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2 Chronicles 26;4-5:16
Four Warning Signs of Pride – Going from the Palace to the Pool House
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Listen to those that know me.
A visit to Flamingo Road is featured in the new book “Multi Site Church
Road Trip” by Greg Ligon, Warren Bird and Geoff Surratt. New in the
Leadership Network/ Zondervan Church Innovation Series.
Mark Beeson
www.leadingsmart.com
1. You – Who you are matters. How you handle everything matters.
Sometimes you are the reason they leave. You gotta own that.
3. Team mates – they look at the other people around you and
make a decision. The people you put on your team will affect
who will join your team.
Bryan Carter
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Everyone won’t plant a church
Three principles for successors
Pastor I followed had a large reputation for 28 years. Well known,
fantastic ministry.
(Dr E.K. Bailey was a great friend of Leadership Network during his
ministry – as is Bryan)
1. Learn to live with a shadow – walk in that grace, humility, and honor
for the legacy that you have been given.
Honor what God did in that era.
2. Learn to be yourself – I was trying to emulate others instead of being
myself. Be yourself.
3. Learn to be patient – I get frustrated
My timing wasn’t God’s timing
People need time
Never expect fast transition
Bryan has been a great leader at Concord
Anne Jackson
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Dave Ferguson
Twitter @daveferguson
4. You do, I watch. You were leading the whole time and then we
talked and debriefed.
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Troy McMahon was once an apprentice leader in our small groups.
Now he has planted Restore Church in Kansas City.
If you like THE NINES you will enjoy “The Show” – Every Tuesday at 4
Eastern, 3 Central at http://theshow.leadnet.org – 15 minutes of video
and 15 minutes of conversation.
Scott Hodge
1996 on Valentines Day by dad goes into heart surgery. I pass out.
Pray that I hear God’s voice every day and that I have faith and
courage to obey Him.
Watch your role – always make decisions – take them to places they
haven’t gone before.
Priority of the day, week, month has to have time to hear God’s voice.
If I am not hearing from God then I am missing it.
The moment I stop hearing God’s voice is when I should stop leading.
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Another thing to obey. Obeying God means I have to obey in small
things as well as big things.Gives courage.
Perry Noble
Twitter @perrynoble
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Do you have right people, right places doing right things.
Skye Jethani
The doctrine states that the larger the impact of our ministry, the more
legitimate we are in ministry.
We don’t see that in Jesus. People were leaving rather than coming.
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Called to abandon outcomes to the LORD. God causes the growth, it
doesn’t belong to us.
Steve Robinson
On August 23 before Katrina – God had us bustin out and then we went
from 3300 to 1300 in one month.
The Lord did touch our church again – in 2008. We were in a building
campaign, we started to do our site work – and then the bottom fell out
of the economy.
A time of pressure and stress. That is where you make it our break it.
Bible is filled with men and women in intense situations and God met
them.
The antidote: A spirit of faith – stand still and see salvation of THE
LORD.
I had to realize that God was in control, not you or your willpower.
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Coming up after the break – Stacy Spencer is in the house!
Stacy Spencer
A lot of people get stuck in pit and it’s easy to walk away.
If Coach Dungy can reach out to Michael Vick can’t we do the same for
each other.
We need to stick up for one another. Reach out a hand to one who is
down in ministry.
My grandma said you shouldn’t look down on anyone unless you are
trying to help them up.
1. Help those who can’t help themselves. Make some pit stops.
2. Do for folks what you would want them to do for you if you were
in that situation.
If you like THE NINES you will enjoy “The Show” – Every Tuesday at 4
Eastern, 3 Central at http://theshow.leadnet.org – 15 minutes of video
and 15 minutes of conversation.
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Scott Wilson
You can either grow in your leadership or start looking for another
church. Move from workers, equippers to leading in three years. I want
you to be leaders of leaders.
Year 1 model for our church the leadership. Grow your leadership
capacity. I will give you a $500 bonus for reading 35 books this year. If
you don’t grow you gotta go.
Year 2 we need to mentor it. You will read 20 books and mentor your
key volunteers with 12 books.
Amy Hanson
Amyhanson.net
Wake up the church to those in the middle and later years of life.
Every 7 seconds an American turns 60, Oldest baby boomer is now 63.
The larger group are the active baby boomers and they resist anything
that is associated with being old.
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Represent a huge pool of kingdom laborers ready to invest in
something significant.
Just because someone is older doesn’t mean that they are people of
faith. Great harvest potential.
Coming up after the break Dino Rizzo, Keld Dahlman, Jorge Acevedo
and Nancy Beach!
