Tim Stevens of Granger Community Church just gave one of the most powerful talks on being missional that I've ever heard. I felt my heart being pierced over and over again with conviction... and the video illustrations he used from Granger drove his points into proof positive. Some sticky thoughts...
- He quoted Jim Collins on the giant concrete flywheel of momentum. It takes a lot of pushing to get to a place where the flywheel starts to spin on its own.
- Most churches don't create momentum because they're not doing anything to impact the community.
- The unbelieving people in our community have a veil of need over their faces. They're blind to any presentation of the Gospel until someone helps lower the veil.
- Find great art and recreate it.
- People don't learn from information dumping; they've been reprogrammed to think visually.
Tim used several videos that were extremely powerful ~ but Buzz was again plagued with technical problems this year [as any portable conference would be], so there were some glitches that diluted the impact. But the first few hours of Buzz have already satisfied the cost of admission for me... and Craig Groeschel hasn't even gone yet.
Doh! I'm late for his session... I'm sitting in the Amtrak terminal at Union Station surrounded by friendly homeless guys....
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