Planning on attending Radicalis? Well, Rick has some advice for people who attend his upcoming conference. He gives Some radical tips at his radical website (for pastors) called, pastors.com:
1) Pray and ask God to prepare your heart to listen to what He has to say to you.
2) Pray for the speakers and individual learning experience leaders that God would give them the messages and the ability to effectively communicate the principles He wants in the lives of everyone at Radicalis.
3) Be ready and open to God enacting Radical change in your life.
4) Read the Radicalis schedule thoroughly, and have your team select the sessions that will be most likely to improve your ministry. If you brought multiple members of your team, make sure you’re maximizing your team’s exposure to a variety of learning opportunities.
5) Ask a colleague to become your Radicalis buddy, so you can share what you learn. This collaboration will bring special benefits when you talk about individual learning experiences that only one of you attended.
6) Stay for all of Radicalis. You never know what good information, blessing or message from God you might miss by arriving late or leaving early.
7) Take plenty of business cards, to help new acquaintances remember you. Leave time for networking and visiting the exhibit tent. You’ll not only find great information there, but it’s a great place to meet people.
8) Tactfully collect as many business cards as you can, so you can follow up with post cards, E-mails, phone calls and appointments.
9) Don’t Cling to the Familiar. Hanging around with someone you already know can be fun and more comfortable, but it can limit your ability to meet new people. Strike out on your own and meet new people, or split up, and each bring back someone new to the conversation.
10) Buy the tapes and audio CDs recorded during the sessions. Do this even for the sessions you attend, to reinforce your learning.
11) Become an active participant, asking questions and making comments. The topics will take on new life for you.
12) Take good notes! We remember less and less of what we hear the older we get. Taking notes actually helps you remember what you hear.
13) Take some time to enjoy yourself and grow together as a team. Do 1$ Taco night at the refinery together. Explore the area together.
14) Have fun and enjoy the times of worship. Remember this isn’t just about filling up with information, but being filled up in His presence and inspired to go back and reach your community for Christ.
15) Stay for the weekend. Enjoy the great worship and weather in Southern California by staying through the weekend.
16) Radicalis is just the beginning. Become involved in our network of pastors through Pastors.com and keep sharing and learning with other pastors across the world.
17) Come back next year and tell others about the great experience you had at Radicalis. "
Could we look at that again? This time, let's think about what is being said.
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1) Pray and ask God to prepare your heart to listen to what He has to say to you.
The idea is being communicated that God is speaking here....even though on the surface it will be Rick and friends....
2) Pray for the speakers and individual learning experience leaders that God would give them the messages and the ability to effectively communicate the principles He wants in the lives of everyone at Radicalis.
... through the speakers.... and the "individual learning experience leaders."
3) Be ready and open to God enacting Radical change in your life.
... ready for RADICAL CHANGE... probably hearing things new to you , that you never heard before. After all, Radicalis is very RADICAL.
4) Read the Radicalis schedule thoroughly, and have your team select the sessions that will be most likely to improve your ministry. If you brought multiple members of your team, make sure you’re maximizing your team’s exposure to a variety of learning opportunities.
"Improve your ministry" is code.... It refers to "CHANGE" or to make "healthy".
Also, after reading this, you may want to refer to item number 3... which tell you to "Be ready and open to God enacting Radical change in your life." a.k.a.... "improve."
The idea presented here is that you and people from your church should spread out, so that members of your group will not all hear the same thing and discuss that. Instead they recommend that you discuss different things from your differing points of view.
5) Ask a colleague to become your Radicalis buddy, so you can share what you learn. This collaboration will bring special benefits when you talk about individual learning experiences that only one of you attended.
This is suggested as opposed to the idea of getting the set of recorded sessions that will be sold after the conference so you can listen to the sessions you missed and would have liked to attend. Strange. Are there any other reasons that they might suggest people in ministry split up and "collaborate" on two different individual learning experiences together, later, rather than attend a topic together?
6) Stay for all of Radicalis. You never know what good information, blessing or message from God you might miss by arriving late or leaving early.
Yes, you do not wan to miss that message or blessing from God... even though it might be God;s will that you leave a little early or through unforeseen circumstances, (or airline schedules) you might arrive late. Here again the idea is presented that God is directly involved in what is taking place at this conference, moreover, you might miss out on His blessing if you are not completely devoted to this event and the people involved in the process taking place. It's obvious, if you are really radical, you will not want to miss out on one moment of this event, one word of any of the plenary speakers... Rick Warren, Matt Carter, Steven Furtick, David Gibbons, Shawn Lovejoy, and Pete Wilson. You can learn more about them by licking on their names.
7) Take plenty of business cards, to help new acquaintances remember you. Leave time for networking and visiting the exhibit tent. You’ll not only find great information there, but it’s a great place to meet people.
If you are into networking, then don't miss this opportunity... Network, network, network.
8) Tactfully collect as many business cards as you can, so you can follow up with post cards, E-mails, phone calls and appointments.
Network, network, and more network... In the end, you want to be sure you can follow up and make sure everyone knows your name. Conferences like this are all about networking.
Key messages here are: "Don't cling to the familiar," "strike out on your own," and "conversation."
10) Buy the tapes and audio CDs recorded during the sessions. Do this even for the sessions you attend, to reinforce your learning.
This is about getting those Purpose Driven products into the hands of those consumers! But then, you do remember how important they told you it was for you to go to separate lectures than your buddies or co-workers, a suggestion made in point number 5.
11) Become an active participant, asking questions and making comments. The topics will take on new life for you.
12) Take good notes! We remember less and less of what we hear the older we get. Taking notes actually helps you remember what you hear.
This means, be sure to fill in the blanks with the appropriate words you hear....something practiced al the time at purpose driven churches. Providing these make note taking simple and it helps ensure you are learning what is said.
13) Take some time to enjoy yourself and grow together as a team. Do 1$ Taco night at the refinery together. Explore the area together.
The Refinery.... (capitalized here because it is a proper noun, ) is the name of a multipupose restaurant area located on the Saddleback Campus. The history of it can be checked out here.
14) Have fun and enjoy the times of worship. Remember this isn’t just about filling up with information, but being filled up in His presence and inspired to go back and reach your community for Christ.
15) Stay for the weekend. Enjoy the great worship and weather in Southern California by staying through the weekend.
16) Radicalis is just the beginning. Become involved in our network of pastors through Pastors.com and keep sharing and learning with other pastors across the world.
It is vitally important to us that you get connected to and begin reading daily messages from Rick either sent to your personal mailbox or posted at pastors.com, ("a free newsletter to help ministry leaders grow "healthy" churches." ) It is vitally important to you and your perceived peers; after all, how else is Rick Warren going to be able to talk to you every day and tell you what book or passage of scripture to read and what to think? How else will you, dear pastor, know what new product he has released, to buy?
17) Come back next year and tell others about the great experience you had at Radicalis. "
Preach the word...("Radicalis"). in season and out,. Make sure everyone knows how great Radicalis is.
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