Awesome Stuff

This session was pretty awesome. It just motivated me to work harder! To really bring the Jesus back to my life and be like him in every way possible. But here are a few notes from Alan Hirsch that I took from the session. Jesse and I were able to talk with him a bit about what we were doing with the music and the church and it just woke us up and it was a reminder not to forget where we are going and where we have come from but most of all it reminded me that I need to embrace the calling God has placed over my life. This kind of goes with the notes from the early morning session. I bought his book “The Forgotten Ways”

 

The Missional Magnet

 

What is in the nature of growth from 100 ad to 300 ad.

Growth rate from 25,000 to 20.000.000.

 

Jesus is my lord, if he is my lord then he’s my savior

These were Jesus movements.

 I cling to Jesus

·      simple relationship that was built, a life style that needs to be lived out.

o   It’s a sneezable message

o   But it takes you a life time to live

o   How bad can you become if you become like Jesus?

o   What if we only had the gospels would we be that far off?

 

The Chinese didn’t have a bible.

 

Rediscovering that jesus is lord is not the only thing there are other things that need to follow. Simple but complex. Simplex

 

Christology=X Missiology=M  Ecclesiology= E

X > M > E

 

You always have to go back to the X. if we get X wrong then the rest will be wrong.

 

If the idea of God is wrong or flawed! Then how can you know God? Jesus said I am god if you want the father than you can see him through me.

God is like Jesus.

 

They took on Cesar saying Jesus is Lord, Cesar was not there Lord!

 

Jesus was fun

·      He was hanging with the religious people wouldn’t

·      They called him a drunkard

·      He hung with unrespectable people

·      There’s something about Jesus that doesn’t sit well with religious people

 

What is something we could say good about the Pharisees

·      Zeal

·      Loved God

·      Disciplined

·      They Prayed

·      The Loved the Bible/ Searched it constantly

·      Pharisees held the bible as a whole

·      Very Consistent

·      They were custodians with the identity of Israel

·      They tithed beyond what was required

·      They believe in the resurrection

o   God intervenes in history

·      They were missional

 

Who is this today? US!!!

 

Jesus was a pharisee

Its how you inhabit the doctrine that makes a difference.

 

What would Jesus do if she showed up in our church?

·      We would probably kill him again.

 

What are we reproducing if we are not like Jesus.

·      We have become religious people

·      Oppressed people

·      We have become the people Jesus spoke against

 

We need to go back to Jesus to get to know who he is.

 

Before we get missional we need to Find Christology first.

 

Where would you go to find Jesus?

The Church

 

There’s a herisee, we get the spooky Jesus because we really don’t know who he is.

 

Then mission becomes a sub committee.

 

Institutions will cause us to conform.

We need revolution not conformity

 

If we become like Jesus then the religious people will hate you, but Jesus said if they hate me then they will hate you.

 

Everyone of us have the capacity to go back to rediscover who Jesus is, because its there.

 

Its our job to awaken ethos.

We just forgot how to do this.

 

We have imposed our ecclesia first. Mission is prior.

 

If you plant the Gospel the church will come out of the Gospel.

 

Most potent slogan. Every believer is a church planter. Its expected.

 

Its not how big you can grow, the trees success is the amount of trees it will reproduce from seeds.

 

How will we impact Generations! Not how big can we grow!!

 

The Church is a manifestation of the kingdom of God. It isn’t the kingdom of God!! The catholic herisee said the church is the kingdom and it is not.

 

Lets put Jesus in his place #1

Then the Mission will follow#2

Then The Church Will Manifest itself with the right foundation#3

 

Decentralize power functions. The danger of institutions is:

 

Power becomes an individual or some headquarters.

Power Changes “my precious”

 

Every unit can reproduce itself. Keep a constant eye on it!! We have a huge tendency to become control freaks!!

 

The Lordship principle

·      Its all about Jesus. A peasant can do that

·      Jesus has tons of appeal.

·      Simplex the plex side

The Missional Magnet 

 

 

There is a God over everything in life.

·      Government

o   Will not allow Jesus in as God.

There should be no area in your life that the same God does not or should not rule over.

 

What we are called to do in life is offer ever single thing in it up to God.

 

Jesus becomes the central focus in our life no one gets to the father but through him.

 

Jesus is who we owe our allegiance to.

 

Jesus Is Lord!!! It is something that sums everything up and it reaches as far as you want it to.