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Breakout Session 2Giving…Budgeting…Spending
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Unleash 2010 Main Session 2Session Notes
Acts 14:8-
The best thing a church can do is make sure their senior pastor is healthy
Be careful for the crowd….those who deify will crucify. (My Note: Wow!!!)
The problem with a lot of pastors is that we will not admit our humanity
vs 19 – The people stoned Paul…not Barnabas or anyone else. Paul, the Leader. The main guy…that’s it.
1. Awareness -
Many times we make mistakes because we are unaware.
If God is using us, its because we were barren, and God changed our lives, we did nothing ourselves.
2. Unity -
3. Passion –
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Unleash 2010 Main Session 1Joshua 5
Session Notes:
Many times God takes leaders to a cliff and tells them to jump. If we don’t jump another generation will.
Leaders have to learn to jump.
If someone is going to jump, it should be the church. We should set the example. Problem is churches have forgotten how to jump!
1. Desperation Factor
Joshua was given the task of circumcising all the men, with a flint knife, and no medicine to numb the pain.
Gen 34: Three men were able to kill an entire village because the men were in pain…
God brought Joshua and his followers to a place where they were completely vulnerable and exposed to their enemy.
He was bringing them to a place where they were marked men, but they would be desperate for Him.
When is the last time we were desperate for God (as leaders)?
Church leaders want safe and predictable.
Church Planter: You WILL be tested financially within your first year of your church plant
God will test you financially. If you are following God you will always have your back up against the wall financially.
Business people in your church want everything to make sense financially, but our God leads us to uncomfortable places.
2. The Sacrifice Factor
Every Israelite man loved the idea of progress…
Everyone loves the idea of progress, but they have a problem with the sacrifice requirements.
Two Things We Have to Sacrifice:
1. Sacrifice Comforts
Satan is rubbing some leaders’ feet…you are comfortable where you are at…he’s rubbing your feet, setting you up for a fall…all because we want to be comfortable.
Random Note: Perry preaches about masturbation. Some pastors say they only preach about the “Holiness of God” – Perry, “You can’t get to the holiness of God, masturbating, that’s why we preach about it!”
2. Sacrifice Conformity
3. The Recognition Factor
4. The Strategy Factor
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Unleash 2010 Breakout Session 1: Senior Pastors OnlyBreakout Session Notes
God can speak through people who are equivalent to Balaam’s donkey – Steven Furtick (They’re pretty much jackasses…Don’t tithe, don’t get involved, etc. But God can speak through them)
(I was reminded about this quote from Church Planters Conference) “You can’t have a strategy without first having a philosophy” – Pete Wilson
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Velocity 2010 Church Planting ConferenceMountain 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 old school notes
Here is a landing page for all of the notes I was able to take (now posted on my blog) for each session, except session 5, and for the Breakouts I attended, some of the notes may not make any sense to you, they probably will not make much sense to me once I go back and review some of them, because several of the speakers had in-depth studies and terms that I couldn’t record before they moved on:
Main Session 1: Shawn Lovejoy
Main Session 2: Alan Hirsch
Main Session 3: Steven Furtick
Breakout Session 2: Pete Wilson
Main Session 4: Dave Gibbons
Breakout Session 3: Tony Morgan
Main Session 6: Rick Warren
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Velocity 2010 Church Planting ConferenceSession 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 will still be standing.
If you can grasp that God created me to love me, I should never struggle with inferiority again.
No need for posing, masks, being cool, etc. Because God chose me.
Nothing matters more than the church.
Do All for the Global Glory of God.
The more important your job, the more humble you must be.
What the church is doing will outlast anything Bill Gates, Any Country Leader, Famous Musicians, or Famous Athlete does.
We need new churches for new generations.
Spread the major mistakes around. Challenge staff to make 1 major mistake a week J
Rick’s Rules for Church Planting:
1. Don’t take early losses seriously – They don’t determine the outcome of your church.
-Ignore your early losses…Rome was not built in a day, neither is a church.
A mushroom takes 6 hours to build; an oak tree takes 60 years. Do you want a mushroom or an oak tree as a church?
Legitimate growth is conversion growth.
Focus on membership & discipleship, not on the crowd or the numbers.
The measure of a church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity.
It’s not a sin to be a small church, it is disobedient to be a small minded church.
