"The culture you create is largely a product of how you see those whom God has placed you with. You have to think rightly in order to lead well. What your mind dwells upon determines your vantage point, and your vantage point as a leader affects the culture you shape. Culture shapes the church, and leaders make the culture." (Culture Shift, Robert Lewis & Wayne Cordeiro, P28)
Comment: The author makes the point, if you look at your people and see hopelessness, that is what you will get. But if you look at your people and see people whom God has strategically given you and as possessing what God wants them to have to achieve what God wants to achieve, then you will fulfill God's vision for your church.
Me, I look at the people God has given to us here at CMP and I see ordinary people like me who are able to do extraordinary things because of what God is doing in us and through us.