A Quick Look Back at Wibo

Here is the Reader's Digest version of my time at Whiteboard today:

Mark Batterson:  

-Your best thought on your best day is light years away from God's thoughts. (Isaiah 55:8-9)

-When was the last time you confessed the smallness of your dreams?

Vince Antonucci:

-Only 2.2% of all churches are experiencing  real growth.

-We need to seek and save that which is lost.

-Are you going to the places where lost people go?

Tim Stevens:

-Reality #1:  Most churches are not impacting their communities.

-Reality #2:  Spiritual interest is growing in our culture.

-We need to leverage the culture or risk losing our impact.

Darrin Patrick:

-All of our sins revolve around one of four core issues: power, comfort, approval or control (Alfred Adler).

Mark Dever:

-Church is not an event to be produced but a community to be cultivated.

John Burke:

-Every 60 minutes ask "God, is this where you want me to be? Is this what you want me to say? Is this what you want me to do?"

Perry Noble:

-We have to understand that we are called, we have priorities and we have temptations.

-We are to be with Him (Mark 3:13).

-We are to preach (Mark 3:14).

-We have been given authority (Mark 3:15)

Ed Stetzer:

-Conferences like this one are like ministry pornography, a picture of an unrealistic experience you are never going to have.