For the last 3 years I have had the opportunity to attend Catalyst. It is a 3 day submersion into the most creative and inspiring speakers, leaders, musicians, poets, and artistry. It is deeply thought provoking and widely motivating. More than half of the speakers stir my soul in such a way to leave my seat of the room and go explosively change the world.
I believe that inside every attender of Catalyst is a world changer: both in idea producers and efficient executors, which are equal parts that make anything successful.
Then the conference comes to an end, a couple thousand attendees pour out of the building, life goes right into the weekend. And Monday morning, sadly, looks almost exactly the same as last Monday.
But what if it didn't?
What if the over 2,000 attendees of this conference, along with all other Christians attending conferences, got together and really did rock the world?
The US House of Representatives has 435 members. I would guesstimate that of the over 2,000 Catalyst attendees, there are approximately 500 churches represented. The House of Reps pass laws that impact the entire country. In any given year they pass anywhere from 200-500 laws. Christian leaders don't have nearly that many goals on an annual basis, nor should they.
First and foremost is the goal of seed planting and calling seekers into the destiny of their lives.
Second, we want them to grow in relationship with the trinity and begin the process of a transformed life.
Third, a life lived to the purpose defined by God, leads to maximized relationships, life-giving serving, and continually inviting the rest of the world to the hope we have in Jesus.
What if this year there was a laying down of individualistic goals, dreams, and ambitions, and picked up the idea of just one goal: working together to bring Christ to every one's life. What would this take? How would I live differently? Would this be a slight shift or a radical change?
Could we all die to self in such a way that we laid down our personal plans so we could pick up one unified platform and really explode Christ follower-ship?
If 435 House Reps can change the whole country, what more can 500 churches accomplish?
A-freaking-lot.
And because this is just west coast Catalyst conference - meaning there are so many more churches, along with this analogy be askew in so many ways, I just think it is our time, it is this generations turn, to take the states by storm.
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