Session 1 @ Orange

ONE THING:
Reggie Joiner
//Prodigal Generation//

Strategy must be linked to this one thing. Or you will not be sucessful.

If the truth is taught aside of this one thing, then it falls flat.

ONE THING is something that defines you, by how you respond or don’t respond

ONE THING is not:
        truth | message | strategy | community | relationships | family | leadership | creativity | Holy Spirit

The one thing that is integral in making your church distinctly different

all of these are needed but must be connected by

ONE THING:

[Telling the story of the prodigal son]
*only two people were not happy about the prodigal coming home – the older brother and the fatten calf
*to understand the point of this story you must understand why the prodigal story was told
*are you an older
*Now the tax collectors ad sinners were all gathering around to hear him. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” Luke 15.1-2
*Jesus came to this earth to build a bridge to sinners.
*He unpacks two different approaches to the prodigal through the three parables.
                _Pharisees Approach | Older Brother
                _Jesus Approach | Father
*What would happen if we decided to do this ONE THING?
        to treat every prodigal in the same way a father would treat his own son
Loving Fathers                                                                        Older Brother
*Loving Fathers are pre-occupied                                         *preoccupied with themselves
with whoever is missing
Andy Stanley: I never want this church to be about who we are trying to keep but instead who are we trying to reach!
//warning: if you are not preoccupied with who ever is missing you are going to be preoccupied with something | and if you are not preoccupied with whoever is missing those in organization will try to get you to be preoccupied with themselves
*older brother operate from a                                                 *older brothers from a context of shame
context of forgiveness                
//warning: we live in a generation that wants to feel better about doing bad stuff. The solution is not to make them feel bad about bad stuff, but to help them feel forgiven.
*loving Fathers throw parties                                                *older brothers throw fits
//warning: if they are going to keep the heart of the prodigal when he comes home it can’t just be around him. it is community around a context of a loving father heart and approach
//warning: you want to put two characteristics that matter and that are going to build your house, put forgiveness and joy there.
*loving fathers confront                                                        * older brothers criticize loving fathers
older brother thinking
*loving fathers keep the lights                                                *older brothers close the doors and turn the lights off
on for as long as it takes

ONE THING: Treating every prodigal like a loving Father would treat his son then your process, team, creativity, articulation, doesn’t matter

podcast overload

I have 1440 mins in everyday. I usually sleep for about 420 of those. Which means I have about 7140 mins to get done everything i need to accomplish in a week. currently i listen to about 14 podcast every week. everything from:

[Mars Hill, Relevant, AskaNinja, Hillsong, and more]
so i am thinking of refocusing my podcast list. maybe cutting down a little or droping a few, and adding others? so the question is what podcast fill your 7140 mins?

duct tape and friends

i saw this and thought this was so wrong, putting your kid in
time out takes on a new meaning.

love my students

woke up this morning to this. i get to hang with the greatest group of students in the world

a little bit of united grafitti. aaaaahhhhh yeah

i’m addicted to amazon

the amazon collection just keeps on growing. it will take me a few months to read all of these I just ordered, and all of them are not in yet, i have more on the way. library overflowing so much i had to bring some home. why am i addicted to books? what good books have you read lately?

a 3rd grade masterpiece

josiah’s 3rd grade collage. it sums up our family in a few pics, okay maybe a lot pics

10 ten debt or money

we are a series right now called: Doors at Riverside.
this week we are doing a David Letterman theme: so for the top ten we want to focus on debt or money issues. I am needing massive help because i searched the web and found nothing. so any help, suggestions, websites, or your submissions would be greatly appreciated. comment away

already submitted:

top ten reasons you know you have money issues:

you’re on a first name bases with the collection agency callers
adding variety to dinner means a different flavor of Ramon noodles

faith like a child

This is my son Micah. He is our second oldest child. The other day the coolest thing happened. I was leaving church and I had Josiah and Micah in the van with me they were really hyper and loud just coming from church. I had a migraine and was driving home [a dangerous thing to do]. I was feeling so sick and felt like I was about to lose last nights chili all over the steering wheel. I was breathing deep trying to keep it down long enough until i could get to the house. Micah looked up at me and said dad what is the matter. I told him i was sick and felt like i was going to throw up. I was concentrating on the road, and then noticed it was really quiet in the seat next to me. I looked over in the seat next to me, and with the most intense look on Micah’s face he had his head burried in his hands and was praying with all of his might. I kept glancing over and he just kept praying away. I wanted to cry and pause that moment. It was so cool to see him praying for me with everything he had. thanks Jesus for faith like a child.

103 days ago

103 days ago i joined millions around this nation in a long honored tradition:

new years resolutions

yes i sat down and made my list of things that i would work on this year. i thought, plotted, and turned the page on different areas of my life. one of the resolutions under physical goals was no soda for a year. that is right not one drop of it till next january one. however one stressful day i fell off of the wagon. i caved in to the pressure of downing a polar pop from the local circle k. so one hundred and three days later from january first i am revisiting all of my goals. i am giving my self a redo, and seeing if i can start over again. here is to the next 263 days[yes i added right it is leap year]. hopefully they are filled with days that end in me being closer to my new year resolutions.

The Darjeeling Limited

so i was watching this movie. there was some random hilarious parts in the film. so as not to ruin anything there was one line that stood out to me. so this is how we see owen wilson in the whole movie. we learn that all of the brothers have this great disconnect after their dad died. and they are basically broken people. then 70 mins and 44 seconds in the movie you get the picture of what is under the bandages and this quote.
“i think i may need some more healing” and that quote summed up the movie. and that quote is the journey that we are on. so many times when we take off the bandages of our lives i think when we really let people see us or we really look at ourselves we can say “i think i need some more healing”