Houston Boot Camp Audio

I was at this Boot Camp. I can recommend all these talks.

Acts29 Blog:

Houston Boot Camp, centered on the them of "Endurance," was just wrapping up a month ago. We have all the audio available now, and want to share it with you!

Houston Boot Camp 09

Tuesday, September 15: Main Sessions:

Session One: The Enduring Gospel - Matt Chandler | The Village Church (TX)

"God is teaching constantly throughout the Old Testament into the New Testament, in the Pauline Epistles, right up to this day 'I am going to reconcile all things to myself - this is my plan, this is what I'm going to do' - this Book is about that plan. It's not just the 'roadmap to life' - if it's a roadmap for my life it's a horrible map. It tells me nothing of the details of the decisions I need to make, ie 'Should I marry Lauren?'."

Session Two: The Enduring Community - Jonathan Dodson | Austin City Life (TX)

" 'In the wake of mission, community happens,' that's the logic of the missional church... is that true? Is missional church the silver bullet? ...What happens when people come into your church for mission, and they build a community and they gossip? What happens when they cheat on their spouse? The invogue solution to the problem of community in America, what happens? If you don't have some way to work through that, you know what happens. The community gets ripped apart; church splits, people leaving... how do we deal with our own brokenness?"

Session Three: The Enduring Family - Matt Carter

Carter talks about the marriages of John Wesley, George Whitefield & Jonathan Edwards, and their failures or successes. "You do not plant a church unless your wife shares your calling to plant a church... I don't care how far you are down the road you are. I don't care if there's $100K in the bank. If your wife's 90% sure and 10% she's doing it for you, then you shut that sucker down! Because you will wreck your home and you will eventually wreck your church."

Wednesday, September 16: Main Sessions:

Session Four: The Enduring Legacy - Bruce Wesley

Amid the other deep wisdom he shares in this talk, Wesley discusses 'rhythms of grace' that enable endurance as a church planter. One rhythm was that of relationships. "This is how I dealt with the anger in my life... I asked a friend if I could talk to him about it - and he was willing to talk about it for hours, and it was grueling to talk about my junk. I carried this junk into church planting, but church planting boiled it to the surface; it will boil your junk to the surface, too... I just confessed every embarrassing sin in my life to this guy... and he expressed to me grace. You're in a rhythm of grace when you can confess your sin and be completely known. And when you are completely known, you can be unconditionally accepted. This is a well you want to drink from, friend."

Session Five: The Enduring Sufferer - Barry Keldie

"You will be like Jesus. That's the good news. The bad news at the end of the verse is Jesus says, 'if they have called the master of the house 'Beelzebub,' how much more will they malign those of his household.' Jesus says, 'you're going to be like me... but they kill me at the end of the story.' Understand what you're signing up for."

Session Six: The Enduring Hope - Eric Mason

"God's passion is to remove anything in the way of our ability to reflect the glory and beauty of the Lord Jesus Christ. If you're hoping for a large church, that's the wrong hope... If you're hoping to be the highest on the iTunes podcast, that's the wrong hope. If you're hoping to just get people there so they can 'amen' you and love being around you or serve your vision, that's the wrong hope. You're enduring for the wrong reasons and your behind will go to sleep and you'll get mad frustrated because the only image that's available in that ministry is yours. But if you allow God to chisel you in his image, then the enduring hope in you is also going to fall on those people and their hope is not on what you're able to do, but what Jesus is able to do."