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EXPONENTIAL CONFERENCE 2014

E X P O N E N T I A L .O R G

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RETHINKING EVANGELISM

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CONTENTS Welcome

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Exponential President Dave Ferguson explores the 2014 conference theme Seek + Save.

What’s Gone Wrong–and How Can We Fix It?

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Larry Osborne explores what it means to be spiritually contagious and the implications for evangelism and discipleship.

Schedule

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Billy’s Tears

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Larry Walkemeyer asks, “Are your prayers unlocking doors in the people and community around you?”

Campus Map

Finding Your Person of Peace

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Alex Absalom describes five traits of the “gatekeeper” God has called you to disciple in the community where He has led you.

Main Stage / Webcast Schedule

Exponential Resource Library

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Conference Guide

Theme for Exponential 2015

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Tracks

Terri Saliba unveils the 2015 theme: Spark–Igniting a Culture of Multiplication. Read all about it and plan to join us in 2015.

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Workshop Sessions Session 1:

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Tuesday, October 7, 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.

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Session 3: Wednesday, October 8, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Session 4: Wednesday, October 8, 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.

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Jesus’ Strategy for Reaching the World

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Exponential editor Lindy Lowry interviews Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Evangelism Professor Robert Coleman.

Go Where the Fish are Biting Rick Warren provides a helpful “fish tale” from his 32 years in evangelistic ministry.

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Welcome Exponential West 2014

WELCOME “ I’m passionate about church planting because I’m passionate about accomplishing the mission of Jesus.”

Dave Ferguson President of Exponential

I love church planting, church planting

encouraging stats, only four percent

churches, church planting networks

(four out of 100) of all churches ever

and church planting organizations.

plant a new church, site or campus.

You get the idea! I’m passionate

That must change! At Exponential,

about church planting because I’m

we are committed to accelerating

passionate about accomplishing the

movement makers and helping leaders

mission of Jesus.

turn that four percent into 10 percent

Research shows that new churches

and beyond!

grow 23 times faster than the average

To equip church planters to transform

10-year-old church (or older). A

communities and alter eternities, we

new church will also see four times

are continuing last year’s conversation

as many conversions as the typical

on discipleship and making

church that has been around for

evangelism the big idea of 2014.

10 years or more. However, recent reports indicate that despite these

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At its best, the very word “evangelism” has a negative connotation and at its worst is something we refuse to be associated with. Over the next few days as we flesh out Exponential’s 2014 theme, Seek + Save, we’re focusing on five areas: ReThinking Evangelism, ReThinking Outreach, ReThinking Witness, ReThinking Preaching, and ReThinking the Commission.

The church growth and seeker movements of a previous generation brought energy to the priority of evangelism but lessened the emphasis on discipleship. The more contemporary conversation around the mission of the church has elevated the priority of discipleship as the main concern of the church with less talk about evangelism. As a result, we’ve created a false dichotomy between evangelism and discipleship. We want to rethink these

WELCOME TO EXPONENTIAL 2014!

areas inherent to Jesus’ core mission on earth (Luke 19:10)—to seek and save—and how we can join Him in that mission. Check out our main session themes:

Sessions 1 & 2: ReThinking Evangelism We’ll seek to understand evangelism as a natural part of the discipleship journey.

Sessions 3 & 4: ReThinking Outreach We want to challenge churches to do evangelism as a community of believers with our words and deeds.

Sessions 5 & 6: ReThinking Witness We’ll exhort and equip churches to teach their people to listen and share their story.

Sessions 7 & 8: ReThinking Preaching We’ll encourage churches to redeem preaching as good news.

Sessions 9 & 10: ReThinking the Commission We want to accelerate movements by inspiring and commissioning church planters.

In addition to your experience in our main sessions, Exponential offers a variety of pre-conference intensives, more than 100 workshops and niched conversations to explore. My hope and prayer is that the words and ideas you hear this week will inspire, challenge and equip you as we seek to join Jesus in His mission to seek and save.

Dave Ferguson

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Schedule Exponential West 2014

PRE-CONFERENCE SCHEDULE MONDAY, October 6, 2014 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Registration Open 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch / Networking 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Pre-Con Session

TUESDAY, October 7, 2014 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Pre-Con Session

MAIN CONFERENCE SCHEDULE TUESDAY, October 7, 2014 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Registration Open 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Session 1 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Break 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Session 2 (Workshop 1) 3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Break 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Session 3

WEDNESDAY, October 8, 2014 7:30 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. Bible Study 8:45 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Session 4 (Workshop 2) 9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Break 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Session 5 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch / Networking 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Session 6 (Workshop 3) 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Break 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Session 7 (Workshop 4) 3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Break 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Session 8

THURSDAY, October 9, 2014 7:30 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. Bible Study 8:45 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Session 9 (Workshop 5) 9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Break 10:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Session 10

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CAMPUS MAP

Children’s Ministry Amphitheater

Tent 2

Children’s Ministry Center Reef - 1st Floor Personal Leadership Extreme - 2nd Floor Organizational Leadership Edge - 3rd Floor Bi-Vocational Leadership