Dino Rizzo
Dino Rizzo
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2. Know the people that you serve. We love the people that we
serve. What they are feeling and facing. Reading those prayer
requests – what their hurts them hurts me.
Keld Dahlman
Know your “must win” battles. What are the 2-3 must win battles you
face?
Principle 2: Know your context. The Finns knew the ground. High
advantage. Satan knows more about our culture than many church
leaders. Embrace the local context.
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Look for the light weight, simple models of ministry that are
sustainable. It’s easier to multiply.
Jorge Acevedo
at egracechurch.com
My prayer was “Lord send us the people no one else wants.” People in
our church are hardworking, blue collar people. But we didn’t have safe
places, safe spaces, sage people and safe processes to help people
grow.
I think spiritual malpractice offering Jesus as the healer but not offering
the safe places, safe spaces, safe people and safe processes for people
to heal.
A new metric – added – are we lowering the crime rate in our city.
About 7-8 years in doing this recovery ministry, helping the church
clean the interior we decided to work on the exterior.
If you want some behind the scenes reports throughout the day follow
@davetravis and @toddrhoades on twitter
Nancy Beach
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Nancy is a long time leader at Willow Creek – willowcreek.org
As the get closer to key pastors they sometimes see less of Jesus.
Three areas
I have lots of hope – lots of Senior leaders ARE very Christ like
After the break – Stephen Furtick, Reggie McNeal and Noel Hekkinen
If you like THE NINES you will enjoy “The Show” – Every Tuesday at 4
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and 15 minutes of conversation.
Stephen Furtick
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We have a three and a half year old church – I am 29
You did exactly what God told you to do – but his brook dried up.
Reggie McNeal
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Four parts:
If you start as a who you can get to the what. Allows incarnational
modalities.
If you like THE NINES you will enjoy “The Show” – Every Tuesday at 4
Eastern, 3 Central at http://theshow.leadnet.org – 15 minutes of video
and 15 minutes of conversation.
Next week “The Show” with the authors of Multi Site Church Road Trip.
Noel Heikinnen
Blog is justnoel.com
Twitter @noeljesse
Well intentioned but ill informed efforts often eliminate the crucial
steps toward maturity.
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What breaks my heart – well intentioned and ill informed actions are
taking health away – God must squeeze our ego.
What is that tiny hole? A team of qualified elders leading the church
together.
Pastoring is one thing that elders do, not the whole thing.
Only place where there was a single leader was with Israel’s kings and
that was because of their hardness of heart.
“It’s not practical” that is the struggle of the tiny hole. Needed and
crucial – it would deprive our church of health.
The model is clear, difficult, painful, but the way God set it up.
After the top of the hour break – Craig Groeschel, Len Sweet and more!
Craig Groeschel
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Help people see themselves as spiritual innovators.
A decision to seek God until I am so full of God that it will flow out of
me.
I am back to journaling.
Len Sweet
Len’s latest book is : So Beautiful: Divine Design for Life and the
Church (Paperback)
17 foot high figure – David before battle with Goliath. Gave David a big
head.
As I reread the entire psalm. We can do all this – but only acceptable
sacrifice is a broken and contrite heart.
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How can you spot a Jesus spirit?
(Len is one of the most scripture intensive people you will ever meet)
Theresa McBean
2. Must be a people that tell ourselves the truth all the time. Trust
God with every dimension of life and be brutally honest.
How can I ask crack addicts, heroin addicts and pedopholes to trust
God and let God transform them and not live it myself?
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Greg Surratt
3. Trust God. Never been a day when God said: “I didn’t see that
one coming.”
Our matrix is easy/hard and big win/small win. We pick two or three
and then we filter.
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Coming up after the break Rick Rusaw, David Swanson, Bil Cornelius
and Jon Tyson
If you like THE NINES you will enjoy “The Show” – Every Tuesday at 4
Eastern, 3 Central at http://theshow.leadnet.org – 15 minutes of video
and 15 minutes of conversation.
Rick Rusaw
And check out The Life Serve Conference where Rick will be speaking
here: http://lifeserve.group.com/
Shift in the question – from how can we be the best church IN our
community? This leads to consumer Christianity.
The challenge is to get engaged in the stream that goes by our door.
David Swanson
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And he blogs here at http://davidswanson.wordpress.com/
We are often our own worst enemies. We wound the Bride of Christ.
Ephesians 5:27 – as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it…to
lift up holy and without wrinkle, stain or blemish.
What means of accountability for your life? Permission to ask the hard
questions.
Bil Cornelius
Author of Go Big!
Power of mentoring
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He was mentored by Moses
Line up meetings with those you can. Find some people a few steps
ahead of you.
