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BREAKOUT SESSION NOTES STUART HALL

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BREAKOUT SESSION MOBILIZING THE NEXT GENERATION

STURAT HALL

Problem-We are bringing up programs that kids are in love with but that are not understanding the Kingdom fully.

ILLUSTRATION - Took attendant out of the room and had conference participants yell at her continually.

What were her reactions and what she did and didn't do?

- She was confused, paralyzed, she didn't do anything anyone told her to do.

- This is what it's like to be a teenager in our culture with no belief system.

-They're so confused that they do nothing.

YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY VOICE IN CULTURE.

-Every group of students, media, and community is competing for their attention.

The weakest belief your kid has is the one that has not been tested.

Develop them to be strong enough to make it through those tested.

Illustration - redoing the experiment with an antagonist and a protagonist

What was different now?

She grabbed ahold of the voice and didn't stop.

SHe had reduced the noise to two voices. Brandon the voice of true instruction was closest to her.

The way we have been loved through Christ is unlike any other love.

We have a tendency to teach accept one another as long as that student is acceptable.

God calls me his child.

The greatest influence in a teenagers life is another teenager.

Illustration redone... now asking the girl blindfolded questions

-I had anxiety cause I couldn't see and didn't know what was going on.

-too many voices

2nd Time

-i had a loud obnoxious voice

3rd time 

-brandon grabbed my arm

-i trusted the voice i recognized who held me

I Cor 12

They battled over who had better gifts?

Who was a greater influencer?

- Everybody cant be all things.

"easily desire the great gifts" you become insincere about how you use your gifts after selfish gain with you gifts."

filling your room up more than filling their life with Christ

The most excellent way is to love.

Love is not a spiritual gift its a fruit it puts everyone on an equal playing field.

Love trumps gifts. Without love gifts are useless.

If you're a different person on stage than off what you're doing it just noise.

Jesus had to give the disciples a NEW command "Love one another." 

The bar is high to mobilize the next generation centered around love others as they have been loved.

Am I raising a generation of teenagers that love as much as they have been given love or is it as much as they want to be loved?

Value Question - How often do you catch and call out kids who have loved as they have been loved? 

Do they love the unlovable without becoming the unlovable.

A student's inability to love says more about their personal insecurity and their leaders.

Value Question - Does your presence or your leaders presence interrupt moments in a student's life where love is dead? 

Develop students of such humility and acceptance that a student is willing to be themselves when they are in the midst of the world.

Nothing shakes a kid more than when a leader looks them in the eye and says, "What you did when you loved was astounding." 

Open Forum Notes Perry Noble Andy Stanley Orange Conference

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Open Forum Discussion
Perry Noble ANdy Stanley

Discussed the church growth in college

How much time do you prepare?

Andy - All my life - Howard Hendricks
Tuesday - Thursday
Even when not preaching.

Perry - I invest the time I feel the Lord wants me to invest.
Problem - Kids are bored in church.
Parents ask did you have fun? INstead of asking what did you learn.
Andy-Things change when you have a middle schooler in the home.
Middle Schoolers
Perrry - WHen you get up in front of an audience you need to pretend you're son or daughter is on the back row.

Andy - Something in your message needs to reach back to heart of the kid in one shot.
If there is nothing relevant in that message that can hit that one shot you're not ready yet.
Preach like there is only one shot for that furthest out kid.

AUTHENTICITY - You are who you are in front of people.

How do you be authentic is a weird question.
You don't talk at outback like you do when you deliver a message. Why talk differently on the platform.
Don't be concerned about the model for speaking as opposed to reaching those you speak to.

Perry - I did a talk on pornography and all week long God spoke to him to talk about his struggle. Get personal.

Who is a speaker who impacts you...
Andy - John Maxwell

Question - Why is important to craft story?
Sermons should be stories no points.

Andy -Every good movie resolves the tension.
Messages should resolve the tension.

Perry-I remember stories. Jesus told stories.
My kids love stories everyone loves stories.

Perry-Story of the Goose.
We went to a pond with Geese. He didn't know they hissed and chase you.
Their trying to feed the ducks. A goose came up and started to chase him.
He grabbed his daughter and was running with a goose chasing him. He then realized he was running from a goose. He stopped and the goose stopped. "I will punt you."
We run from things we shouldn't run from .

