WCLS: John Burke

Making and maintaining good soil is essential if people are to grow.
1 Cor. 3:6-9 God causes the growth, we're responsible for the soil.
Are you willing to get your hands dirty by meeting people where they are?

Messy Leadership

1. Grace-giving Acceptance. If you find a Rembrandt covered in mud you wouldn't throw it away or even try to wipe it off. You'd take it to an expert who could clean it and make it good as new. We need to view people through God's eyes, not our own.
2. Authentic Confessing Community. Leaders have to lead in being authentic. We have to actually care about each other.
3. Stay Connected to Christ. "Apart from me you can do nothing." Stay connected, fruit happens.