C3 day 2 (Bishop TD Jakes)

Bishop TD Jakes
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- “oops, there it is”
- when I turned 40, my Bible shrunk
- Luke 24:13
- if I don’t read it well, it’s not that I can read, it’s that I can’t see
- “when I talk to leaders, it’s like I’m talking to the whole world”
Speaking on “The Order of the Breaking of Bread”
- If you want to take some classes on politics, talk to some church-folk (we wrote the book on “who sits on the right and who sits on the left:”)
- you haven’t BEGAN to preach until you’ve become “contraversal”
- conflict, the price of being a leader
- he just quoted Star Trek…. to be a leader is to go where none have gone before
- people generally admire their leaders best when they’re dead (embraced as visionary, theologian, once dead)
- when God shows up in another form other than what people will recognize, they do not recognize (when he’s not in the religious trappings they expect), think about Jesus walking on the water… disciples didn’t recognize them
- when you do something against the status quo, expect to be alienated or ignored or controversial… especially in your church
- our greatest wisdom is foolishness to God
- when God moves in a new way, people don’t see it…
- How could they no recognize Jesus by his voice… no one speaks like Jesus but Jesus (Lazures recognized it, and he was dead)
- Jesus didn’t have to memorize the word, because he didn’t have to memorize WHAT HE WAS (He was the word incarnate)
- the beginning of leadership is to realize that you don’t know as much as you think you do
- there are some moment where we should plead with God to stay (“Abide with us…”), because we are some empty, not because we are so full
- God is not a dove, but he’s like / as a dove. He can become whatever he needs to be… (he’s water, mannah, a tree, a dove, a serpent)… he has the ability to be whatever he wants to be. When you ask him who he is, he says “I AM”
- HE’S BIGGER THAN YOU THINK HE IS
- “don’t look at me like you fastin’” (when Jesus offers you bread)
- there’s something about God appearing in ordinary ways that unlocks deep intrinsic interest (appear in simple things)
- Creativity Liberty = when you have the mic, you choose the menu
- it wasn’t important what Jesus ate, but how he ate it (he took it, he blessed it, he broke it, he gave it to them)
- God did this with Abraham, Issac, Jacob, Joseph, Jesus – (took them, blessed them, blessed them, and then gave to them)
- This is what God does with every man or woman he will ever use
- takes us years to realize the BREAKING STAGE is the BLESSING STAGE
- Had he not broken me, I would have never been able to preach that God is able (now I know it’s not me)
- Our problem is that we give the leadership (to the mic, the titles) to people who have never been broken
[notes complete, we stood up at this point]