Andy - Be called to ministry not the model.
Joiner- I watched you unpack one of the most compelling messages that conveyed that we should believe in the resurrection.

Andy-Be way ahead on your visual so you don't kill your staff.
350 pound Bible
Visuals need lead time to help them work.
Their is an art to using objects.
Nobody wants to go to a movie where the tension is resolved to early.
Where does it really peak emotionally. Bring the visual aid in that moment.
Joiner-The thing i like about going to Northpoint is that Andy teaches me how to explain things to the unchurched.
Make sure there is a connection.
Question- Why is that important.
Teach to who you want in the room not who is in the room.
Teach to people people because there is much we have in common.
DONT ADOPT THE PATTERN AND MODEL.

You told an incredible story about something that happened to you in seminary. They don't know what that means. You should have said graduate school. Once you said seminary that couldn't relate to you.

Andy-Sometimes you know this is the scripture you're supposed to do going over it until God gives you something.
God I will not leave till you speak this to me.
The Bible is extraordinary.
Spend the time in the text meaning more than being involved in the delivery.

Allow the text to speak. I would rather be committed to the text knowing that I don't have to force a sermon.
Don't hop and skip across the text to get to your story.

He's Andy freaking Stanley.
Perry-You been lied to if you've been told students are the church of tomorrow. You're program needs to be strong now.
Don't force your ministries to raise funds.
Our job as the older generation is to prepare the way for the kids.

Question _ What is the importance of students.
Andy-There is no doubt we grow through the strength of our kids and students.
Guy at Buckhead bought all his middle school kids an ipod touch for Christmas.
He got to our church because another church they went to had a routine that excluded the kids. Their kids wanted to go to north point. He cried and cried about it until his friends said...
His friends = I wish I had that problem. I just spent 100K on rehab.
That's when he folded and said I'm going where my kids are.

The kids ministry and student ministry is a powerful weapon in this story.

MAIN SESSION #3 NANCY BEACH WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP

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Nancy Beach Main Session 3

Help I'm a leader trapped in a woman's body...

Bill Hybels, "I want Nancy to respond to that quandry."

I Cor 12... the Holy Spirit assigns those gifts as he chooses.

We are all accountable men and women

Nancy saw growing up men preaching, announcements... only soloists were women. Deacons were men, deaconesses made no strategic decisions in the church.

She couldn't see herself in Children's ministry her passion was for the arts...

 As you hear it...

The challenge - have  a gracious and humble spirit

You could be wrong and you need to respect and learn from different conclusions

3 challenges 

But first...

Why does this matter so much? Women in ministry

There are 4 groups of people who end up winning

1. The church congregation as a whole - women offer a voice, perspective and creativity that add incredible value

- i have become a better husband and father because of women

you're community can be so much richer and warmer

judges 4 vs. 4  Deborah the prophet led Israel... she was to her generation what Moses was to his

2. The Non Churched in Your community

people think of us as a boys club and that females are not valued and respected keeping the world away - kimball

3. The Pastoral Staff & Leadership Team

without effective women leaders we miss the dimension of God's creative crafting in them for his Kingdom

4. Daughters and the Next Generation 

our daughters have purpose gifting and potential to cultivate and show it's possible to lead too

Mary was a daughter.... what did her leaders say?

3 opportunities

1. Get into it  2. get over it  3. get on with it

Too many leaders are not equipped to have an educated view of why women should lead

Do your homework on the theology of why women should lead

Scot McKnight Blue Parot?

Actually listen to the women in your congregation

Do male teachers and leaders act exclusively to you

- Speak God to me about my women leaders

For the sake of God's kingdom get your hands dirty and study what the Bible says about women in leadership

This issue is not going away!

We're not going back to the 1950's

Use humor lighten up laugh at yourself or ourselves and move forward as you integrate women

grow up give each other grace

the first time a woman baptizes or leads or teaches... embrace them but no it will take getting use to

God provides seasons so learn through that season.

Possible fears with this issue - potential for sin

People have long found ways to sin before women were in leadership

Women are just not that into you.

Her first team to lead at willow was all male. 

She took all the wives to lunch easing their fears letting them know she was happily married and behind their family. SHe was responsible and not reckless. The nucleus was together for 20 years on that team.

They continue to meet each month

If you never lead forward you'll only fall backwards with this opportunity.

