gave the baskets to the little boy.
What does it mean for you to have something left at the end of the day?
Some of you are sitting on empty. It’s not a great work ethic. It’s a sign of missing the opportunity to give it to Jesus.
What would it mean for you to have something left at home for your wife, your kids?
My name can only do so much. His name gives me full access to the Kingdom of God.
We don’t have to live outside the promise of God in the scarcity of this world. He hung on the cross. He came from glory to live among us. He has more skymiles than anyone.
Don’t live in scarcity. Come on in. The sufficiency of Christ has made a way and made abundance. He has made a way.
Leaders, you don’t have to go home on empty. Christ left it all on the cross. It’s not your name, it’s His name. It’s not your power, it’s His power.