Networking

Children’s Ministry Center

Morning Bible Study, Wednesday and Thursday, 7:30 - 8:15am Evangelism Sessions

CMC

Refinery Amphitheater

Tent 2

CMC Outdoor Amphitheater

Parking Lot

Networking

Refinery Diner 1st Floor Family/Children’s Ministry Sessions

Refinery Outdoor Amphitheater

Theater 1st Floor Discipleship Sessions Gym 1st Floor Missional Sessions Basketball Court 1st Floor Missional Conversations Sessions

Tent 3 Refinery

Tent 1

Classrooms 2nd Floor Discipleship Conversations Sessions Game Room 2nd Floor Networking

Information Booth Restrooms

Tent 1 Nuts and Bolts Pre-Launch Sessions

Tent 3 Sponsor Booths Nuts and Bolts Post Launch Sessions

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Campus Map Saddleback Church

Plaza Rooms Room 102 -1st Floor Ministry, Marriage & Family Conversations

The Pavilion Information Center

Room 202 - 2nd Floor Ministry, Marriage & Family Sessions

Sponsor Booths throughout Patio Area Networking

Plaza Rooms

Worship Center

Pavilion

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The Modulars

THE MODULARS 302

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Outdoor Beach Cafe

Networking

Room 304 Multi-Ethnic Conversations Room 306 Volunteer Central

Room 404

OUTDOOR BEACH CAFE

Rooms 301-303 Multi-Ethnic Sessions

Room 308 Spanish-Spoken Sessions

Room 310 Nuts & Bolts Sessions Room 312 City-Based Movements Conversations Sessions Rooms 401-403 Multi-Site Sessions Rooms 405-407 Student/Youth Ministry Sessions Rooms 409-411 City-Based Movements Sessions

ROOM 404 Worship Ministry Sessions 5

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WEBCAST SCHEDULE

TUESDAY, October 7, 2014 Session 1 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

ReThinking Evangelism Beau Crosetto, Dave Gibbons, Efrem Smith

Beau Crosetto

Dave Gibbons

Efrem Smith

–BREAK–

2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Session 2 / Workshop 1 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

ReThinking Evangelism Ed Stetzer (video), John Teter, Jeff Vanderstelt

Ed Stetzer

John Teter

Jeff Vanderstelt

–BREAK–

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Session 3 ReThinking Outreach Francis Chan, Kim Hammond

4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Francis Chan

Kim Hammond

WEDNESDAY, October 8, 2014 Session 4 / Workshop 2 8:45 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.

ReThinking Outreach Sergio De La Mora, Alan Hirsch, Jodi Hickerson

Sergio De La Mora

Alan Hirsch

Jodi Hickerson

–BREAK–

9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

Session 5 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.

ReThinking Witness Danielle Strickland, Hugh Halter, Cynthia Marshall

Danielle Strickland

Hugh Halter

Cynthia Marshall

Special Lunch Session 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Louie Giglio (video), Craig Groeschel (video)

Louie Giglio

Craig Groeschel

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Webcast Schedule Exponential West 2014

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Session 6 / Workshop 3 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

ReThinking Witness K.P. Yohannan, Noemi Chavez, Greg Nettle

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K.P. Yohannan

Noemi Chavez

Greg Nettle

–BREAK–

2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Session 7 / Workshop 4 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

ReThinking Preaching Tim Keller (video), Dave Ferguson interviews Larry Osborne, James Meeks, Matt Carter

Tim Keller

Dave Ferguson

Larry Osborne

–BREAK–

James Meeks

Matt Carter

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Session 8 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

ReThinking Preaching Larry Osborne, James Meeks, Matt Carter

Larry Osborne

James Meeks

Matt Carter

THURSDAY, October 9, 2014 Session 9 / Workshop 5 8:45 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.

ReThinking the Commission Bruce Wesley/ACTS 29, Joe Champion/ARC, Dave Ferguson/NewThing, Greg Nettle/Stadia

Bruce Wesley

Joe Champion

Dave Ferguson

–BREAK–

Greg Nettle

9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

Session 10 10:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

ReThinking the Commission Oscar Muriu, Dave Ferguson, Rick Warren

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CONFERENCE GUIDE What you need to know for a great experience at Exponential West Mobile device users: m.exponential.org

MAIN SESSIONS (WORSHIP CENTER AUDITORIUM) Throughout the week, our five main sessions will focus on the Seek + Save theme as we explore five key areas we must rethink. See pages 6-7 for schedule.

WEBCAST SESSIONS (WORSHIP CENTER AUDITORIUM) Stay connected with the people at home as they watch all ten free live webcast sessions. See pages 6-7 for details.

WORKSHOP/CONVERSATION SESSIONS Our five workshop sessions offer the opportunity to drill down into a specific topic. In our new conversation sessions, join some of today’s leading voices for lively discussion around key themes centering on a specific area (evangelism, discipleship, leadership, missional, etc.). Conversation sessions (marked with a C on pages 10-14) bring you face to face with experienced leaders to ask questions and explore best practices. Visit m.exponential.org for all the workshop details.