Is there room for growth in your church? what would we find in regards to the opportunity of seeing women in leadership?

What barriers have stood in God's way of using women that were built by religious pride?

CONNECTING TO THE HEART AND MIND OF THE NEXT GENERATION SESSION NOTES

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BREAKOUT SESSION B

CONNECTING TO THE HEART AND MIND OF THE NEXT GENERATION

-first generation to be constantly connected

-first generation that has access to anything info wise

CONSEQUENCE We can't communicate the same way that we have in the past.

-universal skepticism with the status quo

-44% of americans belong in a different denomination than what they were in

CONSEQUENCE everything is up for debate

-nothing is sacred nothing is true

it's not good verses evil but the demolishment good and evil all together

-lines of right and wrong destroyed

CONSEQUENCE - there is no absolute

-causes are attractive and service is cool

2000 students raised 50,000 dollars for darfur at a benefit concert

CONSEQUENCE - more and more students are not satisfied with what you just think they want to get their hands dirty

What is true about this generation

It is so much harder to live in a high school today that in previous years.

- does that mean students are more depraved today than then... not true there are higher frequency of availability to get in trouble since adam it doesn;t matter we all need a saviour

1. WE ARE SINNERS IN NEED OF A SAVIOR

how do we contextualize the gospel into todays culture

Jesus used metaphors facebook, cars, texting

Are you more passionate about what should be or could be?

change came for people living in communism not when it fell but when family moved and sent back pictures

RULES REQUIRE INVITATIONS INSPIRE.

invite them into something bigger and a place they can see themselves in

think about why they shouldn't and the inspiration for the place their headed 

push them forward

Titus 2:10 adorn the doctrine of God... make look irresitible

2. ARE WE THINKING MORE ABOUT THE ONE OR THE 99

be influenced by the one and not the 99 when you build your program

don't raise up 99 who can't see the one in the world

"this is the way i understand the gospel, jesus started with come and see then come and die." rick warren

Jesus with both.

instead of fighting the system we need to look for ways to use it

THINK ABOUT THE ONE

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3. ARE WE PRESENTING A FULL BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW?

heaven hell judgement eternity grace justice mercy

Peter backed up to creation to present the Gospel

GIVING AWAY A SIGNED COPY OF "THINK ORANGE"

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JOHN ACUFF "Stuff Christians Like"

I'm enjoying being a part of the bloggers lounge at orange. Today John Acuff who authors "Stuff Christians Like" was a part of the bloggers lounge. It was cool listening to his story and how the blog is helping him talk with his co-workers and neighbors. 

Main Session Notes Francis CHan Orange COnference

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MAIN SESSION 2 FRANCIS CHAN

Human Trafficking...

How would things be different if your kid was the kid being sold, hurt, used, abused, abducted, in prostitution? What extremes would you take to get someone's attention?

Live like that's your child.

When atrocity happens in the world why are we not bothered in our shelters of the church?

Distractions numb us to reality.

Why do we squelch the passionate?

Acts is a book we're far removed from. We never read it and find us modeling it.

People were astonished with the boldness of the apostles.

When you read that it's astonishing to see the absence of boldness.

We don't share the gospel anymore. We let someone else do it.

Fear restricts us. Authority is assumed for someone else.

Why does the church see this as impossible?

They were so astonished in Acts with "the uneducated" apostles boldness.

Revelation 2 brings it into scope when it says we lost our first love..

Remember when you first believed...

Remember how different we were.. excited, passionate, fueled,

ILLUS - within six days of trusting Christ he was leading a roommate to Christ...

Then time, education, distractions... squelched the passion

Why is normal so coveted?

Chan skipped school to witness and invite friends to 

Called every senior in his school before graduation to share Christ with them.

Started a Bible study at his school.

The passion subsided in school, Bible college, seminary, totally dissolved his zeal.

We can't do this in the church anymore.

Acts 4:13 When they came out of jail vs. 29 "continue to speak with boldness."

The place was shaken...

Eph 6:19 Pray for me to have words to boldly proclaim it.

When was the last time you gathered your own friends together to ask for boldness?

Why do we have to qualify, teach, and normalize people out of zeal?

Why don't we affirm them... challenge them... spur them on.

ILLUS - Was at camp talking about obsession and not token passion.

Student he met was sponsoring 14 kids by working and having 3 jobs in the summer

So why other kids were saving money for a car she was rescuing 14 kids. 

