- 3:26 PM tony morgan - Robbie Seay is leading worship again. final session will begin soon.
- 3:43 PM tony morgan - reggie mcneal just stepped up to the platform.
- 3:43 PM tony morgan - “everything is missional now. if you want to get published, put ‘missional’ in the title.”
- 3:43 PM tony morgan - “God seems to be up to something.”
- 3:45 PM tony morgan - India started decade at 2% Christian. by end of the decade it’ll be 10%. that’s equal to 80 million people.
- 3:46 PM tony morgan - “entire villages are coming to Jesus.”
- 3:47 PM tony morgan - “we are in the backwaters in the Christian movement on planet earth.”
- 3:47 PM tony morgan - “hoist yourselves and catch a wind that’s already blowing.”
- 3:48 PM tony morgan - reggie mcneal is talking about holy winds.
- 3:49 PM tony morgan - (this is the first time i’ve heard reggie. he’s rather funny.)
- 3:50 PM tony morgan - “the church needs to move from ‘what’ to ‘who’.”
- 3:51 PM tony morgan - “i am the church. i’m not all the church, but i am the church.”
- 3:54 PM tony morgan - “we’re going to have to quit thinking of church as a destination.”
- 3:56 PM tony morgan - “people are wanting to go somewhere. the destination is life.”
- 3:57 PM tony morgan - reggie is from south carolina btw… that’s why he’s so wise.
- 4:02 PM tony morgan - i think reggie has exceeded his time limit. uh oh…
- 4:02 PM tony morgan - the question is should i continue to blog his comments after he has exceeded his time limit?
- 4:05 PM tony morgan - here comes dino rizzo. this is the first time i’ve heard dino as well. check out the healing place church in louisiana. great ministry!
- 4:10 PM tony morgan - “just meet me here. God is going to use you.”
- 4:11 PM tony morgan - “if you want to serve in this church, that’s where i need you.”
- 4:12 PM tony morgan - “i confessed to things that i’d never done before so they would keep rubbing my head.”
- 4:13 PM tony morgan - “if i never understand the power of diversity, i would never be used in God’s kingdom.”
- 4:16 PM tony morgan - “the reason why God is called us is about reaching people. and more and more they are different than us.”
- 4:22 PM tony morgan - (sorry… lost connection there for a moment.)
- 4:23 PM tony morgan - “i believe we will be defined in the future more by how we served the one than by how we served the multitudes.”
- 4:24 PM tony morgan - dino is done. i’m not sure who this is speaking.
- 4:25 PM tony morgan - ahh… it’s neil cole.
- 4:27 PM tony morgan - “it’s by our love for one another that they know we are Christians.”
- 4:29 PM tony morgan - “we start churches with the wrong questions.”
- 4:30 PM tony morgan - “Jesus started with ‘Who is Jesus to you?’”
- 4:31 PM tony morgan - “When you realize who Jesus is you’ll do everything different.”
- 4:33 PM tony morgan - “i believe in church growth. the church should be growing.”
- 4:34 PM tony morgan - “your church is not on defense but on offense.”
- 4:37 PM tony morgan - neil is asking us to repeat things that he says.
- 4:38 PM tony morgan - “the dna is only potent when it’s together.”
- 4:39 PM tony morgan - “your church is only as good as your disciples.”
- 4:41 PM tony morgan - next is matt carter from a church in austin.
- 4:44 PM tony morgan - matt’s church started community groups.
- 4:44 PM tony morgan - “some of them worked, but some of them didn’t.”
- 4:44 PM tony morgan - “we stunk at building community as a church.”
- 4:46 PM tony morgan - (tony’s thought: what if churches built disciples and servants rather than community?)
- 4:49 PM tony morgan - “out of the mission they formed a deep bond.”
- 4:49 PM tony morgan - “isn’t that how Jesus built community?”
- 4:50 PM tony morgan - “Jesus called them to himself and then to the mission.”
- 4:50 PM tony morgan - now the groups are called “missional communities”
- 4:55 PM tony morgan - “we have 300 missional communities.”
- 4:55 PM tony morgan - that’s it folks. conference is over. battery is dead. heading home.
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