Fireside Chat: Dave Buehring

Dave Buehring closed the Fireside Chat with the Fathers of the Faith Event with a blueprint for moving ahead. He identified 12 different Domains of culture in which we need to expand the Kingdom of God, including:

• Family- social services, adoption, family-life counseling, etc.
• Church and Missions
• Government and Law
• Education and Students
• Media- electronic, print
• Arts, Entertainment, and Sports
• Business and Commerce
• Science and Technology
• Environment and Agriculture
• Health and Medicine
• Military and Nation-Security
• Non-profits and Service Organizations

There was so much good stuff packed into his presentation (complete with information-packed powerpoint slides) that it was hard to take comprehensive notes. Here are some nuggets and tough questions:

• How much purposeful activity- with deliberateness and intentionally- am I investing in personally growing as a disciple of Jesus and making disciples with in my sphere of relationships and influence?
• When we preach on Sunday morning, we get to address every sector of society- government, arts, entertainment, academia, etc. Don't just preach to them. Equip them.
• When you commit to being a disciple-maker, you have to change your priorities.
• Making disciples should be a reference point to everything else you do. When we get up in the morning, we should approach life with the awareness that our ultimate purpose is to make disciples.
  
• When people come to Christ, we need to implant in them the multiplication chip. We have started a come and sit system. Instead of going and doing, we like sitting and listening. Let's turn people from sitters and listeners to goers and doers.
• Teach, demonstrate, replicate.
• The teacher has not taught until the student has learned. If they don't get it, don't complain about them. Pour your life into them until they get it.
• We need to be like Barnabas- he was willing to let Paul pass him by. Be a leader who is willing to train up leaders better than you. Let people pass you by.
• Who are you pouring your life into?
• Where is God most changing me right now?
• Glorifying God means enhancing God's reputation in the eyes of others.