2. Jesus said, “Come follow me and I will MAKE you fishers of men.” Matthew 4:19
3. Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and MAKE disciples of all nations...” Matthew 28:18,19
6. akedia Greek "not to care" fatigue or exhaustion; spiritual and physical lethargy, listlessness, dispersion of thoughts, inattentively immersed in useless activity
17. Concentrate on the cause! Simple movements are built around a “simple, clear, state-able purpose or mission” that defines the “how” of making disciples. Clarity and simplicity go hand in hand. They are close friends. Simple Church by T. Rainer and E. Geiger
22. Come, Holy Ghost, all quickening fire, Come, and in me delight to rest; Drawn by the lure of strong desire, O come and consecrate my breast! The temple of my soul prepare, And fix thy sacred presence there. John Wesley
23. Eager for thee I ask and pant, So strong the principle divine Carries me out with sweet constraint, Till all my hallowed soul is thine; Plunged in the Godhead's deepest sea, And lost in thine immensity. John Wesley
24. John Wesley traveled 250,000 miles on horseback, averaging twenty miles a day for forty years; preached 4,000 sermons; produced 400 books; knew ten languages. At eighty-three he was annoyed that he could not write more than fifteen hours a day without hurting his eyes, and at eighty-six he was ashamed he could not preach more than twice a day. He complained in his diary that there was an increasing tendency to lie in bed until 5:30 in the morning.
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26. 1. Worship 2. Sabbath 3. Communion 4. Giving 5. Legacy 6. Grace 7. Baptism 8. Witness 9. Missions 10. Multiplication 11. Spirit Filled Life 12. Bible Study 13. Prayer 14. Relationships 15. Leadership 16. Family 17. Friends 18. Church 19. Work 20. World P ersonal L ife P lan Principles, Values, Actions
27. The M.A.P. to Effective Leadership Personal Vitality Context GOALS: Effective Leaders Vital Congregations Faithful Disciples 15. Vision Overview 16. Congregational Values 17. Mission & Vision 18. Sustaining Vision 11. Third Place 12. Experience based Culture 13. Lifecycle 14. Assessment Possibility Pond Implementation Team Vision Strategy 1 2 3 4 5 6 1. Orientation 2. Covenant 3. Core 4. Call 5. Competencies 6. Character 7. Spiritual life of Leaders 8. Environment of Prayer 9. Living as Team 10. Steps to Team Building 19. Strategy Intro 20. Measurements 21. Priorities 22. Structure 23. Structure & Strategies 24. Multiplication 25-30 Six sessions to share learning, wins, and accountability
37. Let worship be the fuel for mission's flame We're going with a passion for Your name We're going for we care about Your praise Send us out
38. Let worship be the heart of mission's aim To see the nations recognize Your fame Till every tribe and tongue voices Your praise Send us out
39. You should be the praise of every tongue You should be the joy of every heart But until the fullness of Your kingdom comes Until that final revelation dawns
41. Let worship be the fuel for mission's flame We're going with a passion for Your name We're going for we care about Your praise Send us out
42. You should be the praise of every tongue You should be the joy of every heart But until the fullness of Your kingdom comes Until that final revelation dawns
44. Every tribe, every tongue Every creature in the heavens and the earth Every heart, every soul Will sing Your praise, will sing Your praise
45. Every note, every strain Every melody will be for You alone Every harmony that flows from every tongue We'll sing Your praise, we'll sing Your praise We'll sing Your praise, we'll sing Your praise
46. You should be the praise of every tongue You should be the joy of every heart But until the fullness of Your kingdom comes Until that final revelation dawns
52. The vision is Jesus: obsessively, dangerously, undeniably Jesus. I see people obsessive about Jesus!
53. And they are free from materialism. They laugh at 9-5 little prisons. They could eat caviar on Monday and crusts on Tuesday. They wouldn't even notice.
54. They are mobile like the wind; they belong to the nations. They need no passport. People write their addresses in pencil and wonder at their strange existence. They are free, yet they are slaves of the hurting and dirty and dying.
55. What is the vision? The vision is holiness that hurts the eyes. It makes children laugh and adults angry. It gave up the game of minimum integrity long ago to reach for the stars. It scorns the good and strains for the best. It is dangerously pure.
56. Light flickers from every secret motive, every private conversation. It loves people away from their suicide leaps, their Satan games.
57. This is an army that will lay down its life for the cause. A million times a day its soldiers choose to lose that they might one day win the great "Well done" of faithful sons and daughters.
58. Such heroes are as radical on Monday morning as Sunday night.
59. They don't need fame from names. Instead they grin quietly upwards and hear the crowds chanting again and again: "COME ON!"
60. And this is the sound of the underground The whisper of history in the making Foundations shaking Revolutionaries dreaming once again Mystery is scheming in whispers Conspiracy is breathing... This is the sound of the underground.
61. And the army is disciplined. People who beat their bodies into submission. The tattoo on their backs boasts "For me to live is Christ and to die is gain."
62. Sacrifice fuels the fire of victory in their upward eyes. Winners. Martyrs. Who can stop them? Can fear scare them or death kill them?
63. They pray like a dying man with groans beyond talking, with warrior cries, sulphuric tears and with great barrow loads of laughter!
65. Whatever it takes they will give: Breaking the rules. Shaking mediocrity from its cozy little hide. Laying down their rights and their precious little wrongs, laughing at labels, fasting essentials.
66. The advertisers cannot mold them. Hollywood cannot hold them. Peer-pressure is powerless to shake their resolve at late night parties before the cockerel cries.
67. They are incredibly cool, dangerously attractive (on the inside). On the outside? They hardly care! They wear clothes like costumes: to communicate and celebrate but never to hide.
68. Would they surrender their image or their popularity? They would lay down their very lives, swap seats with the man on death row; guilty as hell. A throne for an electric chair.
69. With blood and sweat and many tears, with sleepless nights and fruitless days, they pray as if it all depends on God and live as if it all depends on them.
70. Their DNA chooses Jesus. (He breathes out, they breathe in.) Their subconscious sings. They had a blood transfusion with Jesus.
71. Their words make demons scream in shopping malls. Don't you hear them coming?
72. Herald the weirdos! Summon the losers and the freaks. Here come the frightened and forgotten with fire in their eyes.
73. They walk tall and trees applaud, skyscrapers bow, mountains are dwarfed by these children of another dimension.
75. And this vision will be. It will come to pass; it will come soon.
76. How do I know? Because this is the longing of creation itself, the groaning of the Spirit, the very dream of God.
77. My tomorrow is his today. My distant hope is his 3D. And my feeble, whispered, faithless prayer invokes a thunderous, resounding, bone-shaking great "Amen!"
