9 Leadership Lessons From Brandon Hatmaker – Live Notes From Exponential ’13

April 24, 2013 0 Comments

Today is Day 2 of my conference experience this week.  I have been having an Inception moment throughout the day.  Representing The Rocket Company, I am sitting at the Orange Conference in Atlanta and also sharing insights from the Exponential from Orlando.  In other words, I’m blogging about a conference from a conference.  Pretty cool!!!
Exponential ’13, whose purpose is to Accelerate Movements, had just a great afternoon session with Brandon Hatmaker, Lead Pastor of Austin New Church, on the subject of true Biblical community.
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1. What was once a place built on community (the original Starbucks in Seattle) had become so efficient that people were being herded in and out like cattle.  They gave the people what they wanted.  This is what the church becomes without community.  A tour stop for consumers.
2. Community just didn’t fill a need in their lives to get plugged in.  It gave them purpose.
3. Discipleshift occurs when we as leaders move people from programs to moving them to live on mission.
4. Community without mission is not biblical community.
5. The first a missionary will want to do is engage their culture.
6. They engage culture by identifying their needs and engaging the needs of that culture.
7. Church is what church does.  We are what we do…It organizes what it does.  If we don’t get create the structure that mirrors the vision, we’ll never do it.
8. When people are confused or distracted, the first thing you will lose is mission.
9. If we say we are going to do something (mission) instead of that (another good idea), it communicates the value of the mission.