Mark Beeson on Legacy

Mark Beeson hit a home-run in the final session of Innovate 07. Some things he said...

• We must be intentional about pointing our feet in the right direction.
• You can't get what you could have until you let go of what you do have.
• We don't go to mentors or leaders anymore to get information. We have all the information we could want. We now go to mentors and leaders to help us make sense of the information.
• Mark shared the story of John Nace. Watch his story here.
• One of the biggest challenges for me to do ministry in 2007 is that hardly anyone is buying pipe organ music. I like hymns. But to reach people today they aren't helpful.
• I grew up going to church every week and never saw an adult give their life to Christ.
• We aren't sinners who occasionally do something right. I am a child of the King who occasionally messes up.
• Mark showed a brand-new video recap of our 2007 baptism. Watch the media player at GCCWired.com to see this in the next few weeks.
• Mark shared a letter that he wrote his son several years ago as he entered adult-hood.
• Does your team know you're for them?
• The world will change when followers of Christ are truly with each other and for each other.
• You have to work on stuff...
  • Attitude - without this you will hurt yourself
  • Relationships - without this others will hurt you
  • Persistence - without this problems will defeat you
  • Priorities - without this the insignificant will hamper you
  • Credibility - without this no one will follow you.
• The number one job of a Christian leader is to hear from God and then bring that back to their people.
• The people are not here to give you a successful ministry. The people are the ministry.