4. Take leaders to lunch. Go where they are. Do what they tell you
to do before you go see them again.
Jon Tyson
Trinitygracechurch.com
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Number 1 lesson for me is seeking God – resonance with God through
prayer.
Coming up after the break – Margaret Feinberg with probably the most
encouraging message of the day.
Margaret Feinberg
Her latest book is Scouting the Divine: My Search for God in Wine,
Wool, and Wild Honey releasing at Catalyst
I first want to say to all pastors THANK YOU
I spent time with a grape grower in Fresno – grew grapes for raisins,
juice and consumer brand wine.
I also spent time with a Napa grower that only worked with boutique
vitners. This person was more interested in the character and flavor of
each grape. This person hand-dressed the vines. The desire was for
rich, flavorful grapes.
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Caring for God’s people can happen either way.
What works in Fresno may not work in Napa and vice versa.
If you like THE NINES you will enjoy “The Show” – Every Tuesday at 4
Eastern, 3 Central at http://theshow.leadnet.org – 15 minutes of video
and 15 minutes of conversation.
Pete Wilson
Vision – help people understand what God has for them. But we are
pulled in two different directions.
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Walter August
Bethelsfamily.org
2. Continue to pray – let’s pray in the plural not just about us.
First up after the bottom of the hour – Larry Osborne, the most sought
after mentor of younger pastors in the country.
Larry Osborne
Many of the problems of the church have been around since Acts.
We idolize the Acts 2 church but not until Acts 8 and the
persecution did they start moving out.
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The Apostle Paul’s plants were really messed up.
And don’t miss his great book – Spirituality for the Rest of Us
Matt Carter
Twitter:@_matt_carter
A guy that covered religion and walks away from the faith
Only difference – people far from God more honest about failures
The scripture in James 5:17 – to one another and pray for one
another – we can be healed.
We all struggle with sin – what is the unseen sin in your life?
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Bring it to the light.
Scott Williams
3 peeps – 1. God.
Jim Burgen
Flatironschurch.com
People are looking for truth that makes sense and meets them where
they are.
Paul cried out at least three times for healing. But my grace is
sufficient.
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Around here, we say “Me too!” a lot. Here what Jesus says is true, I just
don’t do it very well. Me too.
Not my job to save, fix or change anyone. I am not your Holy Spirit.
After the break Neil Cole, Reggie Joiner and Bill Easum
Neil Cole
God is looking for servants who will lead. Make a name for others.
Thinking more highly than other leaders and churches than their own.
Paul uses flesh and blood examples – “If I am being poured out.”
Who do you take after? And then I spent the entire night telling my
mother about Jesus.
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Reggie Joiner
Recognized that his work was not enough but it needed families.
Result:
Bill Easum
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(Bill is coauthor of Beyond the Box: Innovative Churches that work.
Who is the other author?)
Two thoughts
Not about how many followers or what you can accomplish but what
you can cause to happen through others.
Develop your “to be” list – a list of people who could be leaders of
the future.
Coming up at the bottom of the hour – J.D. Greear, Geoff Surratt, Jennie
Catron
Who will be the closing speaker? We still have a long way to go!
Over the next few hours we will heal from Dan Kimball, Jud Wilhite, Ed
Stetzer, John Ortberg, Rick Warren, Mark Driscoll and more…..don’t
miss out!
JD Greear
twitter@jdgreear
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What the center of ministry ought to be is the proclamation of the
gospel.
Declaring the battle has already been one. What Christ has done on
our behalf.
Not about we are to go and do for God but for what God has done for
us.
Geoff Surratt
Blog: http://www.multisitechurchroadtrip.com/
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(don’t miss the comments on the items behind Geoff’s head)
Step 10: Believe the best about your fellow staff team members.
Geoff’s sleeps with a member of the Leadership Network staff. His wife
Sherry Surratt who leads our various women’s initiatives.
Jenni Catron
We have shrunk Jesus to the size where He can save our soul, but not
where He can change the world.
The issue I saw in Africa with healthy, poverty, water, I eventually just
shut down from it.
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The fall of 2008 we had to do something.
We decided to grow our gifts to missions from a base of 10% and add
1% per year until it is 20% to missions.
Coming up after the top of the hour – Mark Batterson, Sam Chand, Rich
Nathan and more.
Mark Batterson
I would rather have one God idea than 1000 good ideas.
That plan went from mind to paper – then dollars and decades to
become a reality.
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Ideas are incredibly important. God ideas can change the world.
