C3 Post #1 - A Ministry to Pastors and Lay Leaders

I spent Thursday and Friday with my staff at the Creative Church Conference (C3) at Fellowship Church in Grapevine. It was a great conference. It was inspiring, exciting, emotional, worshipful and a great opportunity to sit under the teachings of some pastors I admire who have been there done that and been very successful.

For many pastors, including myself, it is hard to get totally into worship on Sunday mornings. On Sundays I am more concerned about creating an environment for others to worship and receive ministry more than for myself. At conferences like C3, they usually have a pretty powerful worship set before every session and the worship sets at this conference were awesome. I laughed, cried, clapped, and praised and it really felt good to just focus on praising my Father and Savior and be the focus of someone else’s ministry. I need to put myself in the position to be ministered too more often so I can be more energized to do ministry.

The conference speakers included; Ed Young of Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Bill Hybels of Willow Creek in the Chicago area, Erwin McManus of Mosaic in LA, California, and Bishop T. D. Jakes of the Potters House in Dallas.

Although the C3 conference is specifically geared toward church professionals and lay leaders, most of the teaching is very applicable to apprentices of Christ in any field who want to develop into strong Christian leaders. I want to spend a couple of posts or more to reflect on the conference and pass on some good God stuff.

Thank You to Ed Young and his staff for caring about other churches and pastors. As Bishop Jakes said, By feeding and ministering to the twelve you can feed the 5,000.

a refreshed apprentice of Christ
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