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How Did Jesus Lead?

We had our first PassionKidz meeting last night to start a conversation about our next steps in our Children’s Worship Environment at New Passion. We opened the night looking at 4 ways Jesus led His movement while on Earth, check them out, and then join the conversation by adding your thoughts:
1. Jesus Mobilized (Mark 1:17) [...]

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New Passion Turns 6-Months Old

This is an exciting Sunday for me.
New Passion turns 6 months old this weekend! Wow, how time flies.
These last 6 months have been incredible, its been complete with our set of difficulties as well as many successes.
We started the church with a launch team of 21 adults and 14 children. Trust me I heard the [...]

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Is It Our Responsibility?

Several weeks ago I asked our people at New Passion, “Do you see the mission Jesus calls us to as your personal responsibility?”
I love the story of Nehemiah. One of the things that keeps sticking out to me is how everyone worked together for the common vision that God gave Nehemiah. There is no doubt [...]

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UNLEASH 2010: Session Notes Landing Page

Landing Page for Unleash 2010 Session Notes:

Main Session #1 with Perry Noble
(Click Here)
Breakout Session #1 with Perry Noble & Steven Furtick (Click Here)
Breakout Session #2 with Paul Marshall & Joe Sangl (Click Here)
Main Session #2 with Perry Noble (Click Here)
All Breakout Session Notes will be Posted HERE in PDF format soon!

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UNLEASH 2010: Breakout Session 2

Breakout Session 2
Giving…Budgeting…Spending
Paul Marshall & Joe Sangl
Giving:
0-1,000 People -

Established Accurate (Excellent) record-keeping (Used Simple Access Database)
(Without accurate record keeping, you have a mess!)
1st Time Giving Letter (No matter how much given)
Let God be in the equation
Build margin, early & often!

1,000 - 5,000 people -

Moved to FellowshipOne (Helps track Ministry & Giving)
Did 1st [...]

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UNLEASH 2010: Session 2 Perry Noble

Unleash 2010 Main Session 2
Session Notes
Acts 14:8-
The best thing a church can do is make sure their senior pastor is healthy
Be careful for the crowd….those who deify will crucify. (My Note: Wow!!!)
The problem with a lot of pastors is that we will not admit our humanity
vs 19 - The people stoned Paul…not Barnabas or anyone [...]

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UNLEASH 2010: Session 1 Perry Noble

Unleash 2010 Main Session 1
Joshua 5
Session Notes:
Many times God takes leaders to a cliff and tells them to jump. If we don’t jump another generation will.
Leaders have to learn to jump.
If someone is going to jump, it should be the church. We should set the example. Problem is churches have forgotten how to jump!
4 Factors:
1. [...]

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UNLEASH 2010: Breakout Session 1

Unleash 2010 Breakout Session 1: SeniorĀ  Pastors Only
Perry Noble &
Steven Furtick
Breakout Session Notes
God can speak through people who are equivalent to Balaam’s donkey - Steven Furtick (They’re pretty much jackasses…Don’t tithe, don’t get involved, etc. But God can speak through them)

The parameters of the overall vision gives the leadership freedom to lead & think [...]

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I Like The Way You Think: Encouraging the Church

I was eating lunch with Jonothan, our worship leader, yesterday and he mentioned something I thought was pretty cool. So, since Jonothan does not blog and he just tweeted for the first time yesterday, I think I’ll post this myself. I like the way our people at New Passion think…it is scary what God can [...]

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If Your Scars Could Speak

Everyone has scars.
Some are physical, while others are emotional and mental.
I have a scar in the bend of my right arm. I was around 5 years old and my mom had to stop by my grandma’s house, she told me to stay in the car while she quickly ran in. My sister had a better [...]

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