Archive for January, 1970
I love Hillsong. Love the church. Love the spirit. Love their music. Love their conferences. Love their vision. Did I leave anything out?
I hate the word fan in a Christian context so I won’t debase my admiration for Hillsong to that level. But I’m so grateful for what God is doing in them and through them. In fact, I’ve wanted to get to one of their Hillsong Conferences forever! So I’m a little jealous of Lora because she is actually in London right now at their Colour Your World Conference. She is hanging out with Donna Pisani, co-pastor of our next-door-neighbor-church, Capital City Church.
Looks like we’ll have Christine Caine speaking @ NCC in June. She is an amazing communicator, founder of the A21 Campaign, and part of the Hillsong movement. Plus she has an Australian accent. Can’t wait.
Source: Mark Batterson
For better or for worse, your destiny is determined by decisions. And it’s often big decisions that seem like little decisions, but destiny can turn on a dime.
The decision in I Kings 12:8 was “for worse.” It says: “Rehoboam abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him.”
Who are you listening to?
I think Rehoboam made the classic mistake many young leaders make. He surrounded himself with “yes men.” By surrounding himself with the young men he grew up with he limited his input to those who only knew what he knew. They had only experienced what he experienced. It’s so important that you have some people who can speak into your life from a different vantage point. It’s so important that you have counselors who have been there and done that. It’s so important that you respect those who have made more trips around the sun.
We only make a few major decisions in our lives. We spend the rest of our lives managing those major decisions. This one was catastrophic. This little decision to listen to the wrong voices split the kingdom in two! It led to civil war. And it all sprang from a young leader’s arrogance.
I think it’s so important that we listen to the voice of innovation but we also need to listen to the voice of wisdom. It’s not either/or. It’s both/and.
Source: Mark Batterson
I am a raging Catalyst fan and I make no apologies for it. It’s my privilege to introduce one of this year’s main stage speakers and one of my all-time favorite speakers: Bishop TD Jakes. Check out the website for a full list of speakers and to win a FREE iPad.
Every year we take our entire staff. It’s like a yearly pilgrimage for us. I trace some our defining moments and defining decisions back to moments at the Catalyst Conference. Mark your calendars for October 6-8 at the Gwinnett Center in Atlanta, GA.
Source: Mark Batterson