• 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.”

• 5:46 PM tonymorganlive - Craig and Andy are answering questions submitted by the crowd via text messages.
• 5:47 PM tonymorganlive - Craig says they use 360 evaluations at LifeChurch.tv.
• 5:51 PM tonymorganlive - Craig: “If you don’t evaluate, don’t expect improvement.”
• 5:56 PM tonymorganlive - Andy: “One weekend off is not even like a weekend off. If you’re going to take one, take two.”
• 5:57 PM tonymorganlive - Andy is talking about an encounter with Joel Osteen. Joel: “Then I realized I had to run my race.”
• 5:57 PM tonymorganlive - (I like hearing these guys talk back and forth.)
• 6:02 PM tonymorganlive - Andy: North Point had to hire a consultant to figure out organizational structure and reduce the number of direct reports to Andy.
• 6:03 PM tonymorganlive - Andy: “I set up a personal board of directors. I meet with these three guys quarterly.”
• 6:04 PM tonymorganlive - Craig: “We’ve decided to be weird because normal doesn’t seem to be working very well.”
• 6:07 PM tonymorganlive - Craig just took off. Video before the last session from Andy.

• 4:25 PM tonymorganlive - Craig just started the first afternoon session. He’s talking about spiritual momentum.
• 4:31 PM tonymorganlive - “i messed up in a significant way” describing story about him and his wife
• 4:31 PM tonymorganlive - his wife asked, “Are you going to be a husband or a pastor?”
• 4:32 PM tonymorganlive - Bill Hybels: “The way I was doing the work of God was destroying the work of God in me.”
• 4:34 PM tonymorganlive - “What do you want to do for the Kingdom of God?”
• 4:34 PM tonymorganlive - “Don’t say build a big church. Because that’s really stupid.”
• 4:34 PM tonymorganlive - “The goal is to make disciples.”
• 4:35 PM tonymorganlive - “Once you answer that question, then ask yourself, ‘What should I do today?’”
• 4:35 PM tonymorganlive - “I will do today what I can do to enable me to do tomorrow what I can’t do today.”
• 4:35 PM tonymorganlive - (Feel free to let your friends know we’re hanging out here. And, feel free to add your comments.)
• 4:36 PM tonymorganlive - “Do something to defeat your dark side.”
• 4:39 PM tonymorganlive - Craig is talking about old Methodist days. Those wacky Methodists.
• 4:41 PM tonymorganlive - I started to think, “What will bring people in?” rather than “What will glorify God?”
• 4:43 PM tonymorganlive - “Find your darkside and figure out what you need to do to get out of it and into the presence of God.”
• 4:46 PM tonymorganlive - “Some of your greatest spiritual strengths can be born out of your darkside” if you let God redeem it.
• 4:48 PM tonymorganlive - Craig just acknowledged that playing golf can, at times, be better than preparing for a message. (I like Craig.)
• 4:50 PM tonymorganlive - “Churches have way too many meetings.”
• 4:50 PM tonymorganlive - (There was a murmur in the auditorium. I think that struck a chord.)
• 4:51 PM tonymorganlive - “Prioritize your ministry around your values. I will not sacrifice my family on the altar of ministry.”
• 4:52 PM tonymorganlive - “Some of you are never able to work on your ministry because you’re working in your ministry.”
• 4:53 PM tonymorganlive - “Delegating responsibilities creates followers. Delegating authority creates leaders.”
• 4:54 PM tonymorganlive - “You will not create or retain great leaders as long as you’re telling them what to do.”
• 4:54 PM tonymorganlive - (That principle is HUGE!!!)
• 4:56 PM tonymorganlive - “Do something only you can do.”
• 4:58 PM tonymorganlive - “Take time off. Your family needs you. Don’t play with your Twitter.”
• 4:59 PM tonymorganlive - “You’re the only one that can be a husband to your wife and a father to your children.”
• 4:59 PM tonymorganlive - “If you don’t set up parameters, your church will abuse you.”
• 5:00 PM tonymorganlive - “You’re the only one that can remain broken before Jesus.”
• 5:02 PM tonymorganlive - “When you’re ‘cool’ God says, ‘I’ll spit you out.’”
• 5:03 PM tonymorganlive - “Get off the gimmicks. It’s not working.”
• 5:03 PM tonymorganlive - “Bring Christ. Bring Christ. Bring Christ.”
• 5:04 PM tonymorganlive - “Be obedient to the promptings of the Spirit.”
• 5:04 PM tonymorganlive - “Some of you need to experience Christ like it’s the first time.”
• 5:05 PM tonymorganlive - “Success for me is hearing from God again.”
• 5:05 PM tonymorganlive - Craig is praying now. That’s the end of his session. I’ll be back in a bit for the final session.

