Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Chazown

I'm sitting in on Craig Groeschel's lab at Catalyst.

Craig has been a huge personal encouragement to me. He's one of the most visionary yet down-to-earth leaders I know. Craig is a fellow-Multnomah author. Check out his books: Chazown and Confessions of a Pastor.

Here are some notes.

Everybody ends up somehwere.
Few people end up somewhere on purpose.

Craiq shared four chazown markers. We will encounter these four things along the vision path.

#1 Spirit's Prompting

I love the image Craiq shared. He shook up a can of coke. That is what God wants to do to us. That's what it means to be "compelled by the spirit"--Acts 20:22

#2 Certain Uncertainty

When you step out in faith there is usually, in Craig's words, an "o crap" moment. That is so true :)

#3 Predictable Resistance

I love this thought Craig shared about one of his ministry "failures." His student group grew backwards and someone said to him: if you blame yourself for the decline you'll be tempted to take credit for the incline !

#4 Uncommon Clarity

2 Comments:

At October 04, 2006 7:31 PM, Blogger Corey Mann said...

Mark,
My name is Corey Mann, I'm the high school director at GCC, (Tony Morgan is my boss!)
I'm now doing mornings on a radio station in town...they stream live on the internet too...LOTS O' PEOPLE are listening right now, (I used to be a big deal, and then left radio for ministry 4 years ago..now I'm back and there is a BUZZ) I would love to interview you about the book on my morning show...but I have to tell you-I haven't read the book yet although it is on my current reading list and I'm looking forward to it.
If you are interested...574-210-7950 is my cell phone and maybe we could set something up.
Thanks for your time.

 
At October 05, 2006 6:14 AM, Blogger Mark Batterson said...

Corey,

That'd be phenomenal :) I'll give you a ring.

Mark

 

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