tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15289868195998693892024-02-20T16:23:36.516-05:00LiminalityLiminality is a period of transition where normal limits to thought and self-understanding are relaxed - a situation which can lead to new perspectives.Rob Kastenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01427119531404019066noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528986819599869389.post-16466129747193983422011-07-30T11:54:00.000-04:002011-07-30T11:54:11.949-04:00Even till the EndSharing with family through Kelly's mom, Reba Clark's final days, celebrating the life of this amazing woman of faith. As I listened to music this morning & new Matt Redman song, <a href="http://www.worshiptogether.com/songs/songdetail.aspx?iid=1849635">O This God</a> shuffled on in my playlist. I was captured by these lyrics that describe her life and her Savior. <br />
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Lyrics include: We won't fear the night, We are looking straight ahead, Never turning back, Counting on Your faithfulness. Chorus: O this God is our God even till the end, Standing strong over us, time and time again, Even till the end. (And also:) Jesus, You will always be our God, And we won't take our eyes off You<br />
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May all our lives declare that this God is our God, even till the end.Rob Kastenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01427119531404019066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528986819599869389.post-61322366058340594682011-07-22T13:25:00.000-04:002011-07-22T13:25:35.805-04:00Poverty simply compounds every problem - and how you can help.<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In our staff meeting on Wednesday, I showed our staff team this light-hearted but pointed <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2p5svFJ9cQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player">video</a> about 1st world problems and then showed this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uZV90fsoCY&feature=player_embedded">video </a>about the possibilities of eliminating global poverty. In casting the vision that we can eliminate poverty within our generation, Dr. Scott Todd paints the picture of how poverty multiplies other challenges and disasters. As our temperature and humidity soared in greater Baltimore (101 today with a heat index of 125), most of us could stay inside in AC or find a place with AC. In East Africa, as the worst drought in 60 years continues, it's impact is <a href="http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/22/what-has-caused-the-east-africa-crisis/?iref=allsearch">multiplied by poverty</a>. I just read that Somali Islamic extremists are <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/07/22/somalia.aid.ban/index.html">banning foreign aid agencies</a>, believing they are spies or Christian crusaders.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Want to help? You can make a difference in this crisis through <a href="http://donate.worldvision.org/OA_HTML/xxwv2ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?funnel=dn&item=1754360&go=item&section=10366&">World Vision's Horn of Africa Food Crisis fund</a>, or by <a href="http://cmfi.org/partner/partneringproject/hopepartnership/child-sponsorship">sponsoring a child in Nairobi, Kenya </a>through Christian Missionary Fellowship (CMF) and Missions of Hope International (MOHI), or by giving to the <a href="http://bigdent.org/">Big Dent</a> which provides microfinance loans through CMF and MOHI to help people make their way out of poverty.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">$35 per month is one less meal out for my family and I still can escape to my AC. But it may save a child's life or help a family begin the journey out of poverty.</span>Rob Kastenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01427119531404019066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528986819599869389.post-22122401455467763202011-07-18T09:46:00.000-04:002011-07-18T09:46:33.702-04:00First World ProblemsEver stop to think about how many of your problems are only problems that the 1st world faces? Watch this video and then consider how to address some 2/3 world problems.<br />
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BTW, the term "First World" and "Third World" are still used, but the "system" has lost its meaning because, well, there is no real "Second World" today. Here is some context.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World">First World</a>: The developed world (like the U.S., Japan, France, etc.).<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World">Second World</a>: The communist world (think the Soviet Union, etc. back in the day).<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World">Third World</a>: The developing world (think most of Africa, for example).<br />
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For what it is worth, many now refer to the Third World as the Two Thirds World, which is more reflective of the reality today. Two thirds of the world lives there. <br />
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Finally, be sure to check out the <a href="http://www.globalrichlist.com/">Global Rich List </a>to see how you fit in the world of global economics. It will make you think.Rob Kastenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01427119531404019066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528986819599869389.post-27579513510488377422011-07-18T09:36:00.000-04:002011-07-18T09:36:37.417-04:00Sponsor a child, change a life - and more!<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you already sponsor a child, here's a great article to encourage you in your efforts and to challenge you in your communication with your child. If you don't already sponsor a child, read this and consider the impact of just $1 per day. </div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://blog.compassion.com/kenya-slums-out-of-the-slums-of-kenya/">http://blog.compassion.com/kenya-slums-out-of-the-slums-of-kenya/</a></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span>Rob Kastenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01427119531404019066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528986819599869389.post-54730010101151474492011-07-18T09:29:00.001-04:002011-07-18T09:37:26.269-04:00Is it possible to end poverty in our generation?<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Many of us at Mountain have been captured by the needs of the poor around the world. With our recent trip to Nairobi, Kenya and reports back from that team, God has wrecked our hearts anew. God, please continue to break our hearts for what breaks yours. </div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With that in mind, here is a great, thought provoking post and link by Jon Acuff: </div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.jonacuff.com/stuffchristianslike/2011/07/is-it-possible-to-end-poverty-in-our-generation/">http://www.jonacuff.com/stuffchristianslike/2011/07/is-it-possible-to-end-poverty-in-our-generation/</a></div>Rob Kastenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01427119531404019066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528986819599869389.post-40108040144074614852011-05-05T08:06:00.003-04:002011-05-05T08:08:39.668-04:00God is more interested in who I am becoming as a leader than what I do<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">At a great staff meeting yesterday, one of our staff shared this quote with our team as the statement that captivated her at a recent conference. It captivated me as well and brought to mind an article that I had just read in NavPress's online Discipleship Journal. It helps shape us to become the people God wants us to be as we lead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Whether you and I are paid or unpaid staff, this article by Scott Morton confronts us and challenges us to raise the integrity of our leadership. Here are his eight questions:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1) Does my behavior match my teaching?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2) Do I lay heavy loads on my followers?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3) Am I trying to impress people?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4) Do I delight when my pupils surpass me?<br />
5) Am I molding people in my image or Christ's?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6) Am I majoring on the majors?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7) Am I keeping up appearances to cover indulgence?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8) Do I consider myself superior to others?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here is the <a href="http://www.navpress.com/magazines/archives/article.aspx?id=11615">complete article</a>.</span>Rob Kastenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01427119531404019066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528986819599869389.post-65535519107071566362011-05-02T21:13:00.000-04:002011-05-02T21:13:06.437-04:00Osama bin Laden's death and conflicting emotions<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Since the news broke last night about Osama bin Laden's death, I've experienced conflicting emotions. <span class="messageBody">Thrilled an evil man's terror has ended but celebrating his death feels more like him than like Jesus. </span><span class="messageBody"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="messageBody">MLK, Jr.</span> said,<span class="messageBody"> "I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy." </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="messageBody">Or Ezekiel 18:23</span><span class="messageBody"> which says, "</span>Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign LORD. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?" <span class="messageBody"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="messageBody">Then a friend linked to this blog post that I found especially insightful. See</span><a href="http://ericepperson.blogspot.com/2011/05/osama-bin-laden.html"> Eric Epperson's post on his blog.