If you want the anointing of God in your life & his blessings; your life must be built on humility, integrity, and generosity.
These are the antidote to the three Greatest Traps of Ministry and Leadership:
The Kingdom of God needs us to FINISH WELL. It does not need us to flame out.
Satan is entirely predictable. His main 3 temptations are:
1. Lust of the Flesh is the temptation to Feel – Anything that makes you feel good. (Hedonism) (Pleasure) [Sex]
2. Lust of the Eyes is the temptation to Have -
(Possessions) [Salary]
3. Pride of Life is the temptation to Be – Desire to be worshipped, envied
(Position) [Status]
Never confuse your self-worth with your net-worth
Jesus was tempted to use what was given for ministry to feed him-self.
Satan wants to tempt us to use our gifts on ourselves, verses for the ministry and what God has called us to.
Jesus was tempted to be spectacular with the gift he was given.
Satan will tempt us to be spectacular.
Glory comes from suffering, not showing off.
You don’t have to be original in everything that you do.
Church planters need to study a lot of the first 1500 years of the church for deep roots.
Jesus was tempted with things.
Satan will tempt us to develop a spirit of expectation that we deserve things because of what we’ve done.
Antidotes to these 3 Temptations:
1. Integrity - From Integer “A unit of one” – Our life is one, we are not separated into sects, we are one.
“Titanic Trap” – - You cannot compartmentalize your life. If you try, you lack integrity.
A hole in your life is a hole in your life and it will sink
You never sin privately, you are affecting your family, your church, and others you influence.
You don’t have to be perfect to have integrity, you have to be authentic.
2. Generosity (antidote to the lust of the eyes) -
The way you spend your money shows what you value.
The more I give the more I become like Jesus.
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
Every time you give you break the hold of materialism in your life.
3. Humility – (antidote to
It means you don’t give yourself the title “Apostle”
If you have to have a big title you’re not humble.
Titles mean nothing, what matters is do you love people?
Don’t give in to false humility:
God created you, Jesus died for you, the Holy Spirit lives in you. You are not junk.
Humility is not denying your strengths, but being honest about your weaknesses.
We grow fastest and best through models.
It’s better to have someone following a person who is trying to do right versus someone who isn’t trying at all.
Someone who is not teachable is not humble.
Be humble or you will stumble.
Lesson from the whale – When you get to the top and get ready to blow, that’s when they harpoon you.
How do you bring people through the front door and out the back to get involved in missions? You better have an intentional process.
It’s not about looking cool, it’s about meeting needs.
If you are going to last and make it to the end…you must understand the 6 phases of faith:
When God does any miracle…he takes it through 6 phases of faith:
God…
1. Gives a Dream
2. Decision (choose to go after it) – Dreams are unimportant if they are not moved on.
3. Delay – Always a delay (New Passion 3 years) – God is not a vending machine. God is more interested in the individual than the dream.
4. Difficulty – You will face all types of problems (Critics, Lack of Resources)
5. Dead-End – The death of a vision
6. Deliverance - God likes to turn difficulties into possibilities; He then gets the glory, not us.
Every time we hit a dead-end, God does not want to help us, he wants to do a miracle.
Velocity Conference: Main Session 1 Highlights – - Main Session 2 Highlights – - Main Session 3 Highlights – - Breakout Session 2 with Pete Wilson Highlights – - Main Session 4 Highlights – - Breakout Session 3 with Tony Morgan Highlights
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Velocity 2010 Church Planting ConferenceBreakout #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 determine the effectiveness of people moving from Point A to Point B
*The churches ministries & processes are the “Steps” to get from Point A to Point B*
Too many choices make decisions more difficult – which can lead to paralysis (or sitting in neutral)
Complexity Creep – We keep plugging new things in, without unplugging old things.
It helps by first defining what a fully devoted follower of Christ looks like for your church.
Our message should be focused…Jesus’ message was focused.
Questions Each Church Should Ask:
Are the next steps clearly communicated?
When all ministries of a church are communicating about their ministries at the same time, it produces chaos!
5 Basic Communication Strategies:
It is possible to do the work of God, without doing the work God has called you to do.
Every time we say yes to things outside our vision it pulls us away from what we are called to do.
