Following is a collection of links from various folks who attended the Exponential Conference last week. I gathered these links for a couple of reasons:
- The conference is still on my mind.
- I thought that church planters who weren’t able to attend might glean something that will bless their ministry from those who did.
- I was looking for an excuse to use the word “smorgasbord” in a blog post title.
Here’s the list. Happy reading!
- Tony Morgan shares the notes from his workshops. I wasn’t able to attend them while I was there (I was too busy in our booth) but I would’ve like to have heard him speak on “Keys to Building Healthy Leadership Teams.”
- Nick from “Everything Pastor” did a great job of taking notes from various workshops and speakers. If you read only one post on this list, read this one. He has notes from Brian and Amy Bloye’s session on moral failure. This was a powerful talk in the main auditorium. I got to hear most of it and was so thankful that their are people like Brian and Amy who were up on stage talking to thousands of ministry leaders about keeping their lives pure and their marriages first.
- Real Life Project – this blogger shares some notes from a workshop with Jim Putman, who will be speaking at the conference next year on the topic of discipleship. Could there also be a Zondervan book in the works with Jim on the same topic? We’ll have to wait and see….
- Jack Magruder has posted some of the notes from his workshops with Rob Wegner called “Mega –> Missional: Centralized Shift.” Rob and Jack are authors of the forthcoming book Missional Moves, and two of the nicest, humblest authors I’ve had the pleasure of working with.
- Daniel Floyd appears to have posted the notes from his workshop at Exponential, “How To Launch a Healthy Church.” Here he lays out four critical components.
- Ryan from The Adventures in Church Planting blog has posted his thoughts on Hugh Halter and Matt Smay’s session. Hugh and Matt are the authors of And: The Gathered and Scattered Church in the Exponential Series.
- Greg Nettle posted some quick, encouraging thoughts about the conference.
- The blogger at College Church Planter posted some nuggets of wisdom gleaned from the conference.
- David Gurr from Ocean’s Edge School of Worship reflects on what it was like to have his team volunteer at the Exponential Conference. I had a good time chatting with a few volunteers from this school about music and worship. Seems like they’ve got a great program going on there, and having the volunteers at the conference was essential to its success. Kudos, volunteers!
- Jeff from Church Planting Today has more nuggets of wisdom from the conference.
- Dave at the Faith & Church blog has a nice summary posted of Wayne Cordeiro’s talk on his book, Sifted.
- The Christian Post wrote an article on Bill Hybels session about what it was like to plant Willow Creek Community Church. His whole family joined him on stage and shared their experiences.