</a></div>Rob Kastenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01427119531404019066noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528986819599869389.post-6134218614795861782011-04-29T11:56:00.000-04:002011-04-29T11:56:11.298-04:00Exponential - Amazing Missional Story<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyf8hrqR7D4QxaX4zRvRo5G15J1pb3pYOvgfI5NshNoDjU4HMaV6uI9rr-EP8VV2Yk2t5sIn7EepO_l-LIipA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody">Samantha, one of the Exponential workers approached Todd Wilson and said she was ready to give her life to Christ and be baptized. They decided to do it at Exponential and since her mom had been baptized by Rick Warren, Samantha asked if he could perform the baptism.</span></span></h6>Rob Kastenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01427119531404019066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528986819599869389.post-645311275838555632011-04-29T11:52:00.000-04:002011-04-29T11:52:04.302-04:00Exponential - Main Session 5 - Matt Chandler<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</style> <![endif]--> </div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hebrews 12</span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>We need to be sure that we remember that other men and other women have gone before us and faithful carried the gospel forward for 2000 years before us.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>The only reason we can have this dream, the only reason you are in this room, is that somebody dreamed this dream before you.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>The book you hold in your hand thousands of people gave their lives. We likely won’t face death because they did.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Let the text grab you a bit before you run out with Jesus flag and get yourself killed and His name dishonored.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>John says, In the beginning was the word (logos) and the word became flesh and dwelt among us. John used Greek language to engage the Greeks. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Paul in Acts 13 talks of Israel in the desert, quotes from Torah, from the Prophets, all in one text. Paul then also engages in Athens and with Pagans and doesn’t use the Jewish scriptures at all. He uses Athenian poetry and secular prophets. This will blow the minds of fundamentalists. You’ve got in the text, Paul and John contextualizing the gospel. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>It’s messy, it’s not clean. We’re all on slippery slopes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>There isn’t any doctrine that doesn’t create issues that have to be addressed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>This isn’t new, it’s just our turn.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Paul doesn’t want John Mark, Barnabas is all mercy, so they split over philosophy and not theology but the gospel spreads. We need to quit judging one another in 5 minute sound bites on YouTube.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>But Paul calls out people by name in public letters in scripture. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Let’s just shut up. We disagree. We do things that others don’t like. Let’s get past it and ask, “are we on the same team?” Do we both believe in essential doctrine?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Hebrews 12:1</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Let’s not judge success the way we evangelicals judge success, look at the results of the list in Hebrews 11. But growth is also fruit.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Listen to the Spirit, proclaim the gospel, it works.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Vs. 1 - Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Apparently there are things that hinder us that are not necessarily sin. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Comfort is not a bad thing, unless…</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Safety is not a bad thing, unless…</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Money is not a bad thing, unless…</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">unless they own you.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>TV, sleep, food, etc.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>What are the hindrances that are robbing me of joy in Jesus Christ?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Are you godly? This is a question that has to be answered.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>How’s your home? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Are you in the word?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Are you godly, because sin will choke you out and publicly ridicule the name of our God?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Some of you figured out in youth group that by saying the right things publicly, people honored you, and you found your place and how to behave in it and you started playing the game.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>You may not be saved…you may be good…but you may not be saved.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Vs. 1 cont. - And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">God allows our wounds sometimes to protect us from ourselves. <span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">You are not the next Billy Graham, or the next Rick Warren.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Let us run with perseverance the <b><u>race marked out for us</u></b>.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">God’s affection for me is not about my performance but is rooted solely in the work of Jesus Christ on the cross.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Vs. 2 - fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Looking to Jesus because he is the founder and perfecter of our faith.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">God started looking for me, I didn’t go looking for it. Jesus was the pioneer, he started it, I didn’t.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">God allowed my cancer. He didn’t cause but he allowed it.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">He did so to keep me deeply tied to him. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Discipline isn’t that we’ve done bad. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Those of us 35 and up were disciplined (spanked, anyone could hit us). Those 35 and under had to go in a corner and think about it.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Thorn was to keep us from an evil spirit that tormented us.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>We’re going to make mistakes, the cross tells us that we’re going to make a lot mistakes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>God knows we’re going to fail. The glory of God is not that he uses you in your awesome. The glory of God is that he uses you in your frailty. Please do not celebrate yourself or other messengers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>In your Bible, Moses dies. It’s a verse long.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Joshua dies. It’s a verse long.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>It’s important that we’re wired into Jesus who…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><sup>2</sup> For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. <sup id="en-NIV-30216">3</sup> Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">If you don’t find your assurance in Jesus, you are going to find it somewhere.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">We can play the game. We know when to raise our hands during the song. We know what to say. We are fine when someone asks. We’re not looking to the cross. When we’re looking to the cross we can easily admit that we need help and we get it.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">We’ve been set free to pursue Jesus.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">The more you understand the cross, the more you understand that God is not in love with the future you. It’s for you now that Christ died. While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. <sup id="en-NIV-30216">3</sup> Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Has the cross scorned the shame?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">What the devil meant for destruction has now become a brag in the grace of God. Where else can that happen? Where people with a disgraceful past can brag about what God has done in them.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">It’s our time to play.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Back wherever your from, there is a man at work who is miserable. He hates his life and has accomplished his dreams. He hates his wife, his kids are miserable. But because you heed the word of God and follow the Spirit’s direction, he’ll heed the gospel and accept God’s grace and will be worshipping God by the time we gather next year.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Or you’ll think I’m talking with someone else and you can continue walking in sinfulness and ignoring God’s work of the cross in your life.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">It is our turn.</div>Rob Kastenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01427119531404019066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528986819599869389.post-1395576994106974762011-04-29T11:12:00.002-04:002011-04-29T11:12:53.774-04:00Main Session 5 – Closing - Jo Saxton<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">weare3dm.com</span> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">5000+ MC’s, 6 continents, 750 church plants in the last 3 years.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">The one thing you need to know from these experiences?