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Orange Conference Day 2 Continued…

Orange Conference Day 2 Cont…
Sue Miller

Sue Miller spoke at the Orange Conference on day 2 in the afternoon session. She had some really great points and a great story about a 5 year old girl that I will share in another post:

Here was some of Sue’s main points concerning students and questions we should be asking:

1. When their faith is tested…Who will they listen to?
2. When their faith is tested…Where do they run?
3. When their faith is tested…Who do they worship?
4. When their faith is tested…What kind of life do they want?

Random questions posted on a blog may seem un-answerable, however if you are “thinking” in the right context, you can come up with the answers…
Sue’s main thought was surrounding the fact that 85 or 87% of all graduating high school students are abandoning their faith in college and in life. Her illustration was with Daniel and how at the age of 14, despite being thrown into a pagan land, he held strong to his faith…why after 18 years are we seeing so many students stray?

I believe answering some of these questions may help tackle that issue…

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Orange Day 2:

It is late, and I don’t have all of my notes in front of me, but today at the conference I saw and heard a trend that I have seen on the rise lately. The student leaders that I was with today heard from Francis Chan, Sue Miller, Reggie Joiner God has been dealing with me on a lot of these issues for over a year and through efforts like UNLEASH (website seriously out of date) and so it has served as some strong confirmation that I personally am moving in the right direction in my ministry approach…my goal is to get others to follow!!!
Francis Chan spoke in session 2 today. As usual he was awesome, and very challenging.
Today, the most important point that I will share is this…More important than any church strategy, model, or conference; How much do you love Jesus? Are you in love with Jesus? Kind of puts it all into perspective!!!
That’s all for right now, more to be posted soon!
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Orange

Orange Conferene 2007
Atlanta, GA

The first session of the Orange conference was tonight. Lanny was his usual nutty self, Steve Fee rocked the house, and Reggie Joiner kicked off the first session with a great talk. Here are some of the points he made:

1. A lot of people think what they are doing is right and effective, in fact…
2. Many people have convinced themselves that they are doing the right thing(s), even though it is the same thing that has been done over and over again.

3. When speakers/leaders see that people are disconnecting from the message, we are trained to simply turn up the volume…we don’t change what we are saying, we keep saying the same thing over and over, we just get louder…
(Reggie used a great illustration, where he played white noise and increased it over and over again, until all you could hear was the noise)
4. Noise…its what we give our audience many times!!!

5. The rest of the conference will focus on 5 areas: (Could be the purposes, but its not…Ha!)

  • Stucture (Our plans should have the end “goal” in sight)
  • Message (Our messages should be prepared with the end “goal” in mind)
  • Community (Everything in our ministries should lead to providing community.)
  • Family
  • Inflence (Move from “Going and Doing…to ‘Being'”

It should be great…