I had the great privilege of going this year to Catalyst, which was last week in the Atlanta area. It was also the first time my wife has gotten to come with me to a conference in a long time (six years we think!). We left the kids at home and had an amazing couple of days listening to some great wisdom. I took notes during most sessions, so over the next few days I'll post my notes on some of the speakers that were there.
My notes are kind of sporadic, so if you have trouble following them and want some clarification, let me know.
First up, Andy Stanley:
Leaders always leave a mark, the question is what kind of mark will you leave?
You won’t really understand the mark you’ve left until way after you’ve made it.
You don’t know a defining moment is happening until long after it happens
Joshua
- He and the people have crossed the Jordan and are beginning to lose their dependence on God.
- At the end of his life he says “as for me and my house we will serve the Lord” - Joshua 23:8-15
- Joshua 5:13 - Are you for us or are you against us? The angel says “no.”
- “I’m not here to be a part of your story. I’m here to find out if you are willing to play a role in my story.”
- This is a question that very few leaders are willing to wrestle with.
- “What message does my Lord have for his servant?”
- Joshua made a decision in that moment to be part of God’s story, not his own.
- V.15 - “Take off your sandals. This is holy ground.”
- Before you make your mark and become a household name, I just wanted to make sure you were going to be a leader not just with authority but under authority.
- This is why late in his life he is able to say “as for me and my house we will serve the Lord.”
- God takes full responsibility for the life wholly devoted to him - Charles Stanley.
- Why do we do what we do and who do we do it for?
- Once we settle that in our lives, then we can live with a freedom that is unexplainable.
- God will take full responsibility.
- Our mark isn’t worth our life. Living to make my mark is too small a thing to give my life to.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Catalyst 09
2 comments:
Hey! So I commented on your blog like a year or ago or something, because I was a student in Raleigh looking for a church, but now I'm doing a program called Mission Year in Atlanta, and I'm commenting because I was volunteering at the Catalyst conference this year! I'm not sure what else I have to say, other than the fact that it's a small world sometimes! I really enjoyed what I got to see of the conference!
I remember Nicole! Thanks for stopping by again. Glad you got to participate in Catalyst. If you're ever back up this way we'd love to see you at Story Church.
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