2008 Orange Conference by ReThink Group

Session 2

Francis Chan:

• Is the success in churches from God and the Holy Spirit moving, or is it good marketing?
• With the right team, Francis can build a Mormon church, a Jehovah’s church, maybe even a Baptist Church
• Francis doesn’t want to preach another message, he wants to experience something supernatural…something God! – Acts was of God.
• Does it bother us that we walk into our neighborhoods and the lost have more evidences of the fruits of the spirit than those in the church? Shouldn’t there be a difference between someone without the Spirit and the one who is the Temple of the Holy Spirit?
• We can create church attenders and some disciplined people, but we cannot create Christ lovers, people filled with God’s spirit.
• Is it God that we are experiencing in our ministries? Are we sure? Are we experiencing God because we know its God, or are we just excited because “we” pulled something off.
• There is a huge difference in what the Bible says and what we see in the church – yet we are crippled to say anything because everyone seems so happy. So we do not even try to hold our churches to the Biblical standard. (Yep!)
• **Francis: If Jesus planted a church in Semi Valley California, Francis’ church would be bigger, because people do not want to follow the standard that Jesus calls us to. (Lose our life for his sake, deny father and mother, sacrifice, death) [Read more...]

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