Sioux Falls Vineyard Vision
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Thursday, September 1, 2011
It's About Time!
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Next Actions--The Way Out!
I stalled on church planting. In the "waiting" for God to sell our house, I stopped planning out the next actions for planting. Last week that changed. I wrote out what I needed to accomplish--some goals--and put some next actions to them. My personal challenge was to accomplish at least one next action every week. The amazing thing that happened was that I knocked out a bunch of them in one week!
I have to give credit to David Allen for his awesome book Getting Things Done. Now if I can just continue to apply it!
Have you stalled on any projects lately? What do you do to stay motivated, stay on task, and get things done?
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Omaha Vineyard
Monday, November 9, 2009
Workshops
- Ways to Fulfill the Church's Vision
- Creative Ideas for Impacting the Community
- How to Resolve Parking Issues
- Finding a Location for the Church
Monday, October 12, 2009
Momentum
Focused intensity over time multiplied by God creates unstoppable momentum.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Innovation
The Nines was awesome! It was an online "confer-ence". Each speaker had 9 minutes on 9-9-09 to share anything they wanted to with Christian leaders across the nation. I only got to listen in spurts because it was on a work day, but here were some great thoughts by Gary Surratt from Seacoast Church about Innovation (with my thoughts in orange):
1. You hit the wall. Something is not working. [Pretty much any vision begins with frustration about something not being the way it should be.]
2. You get discouraged. You see it as a failure. “It’s ok to sit on the pity potty as long as you don’t get ring around the hiney.” [Yes! That's awesome!]
3. Trust God. Never been a day when God said: “I didn’t see that one coming.” [True dat!]
4. You start by asking the barrier breaking questions. "If nothing were impossible, what could we accomplish here?" [He also mentioned a question that I've been thinking about often..."If God's will was being done on earth as it is in heaven, what would that look like?"]
5. You collect innovative ideas. Get people in the room. Pray. Brainstorm. If you start filtering first you never get creative. Our matrix is easy/hard and big win/small win. [I love this idea! We'll definitely use this one!] We pick two or three and then we filter.
6. You do it until it quits working. Every new idea has an expiration date. [I agree. Everything has its season--and then eventually needs to be reworked, or cancelled altogether!]
So...I ask the deep question: If God's will was being done on earth as it is in heaven, what would that look like? What would that look like in your life and in your community?