15
Jan
Reproducing Churches: Dave and Jon Ferguson, Community Christian Church
Instead of thinking about growing in order to reproduce we need to switch into realizing that when we reproduce you will grow. You add a service and you will grow. You add a small group and you will grow.
2 Timothy 2:2
14
Jan
Greg Nettle – The Greatest Challenge in the next decade
We are going to be forced to deal with questions surrounding loving homosexuals. With California now inviting couples to come and be married it will involve recognition by government, and the church must be prepared to speak truth in love into this situation.
We need to answer questions like:
Do you baptize a same sex couple who has been legally married if they confess faith?
How do you teach scripture without generating homophobes?
How can you best minister to people who have a pro homosexual lifestyle?
13
Jan
More of Chuck Booher
Book or Resource: CEO Toolkit, a measurement tool called the T12 has been very effective.
They track baptisms, offering, attendance, decisions to rededicate or 1st time.
Tithing…
Tony Evans sermon on Tithing is off the charts.
24% of their people tithe
They demand that the staff and elders tithe, and they check.
How do you attract level 10 leaders
1. Train and Raise up Leaders from within.
2. Have BIG Goals
3. Be super transparent
4. Manage well
After Chuck came in they purged the rolls and had everyone sign a membership contract. Four things people agreed to do were tithe, in Word every day, serving in a ministry, and in a small group. Went from 22,000 to about 1,000 on rolls.
Quotes and summary
“We live in a world today that desperately want to see the church be the church.”
“People don’t want to give anything to a church just to help them flush the toilets and turn on the lights. But if you can show them that you are changing the world, then they will make substantial sacrifice.”
They are not building a church that “is for everybody.” They are building a church of sold out followers of Christ. They seek God, and want seekers to see them seeking God, but they want the guy cheating on his wife to be uncomfortable, and the unbeliever to feel like something out of this world is happening at Crossroads.