Posted in Conferences, Fund Development on April 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Steve Andrews
People are buried under a mountain of debt. – Dave Ramsey
Online giving (automated is better everything that is important for me I automate mortgage, cars)
What do you do about leadership giving…If they don’t give [...]
Posted in Conferences, Fund Development on April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Steve Andrews and Brian Tome
When the money isn’t there it can be a desperate place to land. Jesus told his disciples, “You have not because you ask not”. As church planters, we must take responsibility for being the chief resource raiser. Learning how to inspire others to give financially to Jesus’ cause is key to [...]
Posted in Conferences on April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Darrin Patrick of The Journey
Bill Hybels said, there are big L leaders. Recently he read Alendar on leadership and as he thought about the Hybels talk and the Alendar book he was struck thinking Paul was a great leader but a broken leader.
Paul was a great leader
Reluctant
Weak Leader
Sin Confessing Leader
Paul was already a leader busy [...]
Posted in Conferences on April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Shawn Lovejoy of Mountain Lake and churchplanting.com
SEE SHAWN’S NOTES HERE>>>
From Day ONE he said, “I have a new level of doubt!”
Planters Doubt:
Vision
Call
Their Ability
Their Faith
Their Talent
We doubt ourselves
The list is almost endless.
We begin to compare ourselves to other leaders
When and what worked for them we believe will work for us, so we start to [...]
Posted in Conferences on April 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hebrews 1:1 In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways
God spoke through people both at specific times and in a lot of different ways. We need to ask God to help us know both when to speak and how to speak.
John 12:49 For I did [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Exponential 08 on April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Short Notes from a four our stint with Mark Batterson:
READ MARK BATTERSON”S NOTES HERE>>>
Everything says something about everything.
Don’t over promises and then under deliver – under promise and over deliver.
Bill Gates said, “We over estimate what we can do in two years and under estimate what we can do in ten years”.
If you pour your [...]
Posted in Management, tagged Money Management on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Today, I hired a new church consultant to look over our bookkeeping practices. As church planters we need to know that every penny counts and how these pennies are accounted for matters big time. Over the past four years we have worked hard to keep our books in order and have done better [...]
Posted in BGC, Resources, tagged Church Health on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Based on the 12 Characteristics of a Healthy Church
The following is a tool to help a church evaluate itself in regard to the Twelve Characteristics of a Healthy Church. Remember, no church is a perfect 5 in every area; there’s always room for improvement and progress. Areas of imperfection provide a strong bias for [...]
Posted in Church Growth on April 2, 2008 | No Comments »
…Make Disciples.
There is a huge philosophical danger (if we don’t understand that God builds the church) as we plant our churches. Church Planters need to decide to build reproducing, mature people called disciples.
When we just focus on planting a church we run the danger of having a group of people coming to [...]
Posted in Fund Development on April 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Asking for money is a humbling task. I am well aware that when we put our selves out there (in front of family, friends, co-workers and their circles of influence) it goes against the natural inclination of most church planters. Church Planters have an independent streak. They are a bunch of cowboys [...]
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