Transformed Conference

• wretchedradio.com
• First premise of the conference was: measure what we say against the word of God
• Love for others necessitates a deep desire to share your faith. If you don’t love others, then you don’t know God.
• True courage is when you conquer fear, not that fear is absent
• Weakness becomes strength, through prayer

Three keys:

• The first key is FAITH
  • Romans 15:13
  • Faith produces joy, which produces physical energy (FIRE)
  • No faith, no joy (no fire)
• The second key is LOVE
  • Perfect love casts out all fear
  • God if you did that for me, I will do anything for you
• The third key is … (didn’t catch it)
  • Analogy of children playing at the bottom of an elevator shaft
    • Person running over to save them, stopping, and saying to themselves “they’re happy, I’ll leave them alone” or “I don’t know them”

• Jesus came to make us righteous, not happy.  You can be happy without Jesus
• Relations are the hardest people to witness to
• Would you evangelize more if you were offered $1,000 per person?
  • This puts fear in perspective
  • Can you deal with your fear of men for the love of money, but not for the love of God?
• More Than a Carpenter
• You have to come to God on His terms.  Invite Him to reveal Himself to you – with a humble heart
• Repentance is far more than a change of mind.  It is a change of heart and a change of will
• It’s not about perfection, it’s about focus and direction

Five reasons to not ask Jesus into your heart:

1. It’s not in the Bible
2. It leaves out the gospel message to repent
3. It leaves out the gospel message to believe in Jesus
4. It presents Jesus as a beggar, as if we are in control
5. The result is people who cry out “Lord, Lord”, and Jesus responds that He never knew them

10 things not to use in evangelizing:

1. Hell fire preaching
   • Don’t want a fear response.  Want a response to grace. (tear-filled, not fear-filled)
2. Just believe
   • It’s not enough to believe, you must repent
3. Accept Jesus
   • Jesus accepts us, not the other way around.  We need to be accepted by Him
4. God shaped hole in your heart
   • It’s sin-stained
5. Jesus plus _______
   • “You’ll get all these things if you just become a Christian”
   • This focuses on the gifts, not the giver
6. Fruit as a draw card
   • “Jesus will fix your marriage if you would just become a Christian”
7. Decisional Regeneration
   • Deciding to be Christian doesn’t make you one
   • The decision + repentance
8. Make Jesus your Lord and Savior
   • He already is Lord and Savior
   • You don’t grant Him status
9. Commit to Jesus
   • Surrender, not commitment
10. It’s easy to believe
    • Surrendering your pride is not easy

• Saved people grow based on the gospel, nothing else
• You don’t need or are even looking for a decision when evangelizing.  You are planting the seed of the gospel.
• Law to the proud.  Grace to the humble.
• Heart still tied to the “dock” of the world
• Getting past / through your fear is a matter of getting past your pride.

Fathered by God seminar

Boyhood

• Living in a world made safe by your father
• Craving of belovedness
  • Adoration, attention
  • Trials feel like abandonment when this is not present
• A passive father wounds just as much as an abusive one
• Childhood until about 12

Cowboy

• Adventure
• 13-19
• “Do I have what it takes?”
• Take it to the next level
• Being a shepherd was dangerous work
• The need is for words of admiration and experiences for discovering he has what it takes
• Failure at this stage results in avoiding risk – sticking to what you think you’re good at
  • Not trying something new
  • Failing without proper interpretation

Warrior

• 19-twenties
• Wants to be powerful
• Every man is given a warrior heart
  • Adam fell through passivity.  Passivity must be overcome
  • We are born into a world of war (spiritual).  The battle infects everything.
  • The Lord is a warrior (Ex 3:16?)
• Suppression is an enemy
• Defeat can shut this down if proper interpretation isn’t available
• You have an enemy – you must deal with him – he’ll take anything you’ll give him

Lover

• Same timing as warrior
• Most men hide in logic, reason, analysis
• This stage is the awakening of the heart
• Painful experience needs healing

King

• Late 30’s > early 50’s
• The measure of a king is the description of what it like to be under his rule
• Test of character is extraordinary
  • Pressures have never been greater
• Wounded by giving responsibility too early

Sage

• Culmination of the journey
• There’s a time to step down
• Looks like his world is shrinking, but influence ought to be at its greatest
• Father to kings
• Counselor of warriors and lovers
• Wounded by being dismissed
• Inner life is greater than outer life
• Ask for a sage’s wisdom

Additional Notes

• God presents himself as Father
• Orphan consciousness
  • People (even Christians) live their lives mostly thinking they need to solve their own problems
  • What would an adoring father do?
• Satan is always there to offer his interpretation of your experience
• People make agreements with Satan
• People make agreements that “it is all on me” (orphan mentality), or “it’s just the way it is”
• Start by breaking the agreement
• Renounce the lie the “it’s all on me”
• God will put you in situations where you’ll experience fatherless to flush the would / agreement out of you (healing)
• God is available as my father
• He flushes things to the point where he can minister to you
• Agreements;
  • I will always be like that
  • It’s just who I am
• Don’t make agreements that make it more difficult to reconcile / heal later
• Win the child’s heart for God

Strategic Perspectives conference notes

• "Loaves and Fishes"
• Can’t stop the storm, but can prepare people that it’s coming upon them
• Joshua Fund
• 28% of the Bible was prophecy when it was written
• If you’re not spurred to save others, then you’re not saved yourself
• LivingWaters.com – evangelism
• You can prepare for the mountain, but it’s the pebbles that will trip you up
• Saturday services at Calvary Chapel.  Costa Mesa focused on scientific discoveries – check out on web
• Pastor Hibbs (check out online)