• 6:12 PM tonymorganlive - Welcome friends. Andy is preparing for the final session. Go ahead and let your friends know. We’re also taking comments here.
• 6:14 PM tonymorganlive - “What has momentum and what doesn’t?”
• 6:16 PM tonymorganlive - ministry “programming begins as an answer to a question”
• 6:17 PM tonymorganlive - “It ends up becoming part of our culture. It defines us.”
• 6:19 PM tonymorganlive - Andy is talking about an old couch on the platform.
• 6:19 PM tonymorganlive - It looks like a couch in my grandma’s house.
• 6:20 PM tonymorganlive - The couch started out as something to sit on, but it stays around for years and years and can’t be thrown out because people have an emotional attachment to it.
• 6:21 PM tonymorganlive - “In church life, this is deadly. It creates all kinds of problems.”
• 6:21 PM tonymorganlive - “All ministry programming becomes an old, out-dated couch.”
• 6:22 PM tonymorganlive - “If your passion is outsiders, then there are some couches that must be retired.”
• 6:23 PM tonymorganlive - “It’s difficult because it’s very, very emotional.”
• 6:26 PM tonymorganlive - “At some point a generation will come along and say, ‘I’m just not going to sit there.’”
• 6:26 PM tonymorganlive - “I don’t know the answers to the ‘how’ questions in your particular ministry environment.”
• 6:28 PM tonymorganlive - “We must be more committed to our mission rather than our programming or model.”
• 6:28 PM tonymorganlive - We’re comparing to the church we came out of.
• 6:30 PM tonymorganlive - “My tendency will be to love our model more than our mission because it’s what I’m comfortable with.”
• 6:31 PM tonymorganlive - “The goal is to lead people into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ.”
• 6:31 PM tonymorganlive - Andy said church planting is the most difficult job next to being a single mom.
• 6:32 PM tonymorganlive - “If you are a denominational leader, you were probably hired to protect the model.”
• 6:34 PM tonymorganlive - “You don’t even have any people. I don’t have people. You don’t have people. There are just people.”
• 6:38 PM tonymorganlive - “The goal wasn’t to have great singers. The goal was to get people in the choir.”
• 6:38 PM tonymorganlive - (Cowboy-hat-guy just walked back in the room.)
• 6:39 PM tonymorganlive - Andy just quoted Seth Godin. “Don’t fall in love with a tactic.”
• 6:42 PM tonymorganlive - “Where are we manufacturing energy?”
• 6:46 PM tonymorganlive - “What God originates, God orchestrates.”
• 6:46 PM tonymorganlive - “If you commit to the what, God will show you how.”
• 6:50 PM tonymorganlive - “We made a list of all our assumptions.”
• 6:51 PM tonymorganlive - “What do we assume about people and how to reach them?”
• 6:52 PM tonymorganlive - “We’ve assumed we have to get people to sit in rows and teach to them.”
• 6:52 PM tonymorganlive - “We assume Christians like to sing.”
• 6:53 PM tonymorganlive - “We program kids ministry as if they’re going to be there every week.”
• 6:54 PM tonymorganlive - “Information and inspiration don’t necessarily produce transformation.”
• 6:56 PM tonymorganlive - “What are we doing to help people on Sunday morning to stick? We’re spending a lot of time helping people to gather.”
• 6:57 PM tonymorganlive - “What are we assuming?”
• 6:59 PM tonymorganlive - “We have to continue to examine our assumptions.”

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