• 1:50 PM kevinbeers - Yes… Thanks Tony for your updates. I’ll be out at Catalyst West in April as well.
• 1:47 PM colstoncopeland - Thanks Tony for doing all these updates! Are you going to go to West Coast Catalyst?
• 1:46 PM tonymorganlive - Craig is now going to take some questions. (I love this format. Short sessions and then brief Q&A.)
• 1:45 PM tonymorganlive - “Make the decision no matter what the short term pain.”
• 1:44 PM tonymorganlive - “Find someone one or two steps ahead of you and learn how they think.”
• 1:42 PM tonymorganlive - “If you have what you want, you may not see what God wants you to see.”
• 1:41 PM tonymorganlive - “People are going to die and go to hell. When you realize that, you can do things that you used to think you couldn’t do.”
• 1:40 PM tonymorganlive - “Limitations are often the breeding ground for innovation.”
• 1:40 PM colstoncopeland - We are about to shut down our Christian school and it isnt going to be pretty…. We know this is the right move, however its difficult to break hearts.
• 1:38 PM tonymorganlive - “Don’t be afraid if they leave. You can grow when people leave.”
• 1:36 PM tonymorganlive - “If this isn’t the place for you, go find someplace that is.”
• 1:35 PM tonymorganlive - “Create a culture that allows people to leave on good terms.”
• 1:34 PM colstoncopeland - Good stuff…. Experience the pain today so we can celebrate in God’s victory tomorrow….
• 1:33 PM tonymorganlive - (colston, we better. or we’re letting certain families hold God’s mission for the church hostage.)
• 1:31 PM tonymorganlive - “Some of you…you’re going to have to step into the pain.”
• 1:29 PM colstoncopeland - DO you make the hard call even if it will cost you families in the church?
• 1:28 PM tonymorganlive - “You have to get to place where you’ll say, ‘I love the mission enough to make the hard call.’”
• 1:27 PM tonymorganlive - “I hired and recruited for today and not for tomorrow.”
• 1:26 PM tonymorganlive - “We can’t allow someone to hold back the mission of the church.”
• 1:25 PM tonymorganlive - “Make the necessary changes in order to further the mission. Make the hard decisions.”
• 1:23 PM tonymorganlive - “What are you doing that you need to stop doing?”
• 1:22 PM tonymorganlive - “The only way we could do the things no one else was doing was stop doing the things everyone else was doing.”
• 1:21 PM tonymorganlive - “Why are we putting all these resources into something that isn’t bearing spiritual fruit?”
• 1:20 PM tonymorganlive - “We were just entertaining Christians from other churches.”
• 1:19 PM tonymorganlive - “Do what we are uniquely called by God to do.”
• 1:19 PM tonymorganlive - “We can reach more by doing less.”
• 1:14 PM tonymorganlive - “When we modeled it, they started to do it.”
• 1:12 PM paulHharris - sure craig!
• 1:09 PM tonymorganlive - @shaneduffey will appreciate the fact that Craig just mentioned midgets.
• 1:09 PM tonymorganlive - “We have 6 kids because my wife won’t leave me alone. I beg her. Can we just cuddle tonight?”
• 1:08 PM tonymorganlive - “What got us here won’t get us there.”
• 1:07 PM tonymorganlive - “The longer you are there, the harder it is to break out.”
• 1:06 PM tonymorganlive - “Organizations settle into what is comfortable and safe.”
• 1:06 PM tonymorganlive - “Organizations love to settle.”
• 1:05 PM tonymorganlive - Craig just shared a funny story about being trapped. Too bad you weren’t here to hear it. :-)
• 1:01 PM tonymorganlive - Craig just said Andy is one of the greatest leaders and godliest people. Andy is influencing thousands of people around the world.
• 12:58 PM tonymorganlive - People are cleaning up the stage from the mess Lanny made. Brad is introducing Craig.
• 12:57 PM tonymorganlive - Lanny is still talking. Hang on…
• 12:53 PM tonymorganlive - Lanny Donoho is going through a long, long presentation about momentum. He just used the word “hence”.
• 12:50 PM tonymorganlive - I’ll be live blogging Craig’s session here. Tell your friends.

