Transformation Theology or Transfiguration of Gospel- a Christian Editorial

Transformational Theology’s pitfalls and the dangers of stopping short of the transfigurational powers of the Word.

read more:  http://freedomist.com/2010/05/13/transformation-theology-or-transfiguration-of-gospel-a-christian-editorial/

I Am Freedomist

Let’s play a game called “Political Monopoly” and decide if it’s OK to discriminate against godliness while only allowing godlessness in public policy, are YOU ready to play?

read more at: http://freedomist.com/2010/05/11/i-am-freedomist/

The New State Church- the secular church of the public school system

How the NEA has become the papal authority of the new secular state church, our public schools, and what can be done to stop them

read more:  http://freedomist.com/2010/05/03/the-new-state-church-the-secular-church-of-the-public-school-system/

Church Growth can be affected by the authorities around you these days.  Take the case of Julian Raven, who was arrested for reaching out to the homosexuals at a gay rights rally in Elimira, Ny.  The rally was held in a public park, and the arresting officers were directed by Chief of Police to arrest Julian Raven when he began praying for the homosexuals.  The grounds for the arrest?  He might upset the homosexuals.  He will tell his side of the story today at 3p est.  Here is that story:

We all have stuff. Stuff that sits around and we don’t use, but others could.At a time when alot of families need financial help but  live in apartments with no yards or struggle where to find tables and the funds to even advertise for an event such as a yard sale the local church can step in.

Churches wrestle with ways to make their church grow by purchasing entertaining curriculums or bringing in speakers, but in order to draw people to your church it sometimes takes something other than a church service. It takes community service.

By offering the church parking lot or field to the community for a city wide yard sale, complete with tables you can touch your community for Christ. This can lead to visitors to your church and growth. Volunteers can help with set up and by offering a place at the sale for people to donate food for a local food bank or ministry you can bless many.

One of the hardest things after a yard sale, is the clean-up. By offering leftover items to be picked up by a local outreach ministry or disposed of at the church you also draw more people as well and once again bless a ministry.

If your church is blessed with talent you can have some mime, music or other creative happenings during the sale. A prayer team/evangelism team  can certainly do some great things as well, not to mention handing out CDs or DVDs of past sermons.

The relationships that begin between the neighborhood and the church make for a very worthwhile event.

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Crull Chambless shared the following after a discussion with Tony Morgan.

1.Listen to God and do what He says

Sounds so elementary, but never a bad idea to remind us of our foundation.

2. Learn how to be missionaries to our culture

Understand the local context you and your church has and be focused on an outward audience.

3. Build from the outside-in

Many churches begin with the idea of empowering a core group and sending them out in to the community. A challenge of this is that through this equipping season
, community happens within that group that tends to draw them closer to one another rather than sending out to the community. Rather than starting from the inside out, start from the outside in. Create a system that encourages people to get in community once they’ve entered your doors.

4. Prioritize the weekend

In the United States (and this is key for cultural context), the most effective outreach is still the weekend worship experience. Prioritize it.

5. Focus on who you are trying to reach rather than who you are trying to keep

It becomes too easy to let our mission drift to be internally focused on satisfying our own needs. Remember the calling God placed on us through the local church. filter your decisions
on reaching those who are not in your church now (no, I don’t mean to the exclusion of caring for those in the church now. It’s about focus).

6. Leverage word of mouth

Help those in your church understand what’s going to happen in coming experiences and empower them to bring their circle. Focus resources in empowering word of mouth rather than traditional mass marketing.

7. Act twice your size when approaching ministry decisions
, communication, vision, etc.

Nelson Searcy stated, aptly I think, that God will bring you what you’re prepared to handle. When making ministry plans and decisions make them as if your church is twice the size it is now. Another way of stating this is simply to act as if then is now.

8. Keep it simple

9. Empower other leaders

Create a defined framework and empower leaders with the freedom to play in their strengths to accomplish the what through their own how.

10. Monitor the numbers

Know what’s important and keep your eye on it. There’s wisdom in undersanding numerical performance of your staff, trending, analysis, data mining, etc.

Tony Morgan Shares Top 10 Growth Strategies-focusexpands.com

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Victory  Outreach Church of San Diago has been implementing a strategy that has  them positioned under the windows of revival.  Mario Murillo Ministries & VOSD have partnered to win souls and declare healing over hundreds of people. The faith of our church and the surrounding areas have been elevated to a brand new dimension. What is amazing to me is God’s ability to speak to a pastor about the direction and pathway of the church. What has become overwhelmingly true in our churches direction, is that we can never get away from the supernatural. For a church that has been in existence for 25 years, it is impossible to get away from the power of God. That power has made itself known once again and our direction will never be the same.

What is the missing link to your church growth strategy? Without a doubt. It is the power of God. Every Sunday Morning is a priceless opportunity to touch the hurts of your city. God’s power is the only way. Here are a few things that I have learned over these past few days.

1. Doctors have no medicine for the people we minister to. The day of supernatural anointing is upon us. God is looking for a church that will stand in the miracle working power of His word.

2. God wants to give us miracles more than we want to see them. There may be a possibility that you have not even expected miracles. But that has not detoured God from giving them. The only thing is that God is not giving them in your church.

3. You will have your rhema moment. If you are a teacher of the Bible you will definitely know the difference between the “logos” & the “rhema”. A rhema moment is when something comes to powerful light in our hearts and minds. A new understanding. A revelation of sorts. Something of an illumination that will bring change to your life and to your ministry.

Mario Murillo says We can have both creative and innovative churches while experiencing the power of God.  Miracles work from God’s creative side. Our job is to tap into that creativity and for our people to experience what cannot be fabricated or imitated.

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Advice on being seeker sensitive.

Church Growth Gone Mad

A sobering look at the church growth seeker-sensitive models

Article by Clay Miller (Formerly: Associate Pastor, Outreach Ministries, Grace Community Church)

Let me draw your attention to Ezekiel chapter thirty three, and as you turn there we understand that Ezekiel was a prophet during the Babylonian exile. For a broad outline of the book the first thirty-two chapters of Ezekiel could be thought of as a description of the departure of the glory from Israel, from the promised land; of God’s chastening.  And the latter portion of the book, from chapter thirty-three to forty-eight could be thought of as the return of the glory
, or God’s comfort, or God’s grace, or redemption
of the nation of Israel. At the beginning of this latter section note what Ezekiel writes in the first five verses of chapter thirty three: And the word of the Lord came to me saying, “Son of man, speak to the sons of your people and say to them, ‘If I bring a sword upon the land and the people of the land take one man from among them and make him their watchman, and he sees the sword coming upon the land, and he blows on the trumpet and warns the people, then he who hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, and a sword comes and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head.  He heard the sound of the trumpet, but did not take warning.  His blood will be on himself.  But had he taken warning he would have delivered his life
.’

Ezekiel here is describing the function of a watchman…a watchman.  It comes from a Hebrew word and it meant one who is stationed on the wall of a city.  The job of the watchman was to be stationed on this wall of the city and to be scanning the horizon to look for impending danger; to look for armies or other threats to the city.  His job was (as Ezekiel here notes) to sound the warning.  There is this implicit meaning of alert and active watching for the safety of the city that he is watching over – that he is watching to protect.  To give you an idea of the significance of the word, it’s the same word that the psalmist uses in Psalm 66:7 to describe the intent gaze that the Lord watches over the nations.  So that gives you a little idea of the import of this word.  Notice what he also writes in verse six: “But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned and a sword comes and takes a person from them, he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require from the watchman’s hand.”

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