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Discipleship is at the heart of all we do. If we make disciples, we always get the church. If we focus on building the church, we will rarely get disciples.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">What is your plan for making disciples?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Does your plan work?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">We don’t have a leadership problem primarily?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">We don’t have a missional problem primarily?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">We do have a discipleship problem. We struggle to make disciples who make disciples. Who live like Jesus, doing what he did.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Jesus invited his disciples into covenant relationship but also sent them out with Kingdom responsibility.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">3DM – leaders invite people into their missional community (huddles).</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Discipleship according to Jesus model is threefold:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Information -> Imitation -> Innovation</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Information – teaching is an important part but only one part of how Jesus does discipleship</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Imitation – Rabbis weren’t just about information but would give access to their lives so their disciples could see how they lived their lives. 1 Corinthians 11:1. Does our plan for discipleship include imitation? Rather than our huddles just being inside, we were invited into mission along with our leaders. They invited us into Kingdom responsibility. Are we prepared to open our lives for others to imitate? Do we have the time? Will we allow the access? Does anyone want your life? </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Innovation – Jesus told them that they would do greater things. (I’m sure they didn’t believe him). But Peter preached on Pentecost and 3000 were baptized. They helped launch and lead the church. They taught, they shepherded, they healed, they poured into lives, and invited people into covenant relationships and Kingdom responsibility.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Discipleship is making disciples who make disciples who make disciples.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">God is still doing this today.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">What did God say to you this week? Was it the city? Was it the 60% who are not being reached by an attractional church alone?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Make disciples and go. Make disciples who make disciples who make disciples.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">What we’ll find if we’ll go to the broken and to the lost, is that they will huddle around our kitchen tables. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">The world is waiting for us. They may not recognize it, they may not feel it, but it is their hunger.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><sup style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">16</sup><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. </span><sup id="en-NIV-24213" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">17</sup><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. </span><sup id="en-NIV-24214" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">18</sup><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. </span><sup id="en-NIV-24215" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">19</sup><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, </span><sup id="en-NIV-24216" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">20</sup><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matthew 28:16-20</span></div>Rob Kastenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01427119531404019066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528986819599869389.post-26221812158636242242011-04-28T17:47:00.004-04:002011-04-28T20:42:20.342-04:00Main Session 4 - On the Verge: Do It - Matt Carter<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ephesians 4:11-13 – </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.</span> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">God has gifted you so that you would equip the people of God.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">If the church of America is declining, then pay attention to this verse.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Ephesians 4:16 - From him <b>the whole body</b>, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, <b>grows and builds itself up in love</b>, <b>as each part does its work</b>. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">When the whole church is doing its part, it grows and builds itself up.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">The current attractional model of church is incomplete.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">The book <u>Transformation</u> by Bob Roberts. What if, in attempt to reach America for Christ, that we were going to start 1000 megachurches in 10 years. (That wouldn’t do it, we just did that.) God is using this but it is not working at penetrating the lostness of this country.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">I’m also sensing a growing sense of restlessness in the laity of the American church.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">18-30 year olds are not wired like our parents generation. They are not okay with sitting on the sidelines of ministry or doing tasks to keep the machine running. They are hardwired to be a part of something bigger than themselves. They are hemorrhaging from the church because our churches haven’t figured that out yet.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Our motto has been “come to us.” And for those who did, that’s where it stopped. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">We’ve placed the onus of mission on paid clergy and missionaries and the person in the pew wonders why the Christianity they see in the book of Acts is so different than the Christianity I see in my church. They began to wonder why they don’t get to use the power of the Holy Spirit that they were supposed to receive upon their conversion.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">If 3000 more people come through our doors, then not much changes in the city of Austin. What if, instead of spending all this money to get people to come to our church, we spend a bunch of money and time to get 3000 people to leave our church. To equip them and release them to mission and ministry and then the whole city could change.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Jesus’ strategy was not to build a megachurch. He had the crowds at times but at the height of his popularity he looked at the crowd and said something so radical most left. Then he poured his life into equipping 12 and 72 to send them out on mission, to release them empowered with the Holy Spirit and the resurrection.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Is it possible to do both?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">To attract people by the dozens, hundreds, and thousands AND also to release people by the dozens, hundreds and thousands. It is possible to be attractional and missional.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">How did we make this transition into missional communities?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Trained, challenged, and equipped small group leaders who in turn, trained, challenged, and equipped their groups. 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There is no better place to find community and have your life be transformed than in a group on mission.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">2)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Train small group leaders like you would train a missionary. You can’t train them like a Bible study leader. You have to train them to be able to feed themselves. Train them theologically, missional practice so that if God calls them to be released and lead their own church, they are equipped and we applaud it.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">3)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>We have raised the bar for what it looks like for a missional community to engage in. We want them to know that the sky is the limit. Your people are capable of more than you would ever dream they are capable of. They have the Spirit’s power and the power of the resurrection inside of them.</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Your people are more hungry to be used by God than you and I will ever know.</span>Rob Kastenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01427119531404019066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528986819599869389.post-78690045501489125872011-04-28T16:55:00.000-04:002011-04-28T16:55:44.938-04:00Main Session 4 - On the Verge: Do It - Ed Stetzer<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</style> <![endif]--> </div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">John 20:21 – The Mission of God </span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Will put notes on my blog tomorrow because I’ll talk fast.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>We’ll see momentum rooted in the mission of God.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>As the Father has sent me, so send I you.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span>God </span></b><span><span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>-Source<span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>-God has a mission</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>-God desires to be glorified to make himself known</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>God is on a mission</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>-started in creation</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>-God sends the Son</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>-God sends the Spirit</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>God’s mission has a church.