• 11:55 AM tonymorganlive - Got stuck in traffic and arrived late at Catalyst One Day. Let me catch you up on some of what Andy shared this first session.
• 11:57 AM tonymorganlive - “New triggers momentum… Anything new creates some kind of momentum.”
• 11:57 AM tonymorganlive - “Do we need a new leader, a new product, a new direction or some combination of the three?”
• 11:58 AM tonymorganlive - “Momentum is never created by tweaking something old.”
• 11:58 AM tonymorganlive - “New doesn’t guarantee sustained momentum, but it’s the trigger for momentum.”
• 11:58 AM tonymorganlive - “Then they show up at church and think, ‘This is kind of like it was 10 years ago.’”
• 11:59 AM tonymorganlive - “Continuous improvement requires systematic evaluation.”
• 11:59 AM tonymorganlive - “It’s God’s will for people to get their feelings hurt.”
• 11:59 AM tonymorganlive - “You sacrifice the many for the one.”
• 11:59 AM tonymorganlive - “If lack of momentum doesn’t bother your current personnel, you have the wrong personnel.”
• 12:00 PM tonymorganlive - “Momentum requires friction.”
• 12:00 PM tonymorganlive - “Complexity kills momentum.”
• 12:00 PM tonymorganlive - “Most churches grow towards complexity and competing systems.”
• 12:01 PM tonymorganlive - “New. Improved. Improving.”
• 12:01 PM tonymorganlive - Andy is about ready to take questions. This might be interesting.
• 12:02 PM tonymorganlive - “Do I just want a bigger church? Or do I want to reach more people for Jesus?”
• 12:02 PM tonymorganlive - “If you’re just trying to draw a crowd, it’ll feel gimicky.”
• 12:03 PM tonymorganlive - Need to ask the question: “Is this really about life change?”
• 12:04 PM tonymorganlive - “New systems and structure will create internal momentum but not external momentum.”
• 12:07 PM tonymorganlive - “You have to decide that it doesn’t matter if they fire you.”
• 12:08 PM tonymorganlive - I love it that Andy always just says what he’s thinking.
• 12:08 PM tonymorganlive - “Am I more concerned about who I’m reaching or who I’m keeping.”
• 12:11 PM tonymorganlive - “If personnel decisions are not emotional and difficult, then we have a heart issue.”
• 12:12 PM tonymorganlive - “Where are we manufacturing energy?”
• 12:13 PM tonymorganlive - “Where are there competing systems?”
• 12:13 PM tonymorganlive - Simplicity.
• 12:15 PM tonymorganlive - A man with a cowboy hat just walked by.
• 12:16 PM tonymorganlive - Brad Lomenick is asking Andy about some new products including Andy’s newest book that just released.
• 12:17 PM tonymorganlive - Anne Jackson (@flowerdust) is sitting in front of us.
• 12:18 PM tonymorganlive - That’s the end of this session. People are clapping. Time for a break. Check back later for future sessions.

