Drive 2010 - Day 1

Drive 2010 kicked off tonight & it was bumpin!
Around 3-4K Church leaders from around the world gathered for the kickoff tonight at North Point.

(i shot a short video of the opener on my iPhone and i was gonna post it here, but then i think i read somewhere that they ask we don't post video or something like that... can't remember where i saw that, but i'll be safe and not post it. my crappy quality video wouldn't do it justice anyway!)

Basically they rocked a cover of "Run this Town" from Jay-Z & Rhianna with a girl doing the Rhianna part who dropped down from the roof. pretty crazy. but no Jay-Z part... it was a crazy combined remix with Toby Mac's "Ignition" & 2 guys flowing with that. pretty sick.

Jeff Henderson said the last time somebody dropped through the roof in church was Luke 5 with the paralyzed guy and his 4 buddies... lol.

so, yeah. good times tonight. 3-4K church leaders worshipping God together at the top of our lungs is always an amazing thing! We took communion together and that was awesome.

I was overwhelmed by 1 of the verses on the screens during communion = Hebrews 2:9 = "...He suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone."
blown away by that awesome thought tonight. that Word was powerful tonight.

Andy Stanley's talk tonight was great as always. I'm honestly really intrigued about what he's gonna say in the morning! They moved session #2 to 8:30am because he said it's really important for us all to hear what he has to say before all the breakout sessions tomorrow...
*I kind of think it will be about learning and being great learning and growing organizations.

Anyway, his talk tonight was stellar. He set it up by talking about the Vision God gives us and this "impossible" Dream we have that actually seems possible. BUT LIFE HAPPENS and we begin to shrink our dream to make it "manageable". (not cool.)

What's your dream? Does it seem impossible these days?
Andy reminded us all that Christianity growing and spreading was ridiculous and even laughable. it was impossible. But God made it happen. all God and He gets all the glory.

But Christians also had a part in changing the world by living out John 13:34-35 & loving each other! Loving slaves, women, the outcasts, Gentiles, etc...
**Jesus gave every single person value when He called us to love each other!

Because of all that - Andy's tagline over & over was "today, there's a cross hanging at the Emperor's entrance in the Roman Colosseum." Which of course, would have been an impossible thought back in the day when the Roman Colosseum was the height of violence and torture and everything that was wrong with the world...
just 1 example to show that no dream is too big. All this vision that God gave us is absolutely possible!

Nothing is too big.

Nothing is impossible.

DREAM BIG AGAIN.