SPANISH TRANSLATION Exponential offers live translation of all the main sessions in Spanish. Select workshops marked with an S on pages 10-14 will also be offered in Spanish.

Many thanks to snack sponsor:

Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

Please visit the Information Desk for assistance.

REFRESH Snacks are courtesy of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and can be found at multiple stations around the campus. Enjoy!

LOST + FOUND If you’ve lost or found something, please check with the Information Desk just outside of the Main Auditorium.

HOSTS Saddleback is a church that loves to have guests. We are thrilled that they are again hosting us this year.

VOLUNTEERS Many volunteers have joined us to serve as room hosts, recording techs, information mavens, and many other odd jobs. If you need help, look for the grey EX T-shirts.

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Main Tracks 2014 Conference

TRACKS EVANGELISM, OUTREACH + CULTURE

REPRODUCING MODELS

LEADERSHIP CULTURE

From preaching to equipping

Learn to multiply as leaders

can be difficult. Learn from

your church, we’ll focus on how

of reproducing churches in

leaders who have navigated

we communicate the gospel to

numerous contexts (multisite,

the challenges, including team

the unchurched with both our

multiethnic, small city, urban and

building, bi-vocational ministry,

words and actions.

more) share their experience

leadership development,

and stories.

casting vision and more.

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP

We’ll explore what it takes to

NUTS + BOLTS OF CHURCH PLANTING

make and release disciples—

Discover specific answers

to your personal health, and

from discipling relationships

to your specific questions

the health of your family and

and discipleship as a lifestyle

about the practical efforts and

church. Take time to focus on

to reproducing disciples and

resources you’ll need to plant

setting boundaries, managing

proven discipleship models.

churches.

expectations, your personal

DISCIPLESHIP

The responsibilities of leadership

Learning to lead yourself is key

calling and spiritual formation.

MISSIONAL Whether you’re just starting out,

MINISTRIES IN A CHURCH PLANT

MINISTRY, MARRIAGE + FAMILY

in transition or on the verge of

Get the 411 on multiple ministries

The role of the church planting

real movement, find practical

as you learn to identify which

spouse takes center stage with

guidance, resources and insights

ones meet the needs of your

discussions geared to marriage,

for navigating the missional

community and contribute to

boundaries, communication

journey.

the mission of your church.

and impact of ministry on the personal front.

MIX + MATCH TO MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR EXPONENTIAL EXPERIENCE For mobile devices: m.exponential.org

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1.

Workshop Session 1 Tuesday, Oct. 7

C ¨

Mark DeYmaz + Panel Modular 304

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2:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Evangelism, Outreach + Culture

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ReThinking Evangelism* Ed Stetzer (video), John Teter, Jeff Vanderstelt Worship Center

Engaging the GLBTQ Community Deb Hirsch Tent 2

Discipleship

¨ C ¨

Relational Discipleship Jim Putman Refinery Theater (1st Floor)

What is the Role of Accountability in Discipleship?

Bobby Harrington, Larry Osborne, David Putman Refinery Classrooms (2nd Floor)

Missional C ¨

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Is it Possible to be Both Missional + Attractional?

Brian Bloye, Kim Hammond Refinery Basketball Court (1st Floor)

The Viral Gospel: How Finding Your Person of Peace Accelerates Your Mission Alex Absalom Refinery Gym (1st Floor)

Reproducing Models

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High Definition Leadership: Leading the Church into a Multi-Colored World

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Collaboration: Buzzword or Breakthrough

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Derwin Gray Modular 301/303 Kevin Palau Modular 409/411

Desarrollando una Cultura de Reproducir – Developing a Reproducing Church Culture Alex Diaz Modular 308

Planting Churches: Urban, Ethnic + Young Ray Chang, DJ Chuang Modular 312

* Webcast and Digital Access Pass C

Conversations Session

S

En Español - In Spanish

The Multi-Ethnic Church as a Credible Response to the Challenge of Race in America

Three Questions Every Reproducing Church Must Answer Geoff Surratt Modular 401/403

Nuts + Bolts of Church Planting

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Balancing Life + Church Planting Jeremy McGarity M310

Sermon Series that Build Momentum Dave Page, Mark Lee Tent 1

Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast Joby Martin Tent 3

Personal Leadership

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Finding + Aligning Your Personal Vision Will Mancini CMC Reef (1st floor)

Leadership Culture

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BiVo: Learning How to Leverage All of Life into One Calling

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Major Donor Ministry: People, Not Money

Hugh Halter CMC Edge (3rd Floor) Tim Stevens, Joell Mikell, Bill McMillan CMC Extreme (2nd Floor)

Ministry, Marriage + Family

¨ C ¨

Boundaries, Blessings + Lessons Learned Anne Milam Plaza Room 202

Wives + Women In Ministry Amy Bloye Plaza Room 102

Ministries in a Church Plant

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Seven Things Every Church Planter Needs to Understand About Young Families

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Student Ministry in a Church Plant

Sherry Surratt Refinery Diner (1st Floor) Mike Hickerson Modular 405-407

SYNC: Making the Production Team Function Like a Band Armando Fullwood Modular 404

Select workshops will be recorded and available throughout the year on Exponential’s podcast library.

