Catalyst Session #4

• 1:00 PM ryangeiger - Rob Bell Pastor of Mars Hill Church is about to go on
• 1:02 PM ryangeiger - Rob Bell is the author of Jesus Wants To Save Christians and Velvet Elvis
• 1:03 PM ryangeiger - First is Shane Hipps who is a pastor and former Ad Executive for Porsche
• 1:05 PM ryangeiger - Nature of Communication: Christianity is fundamentally a communication event
• 1:05 PM ryangeiger - God is revealing God’s self to the world and He has used whatever he wants to impact how we understand the nature of God
• 1:06 PM ryangeiger - The METHODS always change but the MESSAGE stays the same
• 1:06 PM ryangeiger - Without change the methods become irrelevant
• 1:09 PM ryangeiger - How you say something matters more as much as what you say
• 1:10 PM ryangeiger - Advertising: written words and images are different in how we process the information
• 1:11 PM ryangeiger - Images and words are not interchangeable
• 1:13 PM ryangeiger - How you say something will shape how it’s understood
• 1:14 PM ryangeiger - Mark 2:22
• 1:17 PM ryangeiger - The new wine matched the new wine skins..the medium is the message
• 1:22 PM ryangeiger - What if the gospel is like a living thing as opposed to a lifeless architect
• 1:23 PM ryangeiger - *Artifact
• 1:23 PM ryangeiger - A Gardner protects, cultivates and loves the process of growth
• 1:25 PM ryangeiger - We have become like guards with the gospel and protect it out of fear as opposed to cultivating out of love
• 1:26 PM ryangeiger - There are diamonds in the rock of scripture that we have yet to discover
• 1:26 PM ryangeiger - They have not been accessed because they did not need them
• 1:27 PM ryangeiger - Motivated with love not fearful and overprotective
• 1:27 PM ryangeiger - Shane Hipps just ended