Day 4

Ginghamsburg Weekly Staff Chapel & Lunch

• Most people want to do Bible study, not discipleship
• Christians think cloning is immoral, yet we spend all our energy cloning successful churches – be who God made you to be
• A pastor is not a position; it’s a function in the church, not more or less important

Preaching

• For the leader of the movement, preaching becomes the #1 priority of the week
• Great leaders move people through clear communication
• People who accomplish great things are moved by the heart

Dynamics of Missional Preaching

• Biblical
• Prophetic – creates tension & growth happens in tension
• Personal – how God comes to me
• Self-revealing
• Contemporary – must do biblical AND cultural exegesis
• Evangelistic – how is Jesus the center of the Word I bring today?
• Motivational – motivates to sacrificial action
• Call to Commitment – what am I supposed to do with this?

Why do we preach? To connect people to God in their lives

• I don’t know if you believe in God, but God believes in you
• Do ministry with the people -> the people do ministry with you -> the people do ministry

Money Matters

• Two myths about money in the church: they talk too much about money and people don’t want to give
• Sometimes instead of serving people, we’re serving a budget or institution
• Jesus never used people to finance an institution, he wanted to liberate people from any type of bondage they’re in
• Most churches don’t know how to tie money talk into people’s felt needs
• Ginghamsburg’s attendance increases during their month-long money series (becomes 3rd highest attended month)
• It’s not that people don’t want to give; they don’t want to give to something that doesn’t matter
• We’re created to give; we’re never more like God than when we’re giving
• We don’t know how to give because of the burden of debt
• Goal is to turn consumers into creators
• It’s not about making more, it’s about what you choose to do with what you have
• God does miracles with what people already have in their hands
• People live not out of a healthy fear of God, but by the daily headlines
• Why does a loving God allow children to starve? God doesn’t. We do. We’re the only hands and feet God has.
• Live more simply, so that others may simply live.
• Giving is a matter of heart health
• Big churches get big by changing the no-no’s of ministry