C3 day 2 (Tommy Barnett)

Tommy Barnett.
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MAIN SESSION
- He’s describing the books he’s written
- He just said “mp2… no mp3… what is it?” and “technology is the devil” (he’s kidding)
- Have you ever wanted to shoot the sound guy?
- If you’ve ever wanted to quit, you’re in good company, you’re in good company
- When you’re in it, you want out of it. When you’re out of it, you want back in it… that’s how ministry is
- Many great men and preachers wanted to quit (Spurgeon, Churchill)
- There is honor in wanting to quit
- (1) Wanting to Quit is a Sign of Success [because you have something you actually want to quit]
- (2) the more you have to quit, the more you want to quit [the colder it becomes, the riskier it come, the lonelier it comes]
- (3) You can enjoy the luxury of wanting to quit if you know you’re not going to quit.
- if you have quality, then you’ll get quantity
- a burden comes and goes, but it’s the call of God that drives you when you feel you can go no further
- “every Monday morning I feel like I’m going to quit the church, but then I get a cup of Starbuck’s… sometimes it takes two cups”
- “I’m a killer, not a quitter” / “I have cut the word quit out of my dictionary”

HOW DO I KEEP FROM QUITTING?
- (a) burn the bridges behind you
- there’s no adventure like building churches for God
- (b) don’t tell anybody you want to quit when you want to quit
- (c) do not expose yourself to what you don’t want to be (you will be what you hang around… “I like this but…” is not a good philosophy)
- (d) if you don’t want to quit, lock yourself in so you cannot quit
- if the Taliban was playing the Lakers, then I’d pull for the Taliban
- difference between “mind made up” and “heart was fixed”

- He’s been preaching the Gospel for 54 years (sweet)
- “you can get by saying stuff at 70 you can’t get by with at 40″ (as he jokes about the Playboy mansion)
- At the Dream Center, we’ve got gang members, pimps, prostitutes… and that’s just the pastoral staff
- Great men are just ordinary men that just would not quit.
- in the last 5 years, I’ve seen more saved than I saw in the previous 48 years before that. (and more money come in, and seen more miracles)
- as you get older, the best is yet to come