"Risk and Failure" Innovation3
I3 Main Session “Drive-By” Random Bullets:
Pete Briscoe: Bent Tree Church
- 1 Thessalonians 2:1-6
- We are not looking for praise from man…
- Most TV Preachers have impure motives
- God is crazy about us… Grace
- It’s not about whether you missed your campaign goal; it’s about how you missed it
- Theology of the Cross allows us to redefine repentance…
- My impressions: easy to listen to, passion for missions
Tim Keller: Redeemer Presbyterian Church
- #1. You’ve got to go after God for Blessing ( Jacob’s Life)
- Everyone needs someone to bless them… someone other than yourself to bless you
- We are looking for blessing in the wrong places…
- Human blessing will kill you because it only lasts five minutes
- Take the gospel and pound it into your heart every day by grace; until it catches fire
- the only way we will ever be spiritually is to fail
- My Impressions: Old school, kept it relevant, good story-teller brings the Bible to life
Tracy Spencer: New Directions Christian Church
- Figure out who you are going to be first
- your brand is not your logo, look… your brand is what other people think you are
- Go after the Pookie’s and Laquesha’s
- Don’t let your church get out of alignment
- Quit going after a;ll the big executives, and big givers… go after the Pookies, and the Laquesha’s go after the swag
- You’ve promised more in the showroom than you have in the stockroom
- Use what God gave you…
- My Impressions: I really like this guy, good energy, likability, relevant, real
Craig Groeschel: LifeChurch.tv
- Leaders to have It are willing to fail and have divine sense of courage “Those who don’t have “It” are unwilling to fail!
- Shared accounts of Peter failing
- Sometimes you have to try, fail, learn and adjust… try, fail, learn and adjust!
- God will use those failures!
- Failure is not an option, it’s an absolute necessity…
- Create a culture that allows for failure, we learn from experiments and we will fail aggressively! Anything short of sin to reach people for Christ.
- Fail forward
- My Impressions: I love this guy…
Ability to connect people in the form of video communication is a true gift, his message of “It” always works, challenging, relevant. I get it try, fail, learn and adjust!
Marc Driscoll: Mars Hill Church
- Righteousness, Risk, Repentance
- Attempts to be validated by someone else can be putting them in a God position~Mark Driscoll
- Do you question the goodness, love, power or existence of God? Theology of Glory- God is only to be found in those places of blessings, good stuff
- Attendance up God is Good, Attendance is up God is blessing me… attendance goes down we are not blessed, attendance goes down God doesn’t like us
- Does success or failure effect how close you feel to God? Make you feel more holy? Alter how you see God?
- Ministry is not for righteousness but from righteousness
- Trying to increase nickels and noses
- Churches can be in a season of pruning and not always harvest
- My Impressions: Deep thinker; very calm and collected
