If you missed the message this weekend at BAF San Marcos, you missed one of the most awesome messages ever!!! We’ve uploaded it to vimeo so you can watch it. :) It’s super important so make time to see it…
Pastor Bil’s Multi-Site Vision Message 7-11-10 from Randy Bryan on Vimeo.
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This amazing message from Pastor Bil is about ENDURANCE. Without ENDURANCE, you cannot be successful in anything! Thinking about giving up? Watch this video!
Endurance – Week 1 from Randy Bryan on Vimeo.
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In Mark 10, a young wealthy man came to Jesus to ask about eternal life. Jesus said to him “One thing you lack, Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” The Bible says “At this the man’s face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth.”
The point of the story isn’t that you can’t be rich and go to heaven. The point is that you have to let go of EVERYTHING to follow Jesus and find eternal life.
What are you holding on to? Is it money? It’s great to have money, and even to have lots of it. But if you haven’t RELEASED it to him, it’s holding you back. Other things that can hold us back are pride, popularity, greed, sexual sin, materialism, anger, and ANYTHING that God would want you to release.
What’s holding you back? Let it go today!
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From Exponential 2010. Orlando, Florida.
As a leader, no matter what you do, you have to reproduce yourself. Call that person an apprentice, a shadow, or whatever you want… you’ve got to have at least one person you are bringing along. Here’s the process from Dave and John Ferguson.
1) I do. You watch. We talk.
2) I do. You help. We talk.
3) You do. I help. We talk.
4) You do. I watch. We talk.
5) You do. Somebody else watches. The process starts over.
Who is your apprentice? What are your thoughts?
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Our verse for the day at BAF San Marcos is Hebrews 10:25: “Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”
Reading it got me thinking about some stuff.
1) We don’t show up at worship just so we can have our name checked off on some roll. Its so we can be encouraged. If someone was discouraged, disconnected, or unproductive, my first question for them would be “When was the last time you worshipped at church?”
2) I know it’s elementary, but as leaders we HAVE to get number 1. If the people we lead aren’t at church, they are moving towards discouragement.
3) When people are discouraged, the health of their relationship with God is in danger, even if they don’t know it or admit it.
4) This verse says to meet together. It implies more interaction than just coming in late, leaving early, and/or never interacting with anyone. We may start there, but we need to move towards being a part of what’s going on.
5) Time is running out. The Day of God is approaching. That truth should effect everything we do… from inviting people to church to raising our kids.
Your thoughts?
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HEY PASTORS: Bil Cornelius, the pastor of Bay Area Fellowship, is starting a new mentoring program!
Pastor Bil’s goal is to provide the insights that helped explode growth at Bay Area Fellowship to almost 7,000 in six campuses and many more to come.
If you are interested, the first scheduled day is December 8, all day. Bil will meet with no more than 15 to 20 leaders so JUMP ON THIS NOW!!!!
Here’s a sample of what you will learn:
If you are interested in this program you can read more about it, or get an application [HERE]
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We came up with these the other night at our Leadership Team meeting. Nothing fancy… definitely not an exhaustive list… but wow, Romans 12 has a lot to say about leadership. So here goes:
1. Serve others.
2. Learn to stay joyful in what you do.
3. Choose to be passionate and have compassion.
4. Be patient.
5. Pray without ceasing.
6. Leadership is sacrifice.
7. Constantly renew your mind.
8. Defeat evil by doing good.
9. Stay humble.
10. Lead hard.
11. Be a bright light.
12. Don’t ever think you know it all, be a lifelong learner.
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I just signed up for the NINES, a FREE leadership conference offered by Leadership Network. What’s cool is that each leader teaches for 9 minutes. The other cool thing is that it’s online, so no travel is involved. You can sign up by clicking on the logo above.
