Jenni Clayville

Just thought I’d post my notes from my experience Day ONE of Exponential.

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Speaker: Mark Batterson

Numbers 22 (starting at verse 20)

1. If God can use a dumb donkey, He can use you!
2. It’s never about where you are going, but who you are BECOMING.
3. God may be getting in the way to keep us from getting there.
4. We like the open doors… it’s the closed doors we don’t like.
5. Thank God that sometimes He gets in the way.
6. God may close the door over “here” so that you may knock over “there”.
7. God wants you to get where He wants you to go more than YOU wanting to get where you want to go.

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Speaker: Louie Giglio

1. We really need power and we really need life. That comes from the WORDS of God.
2. You cannot do ANYTHING without power
3. You cannot do ANYTHING without being fully alive.
4. Personally, I have ZERO power… and we’re all on cruise control.

ACTS 2

1. The Acts 2 church didn’t KNOW they were an Acts 2 church.
2. They had never seen a church before.
3. They had the teachings of Jesus, the eye-witness of the resurrection & the POWER of the Holy Spirit.
4. We have what they had!!! We actually have MORE!!!
5. Invite the Holy Spirit and let HIM in… not “it”
6. Are you a “revolving door” leader?
7. Do you get your vocabulary from the latest book that came out?
8. Get your vocabulary FROM the teachings of Jesus.
9. If your church planting team doesn’t talk about the power of Jesus & the raising of the Holy Spirit, then you’re NOT raising the church in the right power.
10. Do you speak and lead your team with the confidence of Jesus?
11. Eradicate “Did I knock it out of the park today?” out of your vocabulary.
12. Ask: Did I put the Word of God before people well? Did that assignment happen today?
13. God… free me from walking by sight and help me walk by faith!
14. Lead with the Resurrection.

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And here were some of my favorite quotes from the breakouts today. I wish I could have gotten more out, but the bandwidth at that facilities was over-capacity and too high maintenance to deal with. Anyway… on with the tweets:

“It’s not about being relevant because God is omni-relevant.” ~ @MarkBatterson

“You must BECOME the community instead of reaching OUT to the community.” ~ @markdeymaz

“Always ask ‘what’s the NEXT step forward’ and NOT jump 10 steps ahead.” ~ @markdeymaz

“We gotta be pro-life from womb to tomb in the church!” We need to fight for EVERYONE. ~ @efremsmith

“When we talk about ‘those people’, we are NOT talking about us anymore. thems is us.” ~ @markdeymaz

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Today has been refreshing.

I can’t explain how it feels to just BE a part of something bigger. To be allowed to worship IN the congregation vs. LEADING the congregation. To take communion and reflect on where God has taken me the last few years. To just soak it all in.

I feel so blessed to be here…

… because this is the stuff that makes me a better leader when I return home.