How To Be Used By God To Mobilise 100% Of The Believers In Your ...

pioneering something in your church which could help a lot of other churches around the world?
Can you sense this would glorify God and please Him? So, what do you see? You have to own it. It’s
yours from God. Vision is about imagining outcomes in the Spirit and seeing them clearly.
It’s about dreaming big things for God. It’s about seeing reality before it happens. It’s about seeing
something hugely significant in the heart of Jesus that’s died come to life again, like Lazarus.
And if you don’t get REALLY excited about what you see, you need to do some more reading, praying,
meditating, and reflecting.
Write your vision down. It doesn’t have to be too fancy or detailed. Bullet points will do.
Write down what you see. Let your imagination flow. Shape this document over a few days. Make sure
it’s realistic and achievable. e.g. “I want to see our whole city saved in two years through the evangelism
efforts of the people in our church” is not realistic or achievable. Even in times of full blown revival, not
everyone was saved in a particular geographical area.
After you have received your vision, then you need a plan. So let’s talk about planning.
• PLANNING:
This is about having clear ideas/strategies/plans about how you are going to make what you see happen.
It’s all very well “seeing in the Spirit” and in your imagination what you want to see
happen at your church.
But how is it going to happen? What’s the plan? What’s the starting date? What’s
the first thing to do? The second? Where are the money and resources coming
from? Who will you need to get on board? What are you going to teach? This is
where you are going to need detail and specifics.
If you had to mobilise 100% of your church into evangelism, how exactly would
you do it? Dream. Think. Meditate. Pray. Brainstorm. Write your plan down.
As you read through this ETL guide, and become familiar with it, you’ll be able to compare your plans with
the plans and strategies we have come up with.
You’ll then be able to mix and match and choose what’s best for your situation.
Every church situation will be different and you know your church
environment better than anyone else. You know what would work and
wouldn’t work in your situation. After planning comes the execution of the
plan.
• EXECUTING THE PLAN:
If we envision but don’t plan we are just a dreamer. If we envision and plan and don’t execute the plan, we are
still just dreamers.
OK, where to from here? So far, you know the Holy Spirit is stirring you to do something about the Great
Commission in your church; you know why the goal is to settle for nothing less than 100% mobilisation and
you’ve got a vision for it; you can see how your church will grow if they get involved, and you have come up
with a rough plan to make it happen. What’s next? The flow diagram on the next page shows how you will
move from where you are now, to the place where your whole church is regularly engaging in evangelism.
To pull this off, you and your church will need to move through three distinct phases and 10 steps, as the flow
diagram shows.
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If we envision and plan and don’t execute the plan, we are still
just dreamers.”
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