5LQ Episode 401: Will Mancini

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins is joined by Will Mancini, founder of Auxano and author of Younique, Church Unique, and God Dreams. They discuss how the process of becoming who God wants you to be can be challenging and how the church in North America has been operating from a functional Great Commission. BEST QUOTES “All leaders have been given a special assignment from God, but most don’t understand it and haven’t named it in a real precise kind of way.” “Rather than projecting a sense of what I want to be when I grow up, what if I actually take seriously who God made me to be?” “Moving into consulting was really about me responding to increased self-awareness that my gift of discernment was higher than my gift of leadership.” “Church leaders are addicted to events and products, but it’s process that produces the clarity.” “My primary legacy is for the local church to return to it’s movemental dynamic that Jesus always intended it to have.” “We stopped talk about evangelism as methodology and started talking about mission as identity.” “The functional church in North America, over the last 20 years, is go in to all the world and make more worship attenders, baptizing them in the name of small groups, and teaching them to volunteer a few hours a month. That functional Great Commission is not going to work anymore.” “Where there is no margin, there is no imagination.” RECOMMENDED RESOURCES Lifeway Leadership Podcast Network Auxano Church Unique by Will Mancini God Dreams by Will Mancini Younique by Will Mancini