Dave Gibson, Senior Pastor

God used the pivotal principles I learned in my two years under Jim Herrington’s mentoring to keep me from bailing out of a very challenging leadership setting. Beyond that, they enabled me to thrive as a change agent. Now, in my ongoing leadership challenges, I keep using the truths that were instilled in me.

• You are the highest leverage change-point in your system.
• One change changes everything.
• Systems change to stay the same.
• There is no single cause to a given effect.
• There are no single-stroke solutions to complex problems.
• This is not personal, it is a mental model disagreement.
• You must build a learning community.
• Transformational goals, not incremental change.

Dave Gibson, Senior Pastor
Cypress Bible Church