January 27, 2009 in
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- 4:16 PM tony morgan - Pete Briscoe, the senior pastor at Bent Tree Fellowship Church, is going to emcee this session.
- 4:18 PM tony morgan - Pete is going to share some of his own thoughts first.
- 4:20 PM tony morgan - There are acceptable failures and unacceptable failures.
- 4:21 PM tony morgan - Pete just talked about losing folks from Bent Tree to Chuck Swindoll’s church and Matt Chandler’s church.
- 4:22 PM tony morgan - “most tv preachers are deceitful and have impure motives.”
- 4:24 PM tony morgan - failure begins with impure motives.
- 4:25 PM tony morgan - “success is creating communities where sharing the Gospel is the center of it all.”
- 4:26 PM tony morgan - Tim Keller is going to take the platform next.
- 4:27 PM tony morgan - they have a countdown clock on the screen to let us know how long the speakers have.
- 4:28 PM tony morgan - tim has another 17 minutes.
- 4:29 PM tony morgan - “we base our self worth on how our ministry is doing.”
- 4:31 PM tony morgan - “you’ve got to go after God for blessing.”
- 4:31 PM tony morgan - “and you have to let him lame you.”
- 4:32 PM tony morgan - first time i’ve heard tim keller live. seems like the smart-fatherly-type.
- 4:37 PM tony morgan - “we are looking for blessing in the wrong places.”
- 4:38 PM tony morgan - tim said those of us in ministry go to people for blessing.
- 4:39 PM tony morgan - “human blessing will kill you because it never seems to last more than 5 minutes.”
- 4:42 PM tony morgan - “you never learn how to pray through good times. you learn how to pray through bad times.”
- 4:43 PM tony morgan - “about the only way we’ll be spiritually successful is to fail.”
- 4:44 PM tony morgan - we’re now going to hear from stacy spencer. he’s wearing a cool shirt.
- 4:45 PM tony morgan - stacy began ministry in memphis.
- 4:46 PM tony morgan - “your brand is what other people say about you.”
- 4:47 PM tony morgan - what do people outside the church say we are?
- 4:47 PM tony morgan - what is our brand?
- 4:48 PM tony morgan - stacy is from new direction christian church.
- 4:48 PM tony morgan - “we were the hoochie mama church”
- 4:49 PM tony morgan - “while everyone else was zigging, we got a zag. or as we say in the hood, we got swag.”
- 4:50 PM tony morgan - “you start becoming maintenance driven rather than mission driven.”
- 4:50 PM tony morgan - “the more cream you add to the coffee the weaker it gets.”
- 4:50 PM tony morgan - (i like this guy.)
- 4:51 PM tony morgan - “we have to wrestle with God’s voice instead of wrestling with church folks.”
- 4:51 PM tony morgan - “you promise more in the showroom than you have in the stockroom.”
- 4:52 PM tony morgan - “sometimes we promise what we can’t deliver on and that hurts your brand.”
- 4:52 PM tony morgan - “my church is the only church that (blank). you have to be distinctive.”
- 4:54 PM tony morgan - i think this stacy spencer dude needs to come hang out at newspring sometime. good stuff.
- 4:55 PM tony morgan - “be faithful over a few things.”
- 4:56 PM tony morgan - “God will provide. God will make a way out of no way.”
- 4:58 PM tony morgan - “when you get your zag on, that’s when God begins to bless.”
- 4:58 PM tony morgan - (there’s no time countdown for stacy. that’s a good thing.)
- 4:59 PM tony morgan - “when we messed up is when we started listening to church people.”
- 4:59 PM tony morgan - “even though i have a doctorate, i put the cookies on the bottom shelf.”
- 5:00 PM tony morgan - “the bigger you get, the harder it is to hold everyone together.”
- 5:01 PM tony morgan - “you don’t have to be a megachurch to impact the world, you just need to be faithful about one thing.”
- 5:01 PM tony morgan - “ain’t nobody have swag like you got.”
- 5:01 PM tony morgan - “you got zag.”
- 5:04 PM tony morgan - craig groeschel is next. he’s sitting on a stool on a country road in oklahoma.
- 5:05 PM tony morgan - craig groeschel is the best looking pastor in america.
