THE MOST POWERFUL THING A CHRIST FOLLOWER CAN DO....

I learned a powerful principle over the past few days that I wanted to pass on to you.  This is absolutely a golden nugget for those who want to be full-on Christ followers!

In studying the life of Joseph (Genesis 37-50) it seems that even though he was betrayed, sold as slave, falsely accused and imprisoned that he always served well wherever he was whatever the circumstance.  His leadership gifts just kept bubbling to the surface and he was always put in charge of everything possible.  The big idea is that Joseph kept giving it 100% wherever he was, even though it didn't seem to align with the dreams he had back as a teen of 17. 

At the end of the story in Genesis 50:20 he encourages his brothers this way, 'What you meant for evil God meant for good.'  His perspective is 20/20 since he's looking back over his life and all the circumstances he'd endured. 

Here's the golden nugget principle, 'The Position of Submission is the Most Powerful Position for a Christ follower of all." 

Joseph seemed to live with a posture of submission throughout his life that allowed God to move him along and 'have favor on him even when he was in prison'.  Joseph must have had questions along the way about what God was up to in all the weird circumstances of his life, but the Bible doesn't give us any hint that he ever wavered in his confidence in God or the dreams he'd had earlier.  He just kept doing the best he could with what he had where he was.  He was submitted to God in the middle of his circumstance.  

Joseph's position of submission reminded of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsamane asking God if there was any other way to accomplish the mission.  In what seemed like the weakest moment of His life, Jesus shows us the most powerful way to live when He says, 'Not my will, but yours be done.'  The position of submission led to the greatest breakthrough miracle of all time.

We can only be fully used by God when we assume a position of submission and allow God to do His work in us, for us, and through us.  It's the most powerful way to live.

Once again, the way of following Christ is the path of paradox.

May our prayers always  be, 'Not my will, but Yours be done.'  

Have a great day,
Jeff

Jeff Fuson -Point Leader of Phos Church near Louisville Kentucky -Leadership Keynote Speaker -Husband / Daddy -Missional Church Planter

What do people want to know about Jesus--if anything...?

I'm preparing for the talk I'll be doing at Phos this coming Sunday, March 15 and we'll be centering around an intro to the life of Jesus. And, it makes we wonder what do people want to know about Jesus, if anything?

Do real people in the real world (as opposed to Churched people who insist on living in a 'Christian bubble') -- the kind we want to engage at Phos -- want to know anything about Jesus at all? If so, what do they most want to know? If not, why not and is there anything we can do to capture their interest?

What would YOU consider the be the best ways to engage people who have not previously made time to think of Jesus at all? What do they 'feel' that they need to know about Jesus and how can we get em to take time out of busy lives to consider Him with us?

I'd love to hear from YOU NOW as I've only got a few days to pull this together.....what do you think?


Just wondering,
Jeff Fuson

p.s. I'm on Twitter at JeffFuson if you wanna keep up with what's going on that way.

Jeff Fuson 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 being a catalyst to assist people who wanna grow spiritually. As a Professional Speaker Jeff delivers Keynotes & Customized Interactive Training Experiences for Entrepreneurs, Banks, Credit Unions, and other small to medium sized non-profit & for profit High Impact enterprises. He's got one incredible wife and 3 awesome children.

Reggie McNeal -- Missional Renaissance

Reggie McNeal -- Missional Renaissance

Missional Leadership Specialist at Leadership Network

Kentucky Baptist Convention Building / January 22, 2009

Good News about Christianity's growth around the world....

• Fastest growing religion in the world is Christianity / 80 million Christians in India alone in the past 10 years. 90% of new churches are house churches.
• Campus Crusade is partnering to launch 1 million new churches (house/pouch) in the next few years.
• Churches grow out of a movement, rather than having a movement grow out of a new church.
• The movement in China outstrips the growth in India – more than 10,000 per day ++
• Indonesia growth is over 18% b/c of the Tsunami and the the acts of love and compassion that followed the disaster.
• In the 20th Century Africa went from 3% to 40%+ Christian
• The Christian truth is on the move in spite of hardships all over the world. It’s Pentecost somewhere in the world right now.
  

