End of the Road Trip

Drive 08

Andy brought it big time at the end of the Drive conference today. He demonstrated great leadership and adjusted to presenting something that will inspire and encourage thousands of leaders. I am impressed

He ended with 5 quotes

1) To reach people no one else is reaching we must do things no one else is doing -_ Craig G from Lifechurch.tv

What is attractive to nonchurched people -- you are going to have to do something no one else is doing to be effective

Make sure you become preoccupied with those you haven't reached as opposed to those you are trying to keep

2) The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation -- author?

Instead of dismissin the next generation let them take risks and encourage them -- they probably have the next way to connect with nonchurched people.

Be a student not a critic

3) What do I believe is impossible to do in my field, but if it could be done it would fundamentally change my business -- author?

How do we connect the billions of dollars of church owned real estate with the leaders that are in desparate need of the resources to reach this generation

Why does the Sr. Pastor have to be the leader and the communicator. Usually they are only good at one of those things.

Pay attention to people breaking the rules

4) If we get kicked out and the board hired a CEO what would he do, why shouldn't we walk out, come back in, and do it ourselves -- author ?

What is in decline?
What are we having to manufacture energy to do?

Acknowledge what isn't working

5) When your memories exceed your dreams the end is near!


I love this stuff -- gives us an opportunity to believe in the future and to drive towards what could be and what God can do in this world instead of relying just on what the church has done in the past.

For me the main sessions were solid, breakouts were ok, probably better for the people who needed specific information about how NorthPoint does ministry. appreciate the time for asking questions.

The Right People in the Right Places with the Right Mission

When you put the right people in the right places with the right mission you can accomplish amazing things! As a staff culture you have to get the right people in the right place and you need to give them the mission to make the difference. Thought that still makes me think -- why don't corporate america come to churches and ask us how we do it, how we build a staff environment of opennes, honesty, support. If people looked at our staff culture in church what would we see -- something that looks like Jesus and how He treated people or a place where it looks brutal? Jesus treated with people respect, love, accountability and potential -- how does it look like if we do that in ministry.

Great Drive Conference so far

DRIVE CONFERENCE

STUDENT IMPACT

Student Impact breakout -- getting high school students to serve to give them ownership to provide them an opportunity to see that they are important.
KEY POINTS
75-88% of students leave church by freshmen year in college because they don't feel like they are important, like they matter

Do not have competing environments/opportunities

Get high school students to serve right away in 9th grade -- create the environment so that students look forward to serving.

To implement get the family ministry team committed to training and equipping the students.

Good stuff

DRIVE CONFERENCE

SESSION 1

Trust -- Do you trust the people you work with and are you trustworthy.
If the trust of the staff flowed to the congregation would it be a good thing.
If you fail to build trust you will fail!

This is a talk that every person going into ministry MUST hear and MUST understand or else they will set themselves up to fail and damage the people that they work with.

Great stuff

Drive Day -1

When you travel you meet the most random people and sometimes the most hurting people. Sat by a guy from Duluth, MN on the way to Atlanta and he was a single guy, traveling to a business appointment in North Carolina, going to spend all day travelling and the guy was friendly but complaining about everything. I was re-reading the 7 checkpoints for student minsitry on the plane and Jimmy who was sitting behind me said the guy was reading the book over my shoulder all the way to Atlanta. Man, I am an idiot for not noticing him doing that. After he started complaining for 10 minutes, I had turned my iPod on and shut him off, missed opportunity. Makes me think though how many people look over our shoulders wanting to know what makes us tick, what we are doing, whether that be neighbors, students, parents, or just random people on airplanes. I have to continue to work on being more aware of opportunities to show people a little love.