Shift 09-Francis Chan Notes

• 10:10 AM: countrycuban Francis Chan speaking #Shift09 here: www.tangle.com !


• 11:30 AM: countrycuban The church needs a radical shift. Youth ministry needs a radical shift. Everytime he reads the book of Acts, he doesn't put the Bible down and says, hey... that's just like us?!


• 11:31 AM: countrycuban The book of Acts just shows this unstoppable force of Christians who were on FIRE! Why is that so different from the church today?


• 11:32 AM: countrycuban Why are churches today so stoppable unlike the church in Acts that was so unstoppable.


• 11:34 AM: countrycuban We just resovle ourselves that Acts was just so different b/c well, times are different now. Why can't we believe that could happen today?


• 11:34 AM: countrycuban Acts 4:13. Boldness. Peter and John were common and uneducated men, but people were astonished by their boldness and passion.


• 11:37 AM: countrycuban We know WAY more than the apostles did, but we go, "no, we could NEVER talk to our neighbor about Jesus." Why can't we have that boldnesss?!


• 11:38 AM: countrycuban Jesus got the 11 apostles to reach the world with no internet access (lol). And yet, we can't get 11 friends to reach a few square miles? And it's the same Holy Spirit... what's the problem?


• 11:39 AM: countrycuban Revelation 2... have we forgotten our first love?


• 11:40 AM: countrycuban Sometimes we put our confidence in our new knowledge and education, instead of our Saviour.


• 11:41 AM: countrycuban Be careful not to turn your experiences into principles. - Oswald Chambers


• 11:44 AM: countrycuban You don't want to stand in front of the throne and have God tell you, " You knew what I wanted you to do, but you got scared. Why didn't you do what I told you, why didn't you go through with the thoughts and vision I gave you?"


• 11:47 AM: countrycuban You might not be as educated as Hybels or Piper, but you're more educated than the apostles, and they did pretty good huh? They believed in the power of the Holy Spirit... that makes all the difference.


• 11:49 AM: countrycuban You can lose that first love, you can lose that boldness, you can lose that belief in the Holy Spirit... when you feel complacency in systems.


• 11:51 AM: countrycuban Can you be filled with the Holy Spirit and be bored at the same time? There's NO WAY!


• 11:53 AM: countrycuban 1 Kings 18. Elijah just called upon God , and fire of the Lord fell. When the people saw that, the people fell on their faces, and started saying, "The Lord is God." The unbelievers, now believed. Does that happen in your church, or in your youth group?


• 11:54 AM: countrycuban Sometimes at our gatherings, we look more like the prophets of baal, instead of Elijah.


• 11:55 AM: countrycuban James 5:17. Elijah was a man, just like us. We've got that same Holy Spirit.


• 11:56 AM: countrycuban The life change, what we see in the book of Acts, we can't manipulate that. That's real.


• 12:00 PM: countrycuban John 6:63. The flesh is of NO help... the SPIRIT is what gives life. It all rises and falls on the Holy Spirit. That's what causes us to to be crazy in love with God.


• 12:02 PM: countrycuban There's only one way you can go from Hoochie to Holy... and that's with the Holy Spirit!


• 12:04 PM: countrycuban People need to be attracted to God, BY God... not by speakers or programs.


• 12:05 PM: countrycuban There is so much pressure to build an amazing youth ministry, but at the end of the day, it's about God's Spirit.


• 12:08 PM: countrycuban Great message. I seriously needed to hear that. :)