This morning begins the 2nd day of the RightNow Conference. J.D. Greear, Senior Pastor of The Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, opened with an incredible session on creating a Sending Culture, specifically unleashing Christians and business leaders to be on mission through their jobs.
The following are his thoughts and insights that all leaders and business leaders can learn from:
- Sending is a culture you create at your church.
- Our prayer changed from “God, let us grow a great big church” to “God, let us bless those in our city”.
- For my prayers of “Thy Kingdom come” there was a lot of “My Kingdom come”.
- Being an effective church requires sending out your best…You must value the Kingdom more than you value your own church.
- College students travel in herds…In two weeks our attendance tripled and our offering went up $13.48.
- We tell college students that the first two years of your professional career needs to happen in a city where a new church has started.
- We have got to good at discipling people again. Church growth is not as important as discipling people so as they go carry the gospel.
- Everyone is called.
- If your life was a party, who would it be thrown for…In your business, is your goal to build your business or the Kingdom of God.
- We talk about finding God’s will. It’s not lost.
- The church should not be people gathered around a leader. It should be a leadership factory.
- 39 out of 40 of the miracles in the Book of Acts happened outside the church.
- When I became a pastor I left the ministry because I took a backseat to those who perform the 39 of 40 miracles that happened outside the church.
- The Great Commission is going forward not through apostolic ministry but ordinary people throughout the church.
- The gospel’s greatest advancement is not through pastors but business leaders carrying the gospel throughout the world.
- Our business people can get the gospel into places we can never dream of.
- The 10/40 Window is door they (business leaders) are invited to walk through.
- 70% if those in the U.K. state they never intend to attend any worship service. They must be reached through their community.
- Mega churches are fighting over a rapidly shrinking pie. We need a bigger pie.
- Church leaders must challenge our people to be better leaders.
- The week is more important than the weekend.
- The battles an aircraft carrier faces do not take place on the aircraft carrier.
- We must empower our people to be leaders. Church leaders, we must take on a servant role.
- Most church leaders are more worried about recruiting volunteers rather than training leaders.
- The best ministry ideas come from the congregation, not the offices of the church.
- Are we recruiting volunteers or growing leaders?
- We must have the courage to send out our leaders.
- Pushing out leaders creates more leaders…Leaders are attracted to places they see they can grow to their potential…God multiplies your resources whenever you give them away.
- For every leader we send out God replaced them three-fold.
- We must measure our success not by seating capacity but by sending capacity.
- Guidance in the mission comes from the Spirit.
- The pressure is not on you to build the Kingdom…You are not the Messiah.
- Have you ever asked as a leader, “What am I supposed to do?”
- Motivation for mission comes from the gospel…Where would you be without Jesus? Where would you be had Jesus chased the American dream?
- “The death of 1 is a tragedy. The death of a 1,000 is just a statistic.” – Joseph Stalin
- Who are you throwing your party for because Jesus threw His party for you.
- The gospel itself is the only thing planted in us that creates a sending culture.
- Church leaders preach the gospel. Business leaders embrace the gospel.
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