This wedding ceremony wouldn’t be so funny if it wasn’t so true. This is the video we showed in yesterday’s message to open the iwantanewmarriage.com series.

The message series continues next week. Perry will be back from his trip to Kenya. My guess is he’ll have stories to share and a new passion for what’s coming next at NewSpring.

Don’t miss it. Invite your friends.

You deserve a new marriage.

• 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.

• 11:44 AM tony morgan - People are filtering in late today because of the ice storm. Session will begin soon.
• 11:53 AM tony morgan - robbie seay is leading worship this morning. sounds great.
• 12:04 PM tony morgan - ed stetzer just took the platform. he’s using powerpoint. going retro.
• 12:05 PM tony morgan - “don’t believe the hype.”
• 12:05 PM tony morgan - “many who promote bad news have a program to fix it.”
• 12:07 PM tony morgan - “we tend to be ready to believe things too soon.”
• 12:08 PM tony morgan - (i wish i had a snuggie. it’s cold in here.)
• 12:08 PM tony morgan - “the dangerous church will seize economic opportunity.”
• 12:09 PM tony morgan - “the church will have less money in the coming years, but more people attending our churchces.”
• 12:09 PM tony morgan - “are you going to pray for economic recovery or spiritual awakening?”
• 12:10 PM tony morgan - “sexual confusion will not go away.”
• 12:12 PM tony morgan - 83% of always-unchurched said lack of openness to homosexuals would negatively impact their view of the church.
• 12:12 PM tony morgan - “gender inclusion is an issue that churches will have to wrestle with.”
• 12:13 PM tony morgan - “you need to have an answer on this issue.”
• 12:14 PM tony morgan - “we’ll face increasing intolerance in the name of tolerance.”
• 12:15 PM tony morgan - “the fact that your local store is unwilling to say ‘merry christmas’ is not religious persecution.”
• 12:15 PM tony morgan - “there are less seekers, at least the way we defined them in the past.”
• 12:15 PM tony morgan - “today we live in a post-seeker context.”
• 12:16 PM tony morgan - “the church will regain confidence in the Gospel.”
• 12:18 PM tony morgan - “evangelicalism is confused right now.”
• 12:19 PM tony morgan - “the dangerous church will have rethought discipleship.”
• 12:20 PM tony morgan - “the dangerous church will have worked through denomination catharsis.”
• 12:21 PM tony morgan - “church are learning to network together.”
• 12:22 PM tony morgan - “we end up looking like each other.”
• 12:24 PM tony morgan - ed is introducing the next speakers. nancy ortberg will be next.
• 12:25 PM tony morgan - nancy just took the stage.
• 12:25 PM tony morgan - “innovation is not a sound-bite.”
• 12:26 PM tony morgan - “we innovate because the Gospel of Christ transforms people.”
• 12:26 PM tony morgan - “the Gospel is always provocative.”
• 12:27 PM tony morgan - “leaders need to realize leadership is more about managing tensions than solving problems.”
• 12:27 PM tony morgan - “you can’t have innovation without infrastructure.”
• 12:28 PM tony morgan - “change is both incremental and exponential.”
• 12:29 PM tony morgan - “pastors need to struggle with the tension between passion and humility.”
• 12:30 PM tony morgan - “innovation happens best in teams.”
• 12:32 PM tony morgan - “you need to have spiritual gift radar.”
• 12:32 PM tony morgan - “an ego and check says ‘i will put people on the team that are better than me.’”
• 12:33 PM tony morgan - (i’ve made my living on that principle.)
• 12:33 PM tony morgan - “we have to get better and better about inviting the next generation on our teams.”
• 12:34 PM tony morgan - (wouldn’t you like to hear what conversations in the ortberg household are like?)
• 12:36 PM tony morgan - “learn to be a great question asker.”
• 12:36 PM tony morgan - “one of my favorite questions is ‘i don’t know. what do you think?’”
• 12:38 PM tony morgan - “risk comes with failure. they are kissing cousins.”
• 12:39 PM tony morgan - “you should have as many stories about your failures as you have for successes.”
• 12:39 PM tony morgan - “we criticize ideas too soon.”
• 12:39 PM tony morgan - “the biggest thing that stands in the way of risk is fear.”
• 12:40 PM tony morgan - “do not be afraid.”
• 12:43 PM tony morgan - “where i live, church attendance is only 4 to 6%.”
• 12:43 PM tony morgan - “innovation comes from hope. and hope is where leaders live.”
• 12:44 PM tony morgan - nancy finished. bob roberts just took the platform.
• 12:45 PM tony morgan - “the global church is exploding.”
• 12:45 PM tony morgan - bob is a local guy. here’s the link to his church:
• 12:48 PM tony morgan - (bob seems a little angry. guess he’s just passionate about this topic.)
• 12:48 PM tony morgan - “it’s really not about missions. it’s about the kingdom of God.”
• 12:52 PM tony morgan - “if we follow the great commission, we’d see the world turned upside down.”
• 12:52 PM tony morgan - “the great commission says, ‘make disciples.’” it doesn’t say plant churches.
• 12:53 PM tony morgan - “why are we not in danger?”
• 12:54 PM tony morgan - “when CNN starts talking about all the bad stuff going on, that’s God saying ‘Over here.’”
• 12:58 PM tony morgan - “salvation is the beginning point, not the end game.”
• 12:59 PM tony morgan - “first and foremost the Bible is a living book.”
• 1:02 PM tony morgan - “we take disciples and make them religious and pull them further and further away from society.”
• 1:04 PM tony morgan - i’m sorry i’m going to miss john bishop. he has a great story. but i need to go prepare for my breakout session.