When you read the Word of God you realize how unradical you are.

He signed over all royalties from Crazy Love to put his words where his mouth was...

We tend to think of ourselves first...

What is an Emergency for me?

ILLUS - Month ago the inlaws moved out he had two rooms and a mom who was unwed with three kids and a baby on the way without a home moved him to let her come in. He talked to his wife and she had been praying for who should live int eh houses two rooms.

They found here and spoke broken english to her to get them to his house. They've been there for a month. It has been miserable to have 8 kids in the house but every morning he wakes up 16 people in one house 

= after a few hours that three year boy, filled with joy, cried out daddy to chan and it floored him...

We never look more like Christ than when we are rescuing.

If we feel this tug to be like Jesus don't squelch it. Push yourself to act like Jesus.

Who do you have that you could with confidence and without reservation send as an example?

Matt 25 Why did you do nothing? Depart from me! When he comes in his glory there will be questions.

120 orphans being cared for by one couple

We gather to pray for more boldness to be sent...

BOLDNESS

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Main Session 1 Reggie Joiner Notes

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Main Session #1 Reggie Joiner

We have all been impacted by family. We have to work with families to impact the next generation.

Everyone of us are here tonight with pictures of family. Those pictures impact our thinking and reactions.

How do we create for leaders a concept that would help them understand what is needed for families.

Illustration - Shared stories of family...

Holding up the "stock" family tells people they can't make it

Today's "family" is imperfect but that is what God works with

God "I'm going to use broken families to show that I am a God of restoration."

Our families are God's platform to tell his redemptive story.

God is at work telling the story of redemption.

They need to hear there are no perfect families.

No perfect leaders allowed.

create a biblical model of family everyone can begin to practice

WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE

Deut. 6:6-12

Don't let the picture cause you to forget who God is.

If you're going to transfer faith off to the next generation there is a bigger story happening.

He connects everything in the context of love.

God is the biggest part of the story.

If it's in you it can be in them.

Use your days better... how many hours do you have in a year to work with your students?

Leverage your 40!

they want to continue being parents and are starving for help

give them something they can do, practice, grow in, and reach for

go after broken families all families and restore by bringing help

140 pics in 30 seconds of the orange worship

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Preconference Workshop 3

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Training Events for Small Group Leaders

1. Never ask your volunteers to come to a meeting that you could have emailed

2. Make sure they leave equipped, more encouraged, and loved

Make sure you have food

Make sure you call them out by name.

Use Get to Know You Sheets

Not every event is big and training is every weekend.

3. Observe shadow and meet with a coach.

Make sure they know what they are getting into.

Make sure they understand the story of why they are getting involved.

Look for the little tweaks daily to help the small group leaders grow. BE A BROKEN RECORD. 

They are not thinking about it 24/7 like you.

Leadership Community - Once a month vision casting.

4. Keep the vision in front of your current volunteers and address problems as needed.

BIG EVENTS

September

Why am I here? Where am I going? How do I get there?

January 

Recast vision and show a ton of stories.

June

Celebrate where you've been and cast vision for where you are going.

Preconference Workshop 2

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Deep Justice in a Broken World Part 2 With Chap Clark

A way to contextualize your thinking so you know how to generate conversations that lead to action. There has to be a rethinking at the core that becomes missional.

What matters most is that justice becomes a part of life.

Deut 16:20, Psalm 11:7, Psalm 106:3, Micah 6:8, 

Justice is equated with righteousness

Justice forces us to ask "Why are there wrongs in the first place?"

What does God want us to do? Asks.. Who is that somebody?

Mark 1:15... Repent and believe the good news..

Repent = Turn around. in this passage Jesus was talking to Jews. Telling a Jew to repent was an odd thing for Jesus to do. "You godly people need to turn around... a willful decision to align one's life and redirect it toward toward the Kingdom of God.

Believe = Anytime you see believe trust or faith it comes form pisteo = to place my complete and total trust in an external object. Not only will I realign but I will place my trust in the Gospel.

Trust has to do with will and obedience has to do with action. Obedience is the response of repentance as I trust in Christ. Gal 5:5 summarize the faith the "fruit" of the spirit is one fruit 

The Fruit of the Spirit is not prescriptive but descriptive. Gal 5:19, 20, 21 The fruit of not trusting Christ

Gal 5:5 It is by trust (faith) we eagerly await the Spirit for righteousness. 

