Whew! What a day. With a lineup of speakers like Andy Stanley, Patrick Lencioni, Francis Chan, Erwin McManus, Shane Claiborne and others this is truly a “power-packed” conference.
That doesn’t include the contacts that Peto and I made with various schools, ministry leaders, organizations, etc. that we hope & believe will prove profitable for the growth of the local church in Europe.
Here are just a few snippets of some of the things that today’s speakers said:
ANDY STANLEY: “ What do you do when it dawns on you that you’re the most powerful person in the room?” Followed by a brief exposition of John 13 where Jesus washed the feet of the disciples. In that passage, the disciples are stunned by Jesus’ humility. “Has anyone ever been stunned by your humility?”
ERWIN MCMANUS: “What troubles me is how Christians are unable to discern between authentic & inauthentic.” Erwin is Salvadoran & grew up eating steak well-done/char-broiled (basically burnt). It was good to him until he was “forced” to eat a medium-rare steak - for the first time in his life. As the steak melted onto his tongue, he realized that a medium-rare steak is a beautiful thing. He realized that he had trained himself to love the worst. “Have we trained ourselves to love the ugly and thereby miss the beautiful?”
CRAIG GROSCHEL: “ Is the way I am doing the work of God destroying the work of God in me?” Do we pray “Disturb me!” to the Lord? “I was a full-time pastor and a part-time follower of Christ!”
I really liked the flavor of the teaching that ministry should be an outgrowth of the character & life of the believer, not something that we just DO.
One other thing that Craig challenged us to do was to pray, “Disturb me!” Let’s get out of our comfort zones!
That doesn’t include the contacts that Peto and I made with various schools, ministry leaders, organizations, etc. that we hope & believe will prove profitable for the growth of the local church in Europe.
Here are just a few snippets of some of the things that today’s speakers said:
ANDY STANLEY: “ What do you do when it dawns on you that you’re the most powerful person in the room?” Followed by a brief exposition of John 13 where Jesus washed the feet of the disciples. In that passage, the disciples are stunned by Jesus’ humility. “Has anyone ever been stunned by your humility?”
ERWIN MCMANUS: “What troubles me is how Christians are unable to discern between authentic & inauthentic.” Erwin is Salvadoran & grew up eating steak well-done/char-broiled (basically burnt). It was good to him until he was “forced” to eat a medium-rare steak - for the first time in his life. As the steak melted onto his tongue, he realized that a medium-rare steak is a beautiful thing. He realized that he had trained himself to love the worst. “Have we trained ourselves to love the ugly and thereby miss the beautiful?”
CRAIG GROSCHEL: “ Is the way I am doing the work of God destroying the work of God in me?” Do we pray “Disturb me!” to the Lord? “I was a full-time pastor and a part-time follower of Christ!”
I really liked the flavor of the teaching that ministry should be an outgrowth of the character & life of the believer, not something that we just DO.
One other thing that Craig challenged us to do was to pray, “Disturb me!” Let’s get out of our comfort zones!
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