• 10:42 PM tony morgan - hang on. one more song and then the speakers will start.
• 10:48 PM tony morgan - john jenkins introduced himself as the emcee.
• 10:48 PM tony morgan - cool suit.
• 10:52 PM tony morgan - john is doing all the introductions.
• 10:52 PM tony morgan - dave gibbons is taking the platform. dave is the senior pastor of newsong church in irvine, ca.
• 10:52 PM tony morgan - “there’s a great shift going on in our world today.”
• 10:54 PM tony morgan - (we’re watching a video on that great shift. it’s hilarious!)
• 10:54 PM tony morgan - check out www.screamingfrog.com
• 10:55 PM tony morgan - “the world has changed. how do we navigate it?”
• 10:55 PM tony morgan - “we’re experiencing the greatest transfer of wealth in human history.”
• 10:55 PM tony morgan - the transfer is happening from the west to the east.
• 10:56 PM tony morgan - (in case you didn’t know, dave is really smart. he also has a huge heart.)
• 10:57 PM tony morgan - “there’s hope.”
• 10:57 PM tony morgan - “bad news is better than no news.”
• 10:57 PM tony morgan - “scarcity brings clarity.”
• 10:58 PM tony morgan - “waste less.”
• 10:58 PM tony morgan - “when darkness occurs, that’s when the church can shine.”
• 11:02 PM tony morgan - “we define ‘neighbor’ as someone like us.”
• 11:03 PM tony morgan - “isn’t it difficult to love someone who has betrayed you?”
• 11:04 PM tony morgan - “we need to move towards fueling creativity rather than preserving our culture.”
• 11:06 PM tony morgan - “focus on the fringe.”
• 11:08 PM tony morgan - “develop holistic and sustainable approaches rather than quick fixes.”
• 11:09 PM tony morgan - “the greatest things in life are hard to describe.”
• 11:10 PM tony morgan - “maybe we’re getting too micro at times.”
• 11:11 PM tony morgan - “think intersections.”
• 11:12 PM tony morgan - “place yourselves at the intersections of multiple domains and cultures.”
• 11:12 PM tony morgan - “seek God and pray.”
• 11:14 PM tony morgan - next up is john jenkins. here’s his bio:
• 11:14 PM tony morgan - “i want to talk with you about courage to change.”
• 11:17 PM tony morgan - “change scares people.”
• 11:18 PM tony morgan - john has a mini-computer that he’s using for his notes. nice.
• 11:19 PM tony morgan - “getting people to change means getting them to think differently.”
• 11:20 PM tony morgan - “if we continue to do what we’ve always done, we will always get what we’ve always had.”
• 11:21 PM tony morgan - (dj says it’s a netbook running windows ce.)
• 11:22 PM tony morgan - “churches would rather die than change.”
• 11:23 PM tony morgan - “go ahead and preach pastor jenkins because they aren’t going to say anything.”
