COMMUNITY CHURCH PLANTING Vision Disciples multiplying disciples Pastors

COMMUNITY CHURCH PLANTING Vision Disciples multiplying disciples Pastors multiply pastors Churches multiplying churches

Examples of Visionaries • • Wright brothers Henry Ford William Wilberforce Martin Luther King Mahatma Gandhi Nelson Mandela John Stott Bill Gates

John Stott Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.

Your Vision ? ?

God’s Vision This Gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. Mt 24: 14

The End? • • Consummation of the Kingdom of God CS Lewis – the New Beginning God’s Vision God’s Mission – Preach Gospel to all Communities

Community Church Planting Vision Statement CCP desires to populate all communities with spiritually maturing churches

Community Church Planting Mission Statement CCP desires to populate all communities with spiritually maturing churches by mobilizing disciples to multiply disciples, pastors to multiply pastors, churches to multiply churches, and seminaries to graduate multiplying church planter trainers

Visionary Leadership Men of Issachar, who understood the times and knew what Israel should do – 200 chiefs (1 Chron 12: 32)

Habakkuk 2: 14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea

Habakkuk 2: 2, 3 Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it. For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.

Visionary Leadership Written vision & mission statements Vision – end statement Hab 2: 14 Mission – how we will get there

God’s Vision This Gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. Mt 24: 14

• Jesus went throughout all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and all sickness. • When he saw the crowds he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless life sheep without a shepherd. • Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plentiful but the workers few. • Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore to send out workers into his harvest field. ” • Mt 9: 35 -38

Godly Vision 1. Surfaced by the needs of others 2. Gives rise to godly compassion 3. Inspires godly prayers 4. Invites response to God’s call 5. Changes through godly plans 6. Anticipates godly changes 7. Godly leaders mobilize others

SUCCESS Behind all great achievements are leaders who have made wise decisions to work toward a clear vision

FAILURE Failure is always traceable to people who have not made wise decisions to achieve specific end results

LEADERSHIP Leadership is rooted in vision and in God Oswald Chambers: A man with vision from God is not devoted simply to a course of action or a particular issue, but to God Himself

Casting Vision Leaders should constantly keep the vision before their people in order to be constantly bringing about the internal changes in people that will lead them to do the external things that will bring about a Church Planting Movement

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. Denis Waitley

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. Ayn Rand It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. Helen Keller