I had the opportunity to go to Innovative Impact to hear Mark Batterson speak. Andy and I went just to hear Mark. Andy got us in for free since he used to work there. I got to meet Mark and he signed a book for me.
Here are the unedited notes I took.
- Your legacy is not your church – it’s your family!
- 2 Samuel 23:20-22
- Dream God sized dreams – God is so much bigger than our wildest dreams
- I don’t want to live my life to the best I can live my life. I want to live my life to the best that God can do through my life.
- The best I can do is the best God can do
- I don’t want things to happen in my life that I am capable of.
- I want to do things that only God is capable of, then I can’t still any of the credit.
- I pray for the favor of God.
- I pray for the favor of God on my family, my church
- I wish I could forget some of the Bible – we suffer from hindsight bias – we know how the stories end – we know when the men are walking around the walls of Jericho that the walls come tumbling down – imagine watching that story unfold not knowing the end – DRAMA – David and Goliath, Peter walking on water, etc
- Action regret – doing something you wish you had not done – short term regret
- Inaction regret – not doing something you should have done – long term regret
- Therefore our biggest regrets at the end of our lives will be the lions we did not chase
- What breaks our heart more as parents – r u happy when they don’t do something wrong or more happy when they do something great?
- God has called us to play offense not defense
- Stop being not doers –
- I’m competitive – I don’t even like losing candyland to my kids
- WOW – story of coaching kids on the side yelling we are on offense – wonder if Jesus is yelling at us… We’re on Offense
- we are known more for what we are against than what we are for!
- had a 533% growth in one week, the prior week was just his family because of huge blizzard
- You do little things like they are big things
- Coffeehouses are today’s modern wells!
- The only thing better would have been if the architect had designed a fireman’s pole to the coffeehouse
- When do you feel like a failure as a parent – when you react to your kids instead of act and create the vision
- I refuse to sacrifice my family on the alter of ministry
- I am fasting yelling for Lent
- Physical, intellectual, spiritual challenges for his son!
- I am going to play offense with my family
- You’ve made a few more trips around the sun than I have had – nice way of saying your old
- I’m grateful that I have a heavenly that tag-teams with me as an earthly father
- Are you playing offense spiritually?
- How many would say, I’m just being honest I prayed too much last year, I read the Bible too much last year
- Dream God sized dreams for one reason – they force you to stay on your knees with Him.
- Pray ridiculous prayers!
- Coffeehouse
- Matthew 18:18 – is the only explanation of why they have coffeehouse
- May 26, 2005 most memorable day of my life – Ethiopia National Park – Game Drive – what an amazing creator God is – that night around a campfire singing worship songs – What if sarah hadn’t faced her fears – the memories, the stories would have gone untold – she was pooped on by a baboon – only bad thing – but it was awesome
- Don’t accumulate possessions accumulate stories!
- What were bedtime stories like at Beniah’s time? Hey dad tell us that lion chasing story again!