News in the U.S., Europe and Australia is not so good....

Everywhere the Western Model / Constantian model of church went down is struggling. Australia is under 5% Christian. Sweden 2%. The bastion/centerpiece of Christianity in Europe is crumbling.

• Pollsters in America are getting it wrong when they say that 40% of Americans are attending church.  Our buildings couldn't hold 40%....
• We are the largest English speaking mission field in the world here in the U.S.
• If we don’t wake up we’re gonna miss what God is up to. The first half of the Book of Acts was the Church trying to catch up to the Holy Spirit. God didn’t follow the protocol that the early church expected and the church had to move fast. The Holy Spirit is running wild in the streets outside the walls of the church.
• God’s not waiting on us to get it to do it!
• Blackaby was right … find out what God is up to and get in on it.
• Let’s learn from what the Holy Spirit is doing where they are experiencing Pentecost.
  

We are seeing something that is bigger than the Church sector.
In the Renaissance we had people coming together from multiple disciplines to do new things. God’s creating a conversation across the domains of our culture that’s it’s gonna be impossible in our lifetime to think of the church the way we used to think of the church.  

We can get in on this by making 3 critical shifts…

This will take scorecard revamps from How Many / How Often / How Much …. This scorecard does not serve to celebrat the dimensional richness of missional living.

• Expand the bandwidth of what we measure to celebrate missional richness.
  
• The missional church is the people of God partnering with Him on His mission for the world. 
  
• The mission is always being played out in the world – beyond the world.
  
• In the old world the church was the point – the church was the mission – God was creating The Church. So, if we measured the ‘church stuff’ then we could see what God was doing. However, now we’ve learned that God is always at work beyond His people and His work is not shrink-wrapped down to the size of the local church.
  

Shift 1 = From Internal to external focus 

• Internal focus is built on the assumption that is we got ‘church’ right then she would take care of the world. We have the best churches that we’ve ever had complete with all the bells and whistles. But, have we had the impact that we hoped that we’d have? This is the ‘churchcentric’ worldview. I’m not talking about adding one weekend a year where we go out and paint the school. A shift in emphasis is tectonic shift of record keeping, programming, etc. 
  
• In Church Centric Churches our job was to turn the world into ‘us’ and then get them to be like us and work on church stuff. Maybe we’ve run out of people who want to buy what we’re selling. Over here we’re trying to lob something into the culture from the church like a bomb.
  
• In the internal focus deal God exists at ‘church’ and we have to take Him out in to go bags.
  
• The reason the house church is so viral is because it’s about who they are and they are just being the body on the move out in the real world/culture.

A better strategy than evangelism – why don’t we have a blessing strategy instead of an evangelism strategy?  

• Let’s go out this week and practice being the people of God. Go out and bless three people this week—and be sure that one of them doesn’t deserve it! I’m not talking about random acts of kindness, I’m talking about starting conversations. The core prhase of a ‘blesser’ of people is: I’ll ask God to help you.

• You can simply ask the wait staff at a restaurant, ‘How can I ask God to bless you?’
  
• God loves to show off!! 
  
• And, then, tell the stories of what happened.
  
• To be the people of God you’ve got to believe God – not just believe ‘in God’ – HUGEMONGOUS difference because then, a person orders their life around who God is and what He’s up to in the world.
  
• Our job is to bless the world and then watch what God does in the lives of people. Get caught up in the wind of the Holy Spirit and just get out there and bless people.
  
• Study Holy Trinity in London England about what’s going on with their Alpha Groups.
  
• ‘Are you one of those blessing people?’
  

Let’s lay down our agenda and just go be the people of God and bless people.

