p341.com » Book http://www.p341.com This is my, Kasey Robinson's, Blog. Here at p341.com you will find my random thoughts, links, pics, and any other random stuff I find interesting, fun, amusing or thought provoking. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:44:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Book Highlights: Multi-Site Road Trip http://www.p341.com/2009/11/book-highlights-multi-site-road-trip/ http://www.p341.com/2009/11/book-highlights-multi-site-road-trip/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:00:18 +0000 Kasey http://www.p341.com/?p=932 For those looking into starting multiple campuses or wanting to entertain the idea, this book is a good starting point. The authors wrote this after conversations and trips to several churches in the world who are pioneering the campus model.

A Multi-site Road Trip

by Geoff Stuart, Greg Ligon, Warren Bird

Relationships are what hold churches together. (13)

Seacoast Church

IPOD
Initial – non-negotionable standards
Priority – standards to be implemented within the first year
Optional – ideas that might work across campusses but are not necessary
Discouraged – not allowed. (30-31)

Community Bible Church

Key Factors when Choosing a Location
1. Positive community image.
2. Location accessibility
3. Facility accessibility
4. Room for growth
5. Noise tolerance
6. Decent rent or purchase price
7. Room for storage.

What makes a great campus pastor:

1. Catalytic Leader: high energy, self starter, able to male new things happen
2. Multi-Tasker
3. People Magnet
4. Team Player/Builder
5. Communicator
6. DNA Carrier

Traits not conducive for a campus pastor:

1. Person who feels compelled to preach
2. Independent-spirited entrepenuer
3. Someone with an agenda other than reaching people

Risk involves Release (179)

The personnel and managerial challenge involves both paid staff and volunteers. If the church’s staff has a strong-performance track record and embraces a churchwode value of training others for ministry, it is usually able to handle the demands of rapid deployment of many volunteers. But if training leaders is not a core value of the church, be prepared! (183)

How can we identify, equip, and deploy leaders as rapidly as necessary to meet the demands associated with the huge opportunities that God is placing in our path? (190)

Always look for leaders. (190) Ephesians 4:12

Leadership Development

Discover > Connect > Train > Resource > Coach/Mentor > Celebrate

How to get Grandchildren (3rd generation churches)

1. Loosen your grip.
2. Build into your DNA.
3. Find a way to fund it.
4. Affirm what happens

What can kill a multi-site:

1. Poor choice of campus pastor
2. Not the senior Pastor’s vision
3. Not the board’s vision
4. Not enough preparation time
5. Worship that doesn’t matchthe target population
6. Bad attitudes within the congregation
7. Inadequate resources
8. Poor choice of location (231-232)

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The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others (Paperback)

By (author) Scot Mcknight

I just finished Scot McKnight’s book, “The Jesus Creed.” It was a transformational read.

A lot of times we read for information, but this read became transformational for me. I hope to live up to this Creed.

Here are some highlights from the book.

The Jesus Creed

The Jesus Creed
By Scot McKnight

The Jesus Creed
Hear o Israel, the Lord our God is one.
Live the Lord with all your heart, with all your soul,
With all your mind, and with all your strength.
The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself.
There is no commandment greater than these.

Shema- Jewish Creed for spiritual transformation. To love God by living the Torah.

jesus First Amendment: love God, now Love Others

Jesus Second Amendment: Lords Prayer
Lord to Abba/Father
Bread, Forgiveness, Temptation

4 lessons from the Lord’s Prayer
- we learn to approach God as Abba
- ewe learn what God really wants
- we learn to think of others
- we learn what everyone needs

Knowing God’s love begins when we open our hearts to Abba’s love.

Tables create and divide societies.

A life of sacred love: (Hosea)
- sacred live transforms our speech. Jew don’t say God they say G-d
- sacred love converts our acts. (Zacchaeus)
- sacred love inspires our worship.

Sometimes we need to get caught in order to learn.

Not the live of Torah but the Torah of love.

Look to the aide to see your neighbor: (good Samaritan)
- neighborly live begins in the home.
- neighborly love is whenever and wbereever love.
- neighborly live is moral love.

Jesus repents for us at the Jordan River. He loves God faithfully in the wilderness when tempted. He transfigures earthly treagedy into eternal realities on the Mountain bhe transforms the Passover lamb into His own death for us at the Last Supper.

Like the Passover Lamb, Jesus claims that his death is vicarious as he represents us and substitutes for us. He experiences for us what we do not want but deserve (slavery and death), and provides for us what we do want but don’t deserve (a life of freedom). By participating in His death, we are set free by his death.

Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us (leading us to worship), we have to see it as something done by us (leading us to repentance). As we face the cross, then, we can say to ourselves both “I did it, my sins sent him there.,” and ” he did it, his love took him there.” – John Stott
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