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

A Credible Witness - Brenda McNeil

*I walked in late for this session because the bathroom lines were so long*
  • "here" is temporary, it's a place thats on the way to "there"
  • Acts 1:8 - "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
  • Jerusalem: home turf, your clique, comfortable, people understand one another
  • Judea: still somewhat comfortable, but different subcultures and lingos, potential awkward moments of confusion
  • Samaria: don't know what to do, how to act; awkward; hostile territory
  • the power of God will come upon us not for our glory, but for his.
  • this is why we can only do it together
  • if one accomplishes something, the one gets the glory; if we accomplish things together, God gets the glory.
  • Unbelievers won't believe you if you try to pull it off alone
  • "it's not important who gets the credit as long as God gets the glory" - Craig Groeschel
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