good stuff from perry noble (via tony morgan)

check out the notes tony posted from some of the sessions perry noble is teaching to a bunch of church leaders at the unleash conference up in south carolina:

• The myth behind growing churches is this: It's all about style. It's not about style.


• Churches don't grow without Godly leadership.


• How can you get a vision for your church without time with God?


• In the Bible, God never gave the vision to a committee. "The personnel committee, they're of Satan."


• "God didn't ordain deacons to tell the pastor what to do."


• "If you've never been scared, you've never heard from God."


• If you're not the senior pastor, you have to trust that he's hearing from God.


• "As a pastor, I can't please everyone." I'd rather offend the people in the church seats than God who gave us our vision.


• People will leave. And that's OK.


• Most of the people on NewSpring's staff team come from NewSpring Church.


• "God has never called us to do anything that's safe."


• "It insults God when we dream small dreams."


• Ask God for big things.


• "If you can sleep, it's not a vision. If you can do it, it's not a vision."

great stuff - and that's just a portion of the whole - check the whole post out here.

thanks, tony, for posting it for all of us non-attenders.