Discipleship is being righteous turn away obey God by making the right wrong.

How do we help our kids to have a constant lookout on the Great Commandment. 

Teaching the Kingdom story keeps the trajectory on track. Micah 6:8

He has shown all of us what is good the lord requires justice and mercy and walk closely with God.

Very few if any at all would say that was the sum of Christianity.

You align yourself with Christ kingdom by living the life of obedience.. Matt 25

Justice of the King is identified with Justice for the broken. "We are all lost." Clothe the naked, feed the hungry, help the sick. Both groups in this passage called him the Lord. 

How do we realign our kids toward the truth that the least of these are our brothers and sisters in Christ. 

The ability to hide is the outcome of kids being able to box themselves into the church's context of rules and social context.

3. Jesus brought in the Kingdom and in his person is the Kingdom.

The Kingdom of God has a face and a name... Jesus

A cult is a collection of people who have codified their laws.

We need to study and follow Jesus to know his character in order to see that he weeps over the widow, orphaned, and the lost.

God is the one who rescues and he uses the diversity of us to rescue. We are the body of Christ.

Mercy to sadness

Reconciliation to strife

Hope  to despair

Peace to war

Justice to injustice

God is on the lookout for justice go where he is working and get on that train.

Go to school walk down the hallway of your lunchroom and sit down to that kids that eats by themselves.

Justice restores human dignity so that both give and receive,

I figure out how to restore that persons life.

Learn form the people you are serving don't do service projects.

God is calling us to a new trajectory where every person matters.

Once we see people as created in God's image we won't want them to be without Jesus or in the condition they are in.

Service is an event and justice is a lifestyle. 

Align yourself to Jesus and be on trajectory with his Kingdom.

Before you go on a missions trip - frame what you're going to experience theologically = dignity of the person, Jesus already going before you, what wrong are we trying to right... anticipating, watching what God is doing and stepping into what God is doing.

Not just painting an elderly lady's house but instead stepping in to restore her house

Reflection - Have support and feedback on both sides of the experience and include reflection on the experience

What do you see God doing? What is going on in her life? What is God saying to us in this experience? Not just serving but connecting to the needs of a human being.

Developmentally children are concrete thinkers and in processing the world and relationships. You're job is to redirect the experience in their concrete observation of the elderly lady... she is a person they get to help who has a life and soul

everything around our kids is telling them to label and impersonalize people

Kids 14-20 years old egocentric - everything i do is filtered through self preservation... 

the way to help them grow is to get them to see themselves to help people without worrying about what i am getting out of it to make myself feel better about myself.

How do you help them down this tract...

Debrief not at the church but a park anything but the church -1. Where was God at work? 2. What does this mean for what he wants to do inside of us?

Service expects results immediately / Justice recognizes systematic change over time.

Service - removes obstacles to help others / Justice - remove obstacles so others can help themselves

Service focuses on what our on ministry can accomplish / Justice focuses on how we can work with others to accomplish more

Service serves food at eh homeless shelter / Justice asks why there are homeless and does something about it

"Why" is not a popular question. When I feed the poor they call me a saint and when I ask why they are poor they call me a communist.

Hunger and thirst for God's righteousness and justice.

We are polarized in all of these issues.. 

Go beyond either or to both and.

evangelism and social action

4 keys to encouraging a lifestyle of justice

1. A cause close to home 62% (MTV research)

2. A community (train the adults) 

3. Make sure there is meaningful involvement DO NOT LET ADULTS TAKE OVER IT

4. Goal - as they seek justice there is a meaningful assimilation so that they see themselves as a larger body with the church

Preconference Workshop 1

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Deep Justice in a Broken World Part 1 with Chap Clark Notes

Think about this...

- Jesus pushed his followers to talk about the Kingdom and be the Kingdom

- We hardly talk about the Kingdom of God

- We tend to create congregational boxes of safety

- Showing up is the primary focus of most churches as a marker of spiritual growth with students.

How do we know if we are deep or shallow?

I Timothy 4:16 "Watch your life and doctrine closely" It has to do with how we respond and live out our theology. 

- Your life and doctrine are not two separate things.

Be interested in pushing your kids to live out their doctrine... know doctrine.. be doctrine in action.

