Orange

The first session of the Orange conference was tonight. Lanny was his usual nutty self, Steve Fee rocked the house, and Reggie Joiner kicked off the first session with a great talk. Here are some of the points he made:

1. A lot of people think what they are doing is right and effective, in fact…
2. Many people have convinced themselves that they are doing the right thing(s), even though it is the same thing that has been done over and over again.

3. When speakers/leaders see that people are disconnecting from the message, we are trained to simply turn up the volume…we don’t change what we are saying, we keep saying the same thing over and over, we just get louder…
(Reggie used a great illustration, where he played white noise and increased it over and over again, until all you could hear was the noise)
4. Noise…its what we give our audience many times!!!

5. The rest of the conference will focus on 5 areas: (Could be the purposes, but its not…Ha!)

• Stucture (Our plans should have the end “goal” in sight)
• Message (Our messages should be prepared with the end “goal” in mind)
• Community (Everything in our ministries should lead to providing community.)
• Family
• Inflence (Move from “Going and Doing…to ‘Being'”

It should be great…