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Issue #351
4/30/2008
Three ways God wants to use your experiences
by Rick Warren
God does not want to waste your experiences. He wants to use them to make you a more effective minister. There are three ways that God uses your experiences to make you a better pastor. In this issue, we’ll look at how to use your experiences to motivate, minister to, and model for others. [more]
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How to structure your church on purpose
by Tom Holladay

Some churches are organized around programs. Others are organized around processes. Still others are organized around policies and personalities. In this issue, Tom Holladay gives practical suggestions on how to organize your church around God’s biblical purposes. [more]

Christ Walks Where Evil Reigned
Emmanuel M. Kolini and Peter R. Holmes (Authentic, 2008)  

When more than a million Rwandans were massacred in 100 days in 1994, God appeared absent – as did the church and the international community. But he wasn’t. Over the past 14 years, God has been actively working to restore the small African nation. Kolini and Holmes document that journey. Along the way, they point out the steps of the country’s recovery process in their new book. It’s not just about the recovery of a nation from genocide. It’s for anybody who has questions about how God can bring healing after displays of unspeakable evil.

 
   


"What does God want us to do about evil? Is there really anything one person can do? I can tell you what he doesn’t want us to do – to ignore it, deny it, pretend it doesn’t exist, close our hearts and minds to it, or hope it goes away by itself." - Kay Warren


"Even in darkness light dawns for the upright, for the gracious and compassionate and righteous man." - Psalm 112:4 (NIV)


Saddleback’s community forum with Holocaust survivors - Saddleback Church recently hosted Holocaust survivors at its first community forum. Watch video of this event that drew people from all around Southern California.
Slideshow on 40 Days of Purpose launch in Rwanda - In April hundreds of Rwandan churches kicked off a national 40 Days of Purpose campaign. Saddleback Church’s Rick Warren helped launch the campaign through a stadium event in Kigali. A total of 19,000 Rwandans attended the event. This short slideshow will give you a glimpse of what it was like.
Saddleback Church’s Personal Spiritual Growth Form - Saddleback staff members use this form to help track their spiritual growth. Feel free to download, edit, and use the document for your own church leaders.
MisterPoll - Create your own polls, e-mail them to your own list, or post them on your Website – all for free on this site. You can also search through polls other people have posted and find out the results.
The sermon handout - Want to make your sermon handouts even better? This article from Lifeway.com gives you some ideas for how to do that.


Five keys to building a small groups ministry in a small to medium sized church - Mark Howell

More than 500 Rwandan churches kick off 40 Days of Purpose - Tobin Perry

I've lost my burden for the unsaved, so why am I still leading worship? - Dwayne Moore

Marriage counseling: a practical guide for pastors - Jeremy Lelek

Extraordinary communication, part three: value dependence on God more than mechanics - Glenn Wagner

Hope in the midst of depression: part three - Mary Southerland


"Gratitude, however, goes beyond the ‘mine’ and ‘thine’ and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift." - Henri Nouwen, Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming (Image Books, 1994)

“You do not need to quote great men to show you are one.” - Abigail Adams in the made-for-TV movie, John Adams (HBO, 2008)

“What hinders this community is not a weakness of the institutional church and its leadership, but rather the radical individualism of its members. This is not simply a matter of concern over sporadic church attendance or mediocre participation in the church potluck dinner; this is a central underlying principle, which nullifies the witness of God’s people and opposes the redemptive mission of God!” - Michael Craven, on Crosswalk.com

“If you’re leading others and you’re lonely, you’re not doing it right. Think about it. If you’re all alone, that means nobody is following you. And if nobody is following you, you’re not really leading.” - John Maxwell, Leadership Gold: Lessons I’ve Learned From a Lifetime of Leading (Thomas Nelson, 2008)

“Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.” - Jennifer Yane

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