Subscribe to podcasts at:

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Workshop Sessions 1 + 2

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Exponential West 2014

2.

¨ Workshop C Session 2 Workshop Session ¨

Multi-Site: Learning from our Mistakes Brett Andrews, Patrick Furgerson Modular 401/403

Sacrificing Your Local Church for the Good of the Kingdom

Wednesday, Oct. 8April 30 Wednesday, 8:45 - 9:45 a.m.

8:45 - 9:45 a.m.

Evangelism, Outreach + Culture

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ReThinking Outreach* Sergio De La Mora, Alan Hirsch, Jodi Hickerson Worship Center

Tom Hughes, Kevin Haah Modular 312

Nuts + Bolts of Church Planting

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Three Secrets to Interviewing Your New Team Member William Vanderbloemen M310

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The Basics of Church Planting Steve Stroope, Rick Burge Tent 1

Five Subtle Shifts That Sabotage Evangelism + Discipleship

Creating Systems + Structures that Catalyze Growth After Launch

Larry Osborne Tent 2

Ryan Kwon Tent 3

Discipleship

¨ C ¨

True Discipleship

Personal Leadership

K.P. Yohannan Refinery Theater (1st Floor)

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Being a Leader Worth Following Tim Stevens CMC Reef (1st floor)

Do Jesus’ Methods of Discipleship Apply Today?

Robert Coleman, Keenon Vaughn, Jim Putman, Bobby Harrington Classrooms (2nd Floor)

Missional

Leadership Culture

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Innovating Discipleship: A Case Study of One of America’s Fastest Growing Churches Will Mancini CMC Extreme (2nd Floor)

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Reproducing Models

¨ C ¨

Catch + Release

Planning Church Growth Part-Time

Todd Proctor Refinery Gym (1st Floor)

Artie Davis CMC Edge (3rd Floor)

How To Start Missional Communities In YOUR Context

Ministry, Marriage + Family

Alex Absalom Refinery Basketball Court (1st Floor)

Finishing Well…Together Brian Bloye, Amy Bloye Plaza Room 202

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Changing a Generation

Are Your Excited or Apprehensive About Planting?

James Meeks Modular 301/303

Debbie Jones, Anne Milam Plaza Room 102

7 Essentials to Building a Thriving Collaborative City Movement

Ministries in a Church Plant

Chris Lagerlof Modular 409/411

C ¨

How to Transition a Healthy Homogeneous Church into a Multi-Ethnic Congregation of Faith Mark DeYmaz + Panel Modular 304

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La Vida Después de Arrancar – Life After Launching Edgar Lira Modular 308

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How to Work with Your Tech/ Creative/Worship Person + Still be Friends Dennis Choy Modular 404

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Launching with a Family Strategy Sherry Surratt Refinery Diner (1st Floor)

Turning Casual Conversations Into Spiritual Ones Beau Crosetto Modular 405-407

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3.

Workshop Session 3 Wednesday, Oct. 8 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Evangelism, Outreach + Culture

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ReThinking Witness* K.P. Yohannan, Noemi Chavez, Greg Nettle Worship Center

Power: The Tension of Mercy + Justice Danielle Strickland Tent 2

Discipleship

¨ C ¨

Disciplism Alan Hirsch Refinery Theater (1st Floor)

¨ C

S ¨

¨

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What Does it Take to Plant a Multi-Ethnic Church?

C

Eric Swanson, Linda Bergquist Modular 409/411

Mark DeYmaz, DJ Chuang, Ray Chang Modular 304

Nuts + Bolts of Church Planting

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Pre-Launch: Getting it Off the Ground Jim Sheppard, Julie Bullock Tent 1

Getting Butts in Seats Patrick Furgerson, Dale Spaulding Modular 310

Groups Matter Micah Fries Tent 3

Personal Leadership

How Do Your Raise Up True Disciples?

Robert Coleman & Keenon Vaughn, Bobby Harrington Classrooms (2nd Floor)

Leadership Culture

The And Church Brian Bloye, Kim Hammond Refinery Gym

What Are the Practical Shifts of Transitioning to Missional?

Shawn Lovejoy, Matt Smay Refinery Basketball Court (1st Floor)

Reproducing Models

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The Whole Church: Taking the Whole Gospel to the Whole Person in the Whole City

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Missional

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Reaching Over Walls: Building Magnetic Multi-Ethnic Churches Larry Walkemeyer Modular 301/303

Starting + Sustaining a Viral City Church Planting Movement Dan Southerland, Mac Lake Modular 312

Estableciendo un Liderazgo Saludable – Establishing Healthy Leadership Obe Arellano Modular 308

The New Frontier of Multisite Movements Dave Ferguson, Jon Ferguson Modular 401/403

* Webcast and Digital Access Pass C

Conversations Session

S

En Español - In Spanish

Planting Out of Rest Rather Than Stress John Alwood CMC Reef (1st floor)

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Build Your Ministry Dashboard: The Ultimate “Vision to Execution” Tool

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Thinking + Acting Like a Great Small Church

Will Mancini CMC Extreme (2nd Floor) Karl Vaters CMC Edge (3rd Floor)

Ministry, Marriage + Family C ¨

How to Plant a Church + Not Kill Your Marriage

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Moving Together as Family

Josh Reich Plaza Room 102 John Worcester Plaza Room 202

Ministries in a Church Plant

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Children’s Ministry: 6 Months Until the Grand Opening–Where Do I Begin?

