Catalyst Conference - Day 2

I think that the highlight of today is Andy Stanley’s session - which happened to be the last session of the day. Here are some thoughts from his session:

God created systems (the Solar system, the human body, etc.)

God uses systems for His kingdom.

We need to learn to use systems to accomplish the goals that we want to accomplish in our ministries. For instance:

We complain that people in our churches don’t bring their friends to church, so we exhort them all the more to bring their friends, but everything else that we do in our “system” is counter that goal. Andy suggests that we create systems that encourage & create environments to create the behavior that we want.

I have more notes on this in my conference notebook, but the notebook is in my bag (that’s checked on the plane), so I may post some more thoughts on this later...