When the church is the destination you are attractional. However, when The Kingdom becomes the destination THEN you’re on the way becoming an Incarnational Kingdom oriented church.
Just as an airport is not the destination…so, the church is not the destination.
The focus of the gathering is to celebrate what God is doing away from the gathering….
A pastor in Titus County Texas stated his vision statement for his church in 2009 was ‘’There will be no hungry kids in Titus County and in three years there’ll be no child leaving 3rd grade without being able to read English.”
BTW, on every Wednesday evening they’re doing the backpack program – churches are filling backpacks on Wednesday that free/reduced priced lunch kids can take home so that they won’t be hungry. A church of 400 is feeding thousands of pounds of food each week. Children pack the backpacks on Wednesday evenings. Kids are learning to serve by packing backpacks. Young people who can drive are delivering the backpacks. Now, not just food is going in the backpacks but prayer request sheets. You gotta believe God can use this actual physical program to bless people.

To do something huge you’ll have to work with other churches and agencies to get this done. 

• One staff meeting was go somewhere and pray….’ God help me see what you see.’ – for an hour or two. They shredded the staff agenda that they had and they focused on the dealio. This so changed them that they sent the whole church out to do this one Sunday and they wanted to see what the people saw. Tell us what God showed you. 
  

Our prayer must be ‘Dear God help us see what you see’ b/c we need a heart transplant.

• Wouldn’t that be a great initiative to turn out church and go listen for what God is up to??
  
• The Millenials get this….the have core values to support the Missional Church. They have a desire to go out and make it a better world. It’s Obama calling everyone to service on MLK Day, it’s Bono. Volunteerism is on the rise.
  
• I’m telling every church I work with to ‘Adopt a School’ or at least a 3rd grade class and work on literacy because studies show that if a kids leaves 3rd grade and can't read english he/she is gonna have a very hard time. 

In the old world we were trying to get them to connect to us….now, we’re trying to connect to the world.  

• Go to kidshopeusa website to learn how to adopt a school, etc. 
  
• You practice saying in the mirror before you go, ‘How can we help?’
  
• In the old world is was about Silos….the missional church has a whole new view of culture and understands that God already has his people in all these places to serve and influence.
  
• Invest in the community.  
  
• Doing good greases the skids for God in the view of the world. The Atheist has a hard time dismissing the ‘recurring good’.
  

If you call the party you’ll find all kinds of people to help. You can go out there and find all kinds of ways to be salt and light.

• Let the church call the party to order and invite the community to help.
  
• The ‘institutional’ church does not reflect well the values and mission of Jesus. 
  
• Our role in the Kingdom right now is to be the church.
  
• What is gonna be our role in the economy going south?? Wallace Kent’s question…
  
• Reggie’s answer, ‘You’ve got to take care of your people’ within the body. And, then you’ve got to make a radical commitment to serve those in the community as well.
  
• A church in Texas made a commitment to those in her body who lost their jobs that noone would loose their homes.
  
• The early church moved forward on sacrifice and service. It will be the same today for churches that will shine a light on who Jesus is.

THM for me (this is what I think I’m hearing…): Play bigger, do BIGGER stuff so that other’s can join us. Throw bigger parties so that the community can help and so that other churches and agencies can take part in what’s going on. Keep moving out in faith so that others can take part in what’s goin on and the resources will be there.

• Look for ways to release people to go out and meet the needs of the community.
  
• There is a rise of the ‘missional community’ – it’s beyond house church. It’s not a bounded set. It’s an alternative technology of reaching people that need the Gospel.
  
• The church system is like Exxon and Mobile and we know what to do with oil from Shale, etc.
  
• What I’m begging the existing church to do is to invest in the alternative technologies that ‘missional communities’ will bring to us. 
  

Check out the leadnet.org go to ecpn white paper on middle sized groups.

Re-score-carding this thing….
Let’s use a resource reallocation model to build our score card

Resource                          Internal                            External

Prayer                               about us                  about the world out there
Example: Crossroads church in Cinci is being sure that every single public school teacher has a prayer partner. ‘What you’re doing is so important that I’m asking God to bless you. If there’s ever anything that I can do please let me know. Here’s my email and here’s my phone if you need me please let me know.
Serving our way into influence…
You could extend this prayer experience to public officials and you could put more emphasis on praying for the community outside of the church.
Re-allocate your staff’s prayer time.
Staff                      office hours                 community hours
Example: every staff person in every community I know of is out in
the community serving them.
Example: an executive pastor that took the position of the head of
soccer and he won’t be at church in the building on Sundays for two
years.

