Session 4b – Against All Odds (Harvey Carey)
Carey is a pastor in Detroit. His story is here:
What do you do when the odds are stacked against you? Believe that God’s word is true.
We are to train others to do ministry, not hire staff to do it. The staff are to be primarily equippers, not ministers. Our job as leaders is to equip people to do the work of the church. Genuinely engage them in the work.
The “No More Binders” rant was hilarious.
Churches are like a sports teams who stay in a huddle for an hour and then dismiss. We huddle but never play the game.
His church uses Sunday mornings as action times.
Urban Camping – find the crack house or most dangerous house in the neighborhood and camp in front of it – sing Kum-Bay-Yah and make smores. They’ve shut down 8 of the major drug houses in their community this way.
We’ll never see what the text can do if we don’t create a context where for it to work.
Transformation happens not by what you say you’re going to do, but by what you actually do.
Excellent preaching…. will have to get the audio up when its available.
A great first day. Looking forward to tomorrow. I’m beating the system and bringing portable internet access with me tomorrow so hopefully I can blog as-it-happens.
Thanks for reading.
