Derwin Gray
2/27/10 10:30AM

Before we can ignite the fire for evangelism, we must go to the source of the fire

Embrace the story of God

Life within God (YHWH): a Trinity-shaped perspective of the Good News

Love demands relationships

John 1:1, 18

Intimacy = into me you see… (dancing, love, intimacy…)

If you start the story of God’s love at John 3:16, you miss so much [...]


SYMC Session 2:
Bo Boshers
Lead222.com
2 Timothy 2:1-2
So you, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And entrust what you heard me say in the presence of many others as witnesses to faithful people who will be competent to teach others as well.
There is smooth water directly behind a large boat, before the rough waves of [...]

* Paul had persecutions and pain in ministry – it was an appeal to the legacy of memories.
* The odyssey of faith is marked by milestones of memories
Philippians 2:5-11
5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 1 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to [...]

Here are some collected thoughts from The Deep and Wide Q&A Session at SYMC 2010

We should be doing evangelism and discipleship – its not either/or, but both/and…
Deep and Wide Ministry is not a new idea or program, but a refocusing of a very old ones found in Matthew 28:19, Matthew 22:37-39, and Col. 1:28-29
The big question is: ” Are you [...]

Here are my first thoughts of the SYMC conference in Chicago, IL.

A lot of planning went into this conference, and you can see it in the small stuff
They seem to have approached it from the question “If I were in Youth Ministry, What would I expect from a conference?” and “How can we surpass that?”
The speakers/personalities are more available at [...]

This is an informal survey of SYMC attendees:
Who are you?
Chuch/Denomination
Size of Church
State
Number of years in Youth Ministry
Full-Time/Part-Time/Volunteer
Have a wonderful time of refreshing and training! I’ll See you there in the morning!

Is it ever OK to lie?
Lets say you were on a mission trip to smuggle bibles across a closed country’s border. Upon arriving at the check point the officials ask you if you have any bibles in the car. Do you lie?
When we lie, regardless of the situation. what we are really doing (in God’s eyes) is saying I know [...]

I don’t want to be “that guy”. You know the one that when he makes a blog post, the interwebs are automatically a-flurry with the scripts, plugins, and black magic that reposts it to twitter, facebook, and who knows what else…on ALL their accounts. So MinistryPlace.Net has its own Facebook  fan page to keep a lot of clutter off my [...]

I finished up my new business card design in time for SYMC, and I even printed some before I noticed…
See if you can spot the typo…first person to spot it and track me down at SYMC, I’ll buy you a cup of coffee or something…

I am willing and able to say that Christ’s church is big enough for some disagreement. I want to let it be known that I will not be making a common practice of doing this kind of post. However, this time I am responding…
Today, Justin Wise (@justinwise) at BeDeviant.com posted an article about Negotiables. I agree that it is very [...]

Fox Charlotte ran a story this Sunday on the launch of a new church in the Charlotte area, called Transformation Church.
“This is an incredible day. Several months ago we had no building, no money, no anything, and now transformation church has been launched,”
Gray says. After serving as co-pastor at a church in South Charlotte, Gray is branching out, bringing his [...]

This Friday I leave for the Simply Youth Ministry Conference in Chicago, IL. This will be my first time at SYMC, after several years of going to the Youth Specialties NYWC in various cities. My goals for the weekend:

Refreshing of the Spirit – It’s been a hard few months adjusting to a new town, new position, and building the foundations [...]