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>You don’t need to find a mission, God already has a mission for you to join.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span>Kingdom</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>-Reign of God</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>God sends the Son to establish the Kingdom</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Jesus establishes this Kingdom by:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>-Saving – the gospel proclamation</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span><span> </span>- defeats sin and death</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span><span> </span>- redeems a people through forgiveness of sin<span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>- we do it because he has done it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>-Serving – Gospel demonstration - Luke 4 – Jesus’ mission statement</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>- Sending – Gospel promulgation – Great Commission</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>- Kingdom births the church in its wake</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span>Church</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Partners with, joins Jesus on His mission</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>-Saving – gospel proclamation</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>-Serving – gospel demonstration</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>-Sending – gospel promulgation</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>God sends the Spirit to:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>-empower the church</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>-gathers the church</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>-scatters the church</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>The church is not the center of God’s plan but it is central to God’s plan.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>The Missional Manifesto – themissionalmanifesto.net</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span>World</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Context</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>The church is sent into the world</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>-joins Jesus’ mission</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>-sign/instrument of Kingdom</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span><span> </span>- ambassadors – we do it for and with the King</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span><span> </span>- have the keys to the Kingdom – entryway through gospel</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span><span> </span>- no gates will hold it back</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span><span> </span>- “I will be with you always to the end of the age.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span>God’s Glory</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>-Glorified</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>-Church is redeemed for God’s glory</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>-Mission is completed for God’s glory</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>-All things restored for God’s glory</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Most of our efforts and strategies are located between the Church and the World parts of God’s Mission. We need to keep in mind overall picture of God’s mission.</span></div>Rob Kastenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01427119531404019066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528986819599869389.post-64859549293521151142011-04-28T15:48:00.002-04:002011-04-28T15:48:36.163-04:00Exponential - Workshop 4 - Simple Systems that Work – Shawn Lovejoy<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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Do you need a breakthrough?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">We stumbled on some simple systems.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Transferrable to all sizes.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Enjoy the meat and spit out the bones. Some of it Eyou’ll take and some you’ll leave depending on your culture.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Great Commission</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">To create simple systems that work, we must redefine discipleship.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">At first, we created systems to assimilate people. But I couldn’t find that in the gospel. Assimilating people is a good strategy for building an organization but discipleship is the strategy of building a church.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Not only do non-Christians need to be saved, today many Christians do as well. We need to disciple people, we do not need more bound Bible studies, Christian aerobics, etc. </span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Have you asked the question – what does a follower of Jesus look like?</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Someone who goes to church and is a good person. In NT, who did this describe? Pharisees.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Think Fruit not Meat. Don’t go for depth or knowledge or information. It’s not who “hears these words of mine”, but who “puts them into practice.” </span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Measure results not activity or assimilation.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">75% of adults are active in small groups on a weekly basis.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">80% of adults are actively serving in ministry.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">250 people sent around the world.<span> </span></span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">To redefine discipleship, we need to think processes and not programs. And think long-term process.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">With limited time, what do we want people to do.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Alan Hirsch says, I’m not against attractional churches. I’m against extractional churches – churches that keep their people so busy that they don’t have any time to be “on mission.”</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Mountain Lake Church - we don’t have a men’s ministry, women’s ministry, we don’t have activities at our church during the week. No daily Bible studies or anything during the week that people sign up for. We don’t have programs and activities.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">All we do in our church - Worship Service, Small Groups, Volunteerism</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">We do these things well. </span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Our calendars don’t compete with these three things so we’re able to get higher percentages of people involved. 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(Mountain Lake has two lesbians who hand out worship programs.) 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Roughly 75% of their small group leaders had never led a spiritual discussion before or often even prayed in public before. 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</style> <![endif]--> </div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We have too many church planters. People say, “I feel called to plant a church.” Reggie, “I doubt it.” I know because they said “A church.”</span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Domains in society – horizontal columns - Politics, education, medical, social, business, arts, church – we invite people to our slice or silo subculture. And the only way we typically even engage the other slices is to lob missiles into them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Church as a separate silo is Tower of Babel building – come join our tower and we’ll take you to heaven. Look at the church as being deployed all across and throughout these cultural slices.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Don’t plant A church, plant THE church.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Release people into all of society. Set loose the Christian politicians (both of them, I know I’m being generous), educators, business leaders, society leaders, medical professionals, artists and entertainers, etc.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Church – think who not what. It is a way of being in the world, not something I go to. I church at work, I church at home, I church on the athletic field, I church at worship. Everything where you are, the church is.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>There are millions of people that will not accommodate their life rhythms to match our congregational modality which is the only way church shows up in our culture.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>It’s going to take people like you to connect with folks that are never going to come to us.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>City serve initiatives are a starting point for deploying Christians throughout our region and culture. But simply a starting point. How can we begin to equip and release people in their professions and communities to be the church there?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>There are more Baptist congregations in SC than elementary schools. Just the Baptist churches in SC could adopt every elementary school in the state.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Good Samaritan is Jesus tool to move church people. Everybody in that parable met their scorecard objective and a clear conscience. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Jesus said, I’ve come to bring you life and life abundant. What if he was telling the truth and not just making Scripture.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Moving from a church centric-view to a Kingdom-centric view. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>People will do what we make a big deal of. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Change the scorecard. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Change the language. Language will change the culture. We need to watch what we say.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>When we say, “come to church” we’ve already created the wrong culture.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Missional communities are the missionary living incarnationally in a neighborhood or community.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Community of missionaries where the community comes together to support the individuals serving as missionary in their callings (social worker, nurse, attorney, politician).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>If you want to plant THE church, begin to strategize how you can realize a network of missional communities in every crack and crevice of culture, how you can mobilize the existing church community to serve the community around us.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>In Revelation, there is no church in the city. It is because God is with his people, the Kingdom, the Bride. There is no individual church. Jesus prayed, your Kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.</span></div>Rob Kastenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01427119531404019066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528986819599869389.post-50544970462218638322011-04-28T14:46:00.002-04:002011-04-28T14:46:59.980-04:00Main Session 3 - On the Verge: Get It - Michael Frost<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</style> <![endif]--> </div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Diana and Charles at engagement announcement, reporter asked Charles are you in love. Charles, “I suppose so, whatever love is.”</span><span> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>We need to be loved.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>We have church leaders and planters that are not ready to love and care for their city. We’re like the spouse who says, of course I love him/her, I married them didn’t I?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Being missional is like getting married. Being incarnational is like making love.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>It’s not enough to say, of course we love you, we planted a church for you. We have to court, love, and express love to our cities. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Practices:</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span><span>1)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>We need to adopt a <u>posture of listening</u> to the neighborhood/community/region/city that we’ve been sent. Instead, now we give them the programs we think they need. Let’s listen to them and then figure out what we can do to incarnate the gospel in that culture. Jesus asked the blind man, what is it that you want from me? When was the last time we asked our community/county/city what they want/need?</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span><span>2)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><u><span>Be prepared to serve</span></u><span>. Be prepared to follow through on what it is that they’ve asked for. We are the sent ones, not because we’re better than you. But simply because we have been loved, forgiven, and set free by Jesus and sent to you.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span><span>a.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>Eat in local cafes and shop in shops.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span><span>b.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>Meet with community leaders.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span><span>c.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>Say yes to invitations to sit down with anyone.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span><span>3)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>Be loyal to your city/community/neighborhood. We are here and we’ll be here to help no matter what comes. In sickness and in health, for richer for poorer, ‘til death do us part. Nobody is more transient than American Christian church leaders. We’re like rolling stones that gather no moss. Incarnational mission is covered with moss.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Mission of God is telling our world that our God reigns through Christ.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Unexplained actions are not missional and undemonstrated announcement is not the gospel either.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Go and open people’s eyes to the reign and rule of God in people’s lives and watch church result.</span></div>Rob Kastenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01427119531404019066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528986819599869389.post-51822282270013319802011-04-28T12:09:00.002-04:002011-04-28T12:09:47.972-04:00Workship 3 - The Future of Church Strategy - Will Mancini and David Saathoff<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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(AP 1)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Will Mancini - Clarity isn’t everything but it changes everything.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Future of Church Strategy</span></strong></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span>1)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">More is More Strategy</span></strong></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span>2)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Less is More Strategy</span></strong></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span>3)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">To Be is More Strategy</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong>Five Irreducible Questions of Clarity</strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">What are we doing?</span></u></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (right side of vision frame) – mission or missional mandate, the church of God doesn’t have a mission, the mission of God has a church.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">Why are we doing it?</span></u></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (left side of vision frame) – ethos, values, culture, collective soul, missional motives that drive culture</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">How are we doing it?</span></u></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"> How do we do what we do? (bottom of vision frame) strategy - we have lost the ability to distinguish means and ends. Can our top 12 leaders draw on a napkin how you accomplish your mission at the broadest level? This is where Joe goes. This is assimilation into body/programs/environments.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">When are we successful?</span></u></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (top of the frame) define the WIN! – attendance, buildings, and cash or something else. If we aren’t clear about the outputs, then we measure strategy. We need to measure output and not strategy. Programs don’t attract people, people attract people. People who own the strategy cannot be entrusted with quality control. This is what Joe becomes. This is Jesus assimilating into people.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">Where is God taking us? </span></u></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">------------------------------------</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">David Saathoff – Bandera Road City Church</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Guy says to him. Church is really different than when I grew up. My wife is really a good Christian because she is so involved. (attends every week, multiple groups, office volunteer, serves in children’s ministry on Sundays). He can’t be that involved so he can never be as good of a Christian.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Strategy – we want people to come to our environments and accomplishing that means we are successful. Activity is not success. </span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Jesus healed on the Sabbath, had a conversation with Pharisees. Asked the question, was man made for the Sabbath or was the Sabbath made for man? </span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Was man made for church or was church made for man?</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Why does our church exist?</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Ephesians 4:11-13 – God gave responsibilities to church apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds, teachers to EQUIP THE PEOPLE for the work of ministry. The word equip is the same Greek word for when Jesus saw Peter, James, and John while they were “mending” their nets. We want to network people together so that they can catch fish.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Our goal is to equip people for mission – to be something in the world.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Right now many of us equip people to serve the organizations needs rather than equip them to be on mission.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">20% of the people do 80% of the work and give 80% of the money. We get upset with the other 80% of the people. We have created some of this 20/80 problem. (At Mountain, we’d need to have 4500 volunteer roles. We don’t have 4500 volunteer roles in our organization.) We need to release people to be on mission but some of those may be roles that are not easily measured. Centrifugal force - out, centripetal force – in (toilet)</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">How? – moving people from bucket to bucket to bucket (typically linear). Future of the church is going to be more non-linear.