Notes from Perry Noble’s presentation during Unleash 2007
“Christianity is the most exciting thing
that happened to the planet
and it took 2000 years to make it boring.”
- We serve a Great God
- Desire to make Jesus famous
Why churches struggle
- Church is a confusing place if you don’t know the rules
- Most churches have attitude — if you don’t know our rules, then you don’t belong here
- America is seeking God like crazy and they’re not coming to church because we’re out of Jesus
- Our job — make Jesus famous
Improving the Church
- Need creative environments
- Need to work in every area to make church creative
- Most visitors make their mind up about whether to come back within first 15 minutes
- Every week is somebodies first time to hear about Jesus
- Put people in environment where they can hear about Jesus
- Should offer Jesus our best
- Be good enough to steal something (ideas) and make it better
- Look beyond ourself
- Basically we’re selfish people
- It’s not the great suggestion — it’s the Great Commission
- What type of people do you want in your church
- The time when they need grace the most — we say “hell to you” when we should be welcoming them
- Just be glad they’re in church
- What kind of people do we want?
- Misconception about being “deep” — Deep is when you confuse the heck out of me so I can feel smarter but lacks applications so when I leave I don’t have to do anything for Jesus
- Those wanting to be fed — show up ready — open your Bible
- You can’t get your church too big — You can know everybody or you can know Jesus — you can’t know both
- Need to pay attention (or we mess it up)
- Get up — show world who Christ is
- Don’t be afraid
- Creative people become frustrated by lack of lead time to develop creative concepts for worship
- Take steps to honor God
- Don’t fear criticism
- Focus on what matters
- Ignore stupid, trivial matters that don’t matter
- Jesus is the focus
- People’s behavior won’t change until perspective changes — their perspective won’t change until they know Jesus
“What the church is called to do will matter for eternity.” Perry Noble
