While Katrina has been gone for many months from New Orleans, the Big Easy is still in need. Thousands of homes and other buildings still lie in ruins as the city continues to try to rebuild. While the news doesn’t reveal the devestation as much as it did before, it still is a reality. That’s why North Side still continues …
This week is busy. Its busy with good stuff though, but alas it is still busy. Here’s just a rundown of the stuff that’s keeping me alert this morning: CD Duplication – The company mastering our CD and duplicating them is deep in the process of it now. North Side Worship “The Time is Now” album is in mass production …
Most Southern Baptist churches give a percentage of their offerings to the Cooperative Program. Established in 1924, Southern Baptist churches decided to collaborate their financial resources in order to bring about more Kingdom impact. This financial program funds missionary salaries, church plants, seminary training, gospel publications, Bible translations, and so much more. As our passion increases to see the Kingdom …
In selecting a partnership for a church’s mission’s strategy, on what priorities do you focus? The first three were finding the greatest need, the greatest match, and the greatest impact. But what is the fourth? Greatest Team What is the greatest team your church can assemble to evangelize with this particular partnership? The goal for a mission trip is not …
When a church is looking at developing a partnership with a mission organization, what’s the priority? The third priority should be: Greatest Impact What is the greatest impact your church can have working with your strategic partnership? As we prioritize mission endeavors, we must also be intentional to select opportunities that have the greatest possible impact. By working with the …
When a church is establishing a strategic partnership in the area of mission or ministry, how do you pick ’em? With all the needs, how do you know which ones to get involved in? The second priority is: Greatest Match What is the greatest match with our church’s giftedness? When ascertaining the greatest need, we must also determine what mission …
Continuing our discussion on our North Side mission strategy, I now want to indulge a little deeper. Our mission strategy focuses on three things: personal evangelism, strategic partnerships, and cooperative program. For the next few days, I want to explain how we prioritize our strategic partnerships: In addition to the task of personal evangelism, North Side will also impact the …
This book of the week is none other than John Mark Terry’s Evangelism: A Concise History. This book hits some of the greatest evangelists and the greatest evangelistic efforts since the beginning of the church. It’s one of those books that gets you excited about what God has done and what we can anticipate him doing again! Top 5 Thoughts: …
Third personal evangelism point: Invite that person to experience life with Christ. If all we do is pray for someone’s conversion and invest in them spiritually without sharing the gospel, we have missed the entire reasoning for the first two emphases. Evangelism does not take place without an adequate presentation of the gospel of Jesus Christ in order to reconcile …
Second point for a personal evangelism strategy: Invest spiritually in that person. One misconception of personal evangelism comes in the form of our role in the task. We are called to do more than transfer information. We are called to do more than leave a gospel tract. The biblical mandate calls all believers to invest spiritually into the lives of …
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