Saturday, May 31, 2008

Thursday, May 22, 2008

PD Summit 2008 - Day 3

This is the final day of the gathering. It's been a truly spectacular experience. Right now I'm sitting next to a guy from Time Magazine who is here covering the conference and blogging it. You can bet I'll corner him before the day is over and see what he thinks of it all.

Later today Rick is going to explain the P.E.A.C.E. Plan and how that has been working.

One of the things I do when I'm at events like this is, rather than try to grab everything that is said, I always as God to clearly show me the two to three things He wants me to take away from it all. I'll gotten the first two, an idea for small groups and an idea about how to take our global and local influence to the next level. God is good.

Brian and I are both preparing ourselves to be blown away by Rick's challenge to join the PEACE Plan.

More later...

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Purpose Driven Summit - Day 1

Today was the kick off for the PD Summit. My brain is full. The worship this morning was truly amazing. Rick Muchow is incredible.

Rick Warren spent the entire morning (actually he blew right past lunch) catching us up on a lot of the things Saddleback has been trying and testing getting ready to pass on to churches.

The afternoon was packed with three panel discussion. The two best take home quotes today go to Mark Batterson of National Community Church in DC:

Speaking of the church - "We're educated way beyond our obedience." "Church is a tag team sport."

The verse that summed up the challenge for me today is James 1:25 (NIV) "The man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it --he will be blessed in what he does."

Jet Lagged

Brian and I made it into CA without any major problems. I'm a little jet lagged which is why I'm blogging at 5:00am CA time.

We are here for a gathering of pastors and other leaders from around the country that Rick Warren invited to join him for a discussion about how we can partner together as churches to tackle some of the global giants.

I especially excited to see what God is going to do, especially with this event falling right in the middle of FCBC's strategic planning.