There are tons of reactions after the verdict came down saturday night. You may be wondering how you should be responding, or how to help those in your ministry that are responding in various ways.
I know I responded with a tweet like this
Beau Crosetto
Indian Boy Freed From Slavery, Plants 5 Churches
Watch this video testimony of a guy sold into slavery as a boy and then rescued, trained up, and now is planting churches all over India.
Exponential is Multiplying West
With Exponential in Orlando selling out and drawing 5,300 leaders on site and 40,000 to the live Exponential ’13 Webcast, Exponential’s plans to multiply to the West Coast are well underway. Exponential Los Angeles will be hosted by Rick Warren and Saddleback Church Oct. 7-10, and will feature 75+ speakers (Rick Warren, Choco de Jesus, Michael Frost, Larry Osborne, Chris Hodges, Alan Hirsch, Derwin Gray and more); 2,000+ church planting leaders; 100+ workshop breakout sessions; 20 tracks and five pre-conference intensives.
Exponential Los Angeles will offer the DiscipleShift theme based on five shifts churches can make to plant and lead churches that make disciples who make disciples (outlined in the recently released book DiscipleShift by Jim Putman and Bobby Harrington, with Robert Coleman).
Exponential is praying the conference will be a gathering that spotlights the work of church planting already happening in the West; equips leaders; and catalyzes new conversations, relationships and ultimately church planting movements.
If you weren’t able to make it to Orlando or want to give your spouse or team the opportunity to experience DiscipleShift live, make plans to attend Exponential LA. At less than $65 per person (when joined by a spouse), Exponential has made it as affordable as possible to attend. Register today at http://
exponential.org/LA to get the Super Early rate of $99/$29 spouse registration! The price goes up on June 30. So reserve your spot this week.
InterVarsity’s Pathway: Activate People
As some of you have asked for more details on the post detailing the New York/New Jersey InterVarsity pathway, I thought it would be a great idea to share with you the pathway that InterVarsity is working on nationally through the Chapter Building Initiative.
Do You Wish Fear Didn’t Control You in Ministry?
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Being scared is part of the human condition and no one can avoid it. But being scared cannot be what dictates how we lead and press out. If we are going to be on the edge of faith and lead initiatives to start new things, then two things are guaranteed:
A Planting Breakthrough @ LMU
LA Greeks gathering this school year for training and vision
As we are planting Greek Ministry with InterVarsity in Los Angeles, we continued to be surprised by a campus called Loyola Marymount. Loyola was not one of the first places we were looking to start Greek Ministry, but as I document in this post, God is growing something there underground. He has made it clear that we need to be there and get something started, so we have been obeying that this year. God took this ministry to the next step last night!
Don’t Get Jammed, Create A Pathway
Do you ever feel like your ministry is stuck, jammed or bottlenecked? For whatever reason it just can’t seem to grow to that next level no matter what you do?
May I suggest that it could be that you don’t have a clear pathway for people to develop beyond yourself.
See You Wednesday
Hate to say it but we wont have a post up until wednesday. I am heading out to Catalina Island for our InterVarsity Regional Conference and will have absolutely no wifi until Tuesday night. My other friends on the blog are busy doing stuff all around the world so I don’t have any posts to load at this point either.
So I guess we can see this as little resting and reflecting point.
In the mean time answer these questions for me in the comments. If you would rather privately tell me, then email me please. Your feedback is important for this blog to serve us all best.
What kinds of things (topics, styles, etc) have you enjoyed on the blog?
What kinds of things do you wish we had more of?
Also here are the five most popular posts, in order, the last quarter incase you have missed them and want to get caught up!
- Christian Women – Getting !*$& Done For Jesus
- 2 Ways We Should Be Living Among Our Neighbors
- What is the Difference Between an Evangelist & an Apostle?
- Why We Miss Moments With God, And How To Fix That
- Can Students Plant Ministries By Themselves?
Have a great few days and thanks so much for reading this blog and contributing by commenting and sharing!
[update #1] God is Moving in My Neighbors
[This is an update to a previous post]
By Beau Crosetto
Two weeks ago I shared with you about how I got overly angry at my wife and how I felt like God was going to use that in my relationship with my neighbors who are curious about Jesus. I told you I was going to share with them about my struggle and let them into how I pursue Christ for my transformation.
Well over the last two weeks I have shared with them and I have some powerful updates.
Why We Miss Moments With God, And How To Fix That
By Beau Crosetto
Last week a few of my buddies and I went to play tennis. We needed a 4th and it dawned on me to invite a guy I play volleyball with. He said yes and we had a great time playing that night. But when we were done I wanted to see if God was up to more so I asked the guy if he wanted to grab a drink and talk a bit in my man cave.
He stuck around and we had a great conversation until about 11:30 at night. The guy is an Indian man with a Hindu background. He is very spiritual but has a completely different view of God than I do. We had a great discussion about faith and at the end I asked him if he would be willing to read a book with me and debate the ideas in the book instead of the ideas in our head.
He said yes! So we are now going to start chewing through “Mere Christianity” and talking about the ideas of truth, morality and if there is one God or not.
I am really excited to keep talking with this guy, but I almost missed the moment. I almost didn’t invite him, almost went to bed when tennis was over, almost didn’t push into the spiritual conversation, and almost didn’t ask him to read a book with me.
It got me thinking about the disciples in John 4 and how they totally missed the moment Jesus had with the woman at the well.