Couperspective: Catalyst: Between the Promise and the Payoff

Dear Reader:

This is a side project blog that I started with the purpose of posting my perspectives and experiences from Catalyst conference this past year. I say perspectives in place of "notes that I collected" because anything you read here will simply be my highly subjective responses to the revolutionary thinkers and leaders who shared from the Catalyst stage. In a place where pieces of gold lie all over the place, I tried to find the nuggets which to me seemed the most valuable, stuffing my pockets full of 30 pages worth of shining jewels.

I regret that I must leave many gold nuggets for others to acquire, because my pen can only write as fast as my hand can move, which is not as fast as some of these fine people can speak. As Reggie Joiner said, Catalyst is like trying to take a drink from a fire hydrant. Your mouth can only hold so much, and you're lucky to fill your mouth up to the full capacity anyways because you get so blown away with the volume and power of what you've just heard.

The other regret I have is that a blog is not the same as a notebook, and though this will be slightly more visually and sequentially organized, it will be more difficult to understand the full meaning and concept reading from this blog. I have placed my thoughts here in the most organized and understandable way that I can think of without the use of the stars, arrows, circles, and boxes which cover the pages of my notebook. Despite this disadvantage, I hope that you will hear something new nonetheless.

I have written for too long here. Read on below and enjoy the Catalyst experience, or as much of it as I could bring home to you. Enjoy. Together.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Between the Promise and the Payoff - Steven Furtick

when God makes a promise, between the promise and the payoff, there must be a process
this process usually hurts . . . a lot
you have to rely on God to give you vision when there's nothing to see
it always starts small, don't give up hope
ministry is going into the world with the things people need

with the non-abundance of notes from this message, you may think that Mr. Furtick was not engaging or "good." on the contrary, the reason there are not many notes is because he was so engaging. He passionately encouraged us to keep striving for what God has promised. Go get 'em.

1 comment:

jeff said...: Yeah - last year I had notes from everyone except Francis Chan - - - because the Holy Spirit through him was so captivating that I couldn't be distracted by taking notes; October 12, 2008 at 11:07 AM