More Reflections from Catalyst West
Had wings at Wingnuts last night at Newport Beach. They were really good. Slept for 4 hours and woke up early to catch my flight to Birmingham. Met up with my friend and mentor Pat Schatzline over dinner at Logan’s Roadhouse. Man, I am definitely overeating in the US.
Anyway I heard so much stuff at Catalyst West Coast that will take me a long time to apply them! It’s definitely worth the time and money.
Wide Awake
1. There has never been one ordinary child born on this planet and yet why is it that so many of us end up living ordinary lives?
2. There are a lot of people who are pursuing dreams that don’t fit their lives. There are a lot of people who are NOT pursuing dreams that fit their lives.
3.All of us have dreams inside of us that will never come to fruition unless we come together in community.
I was Taught and I Thought
4. What believe determines what we do.
5. I was taught the church should be a safe place, but I’m learning the church should be dangerous again. We’ve been inviting people to a very safe God. yet we are called by God to preach a very dangerous message.
6. Practical Athiests = People who believe in God, but act like he doesn’t exist.
7. I was taught was to build my church, but I’ve learned my highest calling is to build His Kingdom.
8. I was taught that success is only found in the big numbers, but I’m learning that the scorecard is changing. “There are 4 billion people who need Christ. How can we claim to be a megachurch? We are a small church with a megavision.”
9 Three Lines:
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Line 1 = I believe in the Gospel enough to benefit from it.
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Line 2 = I believe in the Gospel enough to contribute comfortably.
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Line 3 = I believe in the Gospel enough to give my life to it.
10. If you stay the same, maybe you don’t really know Him.
Ezekiel 37 Leadership
11. The size of the vision God will give me is directly related to the amount of pain and discomfort I’m willing to endure.
12. The reason we experience pain is to understand his provision.
13. If you’ve been called to ministry, God’s hand is on you.
14. Dryness will always lead to desperation.
15. God needs us to feel what He feels, so we can do what He needs us to do.
16. Leaders don’t have a hard time teaching on the sovereignty of God. They have a hard time believing it.
17. There are people who are obsessed with discovery rather than development.
18. You feel stuck because you’re not ready for the next level.
19. Leadership is as easy as listening to God. Moses didn’t have a 40-year strategic plan. God led Moses one step at a time.
20. What would you be willing to attempt for God if you knew you couldn’t fail? Only when we surrender do we experience the supernatural.