Words, thoughts, impression that the Holy Spirit gives us and make
us obedient to Christ
Rich Nathan
Vineyardcolumbus.org
Crisis point – if you emphasize one thing people will accuse you of
denying the other
Sam Chand
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Sam’s latest book is ReChurch written with Eddie Long
(New book coming out soon Toxiculture – I have seen early chapters
and it will be great)
Growth = Pain
View pain as a teacher. Don’t drug it. Don’t have leadership leprosy.
How to do that:
4. Hang with people who have a high pain threshold. Assume High
impact leaders have high pain.
5. Don’t assume you are always at 100%. If you are at 70% or less
don’t make a key decision that day.
Dan Kimball
In the church – tradition should never get in the way of mission – then
it is sin.
Tradition can come from any time, even the recent past.
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Abundant Life! Yes, but also an eternity after.
Coming up after the break – Mark DeYmaz, Jim Tomberlin and the sole
speaker from Mississippi, Chip Henderson
Mark DeYmaz
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Jim Tomberlin
On twitter@multisiteguy
Myth 1 – Just a fad. Nope. The new normal – 2000+ churches and
growing. Estimate 10% of protestants attend a multi site church.
Myth 2 – Vehicle for celebrity pastors. Nope. Perhaps a third are mega
churches and the rest are not.
Myth 3 – Video driven model. Nope. Only a third of churches are video
driven.
Myth 4 – Space solution. Yes and No. Started that way but now an
effective strategy for space and more.
Myth 8 – Video teaching won’t work. Nope. Embraced much more than
you think. Not about medium but message.
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Chip Henderson
Your well being is your responsibility - you are the only one that can.
The best thing you bring to the table is you. You will reproduce you.
Take care of yourself spiritually – make sure you and God are tight.
Every day a worn path between your heart and God.
And you kids and friends. Find some friends that can build into your
life.
Take care physically – it will release the stuff in your brain that
replenishes you.
Coming up at the top of the hour – Jud Wilhite and Brian McClaren
Jud Wilhite
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Most people think an iceberg sank the Titanic – but it was faulty rivets
– substandard details.
It’s easy to get lazy about those things. The Assassin of character
creep. Character failures are subtle and slow.
Brian McClaren
What is the gospel – a lot of people assume they have the gospel all
figured out.
(Brian’s latest book is Finding Our Way Again: The Return of the
Ancient Practices )
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Brian’s book A New Kind of Christian http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?
tag=leadershipnetwor&path=tg/detail/-/0470248408
is a real best seller!
Bob Roberts
3. Explain our faith so that the whole world gets it not just our own
adherents.
7. Integrate your faith in the world so anyone in the world can see
it. Don’t make focus the preacher and the church but the disciple
and society.
After the break – Brad Bell, John Ortberg, Rick McKinley and more.
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Still to come today – Mark Driscoll, Rick Warren, Ed Stetzer and more
Brad Bell
Blog at thewellcommunity.org
Go getta way.
The greatest church you pastor is the one you call home.
The Well is also in our rapid growth church Leadership Community. For
more information contact greg.ligon@leadnet.org
And if you are oopsing your way into multi site, drop Greg Ligon a line
as well.
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John Ortberg
John’s latest book is When the Game is over, it all goes back in the
Box
Thirsty? Come to me
Judy West
Wcrossing.org
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A six week experience – basic skills of healthy community.
Rick McKinley
On twitter @ scituatedrev
What people are longing for is access to our own hearts, stories and
journey.
Jesus is my hope. This God that now reigns as King still has power to
transform me.
I need Christ as much or more than they do. There is power in that.
My hope is not that I get life figured out but that Christ is in me.
The courage to be honest with our own fear has a power that we don’t
often see in the west.
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If you like THE NINES – you will probably enjoy “the show” from
Leadership Network.
Ed Stetzer
Twitter @edstetzer
Three ways
Focus not on the work of the Lord but the Lord of the Work
Here I am send me
2 Corinthians 3:16-18
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3. Those on mission no longer live for their own lives
John Bishop
Jesus’ last words should be our first words. Meaning we are doing what
Jesus said.
Am afraid you will let fear and things that don’t matter and good things
keep us from God things.
I have to go in, deep and first about the message of Jesus Christ.
Toby Slough
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There is a little glitch in this video. Can you spot it?
We decided to take what God has given to us and pour it into the
people.
3. For us, it was time for us to do what we were calling the church
to do. We used our reserves to bless people in our community.
After the break – Shawn Wood, Alan Hirsch, David Foster and also
coming up Mark Driscoll, Rick Warren, and more
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Shawn Wood
He twitters @shawnwood
R – Review – not to fix the past but to help us be more creative in the
future.
Alan Hirsch
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6. Putting Adventure back into the venture – comradeship.