THM: Expect Staff to find ways to connect in the community. 

Money           how much did we take in?       How much went out?

Facilities         How to keep the people out vs. build it for the com first

Ask: How would missionaries approach this?

Think about funding a community initiative to support and without exception that will get funded first. People are ready to invest in the community and in kids. The twenty somethings are not laying back to give money to build a church building.

Technology Supported Ministry Creates Ministry

• The Internet is LIVING SPACE for twentysomethings….
  
• Check out ‘second life’
  
• Add to Scorecard: Why would I need to go to any other website to learn how to serve the community? 
  

Shift 3 = Move from Program Driven to People Development

It’s quite easy in the program driven model for the staff to have a meeting where the people we are called to serve never make it into the discussion. It requires a lot of intentionality to move to a people development culture. 

At Phos Hilaron Church the The bottom line question

 about everything we do is:

 ‘’does this build an Apprentice of Jesus out of ordinary people”

What if ‘better marriages, better relationships with our kids, and loving our neighbors’ made it to the scorecard?

How do you develop the culture of People Development?  (aka, Spiritual Life Development as Primary Purpose - remember, Jesus' command to 'make disciples' -- we call em 'apprentices' around Phos)

• The old days of clergy telling people how to live their lives is over. They will let us help shape them but they won’t let us template their spiritual journeys anymore. We’re in a culture that expects customization and they start where they want to start in the matrix. Starbucks has 87,000 possibilities on how to do their coffee.
  
• Maybe the reason we reach so few people is that we only serve lattes from 11 to 12 on Sundays…..
  
• We are moving into an asynchronous culture. 
  
• Church used to be a lot simpler.
  

Building better people is the key to a viral church. If the people in your church grow strong and well then they’ll be viral agents.  

• In the early days of your church try not to lock yourself into a 52 week cycle of doing church.  
• Trend: People at different life stages want a different kind of church experience anyway….one of the biggest exiters are the empty nesters who are worn out from the program driven church. Postcongregationalist boomers are a group worth thinking about.

Debriefing is part of a people development culture. Give people time and space to make sense out of what’s happening in their lives. 

(this is the OBT in an LXG at Phos / the whole 'culture' of doing life together out in homes with low 'content agenda' centered on simple truth applied to real life is a 'debrief space' )

• Help people ‘exhale’ like an asthmatic even in our corporate gatherings. Give them a brief ‘something’ to talk about in the gathering. Ask em, ‘what was the best thing about your week?’, etc.
  
• Information by itself does not change behavior. It has to be processed and it has to be brought into our real life. (for Phos this is part of the importance of the OBT in LXGs)
  

Make sure that ‘people’ are the central issue of everything in what you do. It’s about making connections with real life and how people grow from what we’re doing. 

Let’s say that you want to get really intentional about ramping up ‘life coaching’ in your church…..and you want to give people a chance to give people a chance to really talk about their life. 

(common response: ‘I’ve been here for 30 years and noone has ever asked me how I’m doing)

Key idea: Building YOU is Building the Church.

5 Questions we used for life coaching processes …

Case Study: two dozen interviewers worked with 300 people….we published the questions ahead of time:
We literally just want to have a conversation with you. We want to know how to help you grow.
1. What do you enjoy doing? (because what you enjoy doing may be just how God wants to bless this world)

2. Where do you see God most at work in your life right now?

3. What would you like to see God do in your life over the next 3 to 6 months? How can we help? When you ask the question you’ve just changed the scorecard in your church.

Story:  the YMCA meeting I had with Jason after I became a YMCA charter member: “Reggie we’re gonna turn you into a fully devoted fitness guy and then we’re gonna make you look like Arnold Swartznegger!"  Key question that Jason asked me was:  Reggie what would like to accomplish at the YMCA? 