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Why do we tell people that are seekers wanting to go serve on a mission trip that they can’t go because they are not at that point in the process? Does our culture/strategy prevent the desired outcomes by forcing linear?</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">How we reach out to people and the future strategy of our church will likely mean less linear processes.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">You cannot photocopy someone else’s strategy.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">We may have 2-3 buckets to assimilate people through and equip them with. What are they?</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">People don’t come every week. BRCC discovered that on average, they have less than 1 bucket per week. They have 1+ bucket every other week. They discovered that really they have a one step strategy which has to equip and inspire them to live on mission.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Our staff is likely being measured by how many people are coming to their programs not on life change or whether people are living on mission.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">New metric is story.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">7 how we live practices – Vital Signs</span></strong></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span>1)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Listen to God – through word, spirit, and prayer</span></strong></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span>2)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Be the church – intentionally serving the needs around us</span></strong></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span>3)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Share a meal – investing in the lives of people far from God and inviting them to join you on the journey</span></strong></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span>4)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Peal the onion – address the layers of junk in our lives, spiritual transformation. Disciplines are important but they aren’t everything. Psalm 129:23-24</span></strong></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span>5)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Downsize to maximize – simplify our financial lives to maximize our participation in God’s efforts in the world.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span>6)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Keep your passport current – we want to mobilize people to be ready to go be the church around the world</span></strong></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span>7)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Lean towards green – we want to be good stewards of the world and environment that God has given us.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Don’t get permission – get busy with the mission of God lived out in you.</span></strong></div>Rob Kastenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01427119531404019066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528986819599869389.post-65895765713794744822011-04-28T12:07:00.002-04:002011-04-28T12:07:31.292-04:00Exponential - Main Session 2 - On the Verge: See it - Rob Wegner<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<span>For a missional movement, we have to see it before we will get it or do it.</span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Jesus sees us advancing as a revolutionary, freeing force that recaptures the kingdoms of darkness. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Here’s the church, here’s the steeple, open it up and here’s the people. The devil thought up this memory device. It identifies the church as a place, or a destination event.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>We are the church. It is not an event or destination, but an everyday mission.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Optometrist – new lenses clicking in place until we can see clearly.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Traditional ecclesiology – location with <strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;">centripetal</span></strong> force pulling people attractionally towards it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Three overlapping circles (Collins – hedgehog image)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><u><span>Church growth</span></u><span> efforts brought helpful missiology inside this existing box and we did it better which led to exceptional growth within our traditional ecclesiology.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Granger hearts began to change and we began to see the church being sent out into our city and around the world. <u>Incarnational mission</u>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Difference between missional activity and a missional lifestyle. Repeated missional activity can lead to a missional lifestyle or missional activity can be an occasional effort to check a box or get an annual rush from a mission trip that doesn’t impact our everyday lives.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Incarnational Mission created a different direction of movement, an externally focused movement. People out there started asking, where’s this church that we keep hearing about (20-30 minutes away). Do we rent buses and bring them to us? If we tried to control it or centralize it, we would kill it. We said, God what you are doing over here is different. Let’s figure out how to be and gather the church there. Started Monroe Community Center out of former food pantry. Over time Mayor came and said crime had all but dried up since community center work began.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><u><span>Multiplication Church Planting</span></u><span> – Exponential</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Started coaching leaders in India about multiplication, leadership development, missional ministry, started slow but then started exploding with growth. Within 18-24 months, 15 disciples going out, each pulling 15-20 disciples together and growing. Soon over 1000 churches were up and running. It was like the book of Acts all over again.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Overlap of three circles is Mission. It is the heart of the church, our mission, our missional energy and goal at every level.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>God – what is it that we need to see, get, and do, individually and collectively, as the church?</span></div>Rob Kastenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01427119531404019066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528986819599869389.post-18583205106411485412011-04-28T09:23:00.000-04:002011-04-28T09:23:41.461-04:00Main Session 2 - On the Verge: See it - Darrin Patrick<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</style> <![endif]--> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span></span></b><span>Matthew 16:13-19 </span><sup><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">13</span></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?” </span><span> <sup id="en-NIV-23687">14</sup> They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” <sup id="en-NIV-23688">15</sup> “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” <sup>16</sup> Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” <sup id="en-NIV-23690">17</sup> Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven. <sup id="en-NIV-23691">18</sup> And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. <sup id="en-NIV-23692">19</sup> I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be<sup value="[<a href="#fen-NIV-23692d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]"></sup> bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>I’m going to build a church, an ecclesia, called out ones, and attack the gates of hell.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>World – network for your cause, Kingdom – network for His cause</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>World – sin is external, Kingdom – sin is first a heart issue</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>World – our efforts are about image, Kingdom – we serve for Him</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>World – happiness is about pleasure, Kingdom – trust in God’s sovereign care.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>What if church wasn’t a place but a movement attacking the gates of hell.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>What if the church could be the church envisioned by Jesus.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>When Bible talks of attacking the gates of hell or pulling down strongholds, it is not an individual deal, it is always the church.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Ephesians 3:10 - </span>His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms.<span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>In Matthew 16, Jesus was attacked by the right and the left. (Pharisees and Sadducees)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>If we are the church, we will be attacked by the right and the left.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>What would it look like if people in your church looked at the worst part of your city/region and moved there?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Some of us don’t need to move to a new neighborhood, we need to be present in our neighborhood – and stop going to so many Bible studies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>What it would like for the church to be the church in these domains of darkness and brokenness in our city/region?