Catalyst West Coast: Day 3 Recap

So Catalyst West Coast Has come and gone… What an incredible conference! Changed my life.

Here are some highlights from the talks in day 2:

Romans 12:2 – Don’t be conformed to the American dream!
Don’t rely on the package of your church… Trust in the power of the Gospel
Lukewarm Pastors build Lukewarm Churches
Church should be a safe place with a dangerous message
Build your church on what you’re about, not on what you’re not
Don’t build your ministry and church – build the Kingdom
Don’t blame yourself for the declines, you might take credit for the increases
When your identity is in the numbers, you won’t obey God
How can you accept the term ” ” when there are 4 billion people that don’t know Christ?
We’re a small church with a mega vision
People want to join a big mission, not a big building
Level 1 Believers – Believe in the Gospel enough to benefit from it
Level 2 Believers – Believe in the Gospel enough to contribute comfortably
Level 3 Believers – Believe in the Gospel enough to give their lives to it

Our job is unleash people to do good, not just stop them from doing bad
At your church, can people discover the power to be who they are?
Before we were pounded into the ordinary, we dreamed of the extra ordinary
We need to be more committed to the dreams of other, than to our own dreams
Small acts may not change the world, but they can tilt it to go in the right direction
Our job as spiritual leaders is to detonate obstacles in the way of others dreams

Healthy churches don’t grow fast… fast growth= cancer
If you don’t care about numbers you’re telling people to go to Hell
We need to Divert daily, withdraw weekly, and abandon annually – the world can get along without you
A crowd is not a church
Nobody is the model… Jesus is thee model
Never Compare – Foolish comparison: 1.) Find people better – discouraged 2.) Find people your better than – Pride
Jesus isn’t going to ask you “How come you weren’t more like your hero? He made us to be us… He doesn’t need doubles
Learn from Everybody
The simpler you get, the more God will use you
Judge your church on it’s sending capacity
We need to be interested in an army, not a crowd
You can fake love for a year or two, but you can’t fake it for 30!

If you hear pastors name more than God’s name when people are talking – we’re missing it
We’re picky about going to ball games, plays, restaurants, etc…. People are the same way with our churches
You can talk people into making a decision… but you’ll have to keep talking them into everything else
I hate the book of Acts, you never put it down and say, “That sounds like our church!”

The size of the vision God will give me is directly related to the amount of pain and discomfort I’m willing to endure
W/o pain and discomfort – we don’t know how much we need Him
Dry times allow you to experience God’s provision
When we learned to be obsessed and desperate for God and trust Him, that’s when we’ll succeed
We don’t give into God’s vision because of: 1.) Fear 2.) Laziness 3.) Being obsessed with being discovered instead of Development
If you’re still where you are, you’re not ready for the next level
Leadership is as easy as listening to God!
If you haven’t had a sleepless night over vision – you don’t have a vision from God
What would you do for God if you knew you couldn’t fail? -> Your a coward if you don’t do that
Are you scared? If not, God isn’t in it, because you could do it yourself
Listen to Jesus and when you’re ready – He’ll blow your freaking mind!
Don’t you dare give up on a God who’s never given up on you

I’ll probably have a post or two on my whole experience at Catalyst – God changed my life… man! So excited!

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