Rob, as a teaching pastor, is he featured speaker at the greatest number of weekend services at Granger Community Church after Mark Beeson. Along with teaching, he spends a hefty portion of his time in Granger missions work – both in Granger’s own back yard and around the world – planting churches, developing partnerships, equipping leaders, assisting the poor, caring for the sick, and educating the next generation. Rob also leads Core Class 401 which helps people discover their unique life mission. He has taught Purpose-Driven ™ Church to church leaders throughout the world and has been a main session speaker at Saddleback’s Purpose-Driven™ Church Conference.
More from Rob on his blog.
- The hardest thing for people living in oppression is to believe that God is
good. - God plan to make that believable is us, the Church.
- Local churches have the invitation to make it believable that God is good.
- There’s been a shift in thinking from how do we get the community into our
churches to how do we get our church into the community. - The Gospel Jesus preached wasn’t about how to “get out of trouble” with God.
- The Gospel is about the Kingdom of God.
- The Kingdom is the place on earth where God’s will is done, as it is in Heaven.
- Eternal life starts now.
- It’s all about bringing “up there” down here.
- Jesus wants to set this upside down world right side up.
- We need a demonstration proclamation of the Gospel, not just a verbal
proclamation. - We need to give people a hand up, not a hand out.
- You have an unstoppable force when you partner the verbal and demonstrative
proclamation. - We need to move from a having a flashlight to a laser focus.
- We have a misconception in our thinking that more is better.
- Bigger isn’t always better.
- In Acts 1:8 Jesus defined our mission:Jerusalem = local access; Judea = domestic access; Samaria = cross cultural access; ends of the earth
= global access. - Who has God uniquely called us to be?
- You can’t borrow someone’s vision, you have to live out you own.
- Jesus gave us ONE mission, it’s called the Great Commission.
- We need to narrow our focus to make a deeper impact.
- Create big-on ramps for people to get engaged.
- The time has come for the local church to stand up and fight.
- Jesus said He would build His church and that it would prevail.