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>This is the gospel. The church is on the move.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>What if God got a hold of your imagination and we began to rethink what we’re thinking about church? Why not your church? Why not your city? Why not you?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Jesus is going to tell you plant the gospel, to be the church and attack the gates of hell.</span></div>Rob Kastenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01427119531404019066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528986819599869389.post-819951272579896922011-04-28T09:13:00.003-04:002011-04-28T09:17:26.067-04:00Main Session 2 - On the Verge: See it - Neil Cole<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div>Current church planting, people reaching was by addition. To reach the 6.9 billion people, we were going to have to learn to multiply. <br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">I began searching through Acts, books, church in China, and Korea, to learn how to multiply. The secret was inside of me. The secret to multiplication is Christ in you the hope of glory. That’s the secret and power of multiplication, it’s not a strategy. Then why are we not seeing it happen?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Exponential growth starts slow and small…but builds to rapid momentum in time.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Start slow and move to fast.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Start micro and move to macro.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Disciples X2/yr. (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192)</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">We want to start fast so we start with addition.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Movements are most vulnerable at the start. Momentum is most vulnerable at point of initial movement.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Vulnerabilities:</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">-<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>The seduction of addition early on. Pushing the plus sign harder and faster.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">-<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>A corrupted DNA in the disciples. We need to lower the bar on how we do church and raise the bar on what it means to be a disciple. All people are ordained for ministry and can have Christ in them the hope of glory (the power of multiplication).</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">-<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Leadership dependency issues.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">-<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>All of these are the results of misplaced faith!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Movement grows from micro to macro. (picture of fertilized egg)</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Disciples, leaders, churches, movements – don’t start with churches. Don’t plant churches, plant Jesus in people’s lives and their lives will change, then draw them into the church. God didn’t say, for God so loved the world that he sent them the church. It starts with Jesus into people.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">If you multiple the simple enough times it will impact globally. (HIV example)</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Leadership Dependency kills movements. The more discipleship is removed from Jesus, the more it is like the telephone game. Matt. 10:24-25. (<sup>24</sup> “The student is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his master. <sup id="en-NIV-23443">25</sup> It is enough for students to be like their teachers, and servants like their masters. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!) Only when everyone’s direct teacher is Christ, can they exceed the one who led them. Bring everyone closer to Christ.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">It’s a matter of faith. Trust the Spirit, he wrote the book.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">Difference between attractional leadership dependency vs. distributed energy characteristic of movement. Leaders have to learn to get out of the way. Don’t be the Bible answer man, be the Bible question man. Point them to Jesus and get out of the way.</div>Rob Kastenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01427119531404019066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528986819599869389.post-46524257015213548252011-04-27T16:02:00.001-04:002011-04-27T16:04:17.480-04:00Exponential Conference - Workshop 1 - Wed 3 - 4pm - Future Travelers – an experimental forum helping mega-churches become missional movements<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b>Workshop 1 - Wed 3 - 4pm</b><b> - Future Travelers</b> – Panel discussion with <a href="http://www.exponentialconference.org/speakers/#alanhirsch">Alan Hirsch</a>, <a href="http://www.exponentialconference.org/speakers/#daveferguson">Dave Ferguson</a>, <a href="http://www.exponentialconference.org/speakers/#gregnettle">Greg Nettle</a>, <a href="http://www.exponentialconference.org/speakers/#mattcarter">Matt Carter</a>, <a href="http://www.exponentialconference.org/speakers/#darrinpatrick">Darrin Patrick</a>, <a href="http://www.exponentialconference.org/speakers/#steveandrews">Steve Andrews</a> and <a href="http://www.exponentialconference.org/snapshot/workshops/#markbeeson">Mark Beeson</a> This workshop will probe the purpose and outcomes of Future Travelers, an experimental forum helping mega-churches become missional movements. You’ll hear how these churches are actually implementing the ideas outlined in the book On The Verge. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b>Matt Carter – Austin Stone Community Church, Austin, TX</b><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> – where Tomlin led worship - felt led by God that worship isn’t pleasing to them because the people were suffering. Piece of land then came open in the worst part of Austin. Opened For the City Center – multi-site location, Capital Area Food Bank – largest one outside of NYC. What does it look like for megachurch to release their people into the city? Missional communities. Redefined what success is for our small group ministry. Our previous goal was to get them into community groups where Bible study and community was success. Now it also includes their participation in the mission of the gospel. If you want elder care and to be discipled, you have to be in a missional community/small group.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b>Mark Beeson – Granger Community Church, Granger, IN</b><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> – church grew, reaching lots of people that didn’t go to church but all were willing to go to the big box. Remarkable experience of growth and excitement. Over time, they realized that their remarkable weekend experience was not making disciples and even growth leveled off. Leadership team couldn’t abide this. 40% will come to the box, 60% will not. Hundreds and thousands of new churches have been planted in India through missional efforts and they are bringing those practices back to the West. Lowering the bar on institutional expectations with missional communities springing up that are autonomous missional groups through the week but will avail themselves of weekend services at one of their campuses. Normal people can lead 20-50 people without giving up their jobs, reach people, disciple them and engage them as missional communities.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b>Dave Ferguson – Community Christian Church, Naperville, IL </b><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">- planted a church, vision to reproduce campuses, and to birth a movement of churches. Celebrate, connect, contribute – they use these as metrics. 50% on mission wasn’t acceptable and didn’t line up with Jesus’ calling or Scripture. Small Groups will be on mission as a group or a group of missionaries doing their own missions. </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b>Greg Nettle – RiverTree Christian Church, Massilon, OH</b><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> – top of all the negative lists, most polluted state, Canton – fastest dying city. When things are at their worst, the church should be at its best. Goal of reaching/transforming 100,000 people. God is for us, God is with us – with people of Israel, God is one of us – Jesus/incarnation, God is in us-Jesus Spirit inside of us. This is missional progression for church. Unchurched people don’t believe churches are even for them. Churches go on mission and are with people in their culture but then expect those people to come be with them in their context. Missional communities must be “one of” the people God is calling you to love in a unique way. Greg and Julie are loving children at risk, not just going into the city and caring for them but adopting them. Now they are moving from their suburban home and into the city. He can’t lead a church to become missional and not be a “one of” person himself. Until our leaders become “one of” we can’t lead our people to be “one of.” Until our people become “one of”, we won’t transform our communities.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b>Darrin Patrick, The Journey, St. Louis, MO</b><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> – the church is not a mission of community, it is a community on mission. For years, 65-80% of their people were in groups. (Eph. 3 – manifest wisdom of God…, Jesus – gates of hades will not prevail). The church is to be that divine organism that reaches into the domains of darkness in a city. We’ve built large churches that attract people but we’ve not equipped and released our people to be missional.