Exponential 09 – Francis Chan – The Art of Movement

Francis Chan closed out Exponential with a beautiful message about the Holy Spirit.  The great takeaway is that a movement isn’t about us and our knowledge or gifts, or abilities.  A movement is about God and his power, strength and glory.  Too many of us are scared.  We need boldness and to pray for more [...]

Exponential 09 – Darrin Patrick – Your Launch Team is Over-rated and Under-rated

Darrin Patrick taught that team is over-rated if you don’t have the proper motivation, if your gifts are not confirmed, if you are not qualified as an elder.  Team is Under0-rated.  You need to assess your team, test your team and keep your team.  This message was great for church planters who are building there [...]

Exponential 09 – Efrem Smith – Building Relationships One Act of Service at a Time

Efrem Smith spoke on how serving the community can help the new church build a relational network in the community.  Efrem shared practical ideas for using service as a strategy during the pre-launch stage.  Efrem shared an idea about how they started a separate 501c3 community based organization in the community that was essentially the [...]

Exponential 09 – Bob Roberts – The Art of Movement

Bob Roberts has traveled the world learning about Christianity as well as other faiths.  During his main session presentation Bob shared the key things he has learned.  The main theme of the presentations is that Christians should not isolate themselves from other religions but rather engage and dialogue with them.  Bob fit in 7 of [...]

Exponential 09 – Ed Stetzer – Planting an Indigenous Church

Ed Stetzer challenged the crowd at the pre-launch track of Exponential with a message to plant an indigenous church.  I’ve heard Ed speak several times and have heard him give this talk.  What’s great about Ed is that he talks so fast you can hear the same message 10 times and not get it all.  [...]

Exponential 09 – Craig Groeschel – The Art of Movements

Craig Groeschel just inspired the troops.  Wow!  You couldn’t leave the room not feeling challenged to take your faith in God deeper and in doing so take others with you.  Craig continued what seems to be a theme of the conference and that’s not copying someone else’s vision of church but discovering what God’s vision [...]

Exponential 09 – Marc Choi – Onurri Church

Marc Choi from Onnuri Church in Seoul Korea kicked off the main session of Day #2 at Exponential.  He spoke about his experiences at Onnuri Church and his own experience of planting a church in New York.  Marc kept it simple with a great reminder to stick to the basics:

Quiet Time
One on One Discipleship
Small Groups

Here [...]

Exponential 09 – Will Mancini – Vision Clarity

Will is known as the clarity evangelist.  In a bonus Exponential session, Will was here early to challenge us to clarify our vision.  He covered some of the basics of his book.  He talked about the ministry thinkholes that we get stuck in:

Ministry Treadmill
Competency Trap
Needs Based Slippery Slope
The Conference Maze
The Cultural Whirlpool
Denominational Rut

Will also began [...]

Exponential 09 – Larry Osborne – How to Plant a Church and Still Have a Life

Last session of the day at Exponential 09 was a great one.  Larry Osborne spoke during the pre-launch track on how to plant a church and still have a life.  This message was full of great pearls of wisdom Larry has learned alone the way. I enjoyed that Larry covered the real stuff church planters [...]

Exponential 09 – Ron Silvia – Vision in the New Church

I’m attending the pre-launch track at Exponential.  Ron Silvia just finished speaking on vision in the new church.  Lots of great pearls of wisdom.

Leadership is execution.
If Satan can take out the leader he can take out the movement.
You are going to have to lead where you’ve never been before.
Your character is more important than your [...]