Mark Batterson at WiBo

NOTES FROM BATTERSON:
* The farther away from home you are, the more of an expert you are.
* The longer I do ministry and lead, the more I covet the favor of God.
* Isaiah 55:8-9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
* Passage comparing distance between God’s thoughts to the expanse of universe
* If you were to drive to sun at 65 mph, 24 hours a day, it would take 163 years to get here. The sun warms us in 8 minutes.
* Your best thought on your best day is about 13.2 billion light years short of God’s thoughts for you.
* Systematic theology an oxymoron?
* The moment we think we have God figured out, we lose the spiritual curiosity to seek Him for eternity.
* Our best theories will probably
* 1 Corinthians 8:2 The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.
* Your dreams are too small
* We confess our sin all the time, but when was the last time you confessed that your dreams are too small?
* The office is where I go to get nothing done anymore (Amen)
* You need to leave cell phone somewhere, no meetings, no appointments and get with God. He will begin to reveal dreams that were deep inside.
* One of great dangers we face: We stop doing ministry out of imagination and we start doing it my memory. We mimic those around us. Memory will overtake imagination, but God’s dream for us is that imagination would begin to overtake memory.
* Great ideas always come from a dream that starts from God.
* If you don’t have any holy discontent in your life, go on a mission trip.
* Rather have one God idea than thousands of good ideas.
* Their team will take an “imagination day” and go out to dream.
* We need to believe that God wants to tell His story through us.
* In first century, people didn’t travel more than a 35 mile radius in their lifetime. Jesus said to take Gospel to the ENTIRE world.
* Jesus is Lord and Savior, but He is a dreamer!