C3: Dr. Ed Young

February 22, 2007 in Leadership with 5 Comments

Dr. Ed started his message in Isaiah 54:2. He continued by sharing these thoughts and challenges:

To build a big tent, you have to strengthen your stakes and lengthen your cords.
Strengthen our stakes. First by strengthening our theology.
Our “profit” as a church is changed lives.
We also have to strengthen our ecclesiology. How does a church function in today’s society?
We also have to strengthen our eschatology. We are to be a beautiful bride.
To lengthen our cords, we need to remember that worship isn’t the most important thing.
Children are the most neglected, over-looked entity in the world.
Half of the developing world is children.
Have you ever gone to a conference on church growth that focused on reaching children?
2/3 of people accept Christ before the age of 18.
Only 1 out of 4 kids that grow up in evangelical churches will accept Christ.
If we want to build a bigger tent, the answer isn’t worship–it’s kids.
You want to build your church, you need to put your best with the kids.
If you love people’s kids, you’ll get their time and attention.
Adults will come every Sunday if their kids love the church.
What does Jesus say about this? Mark 10. “Let the little children come to me…”

Brad Cooper February 22, 2007 at 6:52 pm #

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jane muir February 22, 2007 at 8:13 pm #

WOW! I am so thankful that our team is in TX learning VERY important stuff, and sharing it with those of us back home!
Learn, Praise God, have fun, and be safe!
billy broach February 22, 2007 at 9:00 pm #

Wow. Some great remarks. Thanks for shareing..

I got a MP3 player for christmas which led me to surf for podcast of which I found strategic podcast. Thats how I ended up here.

One of Dr. Young comments/questions was Have you ever gone to a conference on church growth that focused on reaching children?

In my surfing for podcast I found this podcast and childrens conference.

https://www.churchonthemove.com/dream/
Bud February 23, 2007 at 11:38 am #

So how do you square Ed’s observation that we must “strengthen our theology” with the rousing approval given T. D. Jakes who holds a clearly heretical view of the Trinity?

It sounds like Ed’s call fell on deaf ears.
churchrelevance.com April 11, 2007 at 9:30 am #

Dr. Ed Young on Childrens Ministry and Church Growth

At this years C3 Conference, Dr. Ed Young of Second Baptist Church (Houston, TX) shared his thoughts on the link between church growth and childrens ministry:
If you want to build your church, you need to put your best with the kids.
If…