Subscribe to the NetworkRadicalis was….Pretty Radical.
Today, we (Saddleback Church) are wrapping up our first 4-day “Radicalis” conference, and I have to say it was really, really good! Here were a few highlights for me:
Andy Stanley’s message on preaching was full of wonderful nuggets; some of which I will paraphrase here:
- “If you don’t have a ‘burden’ for it, don’t preach about it until you do.”
- “Find a compelling passage, rub their noses in it, drive it home and make it stick, and send them out with one way to apply it to their lives.”
- “Going long doesn’t prove how smart you are, it proves that you are under-prepared.”
- “Don’t memorize the whole thing…just memorize the ‘flow’ of the message; where you want to go with it.”
Mark Driscoll’s message about the cross, coupled with Rick Warren’s message on Radical Compassion, was a very powerful experience. What stuck out most to me was the simple reminder that at the end of the day our theology is nothing more than this: The Cross.
Spending three days with youth workers in the youth ministry track was so much fun. I’m not sure anybody will ever be able to convince me there is any other group of Christian leaders who are more fun to hang around than those who work with teenagers! I met lots of new friends including a wonderful woman who has taken “Kurt and Scott’s Junior High Adventures” and turned it into a 12-hour training session she uses to train youth workers all throughout Egypt!
Radicalis convenes again next year, February 8-11. Join us!
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