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Next Generation Leadership

Chad Ward Refinery Diner (1st Floor) Larry Acosta Modular 405-407

Leading the Worship Team in a New Church Plant Lincoln Brewster Modular 404

Select workshops will be recorded and available throughout the year on Exponential’s podcast library.

Subscribe to podcasts at:

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Workshop Sessions 3 + 4 Exponential West 2014

4.

C ¨ Workshop Session 4 Workshop Session ¨

City-Movements: Starting from Scratch + Building for the Future Chris Lagerlof, John Blue Modular 312

Multi-Site: Exploring the New Normal

Wednesday, Oct. 8April 30 Wednesday, 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.

8:45 - 9:45 a.m.

Evangelism, Outreach + Culture

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ReThinking Preaching* Larry Osborne, James Meeks, Matt Carter Worship Center

The Big Story: Sharing the Gospel in an Increasingly Unchurched Culture James Choung Tent 2

Discipleship

¨ C ¨

Revisiting the Master Plan 50 Years Later Robert Coleman, Kennon Vaughan Refinery Theater (1st Floor)

What Does Relational Discipleship Really Mean?

Jim Putman, Alan Hirsch, Bobby Harrington Classrooms (2nd Floor)

Nuts + Bolts of Church Planting

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Pre-Launch: Marketing + Outreach

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Post-Launch: Becoming Self-Sustaining

Dave Page, Mark Lee Tent 1

How do You Develop a Leadership Team that Lasts?

Josh Reich Modular 310 Jim Sheppard, Julie Bullock Tent 3

Personal Leadership

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Unlocking Your Motivational View of the World Will Mancini CMC Reef (1st floor)

Leadership Culture

Missional

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Greg Ligon Modular 401/403

Transcend: The Future of Equipping and Resourcing the Missional Church Shawn Lovejoy, Matt Smay Refinery Gym (1st Floor)

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360 Leadership Steve Stoope, Rick Burge CMC Extreme (2nd Floor)

BiVo Leaders: Opportunities and Challenges Hugh Halter, Karl Vaters CMC Edge (3rd Floor)

C ¨

Ministry, Marriage + Family

Reproducing Models

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Challenges + Blessings of Being in Ministry Together

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Working Together + Still Liking Each Other

What Missional Lessons Can Be Learned from the Life of Jesus?

Deb Hirsch Refinery Basketball Court (1st Floor)

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Beyond My Ethnocentric World Noemi Chavez Modular 301/303

C

Effective Strategies for Community Transformation via the Multi-Ethnic Church Mark DeYmaz + Panel Modular 304

If Our Church Left our Neighborhood, Would Anyone Who Does Not Attend Notice or Care?

Tom Hughes, Kevin Haah Modular 409/411

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Reproduciendo Lideres + Grupos – Reproducing Leaders + Groups Obe Arellano Modular 308

Tom Jones, Debbie Jones Plaza Room 202 Mike Hickerson, Jodi Hickerson Plaza Room 102

Ministries in a Church Plant

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Creating A Healthy Volunteer Culture

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Technology in the Creative Arts Department

Chad Ward Refinery Diner (1st Floor)

Core Competencies of a Solid Urban Youth Ministry Larry Acosta Modular 405-407 Lincoln Brewster Modular 404

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Workshop Session 3

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Thursday, Oct. 9

Nuts + Bolts of Church Planting

8:45 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.

Evangelism, Outreach + Culture

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ReThinking Commission* Bruce Wesley/ACTS 29, Joe Champion/ARC, Dave Ferguson/NewThing, Greg Nettle/Stadia Worship Center

The Holy Spirit + Witness James Choung, Beau Crosetto Tent 2

The Stuff Movements Are Made Of: Substance + Forms That Help Thrust Church Planting Movements Forward Linda Bergquist, Dan Grider Modular 409/411

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Building a Launch Plan Pat Furgerson, Dale Spaulding Tent 1

How Do I Plant + Still Take Care of Myself?

John Alwood M310

Being Mean About the Mission Shawn Lovejoy Tent 3

Personal Leadership

Discipleship

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Leadership Culture

C ¨

Gospel Disciple: The Core of Disciple-Making David Putman Refinery Theater (1st Floor)

The Desperate Need for a Theology of Discipleship Bill Hull, Brandon Cook, John Blue, Bobby Harrington Classrooms (2nd Floor)

Missional

¨ C ¨

BLESS: 5 Simple Practices to Change Your World Jon Ferguson Refinery Gym

The Future of Missional Community Based Churches Hugh Halter, Matt Smay Refinery Basketball Court (1st Floor)

Reproducing Models

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The Future of the Asian-American Church Ray Chang, DJ Chuang Modular 301/303