David Foster
Thegatheringnashville.com
Coming up after the break – The one and only – Mark Driscoll, then
Matt Fry and Toby Slough with a great encouragement to generosity.
Don’t miss “The Show” next Tuesday at 4 p.m. Eastern – Live with call
in with the authors of Multi Site Church Road Trip.
http://theshow.leadnet.org
Mark Driscoll
Mark is at Mars Hill Church in Seattle and helps give leadership to Acts
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Idolatry – Romans 1 – exchanged the truth of God for a lie – created
things.
Most of the time we worship things that are good things and make
them God things and then they become bad things.
If you obey the first 2 commandments, you won’t violate the others –
paraphrase of Martin Luther.
Sometimes an idol lies by telling you it can mediate between you and
God. Sometimes we call that the pastor.
Sometimes an idol gives you identity and defines who you are.
Matt Fry
Stay Focused
Don’t play the comparison game. Celebrate with other churches and
pastors.
Critical spirit. God does not want us to tear down but to build up.
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Galatians 6:9 – let us not be weary in doing good.
Darrin Patrick
Luke 24
How do you read Bible that it comes alive and people change?
Jesus says the OT pointed to it, focus of the work in the person of
Christ.
Christianity is not spelled “D-O” but D-O-N-E what Christ has done.
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Next up after the break – The Church Bartender, Brad Powell, Matt
Williams and more.
And in our final hour, a host of new voices balanced with Rick Warren.
Todd?
Todd?
Michael Trent
“If a church was like a coffee bar I would go to that mother.” Dude that
is the nicest thing anyone has said to me.
Bartender and Barista are the same word. What it’s like to lead behind
the bar.
Jesus is coming back for churches that are dirty and used not clean and
closed.
Brad Powell
Twitter @bradpowell
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Reflecting and representing Christ in whatever we do.
I was raised in church but it was boring and harsh until I connected
with a real God.
Most believers are missing the point. It’s about people. What the
bottom line issue is: Be about Revolution.
Ken Fong
Open the text and not to hear the tapes in your head.
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Listening to other preachers.
Have to have one essential point. Zero in for point for this audience.
(Authors are Dan and Chip Heath – They were at Catalyst last year!)
Two full time people working with Encore Generation – older Adults
4. A sense of honor
5. A sense of humor
6. A sense of completion.
Darrin Whitehead
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My daughter’s imagination has bee taken captive by the world.
Our desires are hauntingly similar to those that don’t know Jesus
It all went back to Rachel – asking God to break out in her life.
Matt Williams
Grace Church
Greenville, SC
How we interact with others. Male and Female are both an expression
of who God is.
Equal is not the same. We can be equal but not the same.
Milton Guitierez
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Will we reach out to the emerging Hispanic majority?
Jefferey Johnson
When I opened the book that is when I started getting the power.
Scott Nickell
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Grace and Truth not Grace or Truth
If we believe sin destroys people- we must point the way with grace
and truth.
Jim Sheppard
Generis.com
FAT thinking
Fall 2007 – times were good – the high point of wealth accumulation
Both investment and home values slid – when both are threatened, we
worry.
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3. Aligned – they know when it doesn’t fit.
Luke 14:28 – planning and strategy go hand in hand with the voice of
God.
Brian Bloye
If you lack it, it can ruin your life – but if you have it, it can guide you
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Eric Bryant
“My daughter started her own religion where Jesus followed her.”
Treat world around us as friends and let them experience the presence
of God.
Naeem Fazal
Twitter at @naeemfazal
She wanted to know God. The next step is to understand who Jesus is.
I misjudged the situation. God was there. God began to speak to me.
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Do you think pastors because of our creativity that we believe that God
only exists and works in the world visible to us?
God is working where we don’t know and in people’s lives beyond our
spiritual environments.
Teach people to recognize and grow with God outside the normal
environments.
Teach People to be led by God and not driven by our search for
significance.
Nancy Ortberg
“Nine minutes is all you need” (Of course Nancy ends up going a little
long)
Two Tensions
Think of people who have poured themselves into you. What would
they do?
Work with passionate people. They get things done they make things
happen.
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Humility gives you confidence, peace and freedom from outcome.
Difference between inside and outside. Make sure the inside is clean.
The outside will take care of itself.
Rick Warren
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It takes more than sermons to mature a person.
Not going to get there unless you have a plan. You had better have
a plan.
Through all the gates – people learn through all of these. Multiple
reinforcements.
Its not all about the weekend. Nor is it not having converts.
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Build them up to send them out.
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Rapid Growth Pressure Points: How Pastors and Church Staff Deal with
the Pressures of Rapid Church Growth
By Sherri Brown
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