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A chance to feed people and my notes for Unleash Session #1
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I watched Unleash online with about 800 other people.
Unleash is a church conference hosted by Newspring Church in Anderson, South Carolina. I’ve been there twice and love what God is doing to that area through His people.
While Mark Batterson is the most quotable writer, I think Perry Noble is the most quotable speaker…
Wake up and smell the Starbucks…the church is falling apart and its our fault.
God uses people with leprosy..he uses people that are falling apart.
We’re gonna die…so we might as well die trying. Change. Your church is 1 or 2 decisions away from doubling in size
If it was your money, you’d do something about it. When the church becomes as important to us as the stock market, they we’ll change.
You’d die for your grandkids to come to Christ. Would you change your style of music for them?
CHANGE OR DIE.
Newspring is full of passion. One of our greeters witnessed a funny experience: a 4-year-old was having a hissy-fit in the parking lot because he wanted to go back inside. “I just wanna go back to the damn church!”
You gotta preach on giving. “But people will leave.” Only the people that aren’t giving. Same with adultery.
Hire a godly, anointed youth pastor, fund the youth ministry, and get out of the way. Triple your youth budget.
Churches fighting…stop competing, start completing.
Ignore the jackass. In Greek, that means ‘blogger’. Stop paying attention to them. Start casting more vision. Soar above.
You’re only as deep as the last person you served.
Our church likes being missional. Duh. That’s like a fishing saying ‘I like water! I like water! I like water!’
The reason I’m obsessed with numbers is because I was one of those numbers.
Who’s mad about numbers…God or Satan?
The church has so much power under the hood, they just gotta STOMP IT.
For those of you who missed it and want to watch the main sessions, you can do so right here baby.
March 17th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Emil Brunner: “the church exists by mission, as fire exists by burning”
good summary of the conference, enjoyed some of his thoughts… but curious about the quote: “We’re gonna die…so we might as well die trying. Change. Your church is 1 or 2 decisions away from doubling in size”
Church growth is great, a necessity and a blessing (especially when those entering into the family have met the resurrected Christ through them) but I really feel the need to challenge the thinking that numbers = success… that is the way it works in the world (bigger is better) but in the church its all about bringing God’s kingdom.
I’d like to think that if your not changing the world with 100 people you won’t be with 500, 800, 1000, 10000… so while you can do more with larger groups, large groups will only intensify what you are ALREADY doing… or magnify what you aren’t. Just some thoughts.
I just keep on hitting up this blog… I dont even like blogs!
March 19th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
I agree Kev, churches that suck at greeting when they’re 200 people will probably be the same if they ever manage to double.
Later on in his session (I didn’t take notes on it because he was flying so fast), Perry actually talked about numbers alot.
Also, Newspring doesn’t consider themselves successful…they dream of seeing 100,000 people come to Christ in the southeast, and a far from there.
While a packed church isn’t the goal, I guess what he’s trying to say is that God loves people, and people come in numbers!