I was given the opportunity this morning to listen in on Rick Warren's 1st session (Renewing Your Personal Life) with pastors, and business leaders at the PD Community Gathering. I really wish Marc had been here to hear it for himself. So many of the points he made were things every minister/pastor/leader needs to hear when starting out in ministry, or even when they have been at it a while. He gave 5 steps for renewing your church and community.
1) Personal Renewal
2) Relational Renewal
3) Missional Renewal
* he stated that some stop after these 3 points and because of that they may start out good, but by not implementing the next two they miss the mark.
4) Cultural Renewal
5) And then and only then can you implement Structural Renewal.
6) He also mentioned Institutional Renewal
I honestly believe this was something that we needed to hear before we can move forward in ministry (and I say "we" because I think these same principles can apply to our life, whether you are a pastor, teacher, mother, father, etc).
He then went on to explain 7 secrets of staying power ( I took a lot of notes to share with Marc after he gets off of work). There are several leaders speaking this week and several avenues in which you can keep up to date.
Live Summit Team
Extra: So I just happened to be blog surfing (yes, I know its an addiction) and noticed that Dave Ferguson just saved me from typing up the notes from the first session for Marc (lol).
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