10.16.2009

Main Session 4: Matt Chandler

Let me just say, Matt Chandler is one of my heroes. I know we don't agree on everything, but I love to hear him speak. His passion for God and His Bible/Word are amazing to me. He has a great way of communicating things and is able to correct you and poke a little bit at your insecurities without making you feel like turning and giving up. Just has a way of bringing things clearly and balanced.

Okay, enough on my "man crush" Here are a few of my notes from His talk during day one of the main sessions...

  • Hebrews 11, History is a weird animal, how history haunts
  • The fall happens and fractures everything, Cain and Abel, God regrets He made us. Then the great children’s story when he destroys the world... We talk about this with our kids like it's some kind of fable of child's tale and do these stories/history a diservice and someitmes feel like as adults they don't mean anything for us now. (And most of those Old Testament stories should scare the crap out of little kids).
  • The rest of time it is God preparing the world for reconciliation from the fall
  • Let all the nations be glad because of what God is doing
  • 400 years of silence, then Jesus, and that is the Gospel, His sacrifice alone and grace of God
  • Jesus walks righteous life, dies righteous death, Matthew 28 is a collision of human mess, Jesus ascends into heaven and some believe and some still doubted...
  • It's like there was a guy there looking up and just goes, “I don’t know... I dunno? I got a cousin down in Capernum who does something similar.” Are you kidding me? He went up into Heaven and you people are still doubting?!? Then...
  • Peter gives the most un-seeker friendly sermon ever and thousands were added to their number. 3,000 and then 5,000 and then it keeps going by the hundreds.
  • Cornelius’s house: Get up and eat Peter. THen it's like Petere responds, “No way! Remember that rooster thing, nah uh, where is that rooster, no way man. No way.”
  • Cornelius gets saved and Peter goes, oh great, and runs back to the leaders and they gather everyone together to see if it’s okay. Cornelius speaking behind him and asks if gentiles can be saved. They say it’s all good, as he speaks tongues behind him.
  • What God says he was going to do in Genesis Chapter 12 is happening right now. RIGHT NOW.
  • Hebrews 11, The Faith of our Fathers
  • Switches from some great stuff to torture and more, quite a switch with no transition and then talks about the cloud of witnesses
  • Let us also lay aside every weight and sin that clings to us & our being
  • 1 John 5- God is light, in Him no darkness...
  • Run with endurance in the race God has designed for us.
  • Nobody wants the ministry of Moses. His ministry was wandering in the desert with whining people for 40 years (but people have changed in our churches, HA), some of you will spend your whole life with stiff necked people and you’ll never be called to speak at a large conference and God is going to reward you in the end of all of this.
  • 1, He is the Founder of our Faith
  • 2, He is the Author & Perfecter of our Faith
  • 3, He is the Joy of our Redemption
Jason *over and out*

1 Comment:

  1. Angela said...
    I really loved hearing Matt speak at Catalyst.

    He talked really really fast, but he was engaging and entertaining AND he told the Truth as it is...what's not to love?

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