CHURCH LEADER INSIGHTS - nOVEMBER 2006
By Nelson Searcy, Roy Mansfield, and Joy Willis
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Church Health, Church Growth and Church Planting
** EVANGELISM / CHURCH GROWTH **
5 STEPS TO EXPLOSIVE GROWTH by Bil Cornelius, and Bill Easum
"Acts 2:47 tells us that "each day the Lord added to their group those who were being saved." The number of Christians grew daily! Not only is crazy, go-big, huge growth possible, it's biblical."
- Available at OutreachMagazine.com
** FOR MORE ON EVANGELISM SEE **
The Evangelism Seminar and Reaching Your Community Through Servant Evangelism
BILL HYBELS ON OUTREACH
It's taken me the better part of my adult life to understand this. But I believe the single-highest value in the personal evangelistic adventure is being attentive to and being cooperative with the promptings of the Holy Spirit! People don't expect me to say that. They think I'm nuts to connect promptings and the works of the Holy Spirit with old-fashioned soul-winning, which just shows you how far sharing our faith has strayed from what it ought to be.
- Available at ChristianityToday.com
Myth #5: Growth is incremental. Many times that may be the case in ministry. But, there are some instances, when the Holy Spirit moves through a congregation and revival happens in a community. When God moves and the church cooperates with God's agenda, amazing things can happen.
- Available at TonyMorganLive.com
** For more on Church Growth, see The Breaking Growth Barriers Workshop **
FAITH ON YOUR FEET
Prayer walking your neighborhood and community can lead to fertile soil for the gospel and some divine appointments to share your faith. Learn how to turn a quiet stroll into an evangelistic opportunity.
- Available at OnMission.com
** NEW AUDIO TRAINING PODCAST **
Top 5 Preaching Calendar Planning Tips In this 25 minute podcast Nelson Searcy shares his 5 top planning tips to help you double the effectiveness of your preaching in 2007. Now is the perfect time to begin planning your preaching for next year. These tips help you maximize the calendar and your efforts. Listen Here
EVANGELISTIC PREACHING IN THE LOCAL CHURCH
An interview with Haddon Robinson
In the course of the year, there ought to be time set apart when you directly address that issue. You ought to preach an evangelistic sermon with non-Christians in mind, stated in terms they can understand, and illustrated in ways that would be true to their lives.
-Available at pttranscripts.stores.yahoo.net
** For more on preaching, see our best-selling resource
Planning a One Year Preaching Calendar **
(available as MP3 download or CD )
** CHURCH PLANTING **
HOW TO KNOW WHEN YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO PLANT A CHURCH
"You must be convinced. If you're not, your Church Plant will fail."
-Available at Acts29Network.org
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** LEADERSHIP **
SPIRTUAL WARFARE IN MINISTRY
If you're going to be effective in ministry - in battle - you've got to focus yourself. You know what's important in life. There are so many things that want a piece of your time. The good can be the enemy of the best. I have one person to please and only one - the Lord Jesus Christ.
-Available at pastors.com
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