Merge Worship

Perry Noble’s Last Unleash Session—Stay In The Game

• People say, I’m just being the devil’s advocate. “I wasn’t aware he needed a freaking advocate.” :-)
• Questions leaders need to wrestle with
o Who is with me? Exodus 33:12
• The average stay for a pastor is 22 month. Some of you are church hoppers.
• You can’t expect people to buy in to you until you buy in to them.
• Does your church know that you’re there?
• How do you get people to buy in to a vision? Tell them hell can’t take you away from there.
• Satan doesn’t want to split your church, he wants to split the staff. It starts with “I do as much as he does”.
• Your pastor goes through more spiritual warfare than you can imagine. At the end of the day he’s got to know who’s with him.
• Sheep don’t lead the shepherd. Pray for him. Encourage him. But at the end of the day he will be held accountable for what he does or doesn’t do.
• Does your pastor know you’ve got his back?
• You take it for granted if you think your pastor knows whether or not you have his back.
o Am I pleasing You? Exodus 33:13
• Perry got hit on in a bathroom and the Lord told him to invite him to church. (you should watch the video on this one)
• Are you a prophet or a prostitute?
• Do you bring God’s message or do you get paid to give people a service that makes them feel good?
• Do I understand that ministry is received, not achieved?
• We try and receive results when God wants us to receive results.
• We depend too much on our abilities and not enough on the anointing of God.
• God didn’t call us because we were all stars, but because He said “There’s a screw up I can get glory from”.
• God saw EVERY MISTAKE and STUPID THING you’d do before He called you.
• Am I placing limits on me that God didn’t place on me?
• What is the thing that keeps you up at night because people will think you’re crazy?
• You can do exactly what God has called you to do. Don’t dare limit yourself when the unlimited power of God lives in you.
o Will they see you? Exodus 33:14-17
• Are we providing the type of atmosphere where people can “kiss toilets” and leave feeling good about it?
• When the presence of God shows up it brings conviction and change.
• If no one is being changed we have to ask ourselves what kind of environment we’re creating.
• Do you want attendance or repentance? You can have attendance without repentance. Repentance will bring attendance, but we have to preach the Gospel and the truth of Jesus.
• The church is a body…if you close the back door to your body….well…
• When’s the last time as a leader you were desperate for God’s presence?
o What’s next? Exodus 33:18
• We’ve always asked God What’s Next?
• We ask because we don’t want to be a monument or a museum but continue to be a movement.
• We want more than anything else…”Show me Your glory.”
• There’s nothing awesome about NewSpring outside of the presence of God. Take that away and we suck…and you do too.
o What if…
• The pastor dedicated to the people and the people to the pastor
• Their single passion was the presence of God and asking Him what’s next?
• We were serious about changing the trend of people falling away from Christ
• I’m more serious about the church than I’ve ever been
• Men don’t play touch football.
• “I want the ball”
o You can only advance the ball when you have it.
o I don’t want to just encourage others to run the ball.
• I want the ball