mentoring | Unfolding Neurons

As promised here are some wrap-up thoughts (albeit I got this published a bit later than I originally intended!) on the 2010 PAOC General Conference that I had the privilege of attending this year. I’m so grateful for the opportunity granted to me by my church family that made it possible for my wife and I to go – it was our first ever General Conference in the 14 years that I’ve been a PAOC Pastor.

Overall, there are really two “themes” that kind of impacted me the most in all the things I heard and experienced at this conference. There was nothing really groundbreaking or life-changing for me but it was more of a reinforcement of the things I’ve learned in ministry and a reminder of the importance of them.

1. The importance of working together in relationship in the Kingdom

The message was loud and clear this conference – what we accomplish together is far greater than what we’d accomplish individually. Whether that is on the denominational level (i.e. supporting national initiatives or missions internationally), or the local level (working with others in our cities) there was a renewed emphasis on keeping the relationship strong in everything we do.

...This is a preview of #PAOCGENCONF2010 – Thoughts and Review.
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I attended the breakout session with my lead pastor (Marshall Eizenga) to hear Wayne Cordeiro again. Wayne expanded further on what he had talked about the previous evening in the general session. Really. Good. Stuff. Here are the notes I took:

Whose cage are you tapping and who is pacing you right now?

you will never have wholeness in a church with broken relationships.
if staff or volunteers come into your office and they don’t make your heart leap ask why!
make sure relationships are good and healthy.
if you don’t have healthy relationships no program will work because everyone will sabotage it.
if you are a repenting man you will be a healthy man
healthy churches still have problems but they deal with them quickly.
Luke 1 when you have healthy relationships the Holy Spirit can move. And He doesn’t need you!
healing requires health – if you tolerate brokenness forget about the healing!
God’s word says without knowledge my people perish.
We always want to make sure what we do is biblical

How do we build relationships?

we need the presence of God in order to have healthy relationships.

...This is a preview of #PAOCGENCONF2010 – Wayne Cordeiro (Mini-Plenary).
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