Mom is 5′ foot Korean, Dad is Irish-American with blue eyes. “Koreans have strong genes!” (He looks thoroughly Asian.)
10:17 AM
Who is my neighbor? We exegete it one way, but live it another.
McGavran’s homogeneous principle has caused us to grow great churches, but consumeristic churches. What has God called us to? To be contrarian, to be abnormal
God is calling us to follow the path of the third culture leader.
Adaptation
Painful adaptation
There was a sentence here, it didn’t say on the screen.
It’s normal for us to love someone like us, but the world will stop and pay attention when we love those who are not like us.
How do we become third culture leaders?
The third culture leaders is focused on the misfit more than the masses. Margins lead movements. To really make a change, hang with the early adopters. This is where the change makers are. The masses do not lead us, the fringe does.
Who is the outsider? Jesus movement was from the fringe. What hinders us from loving on the fringe?
The third culture leader has a different set of metrics? Failure is success to God. The pain that we are now going through is our platform to humanity. It give us the quality to connect to this generation. Our failure and weaknesses are gifts from God to give us success. The world does not understand America’s success, but they do understand our pain.
Look at human resources, rather than financial resources. Who is in my congregation who wished they were being seen?
10:28
How do we quantify vision?
Isn’t the vision basically love God and love your neighbor? Relationships trump vision. We don’t need more visionaries, but more “relationaries.”
We need to stop wearing Saul’s armor. We need to change priorities. 70%-30%–What is going to be the 70%? What is 70% is leadership development? Gibbons spends 5-8 hours on weekend preparation and the rest of the time he is spending time leaders and relationship development.
Discipleship is a commitment to life on life. His front door, at home, is open always to anyone from his church who wants to stop by and spend time.
Allows the multi-sites to bring their own vision.
The third culture leader understands obedience. Obedience is more important than passion. It is more important to obey God than to be passionate about _______.
Four Acts of Obedience
1. Deeper collaboration
Perhaps he refers to the city and churches working together.
2. Communal living
Choose a neighborhood and have several families move in to it.
3. Prayer
The church does not believe in the Holy Spirit. If we really believe in the power that raised Jesus from the dead, we’d pray.
4. Radical sacrifice
