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February 24, 2010February 24, 2010

Velocity 2010 – Tony Morgan

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 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:

What Event or Program requires a pulpit announcement in order for it to succeed?
What would you NOT participate in if you were not the pastor or leader?
Does this program reach people outside the church? Or does it satisfy insiders?
Where is the fruit?

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:

Clarify Missions, Vision, & Values
Develop a Focused Strategy
Consistency in Branding & Voice
Prioritize your Message
Be Intentional to Eliminate Competing Messages

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

February 24, 2010February 24, 2010

Velocity 2010 – Dave Gibbons

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 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.

Velocity Conference: Main Session 1 Highlights – – Main Session 2 Highlights – – Main Session 3 Highlights – – Breakout Session 2 with Pete Wilson Highlights – – Breakout Session 3 with Tony Morgan Highlights – – Main Session 6 Highlights

February 24, 2010February 25, 2010

Velocity 2010 – Pete Wilson

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 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.”

Romans 13:8

* 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.

Matthew 7:1

Luke 18:10-12

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.

Velocity Conference: Main Session 1 Highlights – – Main Session 2 Highlights – – Main Session 3 Highlights – – Main Session 4 Highlights – – Breakout Session 3 with Tony Morgan Highlights – – Main Session 6 Highlights

February 22, 2010February 25, 2010

Velocity 2010 – Steven Furtick

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 get others to do it with you.”

There is no substitute for the gospel

Mark 11:1-6

[Jesus tells the disciples to go get the colt…if confronted, reply “Jesus told me to…”]

If Jesus didn’t tell you to plant a church…DONT!!!

Jesus May Be Telling Us To:

1. Make a Costly Personal Sacrifice as a Leader –

Velocity is not generated from the outside in, its generated from the inside out.

“Its the things you do when no one sees that produces the results (fruit) that everyone wants.” – Craig Groeschel

– – There’s a cost to your calling.

2. Painful Relational Shifts –

Some people cannot go to the places where God is calling you.

If someone can walk away from you, let them walk.

Steven Furtick – “I live by the value, leave people in better condition than you found them” [Do not use and abuse people. Love them, but don’t let them hinder you from doing what Jesus tells us to do]

3. Repent of Secret Sin –

4. To Take a CS (Crack Smoking or Christ the Savior) Step of Faith –

Its valuable to have a team that says I’ll go get the colt with you, even if we get arrested, we’ll go to jail together.

Steven Furtick had 7 “crack smoking” families help him launch elevation

[MY NOTE] New Passion – – We had 20 “crack smoking” adults plus our children help us launch New Passion. We had VERY little money (even had to borrow money), we had no guarantee of success, very little equipment (and what we have is mostly borrowed), very little skill (that’s me!). All we had was “Jesus Told Me Too…” Thank you all for Embracing a Faith Bigger than Ourselves…I can’t wait to see what God does through all of us! He’s already changing lives 🙂

Velocity Conference: Main Session 1 Highlights – – Main Session 2 Highlights – – Breakout Session 2 with Pete Wilson Highlights – – Main Session 4 Highlights – – Breakout Session 3 with Tony Morgan Highlights – – Main Session 6 Highlights

February 22, 2010February 25, 2010

Velocity 2010 – Alan Hirsch

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 easier – M4 is more difficult)

Significant Cultural Barrier to Communicate the Gospel Meaningfully:

Language
Worldviews
Other Religions

Culture is heading in the direction of becoming more difficult. Closer or at m4, not at m0.

Church must become cross-cultural missionaries again. (This is HUGE for Grovetown)

“Attractional” Church works well in sector m0, however it doesn’t work as well in sectors further out.

When people plug into church, they have less connection in the sectors outside of m0. This is a problem.

“Extractional” Church – It extracts people from their networks of people outside the church.

We are asking the disconnected from Christ to do the cross-cultural work and move from their sector to the m0 sector.

Christians are all missionaries, we are obligated to take the gospel message to other sectors.

*Research in Australia, what non-churched people thought of: God, Jesus, Spirituality, Church

Results: God; positive, Jesus; positive, Spirituality; positive, Church; negative*

The Church can work with the fact that the “basic message” of the church is viewed as positive.

What has to change? The Church. – It must adapt itself to deliver the message.
(My note 1 Cor 9:19-23)

The contemporary church is carrying the load.

America: 40% of Americans would be attracted to the contemporary model of the church.

Strategic Problem… 95% of churches are trying to become what will only reach 40% of the population.

2000+ Churches have over 2,000 people in attendance. There are over 400,000 churches in America!!! Big strategic problem.

Missionary Problem:

60% of Americans will not go to the contemporary style church.

Plus…the 40% is not increasing, its decreasing.

**More of the same will not get fundamentally different results**

More of the Same?

Organizational Insanity
“The problems of the world” – The problems in the church cannot be solved by things that created the original problems (What got you to 40% will not get you the 60%)
Digging holes

(The church of Christ was built for ADVANCE, not Defense)
(A message makes you a MESSENGER)

Solution – The church will have to look different than the contemporary model of the church.

The in Western Culture battle will be won at the level of imagination…or it will be lost at that level.

Einstein – “I value imagination more than I value knowledge.”

Missionary has to go amongst the people. “You know nothing about church”

Ask 2 basic questions:

1. What is church to these people? – You cannot assume the answer to this.
(Churches have to be much more diverse – A thinking of the church vs. a model of the church)

2. What is gospel to these people? – You cannot assume the answer to this.
(The church does not have a mission, the mission has a church)

If the only thing you have is a hammer, everything begins to look like a nail.

Will the reformation model work? It was formed from a culture where people felt guilty for their sin. Do people now feel guilty for their sin?

The church is supposed to be the Good News people, not the guilt bearing people. That makes us become the Pharisees, which Jesus reserved his harshest criticisms for.

You plant the gospel, not churches.

People are enslaved to idols: work, money, sex, etc…that offer everything and give nothing.

The churches decisions matter!

Church planters should be missionaries first before we are planters.

Velocity Conference: Main Session 1 Highlights – – Main Session 3 Highlights – – Breakout Session 2 with Pete Wilson Highlights – – Main Session 4 Highlights – – Breakout Session 3 with Tony Morgan Highlights – – Main Session 6 Highlights