There are a TON of leaders already confirmed to speak including:
Matt Williams (Grace Church Greenville)
Bob Roberts (Northwood Church)
Dave Ferguson (Community Christian Church)
Matt Carter (The Austin Stone Church)
Lawrence Aker (Cornerstone Baptist Church)
Dan Kimball (Vintage Faith Church)
Ken Fong (Evergreen Baptist Church)
Bill Easum (Easum & Associates)
Bryan Carter (Concord Church)
Jim Burgen (Flatirons Community Church)
Reggie McNeal (Leadership Network)
Perry Noble (NewSpring Church)
Leonard Sweet (Author/Speaker)
Ed Stetzer (Lifeway Research)
Mark Batterson (National Community Church)
Alan Hirsch (Forge Mission Training Network)
Dino Rizzo (Healing Place Church)
Greg Surratt (Seacoast Church)
Sam Chand (Sam Chand Ministries)
Jon Tyson (Trinity Grace Church, NYC)
Reggie Joiner (CCO, reThink)
Nancy Ortberg (TeamWorx2)
Mike Breaux (Heartland Church)
Pete Wilson (Cross Point Church)
Neil Cole (Church Multiplication Associates)
Jenni Catron (Cross Point Church)
Noel Heikkinen (Riverview Church)
David Foster (The Gathering)
Mark Bankord (Heartland Community Church)
John Bishop (Living Waters Church)
Rick Rusaw (LifeBridge Church)
Geoff Surratt (Seacoast Church)
Jim Tomberlin (Third Quarter Consulting)
Anne Jackson (FlowerDust.net)
Naeem Fazal (Mosaic Church)
John Coulombe (First Ev Free Fullerton)
Teresa McBean (NorthStar Community Church)
Jason Cusick (Faith Church)
Bambi Encarnacion (First Ev Free Fullerton)
Ken Fong (Evergreen Baptist Church)
Judy West (Windsor Crossing Church)
Scott Wilson (The Oaks Fellowship)
Amy Hanson(Author/Speaker)
Toby Slough (Cross Timbers Church)
Troy Gramling (Flamingo Road Church)
Scott Nickell (Flatirons Community Church)
Jorge Acevedo (Grace Church)
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At Elevation Church the other day they had a “No Show” Sunday. Only children’s volunteers were allowed to serve. Nobody else. Really proved a big point. Check out the post from Steven Furtick’s wife’s blog:
August 10, 2009
Monday Morning Commentary… No Show Sunday
Yesterday we had No Show Sunday. We had a service that was completely void of volunteer help (except for children’s programming). No greeters, no ushers (except for a few cheaters who just could not not ush, Mike S. :)), no parkers, and no set up, which meant we had acoustic worship and no video.
I was so eerie all day. No music playing anywhere, no greeters, people searching for seats and a general look of confusion for most people as to what was going on.
My husband preached from John 2 when Jesus turned the water into wine. My favorite part of the message was then he made the point that only the people serving got to see the miracle, the transformation. Everybody else at the wedding simply enjoyed the end result. This is so true at Elevation. Sure, the worship service is great, but if you don’t volunteer, you don’t see the miracle. You don’t get to see the life change.
My husband said, “You are never more like Jesus when you are serving.” As a volunteer at Elevation you may do ordinary things, like park cars or hold babies, but when we put the whole experience together, God takes the ordinary and makes the extraordinary. People continue to come and lives are changed.
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Kevin Colon turned me on to this excerpt from Neil Cole’s latest book on leadership. (link below) It’s about where Jesus said to go to get leaders in the church.
Here are the things that got me:
1) The resources are in the harvest. That’s where our leaders of the near future should come from.
2) Most churches are sucking from the kingdom and not giving leaders to the kingdom. What is your church doing to farm new leaders, as opposed to just buying them at the grocery store?
3) The leader of the near future woke up this morning with a hangover… in the wrong bed.
4) There are more leaders than we could ever need all around our church right now.
5) We have to beg God for leaders. When was the last time you begged him for leaders in your church or ministry?
6) If there is a problem with the leadership development program in your ministry then you are probably not reaching people for Jesus.
The link: http://www.cmaresources.org/node/273
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