I've Been Thinking About This…

Margaret Thineburg:

Searching for the meaning behind metaphors in the Bible by interviewing people who have those jobs today – vine growers, shepherds, etc..

Where God has planted you – in a bulk vinyard like Fresno or a small one like Napa – celebrate where you’ve been planted.

Pete Wilson:
The Crisis of transformation
People are attending church, but they’re not changing very much – not becoming more Christlike. What’s the difference.
As church leaders we have reduced church to numbers. We need to save people not just ‘from’ something but ‘for’ something.
Not going to mention what happened at the pool…

Vision – We’re drawn toward God’s vision for our lives – or we try to change God’s vision for us.
Intention – People must own their own spiritual lives.
Method – teach people to abide in Christ.

Walter August, Jr:

What we do in minstry in church:

1. Commit to God’s word above everything else – even when we become unpopular.
2. Must continue to pray – in the plural – so that everybody can be impacted. God has to move. Go to Him in prayer first.
3. Commit to each other.
4. Worship together without focusing on self
5. Go out into the world in that spirit – it’s our witness.

Jon Tyson:

• As pastors we are spiritual leaders – we need spiritual stamina and strength.
• We need power, not just techniques.
• It’s possible to empty the Cross of its power.
• The spiritual leader who spends time in prayer resonates with the Holy Spirit. Following someone else we become an echo which has little power.

Larry Osborne:
Most of the problems we suffer today have a response in the NT only because they had parallels in those days.

We can neither be people who say the sky is falling, nor people who bury heads in the sand.

We need to be encouraged – we know how the game ends.

Matt Carter:
“Letting God go” is about a religion reporter who stops believing in God, because the only difference between Christians and non-Christians is that non-Christians are more open.
Confession of sin to God results in forgivness.
Confession of sin to one another results in healing.

Is there an unseen sin in your life? If so, it will destroy your ministry.

Scott Williams:
talking about “Church diversity sucks” (but it doesn’t have to).
church worship is the most segregated time of the week.

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