Velocity 2010 – Steven Furtick

Velocity 2010 Church Planters Conference

“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

February 22, 2010February 25, 2010

Velocity 2010 – Shawn Lovejoy

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 is happening everywhere else and start comparing our church to others and ourselves to other leaders. This brings a great deal of negativity.

2. We start copying other leaders –

We’ll use their logos, their sermon series, etc.

We become afraid of becoming or being the leader God’s called us to be.

Copying leads to envying other ministries and leaders.

3. We Condemn other Leaders –

When condemning others does not make us feel better, we start getting down on ourselves.

(Either God called you, or he didn’t…If he called you…don’t quit, don’t give up!)

2 Timothy 4:1-5, 6-7

[Francis Chan] “I can build a church bigger than Jesus with enough money and slick marketing. (Large crowds are not always attracted to the commitment Jesus calls us to)

Be Patient
Do Your Ministry
Use Your Gifts
Be Self-Disciplined

1 Samuel 17:38-40

Pastors try to wear someone else’s armor:

Copy their personality

(God wants to use MY personality in MY community)

Copy their gifts

Someone else’s armor could be someone else’s testimony

A lot of churches look good and look the way they do, because they reflect the testimonies of the leaders of that church.

(We cannot duplicate the testimonies of other churches)

**God wants to use OUR testimonies in OUR community!**

Could God be limiting our voice in our community because we are trying to duplicate everyone else in our church?

Are you willing to take off someone else’s armor?

Velocity Conference: 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 – – Main Session 6 Highlights

March 27, 2009March 27, 2009

Live Blogging PDYM the Conference Final Session

Live Blogging Final Session

Doug Fields

God has the leaders you just have to find them
Who do you think cares more about your ministry? You or God? Don’t you think he has the shepherds ready to equip your ministry?
There is a myth in the church that you have to be young and cool to be a good youth worker
God has the leaders, we just have to look in the unlikely places to find them
10% of Volunteers will come to you 90% will come because they are asked
2. Raise the Bar, raise healthy leaders
Exous 18:17-23 (Jethro’s Leadership Advice)
1 Peter 5:2-3 (NLT)
Seek out Humble leaders
You must have a screening process for leaders
3. Valued Leaders become Valuable Leaders
Be clear with expectations
Care for WHO the leader is more than WHAT the leader does
Be specific with Praise
Commit to develop leaders not just recruit and hire them
4. Volunteers need: Care, Conversation, Confrontation, and Challenge
People (Leaders) LEAVE Leaders not Ministries
You have to learn to confront to be an effective leader
Saddleback Learnings on Volunteers:
Training and Meetings are Overrated
Great Communication with Volunteers goes a long way
Leading Volunteers is a ministry within itself

March 26, 2009

Pictures from PDYM 2009

Here are a few pictures from PDYM 2009…more to come soon!

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