tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2253529165034405240.post-20931594675693977832008-04-25T15:47:00.001-04:002008-04-25T14:15:03.736-04:00<span style="font-size:85%;">One of my favorite books is, "A Contrarians Guide to Knowing God" by Larry Osborne. At the Exponential Conference I got to attend a workshop he did. Here are my notes from it:</span><br /><br /><strong>1. Build a church you would want to go to</strong><br />- Not big, not like someone else’s, not successful…<br />- The church you would want to go to is the only church you an lead intuitively and the only church God has gifted you to lead<br /><br /><strong>2. Fulfill your calling, not your potential</strong><br />- Potential is a bitch goddess. It will kill you.<br />- When you’re first starting you get lots of encouragement that you believe is fact.<br />- Be all you can be is great for the army, stinks for God’s Kingdom<br />- Son, at 7, “I don’t like it when daddy writes books, because he doesn’t play with me.”<br /><br />- Committed to not write book until youngest graduated from High School. All his kids follow Jesus and have found churches in the towns they move to.<br /><br /><strong>3. Focus on being a sticky church</strong><br />- No one stays at a church because they were assimilated into a program, they stay because they’ve been velcroed into relationships.<br />- “I’m less needed when people are genuinely connected.”<br />- “Northcoast is all about sticky relationships.”<br /><br /><strong>4. Live like a mature Christian, not a pastor</strong><br />- If think being a pastor means you have to live differently, something is wrong with your paradigm.<br />- If do, no longer have nagging question: “Who is watching?” (That question will kill you, and poison your kids.)<br />- You might lose people, but you’ll save your family.<br /><br /><strong>5. Lose your church before you lose your family<br /></strong>- If on path where you’re putting family on back burner for church (“for awhile”) you are on a very bad path. And that other path never comes.<br />- The bigger the church gets, the less discretionary time you have. (It’s a myth that a large staff will give you discretionary time.)<br />- So master this now, or you won’t later.<br />- Never has done counseling after 5:00 p.m.<br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br />- featured on newchurches.com</span>Vince Antonucci:http://www.blogger.com/profile/01577695138497215119noreply@blogger.com