Innovate Conference- Mark Batterson/Ed Stetzer

Mark Batterson is the Lead Pastor for National Community Church in Washington, DC. Here are some notes from his session at Innovate:

• The only thing more dangerous than asking God what He wants to do with your life is not asking Him that question.
• We learn how and forget why.
• We don't really want spiritual maturity but rather self-sufficiency and then to call it spiritual maturity.
• If God gives the vision, He will provide the provision. Don't let budget determine vision. Have vision beyond your resources. Don't let human circumstance define the sovereignty of God.
• Don't do ministry out of memory but out of imagination.

Ed Stetzer is the President of Lifeway Research and currently serves as the Interim Pastor at Two Rivers Baptist Church in Nashville, TN. Here is some of what he shared at Innovate:

• In the church, we've grown accustomed to recruiting instead of reconciliation. We're called to reconciliation. That is called evangelism. Evangelism is not simply inviting people to church.
• Outreach can become the enemy of evangelism when the preaching of Christ is not the goal. We must go and tell, not simply be attractional. We're called to be, do and tell Good News.