75-80% of people come to a church because of an invitation from a trusted source (friend/family)
Build through relationships not through promotions (promoting things)
Velocity Conference: Main Session 1 Highlights – - Main Session 2 Highlights – - Main Session 3 Highlights – - Breakout Session 2 with Pete Wilson Highlights – - Main Session 4 Highlights – - Main Session 6 Highlights
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Velocity 2010 Church Planting Conference Session 4Speaker: 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 increase in income) produces injustices. It can lead to war, because of the increase in power.
Isolation is a norm in economic shifts
3. Technology Shift
Millennials do not see a separation between technology, they see it as something all together. It is the norm, not something amazing.
4. Vision Dissemination Shift
Vision dissemination begins from the fringe, the outside, not just from one source.
5. Majority to Minority
By year 2042
Is the church prepared for a shift from Majority to Minority.
6. Professionalism to Activism
This generation is sick of preaching.
Quit asking what will offend people and ask what will they be offended about.
Harvard Study, people can only pay attention for 18 minutes before their mind starts to wonder.
7. Shift from the West to the East
You have a different impression of God when you live in oppression.
Americans are not used to being servants, but that’s what Jesus calls us to be.
God uses the community of the church to lead us. The pastor is to equip the saints.
Are you equipping the saints? Or are you building large numbers?
Move campaigns for buildings to campaigns to building people.
What would the church look like if God was not contained?
What would the church look like if the budget was not 70-80% for building but 70-80% building people.
Strategic Responses:
1. Leveraging the power of the Holy Spirit
The church in America does not believe in the power of the Holy Spirit, if they did, they would pray more.
Jesus only did what he saw the Father doing.
How are you teaching on the Holy Spirit? How are you living it out?
2. Communal Living
As a pastor how often do you hang out with your people?
You can impress people from afar but you can only impact them up close
3. Third Culture Focus
Are you teaching people to adapt?
You cannot be creative with only homogeneous people.
How much of church budget is R&D (Research Development)
4. Campaigns for Building People
“If you treat your wife, like your Iphone, you’d have a great marriage.”
America is fascinated with “forms” of doing church.
Be Fascinated with the flow of the Holy Spirit
5. Mindset Shift
Proverbs – As a man thinks in their heart, so they become.
Define success up and to the right…(line on a chart…)
Jesus starts up top and moves down to the left (line on a chart…)
You don’t have to be huge to be potent.
Our job is to PLANT the seeds and be faithful. God’s job to GROW it.
6. Have to have a New Target
Problem has been how we define the “Target”
The half breed Samaritan was someone that would be hated. That was Jesus’ definition of neighbor.
Maybe the test is not our numbers, but how many people are we loving that are not like us?
Has crime gone down in our city?
Is there still homeless?
Are there still foster children in our area?
7. Fathers Coming Home
A true Father sees his children.
Affirm a child’s special destiny. You have to know them, hang out with them.
Roles as a pastor is sometimes to be a father who is home.
If you want to reach the next generation? The world is crying for a father to be home.
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Velocity 2010 Church Planter’s ConferenceBreakout #2 Speaker: Pete Wilson (Twitter)
“Everyone’s Welcome, Nobody’s Perfect, Anything is Possible”
Churches Desiring Transformational Community -
Studies Show:
Someone said…”I’ve never known anyone who has failed to love & succeeded at life.”
Genesis 2:18 “It is not good for man to be alone.”
You were created with the capacity for deep relationships
Develop a Philosophy of community before you develop a Strategy of community.
(What is the Heart behind the strategy?)
*Your Church MUST understand that Everybody is Welcome.
Luke 15:2 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
* Has your church created environments where people can belong before they believe?
Some Church Models = Believe, Belong, Behave
Church Models adapting to Current Culture = Behave, Belong, Believe
(It may be that people enter your church by participating in a church service event for the community rather than through the Sunday morning Worship Service)
Your Church Must Accept that Nobody is Perfect.
The sins you find the most appalling to God are the ones you don’t struggle with.
Your Church Must Believe Anything is Possible.
It’s the church’s job to create environments where we help people discover their new name.
Secular businesses & organizations understand that “Everyone is Welcome” and that “Nobody is Perfect” – There is nothing overtly “Christian” about that. The church has to believe in addition that “Anything is Possible!”
If our churches are a true “Just As I Am Churches” – We would not be able to put out enough chairs for the people who would come and we could not plant enough churches.
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