Living in Chaos

Mark Batterson @ WiBo...

Ok, so the first speaker at the whiteboard sessions was a guy named Mark Batterson. He's the pastor of the National Community Church in D.C. Here's what he had to say... 

 

#1-We all know that God's thoughts are higher than ours, but the bible actually tells us how much higher. Our thoughts are a universe away from God's(that's 13.2 billion light years.) 

#2-We need to confess our small dreams to God. When we don't dream big, we're selling ourselves(and God) short.

#3-Never cease to be creative, otherwise memory will overtake imagination and instead of saying "why don't we try this?", we'll say "remember when we did that, let's do that again." 

#4-Everything begins with God-given dream. 

#5-One "God Idea" is better than 1000 good idea's. 

#6-The last point was that when Christ said "Go into all the world and preach the gospel" this was a huge deal because in the 1st century, most people never traveled more than 35 miles from there home. God dreams big, we should too.

Wisdom from WiBo...

The Whiteboard sessions, was pretty much amazing. It consisted of 6 incredible pastors, all sharing the "One Big Idea" they wanted to impart to the church. It was interesting to see that all of them had completely different "Big Ideas" to share. It just goes to show you how God uses each of us differently. Over then next week or so, I'll be sharing what I personally got from each speakers point, but bare with me because this next week will be insanely busy(more about that later).

WiBo Schedule...

9am-Worship(w/ Lashey and Joyner) 

9:30-Mark Batterson(National Community Church) 

10:05-Vince Antonucci 

10:35-Break 

10:55-Tim Stevens 

11:30-Darrin Patrick 

12pm-Blogger's Lunch 

1:30-Worship 

1:50-Mark Dever 

2:25-John Burke 

2:55-Break 

3:25-Perry Noble(Newspring) 

4:00-Ed Setzer

Finally...

After 27 torturous hours of not being being able to blog, I can now breath a sigh of relief. Apparently D.C. is "The home of the 10 dollar wi-fi connection", but I knew if I held out long enough, someone would offer free-wifi. So, exactly 10 minutes after Josh caved and payed 10 dollars for one day of internet, I found free wi-fi at Panera Bread. Thanks Panera. So far, D.C. has been amazing! Expect many blogs about our downtown adventures within the next 5 days. We are going to go into "WIBO" in the next few minutes to make sure we get a seat, but I will try to blog every chance I get. PS...If anyone has to be up at 7am, I have found it's much easier with a Venti Caramel Frappucinno...