LifeServe Conference

I've just wrapped up my first ever LifeServe Conference in Loveland, Colorado. The focus of this conference was helping train church leaders to equip people to serve. A couple of great nuggets I plan to take back to my team...

• Externally Focused - A huge emphasis was placed on the church being missional (people of God partnering with Him on His redemptive mission in the world). Good ideas were given to help guide the Church into this existence.
  
• Getting Closer to Jesus - We always talk about being a disciple of Jesus. To be a disciple is to follow and get closer to Jesus. Where might we follow Jesus to get closer to him? Where did he hang out? Yep, you got it, the "sinners." We need to rethink where we hang out if we want to be a disciple of Jesus.
  
• Where We Serve - One of the things we at our church have been thinking about is how we might better engage our members. To follow up with the "getting closer to Jesus" point, we're going to have to think of inside the church walls service and outside the church walls service as parallel ministries. We often promote inside the church walls service as "real ministry" and in doing so we limit people and discredit ministry outside the church wall.
  

My favorite quote of the conference came from Wayne Cordeiro. "You teach what you know. You reproduce what you are."