• 11:24 PM tony morgan - (i think there are too many white people in this crowd.)
• 11:26 PM tony morgan - “he didn’t just take it down, he broke that joker into pieces.”
• 11:27 PM tony morgan - “i wonder how many churches are dying because they refuse to deal with the root causes and only deal with the symptoms.”
• 11:29 PM tony morgan - “our church had been actively involved in church work. we had 32 clubs.”
• 11:29 PM tony morgan - “we was having church.”
• 11:30 PM tony morgan - what are these ministries doing to address these problems over here?
• 11:31 PM tony morgan - “we had been doing church work but not the work of the church.”
• 11:32 PM tony morgan - “our church had courage to change.”
• 11:33 PM tony morgan - matt chandler just took the platform.
• 11:33 PM tony morgan - “i’m the goofy white boy.”
• 11:34 PM tony morgan - (this is my first time hearing matt chandler.)
• 11:34 PM tony morgan - “i think people are pitching tents where they don’t belong.”
• 11:37 PM tony morgan - “paul trained timothy in both engagement and depth.”
• 11:38 PM tony morgan - engage society and build christ-centered churches.
• 11:38 PM tony morgan - “i’ve become the Bible guy. aren’t we all supposed to be the Bible guys? doctrine matters.”
• 11:39 PM tony morgan - “if you missed the Gospel, it doesn’t matter the crowds you draw or the humanitarian aid you provide.”
• 11:40 PM tony morgan - “it doesn’t matter the praise given if the praise is wrong.”
• 11:41 PM tony morgan - “avoid myths and pursue godliness.”
• 11:41 PM tony morgan - “what stirs your affections for Jesus Christ? what robs you of that affection?”
• 11:43 PM tony morgan - “you’re the rotary club and not the church.”
• 11:43 PM tony morgan - “it looked like a rob bell glasses festival out there.”
• 11:44 PM tony morgan - “don’t be timid.”
• 11:46 PM tony morgan - (i think i own that pair of jeans…)
• 11:47 PM tony morgan - “everyone thinks they’re the next big thing.”
• 11:48 PM tony morgan - “you’re going to have to remember the call.”
• 11:50 PM tony morgan - “i have one hope.”
• 11:50 PM tony morgan - “progressive sanctification is for pastors too.”
• 11:50 PM tony morgan - “way too many retarded men out there.”
• 11:51 PM tony morgan - “i believe we never want what we deserve.”
• 11:51 PM tony morgan - “whatever you spend your life on, if it’s not the Gospel, it’s only a matter of time before it turns to dust.”
• 11:52 PM tony morgan - “we must play our part well.”
• 11:52 PM tony morgan - “our part is teaching and preaching the Gospel.”
• 11:53 PM tony morgan - “God help us.”
• 11:53 PM tony morgan - that’s it for this evening. see you tomorrow morning.

• 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.