Live Blogging Session 2

Doug Fields

• Purpose Driven Ministry has Godly leaders.
• If your Ministry is bottle necked take a look at your ministry, it may be because of you.
• Discovering God’s Purposes Begin with God’s Word. (The Great Commission & The Great Commandment)
• You have to own the Purposes of your ministry, no one will bleed it like you!
• If we push people to be evangelistic, we have to be that way ourselves
• Biblical Purposes will clarify a ministries existence
• There are several ways to say the same thing
• Biblical Purposes will minimize conflict in your ministry
• Biblical Purposes will help create excitement
• A ministry guided by Biblical purposes is not easy to build…but its healthy
• People unite under a vision that is bigger than their own
• Will your ministry pursue Biblical Purposes?
• Evaluate: Do the people in your ministry get the Biblical Purposes for your Ministry? (Leaders, Students, Parents, Staff, Etc.)
• You cannot fit all of the Biblical Purposes into one Program. Make sure each Program/Process has 1 Primary & 1 Secondary purpose
• A lot of churches are using a discipleship method on students who are being forced to be at church, so it doesn’t work.