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Obe Arellano

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Kevin Palau

Linda Bergquist

Hugh Halter

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Kim Hammond

Todd Proctor

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Alan Hirsch

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Ray Chang

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Danielle Strickland

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Robert Coleman

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Brandon Cook

Greg Ligon

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Edgar Lira

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Sergio De La Mora

Will Mancini

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Mark DeYmaz

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Kennon Vaughan

Dave Ferguson

Joby Martin

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Jeremy McGarity

Larry Walkemeyer

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Bill McMillan

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Bruce Wesley

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DAVE FERGUSON Exponential President

Community Christian Church, a church passionate about has grown to more than 700 leaders with attendance at greater than 6,000 at 11 sites every weekend throughout Chicagoland. Dave provides visionary leadership for the NewThing Network, a catalyst for a movement of reproducing churches. He serves as president of Exponential and co-founder of the Institute

How You and Your Friends Can Start a Missional Church Movement; On the Verge: The Future of the Church as Apostolic Movement; the free eBook Keeping Score and co-author of the free eBook Discover Your Mission Now!

TODD WILSON Exponential Futurist

majority of his time starting and working with organizaTodd is a founding member of Exponential, the coordinating organization of the Exponential Conference, and is part of the leadership team of Exponential, providing vision and strategic direction. Todd lives in Manassas, Va., with his wife, Anna, and their two boys, Ben and Chris.

TERRI SALIBA Exponential Director

Terri Saliba directs the Exponential conference and leads the year-round staff team. She met Jesus later in life at a local church where she learned to love and disciple through her roles in children’s ministry and team leadership. Terri grew up in the Bronx and shares her story of redemption with anyone who will listen. Terri

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currently lives in Carolina Beach, N.C., with her husband, Tim, and sons, Brandon and Justin.

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JESUS’ STRATEGY FOR REACHING THE WORLD ROBERT COLEMAN INTERVIEW BY

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ReThinking Evangelism Robert Coleman – Conference Speaker

RETHINKING EVANGELISM In this thought-provoking and inspiring in-depth conversation with venerable voice and GordonConwell Theological Seminary Evangelism Professor Robert Coleman (author of the watershed titles The Master Plan of Evangelism and The Master Plan of Discipleship), Coleman candidly shares his awakening to the symbiotic relationship of evangelism and discipleship. Coleman joins us again as a speaker for Exponential 2014.

Discipling is the fabric out of which Jesus’ evangelism evolved.

Dr. Coleman, what’s your definition of evangelism and discipleship?

Well, they flow together. An evangelist will make known the Good News. The Good News is Christ.

Discipleship is to follow Christ and continue to learn Him. The word “disciple” translates “learner,” as in the sense of an apprentice. So followers of Christ inevitably become disciple makers or evangelists.

I don’t see that we need to labor the distinctions between the two except to recognize we’re talking about two realities. Both flow together in a personal commitment. The objective of evangelism is to make disciples.

When did you awaken to the symbiotic relationship of evangelism and discipleship?

When I began teaching evangelism at Asbury College, I began to ask the question: I can see how Jesus is personally leading people to know Him and the Kingdom. But what’s His strategy for reaching the world? That’s what He came to do. And then it dawned on me. His strategy is in making disciples who will replicate what He’s doing with them. When I began to see that discipling was the fabric out of which Jesus’ evangelism evolved, it revolutionized my understanding of ministry. And

I began to try to find ways to do it. I remember the next morning in class, I told my students, “I will be here early in the morning at 6 o’clock. If anyone wants to come and pray with me and study the Bible together, you are welcome.” That started over 50 years ago, and I have been doing that in one way or another ever since.

As I have been doing this, I’ve learned more and more about how evangelism is perpetuated through discipling... and where there is true discipling, evangelism is assured. If you are truly doing evangelism, you will take care of those people that you bring to Christ.

You will not turn them out into the world without someone to lead them.

We’ve got to unite these two, and that’s what I have been trying to do.

What are the consequences of separating evangelism and discipleship?

When you start to separate the two, you become departmentalized so that you miss the reason behind it.

If evangelism is only making known the gospel and you don’t see the ultimate objective, then you really do not assure any reproduction of what has been taught. The very fact that we come to Christ implies that we will follow Him. So we become followers, disciples. You don’t have to be a theologian to read the gospels and realize why He preached, why He healed. He focused His ministry on making disciples, those who would catch His heartbeat and His vision and then go forth and reproduce what they learned.

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GO WHERE THE FISH ARE BITING RICK WARREN

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ReThinking Outreach Rick Warren – Conference Speaker

RETHINKING OUTREACH In 32 years of planting and leading Saddleback Church, I’ve learned some key lessons about evangelism and outreach. One of the most important is that it’s a waste of time to fish in a spot where the fish aren’t biting. Wise fishermen move on. They know that fish eat at different times of the day in different places.

How does this apply to evangelism and ministry? Simple. Just like wise fishermen, as leaders we have to focus on the most receptive people in our area and move on when we sense a dead end.

This is not a marketing principle; it’s a basic New Testament principle. Jesus illustrated it in His parable of the sower.

