It's Your Move--Orange Conference Opening Night

Tonight Reggie Joiner had the author of Same Kind of Different As Me Ron Hall share a few inspirational stories about Denver and their friendship that developed. The book is great and the brief conversation that Reggie had was good. The one quote that I wanted to share was this:

"We worship a homeless man on Sunday, but often ignore the homeless man on Monday."

Enough said...get the book. (One thing about the book, every page is engaging and heartfelt. I was actually moved to tears several times when I read the book two years ago).

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Also tonight Andy Stanley was the main stage speaker and delivered a great message as always. To be honest I am not sure how it totally connected with the theme of the conference "It's Your Move" but nonetheless he gave us some great points to ponder.

In essence; "We are stewards of the message of eternal life. We are stewards of the message of a better life here on this earth."

• He went on to talk about the pagan culture and religion when the church was birthed. 
• This perspective was totally counter culture to what was happening in the time of Jesus. 
• Compassion and generosity was what propelled the church out of the first century. 
• We may lose sight of what this country (the U.S.) really has in light of our nation being transformed by a Biblical world view. 
• Andy tied in Galatians 5:16-45 and stated how the Spirit of God drives our decisions. Paul was writing this to a pagan culture and the church that was being birthed was reminded about how this was against the nature around them, but to continue to move forward with acts of love, peace, joy, kindness, goodness, gentleness, and self control. 

This is a brief snapshot and putting a conference experience in as few as words as possible. 

What is my action plan in light of tonight's message?

There are people who are waiting for me to make a move that is bigger than myself and bigger than a program. Allow the Spirit of God to move in the direction that He desires and not what I desire?