For all of you who took in the I-Heart Revolution movie, I love hearing how God stirs hearts. Please write down your thoughts.
This should get you started:
As you took it all in, how would describe what God was stirring in your heart to DO?
Tag Archive for 'Vision'
This past Sunday as we talked about the key ingredient of “vision” for our families we saw from Genesis how God’s vision for human beings needs to get inside us and become our own.
I found this article, which is available for download online, searching “finding your child’s calling”. I thought it had some very helpful insight I wanted to pass along:
Discover Your Child’s Calling
by Jayna Petterson
“I’ve had it!” My dad blew up in resignation after the home buyer’s financing went sour. “I’ve spent all month nursing this deal and then the mortgage broker chokes it for me. How am I going to tell my buyers?” He reeled at the thought of confrontation and became agitated, mentally rehearsing any other move he could make to salvage this sale. He was out of his game. Even the satisfaction of winning “Realtor of the Year,” earning over one hundred thousand dollars a year and parking his first brand new car in our garage, was eclipsed by his stress in a job that forced him into the wrong mold. He was over fifty when he finally decided to inventory his strongest skills, gifts, and passions and make a drastic life change. Ultimately, my parents sold their ocean-view home and car, bought an RV, and now thrive on traveling and doing volunteer construction projects for Christian camps, churches, and outreach ministries. My dad’s joy has returned, and he beams with enthusiasm recounting the numerous practical ways he has touched others’ lives.
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3 Critical Leadership Lessons from a quick glance visit to Liberty University
I had never seen Liberty University and, like most people, had only a caricature knowledge of its founder Jerry Falwell. Standing in Lynchburg and seeing a campus that is now reaching (with internet) some 50,000 students, I couldn’t help but be inspired. Here’s a few thoughts about leadership that struck me as I spent little more than a couple of hours there. Nothing new but any leader can file them in the reminder category:
Vision matters – The power of leadership begins and ends with God putting vision into the heart. It’s a simple lesson but, while simple, can easily be skipped over in its importance in the crush of every day life.
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Core to our calling as a church is to “make the case for the faith” to our generation. This is inspired by a study of the book of Acts and how Paul went about the task of missions. In that spirit, July is dedicated to equipping us to answer the question: “Is Christianity fact or fairy tale?”
We’ll begin with the question I think is the toughest.
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It is a faith-building blast to find myself in very serious discussions about opening our church in Washington Square Mall. Our trustees gathered last night to discuss it again. The consensus has been that the idea makes sense. Beginning years ago, I remember asking God to do a work in our church where something like Washington Square Mall made sense. That’s what I am still praying. And, honestly, my prayer has been that we, as a church would grow so much, moving to the mall was and obvious, matter of fact solution. All that seems to be happening now. It’s fun to watch a prayer enter the “seen” realm.
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Some of the reasons we do what we do when it comes to art and creativity in church.
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The community surveys helps us fulfil the great comission by being missional in getting to know our own community.
Keep in mind, there is much more to say but I’m trying to boil it down as much as possible.
Our Senior Leadership Team took a couple of days this week to attempt a final wrestling with the Edge / Summit debate. We knew we needed to make a decision and move forward. And we have.
Here is a “Top 10″ list of things to keep in mind about our proposed solution:
PROBLEM. We have an undeniable problem. We have never attempted to ignore, hide or NOT be proactive about solving it. The problem is that the Edge is growing and needs more space to continue to grow, while the Summit is declining.
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