When you sow seed, some of it falls on rocky ground, some on stony ground, some on hard ground, and some on good soil. Wouldn’t it be great if we knew what the good soil was and could sow all our seed there? Why waste seed, time, effort, energy and money?

Remember that it’s God’s job to prepare the soil and our job to sow the

Jesus knew this truth very well. That’s why He said, “Go to the people who will listen.” When He sent the disciples out to evangelize, He told them, “If a home or town refuses to welcome you or listen to you, leave that place and shake the dust off your feet” (Matthew 10:14, NCV).

That statement is significant. Jesus instructed His disciples to leave the unresponsive place and move on to other soil. Far more people in the world are ready to receive Christ than the number of people who are ready to share it. We should constantly ask God, “God, who are You preparing right now for me to talk to?”

To add another metaphor, if the fruit is ripe, you don’t have to yank it off the tree. The apple comes off easily. Paul’s strategy in planting churches and preaching was to go through the open doors and to not waste time banging on the closed ones.

Has someone ever said to you, “Pastor, I think before we go after any new people we ought to go back and round up all the old people who’ve left the church?” This is a guaranteed strategy for church decline because often the people who have left have resolved to be unreceptive to

Just like wise fishermen, as leaders we have to focus on the most receptive people in our area. seed. God uses all kinds of sovereign things like divorce, crises, death, economic problems, government shutdowns, losing a job, a new baby or a new job to prepare the soil. But God uses you to sow the seed.

The fact is receptiveness to the gospel varies widely at different times in people’s lives. Sometimes people are very open to the gospel. Sometimes they’re very closed. And receptivity doesn’t last forever.

your church’s mission and message.

Reclaiming someone who’s gotten upset and cantankerous takes 10 times more energy than to go out and win someone who hasn’t yet trusted in Jesus. God has called us to feed sheep—not corral goats.

Growing churches focus on reaching receptive people while non-growing churches focus on re-enlisting inactive people.

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WHAT’S GONE WRONG—AND HOW CAN WE FIX IT?

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ReThinking Outreach

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Larry Osborne – Conference Speaker

RETHINKING OUTREACH “My hope is in Jesus’s promise. He said He would build His Church, and the gates of hell could not hold it back.”

God expects us to be spiritually contagious.

He desires that those who hang around us will see our good deeds and glorify Him on the day He visits. Yet, too often today the world that hangs around us seems to see something else. And what they see doesn’t draw them. It repels them.

Those who love the darkness will always reject and ridicule those who bring the light. It’s nothing new. It shouldn’t surprise us when we are rejected or persecuted.

When Christ has genuinely been set apart as Lord, people will be drawn to Him. They will want to find out more.

It happened to Jesus and the early church. It will happen to us. But at the same time, as Jesus and the early Church were being persecuted, they were also drawing people to themselves. They were contagious, so much so that the early Church exploded with growth despite fierce Roman, Jewish and Satanic opposition.

So what’s happened today?

Why does the Western Church see the persecution and rejection without the corresponding contagious attraction and growth? How is it that we’ve become either irrelevant (a quaint historical preservation society) or repulsive (a narrow-minded and intolerant slice of society) in the eyes of our peers?

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To understand what’s gone wrong and what we can do to fix it, it’s helpful to compare evangelism and discipleship in the Church today with what God originally intended. We’re supposed to be a Church where three things happen: (1) evangelism is natural, (2) people are changed, and (3) our communities are made better. Let’s look at each one of these traits more closely to see what’s gone wrong.

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ReThinking Witness Larry Walkemeyer - Conference Speaker

BILLY’S TEARS LARRY WALKEMEYER This article is an excerpt from the FREE eBook Led: Going With the Spirit by Larry Walkemeyer. Download at: exponential.org

RETHINKING WITNESS Every church leader has defining moments in his or her ministry. I remember mine. It was actually a story someone told me about Billy Graham, but I’ll never forget hearing

said, “I’ll show you,” and led them to the speakers’ green room. There, he pointed to a damp spot on the floor and said, “Here is where Dr. Graham weeps in prayer over souls before the service begins.” That wasn’t hard for me to believe. I remember hearing Billy Graham say, “… tears shed for others is a sign of strength.”

me. I shrank up. I got cranky. My wife pleaded with me to start eating for her sake. But I stuck it out, and God met me in incredible ways. Something significant was accomplished in the spiritual realm. That kicked off a church planting movement that continues to this day. God responds to Spirit-led, earnest prayers for the lost.

How is the Spirit leading you to pray?

In what ways are your prayers unlocking doors?

it. To be honest, I’m not even certain if it’s completely accurate, but this story clearly captures the essence of Dr. Graham’s approach to evangelism.

Backstage at a Billy Graham crusade, some of the local pastors asked one of the crusade organizers, “What is the source of Billy’s effectiveness?” The organizer looked at them and

When I first wanted to start planting churches, I felt the Lord ask me, “Larry are you willing to fast for 40 days and pray before you plant?” I was used to fasting a day or two, but 40 days? I futilely tried to rationalize the Spirit’s voice away, but I really wanted to plant churches to reach lost people. So I finally promised God a 40-day fast.

