Velocity 2010 Church Planting Conference
Mountain Lake Church was not able to ramp up their bandwidth for the WIFI network in time for the Velocity 2010 Church Planters Conference. This was like a forced Blogging and Twitter fast for me, but it wasn’t a bad thing. All of my attention was on the speakers and taking [...]
Velocity 2010 Church Planting Conference
Session 6 Speaker: Rick Warren
If God has called you to be a church planter, do not STEP down to do anything else…not even the President of the United States. This is the greatest calling.
1,000 Years from today, if Jesus does not come back, all Kingdoms will have fallen, but the church [...]
Velocity 2010 Church Planting Conference
Breakout #3 Speaker: Tony Morgan (Twitter)
“The Giant Inflatable Blue Monkey”
You can’t have a clear communication strategy without a clear discipleship strategy
People enter the church at Point A and hopefully we’ll move them to Point B (A fully devoted follower of Christ)
The steps that happen between Point A and Point B helps [...]
Velocity 2010 Church Planting Conference Session 4
Speaker: Dave Gibbons
Deconstructing Illusions
7 Shifts in Modern Culture:
1. Moving from Multicultural framework to a third cultural framework
2. Economic Shift
July 27, 2048 - The date that India and China will have more per capita income than the western world.
Inequalities begin to shape with an economic shift. New power (because of [...]
Velocity 2010 Church Planter’s Conference
Breakout #2 Speaker: Pete Wilson (Twitter)
“Everyone’s Welcome, Nobody’s Perfect, Anything is Possible”
Churches Desiring Transformational Community -
Studies Show:
One thing that separates happy people from unhappy people is the simple idea of being connected in community.
The level of satisfaction in churches is determined by the level of community experienced.
Someone said…”I’ve never known [...]
Velocity 2010 Church Planters Conference
Speaker: Steven Furtick (Twitter)
“Jesus Told Me To”
“Imitate the faith of others, not their miracles”
“The most important criteria that will determine your church plants success (outside of God’s power) is your ability to sense what God wants you to do next along with the courage to do it & the leadership to [...]
Velocity 2010 Church Planters Conference
Speaker: Alan Hirsch
More of the same will not bring fundamental change.
Our decisions make a difference in the world.
Why do we need to be Missional?
It’s not a cute new term. Not another cool buzz word.
Concepts:
1. Cultural Distance:
m0…….m1………..m2…………m3………..m4
Each ‘M’ signifies one significant cultural barrier to the effective communication of the gospel
(M0 is [...]
Velocity 2010 Church Planters Conference
Speaker Shawn Lovejoy (Twitter)
Satan knows if he can get the leader to doubt themselves, he has them on a slippery slope.
When leaders get insecure in their own skin:
1. We start comparing ourselves to other leaders -
The Challenge is, with technology, we can look all around the country and see what [...]
I haven’t joined the MAC cult as many of my friends have. I’m very curious about owning my own MAC, but my main decision to stay PC has been solely financial.
One of the things that attracts me to the MAC is the out-of-the-box uniformity. With PC’s we have the good family members and then we [...]
I read this devotion from Oswald Chambers the other night…I thought it defined my journey as a church planter pretty accurately. Sometimes I wish I just had a flashlight to see some of the things lying before me. At times I think a flashlight would make things easier. When I talk to people about joining [...]
