Discovering God's Vision for Your Church

Vision is discovered in prayer and solitude with God.

Based on this talk at this URL:
http://www.faithlab.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=274:mel-talk-harry-rowland&catid=38:mel-talks&Itemid=100061

Harry Rowland is the CBF Director of Missional Church Ministries for Global Missions. Harry’s talk is titled: "A Right-Side Up Church in an Upside-Down World." In Acts 17:6, the church is accused of turning the world “upside down.” For the western church to not just survive, but rather thrive, it must embrace its founding missional call. This is not a call to do missions, but rather a call to be on mission in such a way that neither you, the church, or the world will ever be the same again.

Harry has a love and expertise for assisting local churches in making the transition from institution churches that do missions to missional churches whose DNA is missions.

Notes from the talk:
The world’s way of generating vision is built around Predicting and planning….the Kingdom path to vision is prayer and preparing to say yes to whatever God tells us to do.

A vision will come to a church that’s willing to be:

• a disturbed church by the things that disturb God as opposed to the stuff that
      -when a church seeks to meet human needs it gets messy
• a shattered church – not pretending to have it all together, rather letting the bright love of Christ show through our shattered fragments
• a dropsy/clumsy church that’s willing to ‘drop’ it and to ‘forgive’ others because we won’t hang onto their past….
  

 Thanks to John Lepper, Coordinator of the Kentucky Baptist Fellowship for hooking me up with this information through FaithLabs.com

Have a great day,

Jeff Fuson

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Jeff Fuson is a Leadership Keynote Speaker who serves as Point Leader for Phos Hilaron Church near Louisville Kentucky. Jeff's # 1 passion is being a husband and daddy. A close second is seeing people grow spiritually. As a Professional Speaker Jeff delivers Leadership Keynote Speeches & training events for Leaders, Executives, Supervisors, Entrepreneurs in Government, Banks, Credit Unions, NonProfits and other cutting edge enterprises. He's got one incredible wife and 3 awesome children.