What would fundamentally change the culture in Pennsylvania and Delaware?
1. 1000 new churches that reach at least 100 new believers each? (100,000 new believers out of 10 million unchurched people?
2. Some kind of new cultural broadcast that captures the imagination?
3. 10,000 new leaders/ministers?
4. Some kind of mailing to every home?
I think that some variation of #1 is the obvious answer, even though 1000 new churches seems like a huge, unreachable number. So, assuming for just a moment that you are a Catalyst leader because you agree, how do we get 1000 new churches underway?
I'm 45. I have 20-30 good ministry years left, by the grace of God. Is it possible that one day when I might stand before God that I will have seen real, cultural fundamental change in my lifetime?
Sunday, October 14, 2007
20 years to change a culture
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Since we don't have 1000 churches what if 1000 people were to win one person each and then they were to win one and the multiplying kept going, that would be an even greater impact eventually.
Before our churches can be disciplemaking churches we must have individual disicples making disciples. We need to equip and empower our people (the church) to get off the sidelines and into the game -- quit enabling them to be pew warmers and challenge them to make an impact through making disciples. Pastors modeling, training and empowering the people to do the work of the ministry. Then the responsibility wouldn't be upon the pastors of 1000 churches to win 100 souls but upon the people to win souls.
What if we gave them a vision more compelling than their fear of rejection? The vision of making an impact in our culture that can be seen and felt.
What if the church actually glowed in the dark? Read Enrichment pg. 26 article about "Becoming the Kind of Leaders Others Want to Follow." Changing the culture of our churches needs to come first before changing the culture of the District. If we actually became real and learned to spend more time on our identity in Christ than on sin managment what kind of an impact might we make?
So far we seen way too much cultural change going in the wrong direction. What will it take to change the tide? Does it seem impossible? Not if each of us takes responsibility for ourself and one other person.
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