My raw notes from Craig Groeschel’s session at the Exponential Conference.

- Preach a dangerous message.

- Lukewarm pastors build lukewarm churches.

- It’s about Christ breaking you, being born again AGAIN.

- It’s about the Kingdom, not your church! Don’t be obsessed with your own church, you cannot affect the city by yourself.

- Build on what you are rather than on what you are not. Don’t put other churches down by saying what you don’t do that they do or what you can do better than them. Be passionate about what you are.

- Think about the things you can do with other churches, and be humble.

- Don’t build a movement based on old measurements of success. These measurements are changing.

- Your identity is not in numbers, but in who you are in Christ.

- Don’t blame yourself on the declines, our you’ll be tempted to get credit for the increases.

- Success has changed. It’s got to be about less of us and more of Him.

- Think of the mission, not numbers.

- Megachurches are not necesarily “mega.” If you compared them with how many people still don’t know Christ, they are rather small.

- There are 3 levels of belief:

1. Enough to benefit (consumer mindset)

2. Enough to serve

3. Enough to give your life for it

- We may be tempted to go from 3 to 2 or 1 and settle. It shouldn’t be so. Always be at 3.

- Let’s take the world before the trumpet sounds!

If you think my notes are crappy, you are right! So check out Doug Gamble’s blog for better notes!