- 5:05 PM tony morgan - (sorry perry.)
- 5:05 PM tony morgan - “those leaders that have it are willing to fail. those that don’t play it safe.”
- 5:06 PM tony morgan - “failing is often a big part of success.”
- 5:07 PM tony morgan - God referred to peter as satan. he sunk in the water. he cut off a ear. he denied Christ 3 times. peter failed.
- 5:08 PM tony morgan - God forgave peter. he experienced the grace of Jesus. forgiven failure. preached at Pentecost. 3,000 people saved. God used a failure named peter.
- 5:09 PM tony morgan - “You try. You fail. You learn. You adjust. You try. You fail. You learn. You adjust.”
- 5:09 PM tony morgan - “don’t play it safe. you always have to be willing to bet the farm.”
- 5:09 PM tony morgan - “failure isn’t an option. it’s an absolute necessity.”
- 5:10 PM tony morgan - “often what works was born out of something that didn’t work.”
- 5:10 PM tony morgan - (craig is good looking and he’s freaking smart. i hate that.)
- 5:11 PM tony morgan - “You try. You fail. You learn. You adjust.”
- 5:12 PM tony morgan - “create a culture that allows for failure. failure is a good thing.”
- 5:12 PM tony morgan - “call every new venture an experiment.”
- 5:12 PM tony morgan - “tell people we are going to fail actively and not fail passively.”
- 5:13 PM tony morgan - “don’t internalize failures. just because i fail at something doesn’t mean i am a failure.”
- 5:13 PM tony morgan - “if you try something, debrief. learn from it.”
- 5:13 PM tony morgan - “don’t give up. God wants to do more through you than you could ever imagine.”
- 5:14 PM tony morgan - (that was worth the flight to dallas.)
- 5:14 PM tony morgan - mark driscoll is taking the platform.
- 5:15 PM tony morgan - mark is shorter than me, but i’m quite certain he could beat me up.
- 5:15 PM tony morgan - “failure is a leadership issue. and that’s ultimately a Gospel issue.”
- 5:16 PM tony morgan - “we were all made for righteousness.”
- 5:17 PM tony morgan - “where i live, it’s justification through hippification.”
- 5:18 PM tony morgan - “we have a tendency not to base our righteousness on the Gospel but on our own works.”
- 5:18 PM tony morgan - “you google yourself to see what other people say about you.”
- 5:19 PM tony morgan - “when things are going well do you feel closer to God?”
- 5:19 PM tony morgan - “does success or failure make you more or less holy?”
- 5:20 PM tony morgan - “does success alter how you see God?”
- 5:20 PM tony morgan - “blessing is almost always linked with success.”
- 5:21 PM tony morgan - “works righteousness pervades ministry motive.”
- 5:21 PM tony morgan - “attendance goes down. God is not good.”
- 5:22 PM tony morgan - “works righteousness is pervasive.”
- 5:22 PM tony morgan - “i love numbers. i love to measure things. righteousness is very hard to measure.”
- 5:23 PM tony morgan - (mark is wearing a t-shirt with a picture of jesus on the front of it. jesus freak.)
- 5:24 PM tony morgan - “if you’re righteousness comes from Christ, i don’t need to use you. i can love you.”
- 5:25 PM tony morgan - “this leads to the ability to take risks.”
- 5:25 PM tony morgan - “if i’m under constant pressure to maintain righteousness, i become risk aversive.”
- 5:26 PM tony morgan - “those that are risk addicted become addicted to controversy. that’s my proclivity.”
- 5:27 PM tony morgan - (that’s an understatement.)
- 5:27 PM tony morgan - “i’m willing to do whatever jesus tells me to do.”
- 5:28 PM tony morgan - “we are all by nature and choice sinners.”
- 5:29 PM tony morgan - “we need to repent.”
- 5:31 PM tony morgan - “everything good i stole from tim keller.”
- 5:33 PM tony morgan - “you may just fail. are you ok with that? you’ll still have jesus.”
- 5:33 PM tony morgan - that’s all folks. i need to go get ready to interview a few folks.
Thanks for doing this
This scribble live thing is the bomb.
Thank you Tony! Great work.
Thanks. That was great.
andy