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">What would it look like for us to be the church in </span></b><b>four domains</b><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">? - 1-where you live, 2-where you work, 3-what your profession is, 4-the broken areas of the city.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">My encouragement to you is to read the Bible. 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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span>Francis Chan</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Jesus says his burden is light so are our heavy burdens from God?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>My spiritual gifts are for the common good. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>We are on the verge of something, not because we are creating it, but because God is creating it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Remember the first burden we had to reach people for Christ, then we started getting paid, and there were expectations, and expectations begin to mess with you.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Praying a prayer to ask Jesus into our hearts doesn’t make sense with Scripture. We’re either followers of Jesus or we’re not. Our churches are filled with people that don’t reflect the Spirit’s presence and activity in their lives.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>India and China – casual Christianity doesn’t make sense here. If you are going to lose everything for what you believe, you are either all in knowing it will likely cost you everything and possibly your life, or you wouldn’t think of converting to Christianity.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Chinese Christians laughing hysterically at Francis’s description of the American church. People coming into these large sanctuaries for worship services about an hour long and if there is a better speaker, or better child care, or better programs at another church. They switch.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Chinese Christianity and Indian Christianity are more congruent with Scripture than our American version.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>2 Timothy 4:1-8 <span> </span>- </span><sup>1</sup> In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: <sup id="en-NIV-29873">2</sup> Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. <sup id="en-NIV-29874">3</sup> For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. <sup id="en-NIV-29875">4</sup> They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. <sup id="en-NIV-29876">5</sup> But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry. <sup id="en-NIV-29877">6</sup> For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time for my departure is near. <sup id="en-NIV-29878">7</sup> I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. <sup id="en-NIV-29879">8</sup> Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>KP Yohannan to Francis Chan – I believe the Lord will use you when you are willing to be lonely and willing to be misunderstood. Then say what you need to say, the sheep will hear you, the rest of the people will misunderstand, and you will be lonely.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Professional ministry thing screws us up and it takes an incredible walk with the Lord to be able to see through this fog.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Strategies and missional practices are important but movements happen on their own when life change and healing is witnessed.</span></div>Rob Kastenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01427119531404019066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528986819599869389.post-78136820567936848292011-04-27T13:49:00.002-04:002011-04-27T13:49:58.591-04:00Exponential Conference - Main Session 1 - On the Verge: Movementum<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</style> <![endif]--> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span></span></b><span>Alan Hirsch and Dave Ferguson</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Australia – less than 10% in church on a given weekend</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Europe – 2-5%</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>US – 17-22% - less in urban centers</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span>We are at a pivot point in history. We are on the verge – of extinction (at least our version) or of a missional movement.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span>We are now starting more new churches than we are closing. This is reversal of a trend of many years.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span>Missional people + Multiplying Churches = Missional Movement</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span>(every person on mission with Jesus, baptism really does equal ordination)</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>2 problems:</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span><span>1)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>Strategic problem – most of the churches we are starting, are going after the same 40-50% (those that would come to church if invited) which leaves 50-60% of the people that are outside of our target. We must find a way to go to them.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span><span>2)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>Missional problem – we have to figure out how to communicate the gospel to them and how to create a church experience for them. They will not come to your attractional service.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span>Organizational insanity – trying to solve our problems by doing what we’re doing better or by working harder. </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Missional broadens our understanding of church, it doesn’t narrow it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span>It’s impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Movements are us. They always have been connected to the church.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Imagine, shift, move, innovate</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Imagine – </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span>First and fundamental job of a leader is to define reality. This cannot be left to chance. Doing so causes default reality to kick in. Leadership by imagination either binds people up or frees them. </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Answers will not be found in our recent past. We need a deeply missional imagination. This isn’t a quick fix. We have to think differently.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Shift – paradigm shift is a change in our brain in how we think. 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You have a parish. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>We want to anoint you and ordain you into the ministry. If you don’t mean it, don’t come forward. Who are the people or place God has called you to?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span>Invictus vs. The Blind Side – leader bringing massive change to lots of people vs. one regular person bringing change to the life of one. We need both macro and micro.</span></div>Rob Kastenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01427119531404019066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528986819599869389.post-211951221004336292011-04-26T22:33:00.000-04:002011-04-26T22:33:30.849-04:00Catalytic Kingdom Engergy All Around<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody">In Orlando for the <a href="http://www.exponentialconference.org/">Exponential Conference</a> (The Largest Gathering of Church Planters on the Planet!). There will be 4000+ church planters, church planting churches, and church planting organization and network leaders learning from each other and from God's leading. This is an amazing group of catalytic leaders primed for Kingdom advancement.</span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody">Today, I was thrilled </span><span class="messageBody">to be at the <a href="http://www,stadia.cc/">Stadia</a> Spring Fling today with 200+ church planters and Stadia leaders. Stadia brings people and churches together to transform lives and communities through church planting. Since 2003, Stadia partnered to plant 100 churches through 2009. In 2010 alone, they partnered to plant 30 churches. We were dreaming today how to plant 100 churches per year nationally and internationally.</span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody"> </span></span></h6>Rob Kastenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01427119531404019066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528986819599869389.post-71335093655704569772011-04-21T14:01:00.000-04:002011-04-21T14:01:51.030-04:00So many reasons to rejoice!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On a beautiful but overcast spring day in Maryland between two storm fronts, I'm struck by the beauty around me and all the ways God has blessed, and still blesses, my life. John Calvin said, "There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice." </div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What gifts has God blessed you with today and are you rejoicing?!</span></div>Rob Kastenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01427119531404019066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528986819599869389.post-43122346085469361432011-04-20T15:12:00.000-04:002011-04-20T15:12:11.600-04:00How About Some Silk Ballistic Undershorts?<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There's nothing like the security in knowing that you have <a href="http://whatsbrewin.nextgov.com/2011/04/how_about_some_silk_ballistic_undershorts.php%20">shrapnel resistant underwear</a> that won't chafe like that irritating Kevlar.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our own Aberdeen Proving Ground here in Harford County, MD is testing the ballistic protection. </span></span>Rob Kastenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01427119531404019066noreply@blogger.com0