CSRM Summit. CSRM stands for Church Sports Recreation Ministry and is a group dedicated to encouraging ministries and churches in sharing the gospel with others through sports. I became familiar with CSRM because of what New Life is doing with the nZone. Since I have no prior experience with formal sports and rec ministry I am spending the next few days at the CSRM Summit in Indianapolis basically networking with others and learning from their successes and failures. Here are some of the things I did/learned today:
- 3 Lessons from Elijah: He was a man of prayer, he believed that he was God’s representative and that he believed he + God was the majority
- God is still building His church. Sports and Rec ministry is just 1 avenue that God is using to build it
- A biblical sports ministry involves fellowship (relationships amongst believers) and friendship (relationships between believers and non-believers).
- Sports ministry needs to be more than just fellowship. It needs intentional evangelism.
- Sports and Rec ministry won’t succeed unless we get them plugged into the church
- David Dean is a really funny guy.
- The Indianapolis Indians (Pirates “AAA” baseball team) has a great stadium.
- The NCAA Hall of Champions is not as impressive as I thought it would be. But at least I had a good date 🙂
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