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DNA, Balance & Heart Check

March 18, 2010 in Blogging, Leadership, Revolution Church with Comments Off

Recently Christine Caine spent almost a week with the staff at Bay Area Fellowship. Bay Area has the most loyal, God honoring, hard working, risk taking, Pastor supporting staff of any church I have ever seen. My prayer is that we can develop the same kind of team at Revolution Church.

Check out what Bay Area’s pastor, Bil Cornelius, and some of the Bay Area staff had to say (original link here):

After speaking two nights at the Glo Women’s Conference and 5 weekend services, she made time to sit down and pour into our staff.  This was a powerful time for our staff, leadership and key volunteers.  A few of the key takeaways from this time and Christine’s 20+ years of ministry experiences were the following:

  • The staff of a Church must not only support the Pastor’s vision, but the vision must become theirs.  Only by grafting our Pastor’s vision into our DNA, will we ever be able to fully support him in carrying it out.
  • Balance isn’t the Goal.  A balanced life is a myth when it comes to those called to lead the Church. Meaning: Nothing can compete for the HIGH calling God has placed on our lives.  No outside agendas should pull us away from the direction our Church is heading.
  • Always check your heart.  We must frequently examine ourselves and purge ourselves of attitudes or actions that might prevent us from furthering the assignment God has given our Pastor.
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Cat in the Bag

December 27, 2007 in Goals, Life Change, The Connection Church with 3 Comments

I’ll just say it.  I went to a “special” church service this week that was just absolutely pathetic to say the BEST about it.  I believe with all my heart that the most effective way to reach people is through new churches.

At TCC we live by this idea that “its all about the people who haven’t even come yet.”

Its a mindset, built in to the very DNA that makes up our identity.  Reaching people is WHO we are.  It’s our essence.  It’s the filter through which we run ever single thing we do.

We could focus more on those we already have and do church each week and raise up some good leaders…but that wouldn’t be what God has called us to.  We could focus on getting a building for a few years and put everything we have into that effort, but that wouldn’t be what God has us here for either.

There are all kinds of things that would be easy for us to start.  There are all sorts of minstries that we could do with a little success at this point.

Those things would be fairly easy.  But, I came to Kyle to be a part of something EXTREMELY challenging.  I came here to reach people.  Church Planting IS the extreme sport of ministry.  And I love it.

Check out these Observations on Church Planting.  They are scary and challenging to us as a church.  These are the reasons we do what we do how we do it at TCC:

  • There are 195 million non-churched people in America, making America one of the top four largest “unchurched” nations in the world.
  • In spite of the rise of mega-churches, no county in America has a greater church population than it did ten years ago.
  • During the last ten years, combined communicant membership of all Protestant denominations declined by 9.5 percent (4,498,242), while the national population increased by 11.4 percent (24,153,000).
  • Each year 3,500 to 4,000 churches close their doors forever; yet only as many as 1,500 new churches are started.
  • There are now nearly 60 percent fewer churches per 10,000 persons than in 1920.
    • In 1920 27 churches existed for every 10,000 Americans.
    • In 1950 17 churches existed for every 10,000 Americans.
    • In 1996 11 churches existed for every 10,000 Americans.
  • “Today, of the approximately 350,000 churches in America, four out of five are either plateaued or declining.”
  • One American denomination recently found that 80% of its converts came to Christ in churches less than two years old.
  • Hence the claim of many leaders: “The single most effective evangelistic methodology under heaven is planting new churches” (Peter Wagner).
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