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more notes from ARC's All Access 2010: All Access 2010 Thursday, April 29, 2010   A Leader's Constant Companion: PAIN … Craig Groeschell   ·       Most of us try to avoid pain.   ·       If we are not careful, we will try to lead and step away from pain.   ·       If you are going to plant a successful church, you will deal with pain.   The difference from where you are today and where God wants you to be is the pain that you are unwilling to endure.   2 Corinthians 11:23-28 (NLT) --- Are they servants of Christ? I know I sound like a madman, but I have served him far more! I have worked harder, been put in prison more often, been whipped times without number, and faced death again and again. 24  Five different times the Jewish leaders gave me thirty-nine lashes. 25  Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. Once I spent a whole night and a day adrift at sea. 26  I have traveled on many long journeys. I have f...

more notes from ARC's All Access 2010: All Access 2010 Thursday, April 29, 2010   A Leader's Constant Companion: PAIN … Craig Groeschell   ·       Most of us try to avoid pain.   ·       If we are not careful, we will try to lead and step away from pain.   ·       If you are going to plant a successful church, you will deal with pain.   The difference from where you are today and where God wants you to be is the pain that you are unwilling to endure.   2 Corinthians 11:23-28 (NLT) --- Are they servants of Christ? I know I sound like a madman, but I have served him far more! I have worked harder, been put in prison more often, been whipped times without number, and faced death again and again. 24  Five different times the Jewish leaders gave me thirty-nine lashes. 25  Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. Once I spent a whole night and a day adrift at sea. 26  I have traveled on many long journeys. I have f...

More notes from ARC's All Access 2010 below: All Access 2010 Thursday, April 29, 2010   How do you grow through conflict? … Greg Surratt   Galatians 6:9 (NLT) --- So let's not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don't give   Comparison makes you tired in ministry.   It sidelines us.     Conflict wears you out in ministry.   Acts 15:1 --- some men came down from Judea to Antioch.   1.   Don't let a few vocal critics HIJACK the VISION of the church.   ·       The best way to predict the future is to invent it. – Alan Key ·       Give people what they want, not what they think they want. – Mark Cuban ·       The power is the constant but the practice is fluid. ·       Every new idea has an expiration date.   2.   Don't be afraid to get the issues on the table.   Acts 15:7 ---   ·       There's a difference between good questions and a questioning spirit. ...

more from ARC's All Access 2010: All Access 2010 Thursday, April 29, 2010   technology … Bobby Gruenewald   Social media is more about social than media. Descript: comment, feedback, share, talk about, connect, contribute, global, also very local, next and now Gen, reaching people far away and close,   How can we leverage social media to reach people around us and people we are called to reach?   LC.tv is using facebook now for each campus.   Open dialogue.     Going mobile first because that is where people are connecting first and simplicity.   New mobile website.   Church online   Intercept people where they are, in that moment, to see changed lives…   The goal is to give community and to connect with them.   To connect them to Christ.   YOUversion   1 in 25 iphones have this.   1.6 billion minutes have been used reading Bible online with this.   *** lots of awesome observation, thought, Q & A …. Check the twittersphere. ...

Below more notes from ARC's All Access 2010: All Access 2010 Thursday, April 29, 2010   Kingdom Sweat … Stovall Weems   We all go through suffering.   We must go through it well and give God glory.   Acts 19:8-12 (NKJV) --- And he went into the synagogue and spoke boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading concerning the things of the kingdom of God. 9  But when some were hardened and did not believe, but spoke evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them and withdrew the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus. 10  And this continued for two years, so that all who dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks. 11  Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, 12  so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.   It is our passion and primary mission to share the Gospel.   We are compelled to do it and ...

Here are more message notes from ARC's All Access 2010: All Access 2010 Thursday, April 29, 2010   It's All About the Numbers… Chris Hodges   3 phrases that burden me: 1.   Everything I am doing it just useless. 2.   I'm tired, worn out. 3.   I'm discouraged. Don't believe the lies of Satan.   When you belong to Jesus, you are a champion.   Ephesians 3:10 (NASB) --- so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places.   How do you strike the balance between numbers and spiritual stuff?   1.   Grow yourself first.   ·       When there is something much deeper inside you, the great work of God, the growth will come. ·       "You have not won the war of the spiritual."   Sometimes we don't get it.   Without a deep work inside of us, we will not grow.   Acts 1:4-8 (NASB) --- Gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Je...

Another message from ARC's All Access 2010: All Access 2010 Wednesday, April 28, 2010   Stay SMALL … Dino Rizzo   Celebrating … 17 years at Healing Place.   25 years in the ministry.   1 Samuel 15:17 KJV --- And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?   Luke 19:17 NLT --- 'Well done, my good servant!' his master replied. 'Because you have been trustworthy in a very small matter, take charge of ten cities   Micah 5:2 NLT --- But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, are only a small village among all the people of Judah.   Yet a ruler of Israel will come from you, one whose origins are from the distant past.   Matthew 15:34 NLT --- Jesus asked, "How much bread do you have?" They replied, "Seven loaves, and a few small fish."   James 3:4 NLT --- And a small rudder makes a huge ship turn wherever the pilot chooses to go...

Below are more notes from ARC's All Access 2010: All Access 2010 Wednesday, April 28, 2010   Don't ever apologize for preaching the Gospel.   Generosity … Robert Morris       1.   don't apologize for preaching God's word about money. Matthew 16   ·       If we don't tell God's people about money, who will? ·       Preach about it and people will give. ·       3 times the word MAMMON is in this passage ·       all money has a spirit on it.   Cursed or consecrated. ·       There are consequences for not serving God.   God is waiting to bless us.   Consequences to obedience are blessing.   Consequences to disobedience is cursing. ·       Mammon promises everything that God can give.   If you had more money, you'd be …. ·       Jesus never told anyone that the answer to their problem is more money. ·       Mammon tries to replace God. ·       Spirit of anit-Christ is the spirit of mammon.   2. don't apologize for preac...

Below are more notes from ARC's All Access 2010 .... All Access 2010 Wednesday, April 28, 2010   Presence of God … Priscilla Shirer   What I am after is the presence of God.   Once you have experienced that you are ruined for church.   You will want his hand to work, to hear his voice and to be in his presence.   John 11:55-56a (NLT) ---- It was now almost time for the Jewish Passover celebration, and many people from all over the country arrived in Jerusalem several days early so they could go through the purification ceremony before Passover began. 56 They kept looking for Jesus,   People were sharing what God had done and helping others expect God to work again.   The year it talked about is because the people were looking for Jesus.   They had heard about what Jesus had done.   They wanted not just to talk about the past and what Jesus did or the future and what Jesus will do.   But they wanted to be with Jesus.   We must realize that people are after ...

More notes from ARC's All Access 2010 conference ... All Access 2010 Wednesday, April 28, 2010   The Harvest … Rick Bezet   We need to slow down and see what God wants to say.     Always live your life with the end in mind because the end is going to come – Billy Graham.   John 4:35 ----   There are going to be times when we forget the harvest.   There are some measuring tools and find out how you are doing in relation to the harvest.   TEST TO CHECK   1.   is your church humiliating?   ·       The church is the only org that exists for church for those who are not a part.   We have to exist for non members. ·       The Holy Spirit is very good at drawing people to the father.   Sometimes we get in the way and forget.   We can ONLY come to God when we are drawn to God. ·       Lost people loved to be around Jesus.   Even though he was holy, the unholy wanted to be around him. ·       A lot of people in the Bible belt have forgotten they...