4. How would you like to serve other people and how can we help?

5. How can we pray for you?

Follow this up occasionally with an ‘hey, how’s it going, really?’ conversation.

• This all starts with you and with your staff. Are you developing yourself? Your staff? Your lay leadership?
• The reason North American church culture shifted to a program driven model was that it seemed like a faster/easier way to make disciples.
  
• Every place where you can, pay attention to your people.

When you focus on people development you begin to say to your people and ACT OUT via your scheduling/systems and programs:  We’re gonna be more intentional about YOUR growth than anything else around here. AND, we’re gonna empower you to change the world.

In A.D. 30 noone has a ‘church job’ – they were Apostles. I’m a missionary to a culture not on a church staff. I’m a missionary with a support base from the xyz church.

• In a people development culture you’re gonna be far more engaged with people than with programs and program development.
  
• An Apostolic leader says, ‘Follow Me’ -- that requires transparency, heart on heart, etc. It doesn’t come from curriculum. 
  
• Your life becomes transparent and available to the people you want to lead. You become a servant of them.
  
• Apostolic leadership is transparent and genuine spirituality. An apostolic leader has the ‘stink of Jesus’ on em. You can’t explain their lives any other way. 
  
• Can people sense in us a connectedness to Jesus and a cause to die for? 
  
• OUR Personal Spiritual Development is PARAMOUNT to leading effectively.
  

How do clergy get supported in what I’m talking about? 

• Apostolic leaders know how to raise their own support…you’ll have to have multiple income streams. Venture Capitalists may be able to write the check and pay the way. There’s all different kinds of ways to support your way through this.
  
• How are you developing your ability to be employed and employable outside of your ministry? This is a question that I ask all of my coaching clients.
  

In the today’s world we must build relational bridges (friendships) that can hold the weight of important spiritual conversations.

Jeff Fuson 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 also serves as a Keynote Speaker & Trainer crafting & delivering high impact keynote addresses & training events for Entrepreneurs, Banks, Credit Unions, and small to medium sized non-profit & for profit enterprises. He's got one incredible wife and 3 awesome children.

Phos Manifesto

'God send us the ones you want to run with us and keep those away that would derail this Missional Church Launch.'  --that's one of the top prayers that I've prayed during this past 12 months of launching PHC.  

Guy Kawasaki's 'Art of Innovation' presentation over at 'zentation' has had a huge impact on my thinking related to the launch of Phos Hilaron Church.  He helped me realize that we needed to innovate and that it's okay to 'polarize' people, because that's taboo in church-land where the goal is to be uber-nice and to keep things nice and calm.  

The mission in church-land is to swab the deck on the cruise ship and provide tasty meals right on time so that the tourists remain calm and leave nice tips.  I bet they even have some pictures of fish and fishermen on the cruise ship!  The goal of a fishing vessel like Phos is to co-labor with Jesus to head out into the open sea full of adventure and become 'fishers of men' on a journey with Him.  The goal is the catch and not the comfort of the 'guests'.  We take people deep sea fishing!  It's not for everyone.  Every church must make a choice -- cruise ship or fishing boat.  We're a fishing boat!  ( I think Jesus likes fishermen!)  

The usual goal of starting a church is to get as many people to join you as fast as you can and that can lead to the law of unintended consequences drop-kicking your collective heinies into oblivion.  Our goal has been to put forth an 'Operating System' that has a monthly Sunday AM 'Service Worship' built into our life-cycle. We've launched a fishing vessel and the experts have told me that it can't work and sometimes I've wondered if they might be right, but then God intervenes again and gives us the people, the resources and the vision for His next adventure to participate in.  He has given us good days on the wide open sea with full nets many times.  

We're edgy on purpose.  We polarize people and send 'church-shoppers' who are bargain hunting right back out the door pretty fast.  Why?  Because they're used to 'thinking' about their faith and not used to 'acting' on their faith.  We ripped a thought line off from Rick Warren's 'Peace Plan' that says that 'We turn spectators into contributors'  (I like to call em 'participators', but I don't know if that's really a word) and that's something we're very committed to do.

