Global Leadership Summit Session 2 – Bono

• 10:15 PM henryjz - There’s always resistance to the journey of equality. -Bono
• 10:13 PM henryjz - Church tends to separate itself from people… know for what they are against rather than what they are for
• 10:06 PM henryjz - “I go where the Light is.” -Bono
• 10:05 PM henryjz - Bono uses fear of denominationalism as his “excuse”
• 10:05 PM henryjz - Hybels is challenging Bono’s engagement in the Church
• 10:05 PM henryjz - The recent bank and auto bailouts are an example that people starving in underprivileged areas of the world aren’t a crisis
• 10:03 PM henryjz - back to Bono
• 10:03 PM henryjz - “Why did it take a rock star?” -one of the pastors there
• 10:03 PM henryjz - $100,000 still came in after that offering
• 10:02 PM henryjz - the goal was $165,000 and they thought that was lofty; what was collected was $500,000
• 10:00 PM henryjz - people mobilized and found ways they could contribute from kids selling lemonade to a couple sacrificing money they were going to use for fertility treatments
• 10:00 PM henryjz - committed to raising money to build a pediatric wing in Malawi
• 9:57 PM henryjz - profiling Whittier Area Community Church in Whittier, CA
• 9:56 PM henryjz - Intuition is greater than intellect -Bono
• 9:53 PM henryjz - back to bono
• 9:52 PM henryjz - they now commit to make sure that efforts of “missions” are represented in high quality
• 9:50 PM henryjz - they used to spend most of their efforts on helping people on their spiritual journey and neglected meeting the needs of the poorest of the poor
• 9:48 PM henryjz - profiling Eaglebrook Community Church in Minneapolis, MN
• 9:47 PM henryjz - had called the church “a sleeping giant” but didn’t realize how fast that giant could get up and run
• 9:46 PM henryjz - bono is impressed at the progression of the church to wake up to the plight of the poor since the last time he joined in the lead summit
• 9:42 PM henryjz - And the Bono video has started

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