Push against compartmentalization. 

- Is our life a reflection of our theology and belief.

There's nothing more important than good theology.

Deep Method - Practical Theology Model

-Life is a continual journey of asking God what he is going after.

Christopraxis = What we do lines up with what we are convinced of is true.

The Kingdom of God is our focus. We follow Christ as he builds his Kingdom and join him there.

"The Telas"

If you want to be a part of the Kingdom you must follow Jesus in his Kingdom. 

Follow Jesus in the "Kingdom Dance" follow his lead.

How are we doing? How do kids describe the Gospel? Is that their focus?

Who is actually owning it and responding to new insights on the Kingdom

STEP 1 THE NOW

The first job of a leader is to define reality.

The second job is to say thanks.

So Let's Talk about Deep Justice 

- You will be uncomfortable as you explore Deep Justice

Illustration - Starbucks...

2008 revenue 7.8 billion dollars

UN To provide sanitation and clean water for the world would only take 20 billion

We spend 20 billion in ice cream in the U.S.

911 - We lost 2700 lives on that day

On that same day three times that many died of aids

911 changed our entire ethos but yet every day 3000 kids die of aids

2 billion of us in the world claim to follow Christ. This is a relatively preventable disease and yet there is no Justice.

41% of church adults have done missions we say that it's what we want more than anything else

PROBLEM - We might be shallow. We fail to release the potential of the locals.

Houses cost 20,000 to go and fix in hurricanes and around 20,000 to fly down there...

When they left the locals said.." they could have built twice as many houses if they would have instead gave us the money.

Somehow we want to get involved in it... but the people we serve need to be empowered "We should not think ourselves as the only ones capable or their "saviour." GIVE THEM DIGNITY and PRODUCTION.

Illustration - His small group wrapped gifts and gave to kids who couldn't have some but instead ended up making their parents lose dignity in front of their kids.

IF WE SEND PEOPLE ON TRIPS ANS PROJECTS DO THEY GRO?

- Research tends to convey that it has zero measurable effect on their attitudes toward giving, money, and attitudes on the poor.

HOW IS THIS JUSTICE AND KINGDOM WORK?

PROBLEM - WE ARE SHALLOW.

Placebo - A pill we take to make ourselves feel better.

JUSTICE IS WRITING WRONGS.

What about inter-personal justice.

Don't create agenda for kids to fit inside of that excludes them from the knowledge of brokenness.

Our hearts are in the right place but we are still trying to program justice.

STEP 2 THE NEW

Illustration - John Wesley - Wesley Quadrilateral

Scripture History Research & Experience

These are the main sources to provide kids with the new insight that the Holy Spirit can illuminate to kids with justice. CHANGE THE TRADITION TRAJECTORY.

The Holy Spirit in the context of community can illuminate truth beyond programs and events.

Where are our blind spots that the Holy Spirit needs to illuminate. Acts 1:3 

Don't talk about the gospel of sin management. Gal 5:1 - For freedom that Christ has set us free.

MAKING DISCIPLES

Problem - 

1. The Bible is not a newspaper or film.

God is taking humanity somewhere. The Gospel is the trajectory of God bringing his kingdom to fruition.

The life of Jesus is the pinnacle of God's trajectory.

2. We read scripture in isolation instead of interpreting it in context.

Don't pick and choose to fit your prerogative.

Example- Most of us believe that man being the head of the household is in the Bible. It is not it's a inferred or forced adaptation for our culture need. Is that  what Eph. 5 is really trying to teach? Pay attention to the italics... it means it wasn't in there to begin with. "Submit to one another."

18-19 "filled with the spirit." men love your wife as Christ loved the church... that's the trajectory.

THROUGHOUT SCRIPTURE THIS IS THE KIND OF THING WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND.

Seek Jesus' trajectory and not the cultural setup for safety, boxes, and check lists.

SEEKING JESUS' TRAJECTORY WILL PULL YOU AWAY FROM RELIGION AND IT'S SAFETY ZONES.

Students have got to see themselves within the "GRAND STORY OF JESUS' TRAJECTORY." Be a contributor kids.

The trajectory of the Kingdom is to right the wrongs... to trust him as Lord and for us to love each other as we love ourselves. The Great Commandment.

LOVE JESUS ... LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF. Gal 5:6 Devotional duties don't count... faith expressing itself through love