June 2006

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Issue #265:
How to communicate your vision

Once you've developed a vision for your church, you've got to communicate that vision to your people in order to mobilize them for what God wants to do. It doesn't matter how grand your vision is, if you can't communicate it, the vision will stall. Pastor, here are five ways to communicate your vision to your congregation.
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Published Wed, Jun 28 2006 12:00 AM by MTBEditor

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Saddleback Sayings -- 6/27/2006

"Everybody needs a dream for life. It is a psychological necessity. If you’re not dreaming, if you don’t have a goal for life, if you don’t have a dream, if you don’t have a vision, you’re dying." Rick Warren

Published Tue, Jun 27 2006 8:15 AM by MTBEditor
The Way of the Worshiper Small Group Study, Buddy Owens (Purpose Driven Publishing, 2006)

Help your church discover the true meaning of worship through this special small group study. This study isn't about music or about going to church. It's designed to help people understand how to worship God in every moment of their lives. http...

Published Tue, Jun 27 2006 8:05 AM by MTBEditor
Notes & Quotes -- Mother Theresa

"Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service." Mother Theresa

Published Mon, Jun 26 2006 2:12 PM by MTBEditor

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Notes & Quotes -- David Jeremiah, Preaching with Power (ed. Michael Duduit)

"In my situation, if it's a matter of getting one more point in the message that comes from the Word of God or illustrating the points I've already done better, I'll choose the latter, because I want the people to walk away with something...

Published Mon, Jun 26 2006 1:53 PM by MTBEditor

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Notes & Quotes -- Source: USA Today (June 23, 2006)

According to a recent study by the American Sociological Review , Americans are lonelier, more isolated than similar studies reported two decades ago. In 1985 the average American had three people in whom they could confide matters important to them....

Published Mon, Jun 26 2006 1:36 PM by MTBEditor

Filed under: Rick Warren, Purpose Driven Pastor
Notes & Quotes -- Burt Nanus, Visionary Leadership (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series), 1995

"There is no more powerful engine driving an organization toward excellence and long-range success than an attractive, worthwhile, and achievable vision of the future, widely shared." Burt Nanus, Visionary Leadership (Jossey Bass Business and...

Published Mon, Jun 26 2006 1:20 PM by MTBEditor

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Notes & Quotes -- David Gergen

“A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.” David Gergen

Published Mon, Jun 26 2006 1:13 PM by MTBEditor

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Communicating vision through your own example

There is something inauthentic about someone who casts a vision for which he or she will not personally sacrifice. Andy Stanley, author of Visioneering In February of 1997 our church needed to raise a million dollars in a four-month period in order to...

Published Mon, Jun 26 2006 8:36 AM by MTBEditor

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Women in Ministry: I Give Up!

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. Romans 8:1 NIV I will never forget the day I discovered that our 6-month-old...

Published Mon, Jun 26 2006 8:32 AM by MTBEditor

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Grocery ministry provides low-cost food for churches

Angel Food can act like an open door to share Christ. It’s an opportunity to reach people with the message of Christ and meet a basic human need of hunger and in some cases, poverty. Cindy Goss, Saddleback Church coordinator for local P.E.A.C.E. MARYVILLE...

Published Mon, Jun 26 2006 8:31 AM by MTBEditor

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Head over heels for short-term missions: Think before you go

Let’s call our congregations toward being as committed to the social injustice in our own neighborhood as to those in parts of Africa. David Livermore, author of Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence It used...

Published Mon, Jun 26 2006 8:30 AM by MTBEditor

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A small-town church with a ministry to the whole world

Churches starting conferences Highlands Fellowship Pastor Jimmie Davidson shares tips on how other churches can start their own Global Glory of God conferences. Davidson came up with the idea for the conference during a Purpose Driven Church conference...

Published Mon, Jun 26 2006 8:29 AM by MTBEditor
Church planter focuses new congregation on P.E.A.C.E. vision

It made so much sense to me. I really think ... no, I know God had me there for that reason. I was wrestling at the time. I knew God wanted us to start a church, but I just kept wondering how this was going to happen, what’s the end vision, what’s the...

Published Mon, Jun 26 2006 8:29 AM by MTBEditor
Tips on developing and communicating vision

Leadership Development: Vision These 14 lessons will help you understand your own vision for your church and help you communicate that vision to your congregation. First taught by Rick Warren to the leadership team at Saddleback Church, these lessons...

Published Mon, Jun 26 2006 8:28 AM by MTBEditor