NYT: Shifting Emphasis for Evangelicals May 22, 2007
Posted by Steve in : Weblog , add a commentArticle today in the New York Times….what do you think about the purported shift? Leave a comment
Exponential Conference: Driscoll April 26, 2007
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Mark Driscoll gave a message via video to all the 1,800 church planters in attendance at the 2007 National New Church Conference. The video was done all outside, in a cemetery with hundreds of identical grave markers (looked like a WW1 graveyard — anyone know where?). The visual helped everyone see the uphill battle that a church planter faces as he begins to build a vision and a team. He was clear and concise (8 min), and focused on three main things needed for a successful church planter — the man, the mission and the message:
- The Church Planter Man, needs to be:
- Called to Plant
- Strong
- Competent
- Have a good theology
- Be able to articulate a clear message
- Have a clear God-given mission
- The Mission - to get the men
- Has to be able to gather the right team
- A clear role is to disciple men
- Given the 60/40 women/men ratio Barna speaks about, you have to get men to win in the long term
- Men who make the step to go to church want to know how to be a man
- The Message of the Gospel
- Planters will only succeed to the extent that they proclaim the Gospel message.
- The Gospel message is really what it is all about.
Here is his video (see my Hybels entry above about the content of this video, then watch it)
