new to you friday–take nine

This online conference occurred last September and was followed by the “Aha! Experience” earlier this month. This remains one of my favorite from all the videos. We all have to fight the temptation to compare our “success” with what other people are doing, and to define that success numerically.

“We’ve equated large with legitimate, and it’s eating our souls.” You need to watch this.

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Two weeks ago today, I and 20,000 of my closest friends spent hours watching segments of “The Nines,” 9+ hours—beginning at 9:09 am on 09/09/09—of videos from some of the evangelical world’s most influential voices. Each “speaker” had just nine minutes to answer the question, “If you could say one thing to Christian leaders, what would it be?”

Of course, some went over nine minutes, and there was a lot of alliteration and three-part outlines. But my favorite was this simple but powerful one by Skye Jethani, the managing editor of Leadership Journal. If someone asked me the question, I’d probably just reply, “What Skye said.” He has three points, but they’re good ones—and only eight minutes, too!