It was brutally wonderful. My spiritual hat is off to those who do this yearly.

Once in a lifetime was enough for

How is the Spirit leading you to pray? In what ways are your prayers unlocking doors in the people and the community around you? Are you willing to engage in earnest prayers to enhance your evangelistic efforts?

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FINDING YOUR PERSON OF PEACE ALEX ABSALOM

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ReThinking Witness Alex Absalom – Conference Speaker

RETHINKING WITNESS Since 2010, I’ve served as the leader of missional innovation at RiverTree Church in Northeast Ohio. As part of a team working to help the church move further down the missional path, one of the first things we taught was this missional strategy called Person of Peace. It is the strategy Jesus gives to help us naturally and easily identify where we are called to go.

I believe that many disciples can be released to go out as witnesses simply by implementing this basic strategy. The Person of Peace concept contains within it the essence of missional DNA. Lived out in practice, finding your Person of Peace accelerates your mission.

Lived out in practice, finding your Person of Peace accelerates your mission.

So how do you find your Person of Peace? Below are five characteristics I’ve found quite helpful. I want to stress that your Person of Peace is not a Christian (this is about reaching lost people who won’t otherwise be touched by the Gospel), yet is someone who:

1. Welcomes you.

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2. Receives you (and thus, probably unknowingly at first, receives Jesus in you).

3. Serves you.

4. You intentionally invest in.

5. Operates as a gatekeeper, opening relational doorways into their network of relationships.

Part of the liberating factor for us as Christians is that the Person of Peace only works properly with those who are willing, so it is the very opposite of manipulation.

We taught this repeatedly to the men and women at RiverTree who would become the leaders of the first generation of missional communities.

We kept bringing them back to the challenge of this question: “Who are you called to love intentionally?”

If the answer is a particular community (e.g., bikers, high school students, families with preschoolers), then probably that context will be where your Person of Peace is, since clearly you feel called to that community.

As a family, we have lived this process.

Originally from England, in 2007 God called us as missionaries to the United States. Our journey of faith saw us landing in Oklahoma City, finding ourselves in a new country where we had no favor, knew hardly anyone and barely understood the culture—or even the accent! So Hannah and I did what we always do: We prayed and asked God to show us our Person of Peace.

This time, it was a family who lived in our neighborhood. They were out walking past our house when I happened to be doing yard work. A first conversation ensued, and before I knew it our family had been invited for dinner, and our new friends were busy serving us with gusto.

They opened up a whole network of relationships for us in our neighborhood. These various households became our extended family—adopting us foreigners at all the holidays, doing life together, coming and going out of homes and generally building great relationships.

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“For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you … .” 2 Tim. 1:6 NIV

EXPONENTIAL 2015 THEME TERRI SALIBA He knew he was on death row. He knew he had little time left to say the things he desperately wanted to tell those he loved. From a cold, dark cell in Rome, Paul penned his last letter to this young man from Lystra that he had mentored since his second

days and thinking hard about what it means to “fan into flame the gift of God.” Like Timothy, inside every follower of Jesus is the spark of multiplication. When that spark is “fanned into a flame,” it can ignite a multiplication movement powerful enough to accomplish the mission of Jesus.

But it takes friction—the quick strike of the match against a rough surface—to start the process of turning a spark into a flame and ultimately a raging fire. Do you believe that every follower has a gift meant to be multiplied in

Highlighting their journey and fruit, we’ll be hearing from and telling the stories of leaders that have at times, endured scrutiny and “friction” to follow their deep conviction for multiplication. These leaders realize that their success is not in “my spark” or even in igniting it in others, but rather in “fanning into flame” a missional multiplication movement that began with what God initiated in their heart, thinking and priorities.

missionary journey. The urgency and passion are almost tangible as he exhorts Timothy:

others’ lives? Do you believe that in every believer lies the heart of a movement for God?

Throughout the next year, Exponential is getting back to our multiplication roots as we focus on lighting a fire of urgency for multiplication and creating the friction that brings conviction within every leader and church to ignite a multiplication movement. I hope you’ll join us at Exponential East and West, and online throughout the year, for what we believe is a critical conversation for the church, church planters and our world.

“For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline” (2 Tim. 1: 6-7).

Knowing that each Christ follower has the potential to ignite a multiplication movement shapes our core values, priorities and decision making. The commitment to multiply now rather than “later, when we can afford it” is similar to the friction of striking the match. With that commitment come hard, seemingly foolish decisions— delaying a building campaign, releasing a staff member to start a plant, encouraging others to be part of a planting team, investing in interns, etc.

Terri Saliba is the conference director for Exponential.

She has served with Exponential for five years. Terri met Jesus later in life at the local church where she learned to love and disciple through her roles in children’s ministry and team leadership. A native of the Bronx, she shares her story of redemption with anyone who will listen.

Knowing that each Christ follower has the potential to ignite a multiplication movement shapes our core values, priorities and decision making.

Paul knew that inside this soft-spoken man whose faith “proved genuine” was a spark with the potential to ignite a raging fire—a widespread movement for the gospel.

At Exponential 2015, we’ll be focusing on these words Paul wrote in his last

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