The reason Phos exists is to Propel Ordinary People into an Extra-Ordinary Relationship with Jesus who can Fly into the Future that He has Dreamed for them.

It' a high calling and it takes courage to build a church that has 'ACTION' in her DNA.  We chose the name Phos Hilaron to remind us of our mission to be 'dancing light' in this community and around the world -- to go into hard & dark places with this great Good News and love people.  To literally live out the 'Good Samaritan' story that Jesus tells in Luke 10.  

Our paid servants have known from the beginning that this is not 'business as usual' for a church and that we're running the edge of disaster all the time.  And, they've had paychecks held long enough for one more Sunday as we pray that the offering will be strong enough to pay em.  And, they know that when we go out and do 'Service Worships' that sometimes we take a big fat Goose Egg home with us in the offering bucket.  In the business world that's called 'Opportunity Cost' and it's 'costed' us plenty this year as we have taken it on the chin a few times.  And, right now we're running in the red because of it.  And, we won't have it any other way.  Give us this adventure with God in forging apprentices or give us death.  We can't stomach the thought of more business as usual in church-land.  

But, I have loads of God-fidence that He'll show up again and rescue us from out of the blue again.  I'm kind of addicted to the adrenaline rush of seeing what God does up close and personal.  I like the 3 AM head-rush of wondering if anyone will show up the next Sunday and if God will provide what we need again for another day.  I'm learning to live on Manna that comes when we need it, but only as much as we need...and, I like the new diet!

Our Paid Servants have positioned ourselves as Missionaries and NOT as Church Staff.  Church Staffers have office hours and programs to run and volunteers to recruit to run said programs.  We don't have offices or office hours but we have a mission of being engaged with our neighbors and of doing whatever it takes to reach them and build them into Full On Apprentices of Jesus.  Our team works their tails off each week and has proven that they'll do anything to reach others and see them enter into a full-on relationship with Jesus. 

And, they're just taking their cues from the AMAZING Volunteer Army that makes Phos run.  You wouldn't believe the level of commitment, energy, zeal, and passion that this crew plays with.  You wouldn't believe what they do to set up for just one worship experience at Tinseltown Movie Theater in 11 & 13 & the Kid's Area each week.  You just wouldn't believe it!!  They're the best.  

God has called us to the edge and pushed us off over and over again and I'm beginning to learn to trust Him and to know that we can fly & that He'll bring the thermals we need to move us along.  That sometimes we just have to set our wing and let Him provide the lift.  I'm not really very good at flying, but I'm getting real good at falling off the edge after a nudge from God and then 'soaring' as I rely on His energy to carry me along and to provide the updrafts that take me to incredible 'un-earned' vistas -- that is, I didn't work real hard to fly high--He just takes me there because He wants to.   

Last Tuesday I got some potentially devastating news about two key families at Phos....they're leaving!  We're not gonna be their church anymore.  In both cases these are people that I care about and that care about me and Phos.  There is no animosity.  There's just a sense in both families that they need something that Phos just doesn't provide....lots of Bible Studies with no expectation that you ever really do anything with what you are learning.  They are Christian families and they'll do just fine at another church.  And, I'm happy to let em go even though it makes one wonder how God will carry us next.  I'm happy to let em go because if we shift to try to keep them we'll loose our soul and we'll compromise and we'll become a church content with 'content' (knowing stuff) and no action.  We'd be okay with 'head knowledge' disconnected from Kingdom Oriented Action and that smells like rotten putrid maggotty road-kill to me.  So, I celebrate their departure and I welcome the Wave Two people that God is bringing lately who 'get Phos' and they sense that we're on the move and they want to be on the move and they want to take action.  They want to be in the game and they're not content to be spectators.  They love to be into what God is up to and they're not happy unless they're right in the middle of the action--that's who we are and that's who God is bringing to us.  A breed of people who are addicted to the adrenaline of walking with Jesus into a Homeless Shelter to serve rather than into a posh sanctuary to consume another sermon.  A breed of people who study their Bible and then GO live it out rather than study their Bible so that they can have yet another Bible Study and babble on about what they've never really tasted.  It's one thing to study the Good Samaritan passage and to know all the nuances of the story and it's a whole 'nother thing to LIVE IT.  We're taking 'experiential' to a whole new level with Phos.  We don't just bring an actor into our 'sanctuary' dressed as a homeless person..We will walk with those who are reaking of urine and showerless days this coming Sunday when we have another 'Service Worship' and we'll bring the 'sanctuary' to the homeless and share our lives with them.  This is remarkably uncomfortable for many who are content with yet another Bible Story with zero application in their richly appointed church building -- safe and secure from all alarm and sanitized from the possibility that she/he will ever experience the thrill of walking with God into the great big wide open unknown where there's nothing to rely on except for God.  

