The following are notes from this years Drive Conference by North Point Church. You can view the videos of this conference at http://www.driveconference.org/drive05.jsp. They are well worth the time to watch.
Reggie Joiner opened up the Drive conference with a session on Change.
He gave a thought provoking challenge to consider making radical change not just safe, incremental change. Research shows that 1/3 of adults in America are unchurched and 2/3 of those 18 and under are unchurched.
Our mission is to reach the unchurched but to do so requires that the church be willing to make some radical changes. His basic premise was this…To radically change your organization you have to radically change your organization. (Yes you read it right…just do it.) Then he gave 4 main points:
1. Sometimes it takes a radical change to remind every leader that the only thing that’s sacred is the mission. (strategy, programs, etc are not sacred)
2. Sometimes it takes radical change before those on the Inside believe you are serious about reaching those on the outside. (Make a radical change and it makes a statement to those on the inside)
3. Sometimes it takes a radical change before those on the outside believe they are important to those on the inside. (Do the unchurched see that they are valued by the way we do church?)
4. Sometimes it takes a radical change before you can truly know what it means to trust God with your life and ministry. (When I personally have to make a radical change I have to trust God)
The session closed with 2 questions: What radical change do you need to make? What is keeping you from making that radical change?
(Oh and the really cool thing was when we went out to our car there was a DRIVE sticker on our back window and a yellow sheet on our windshield that had a homework assignment)
