Takeaways

I have had the privilege of being one of a handful of folks at our church helping to select messages for our participation in the One Prayer series.  As a result, I have been exposed to speakers and pastors that I had never heard, exposed to teachers who have an uncanny ability to draw us into Scripture, bringing to life the characters, the people, the teachings of Scripture, and giving us practical, 21st Century applications of a text that’s thousands of years old.

These people ask the questions related to the story that I usually miss – like what exactly did the formerly dead man say when Jesus raised him in Luke 7?  We can only speculate, but those questions help us to become part of the story.

So with the 4 messages that our church will be showing (correction, 1 has already been shown with 3 more to go), I have written down some key quotes and paraphrases from these speakers.  Here’s one, from Perry Noble, pastor of NewSpring Church in South Carolina:

I believe we ought to get speeding tickets on Sunday morning because we can’t wait to get inside the door going “I know what he did last week but I can’t wait to see what he did this week.” We’re not striving to get there 10 minutes early; we’re okay if we’re 10 minutes late. Now we wouldn’t do that to a movie; we wouldn’t do that to a Broadway play. But we’ll do that to our church.

Thoughts?