Alan Witham gave me some vitally important advice as I was launching Phos when he said, 'Put a sign on the front of your bus and let people know exactly where you're going.'  And, that has helped us more than anything.  We are and will be a people who run into the dark with the light of Jesus.  We will not shrink back.  We will take courageous action to be good neighbors in our community.  We will light candles and not just curse the dark.  We will study the Bible and then we'll go live it out there.  We won't be content with head-knowledge but will lean into actively walking with Jesus as modern day disciples.  We will engage our culture with this great Good News by loving God and loving people because God loved us first.  

We will run and not grow weary because He is our Hope, our Joy, and our Power.  

We will soar because He wants us to and provides the updraft.

We won't back down and we won't give up. To rip Barack Obama off, this is 'Change YOU can believe in' and this is change that propels you into a whole new faith journey and revitalizes your relationship with God and others.  

This is our attempt to co-labor with God to change the world by ushering in His Kingdom and by bringing hope, light, and resources to those who have none.  

This is our mission and we won't back down.

Game On.

Let's go fishin,

Jeff

Jeff Fuson 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 also serves as a Keynote Speaker & Trainer crafting & delivering high impact keynote addresses & training events for Entrepreneurs, Banks, Credit Unions, and small to medium sized non-profit & for profit enterprises. He's got one incredible wife and 3 awesome children.

Finding Gods Will Illustrated

Finding God's will is THE # 1 JOB for most of us at some points along the journey of life.

I think you'll find this simple presentation full of Biblically based wisdom for discovering God's will for your life.

Enjoy,
Jeff Fuson

Jeff Fuson 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 also serves as a Keynote Speaker & Trainer crafting & delivering high impact keynote addresses & training events for Entrepreneurs, Banks, Credit Unions, and small to medium sized non-profit & for profit enterprises. He's got one incredible wife and 3 awesome children.

Million Mighty Men

About 8 years ago I attended a Men's Seminar at a local church and really resonated with the presenter that weekend. He was real, honest, and authentic--a real man's man. What fired me up most that evening was when Bill Perkins shared his vision of having a 'Million Mighty Men' "Lock Arms" and live life the way God intended! Since then I've had him come to do a weekend for Father's and Sons and help us understand the challenges that Men face and how to overcome them.

Bill has become a mentor & good friend, a constant reminder of what's possible and a reminder that I need people like Bill running beside me if I'm gonna finish the course ahead. And, I'm sure that at the end of the race I'll cross the finish line with a team of men who've kicked my butt, called me out, cheered me on, dusted me off, and even carried me a time or three.

You'd benefit a ton from signing up to be one of the 'Million Mighty Men' -- head there now and your courage will be fueled.

Locking Arms with Bill Perkins and other real men so I can LIVE STRONG AS AN APPRENTICE OF JESUS.

Jeff Fuson


Jeff Fuson 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 also serves as a Keynote Speaker & Trainer crafting & delivering high impact keynote addresses & training events for Entrepreneurs, Banks, Credit Unions, and small to medium sized non-profit & for profit enterprises. He's got one incredible wife and 3 awesome children.