Have you ever felt unprepared for something?
I remember it wasn’t too long after I said ‘I Do‘ that I realized marriage was much more complicated and required much more responsibility than dating. The closer Nicki got to giving birth to our first child, I remember thinking that I was definitely not prepared to be a [...]
Friday night, we had our first annual adult Christmas party for New Passion Church. I believe it was a major stepping stone for our church and that this one little party could serve as a huge turning point for us.
I believe relationships are the key to success in any church and in any ministry. I [...]
Sunday we complete week 5 of our Rediscover Church series at New Passion. This week we discussed how we value creating Revolutionary Change through our Local and Global Influence.
We focused on 3 main questions after looking at 1 Corinthians 9:19-23
#1 What am I Becoming? - Paul said he became all things to all people. We [...]
I was a local celebrity pastor for one Saturday when I made the following article in our local newspaper about pastors who use Twitter in their ministries. Story by Kelly Jasper.
I was driving home Sunday night from guest preaching at a church out in the country. Since I was all by myself, I decided to come back by way of Grovetown, the city where we are planting New Passion. Anytime I get a chance, I love to drive through there and to think about our [...]
Live Blogging Session 6
Doug Fields: Discipleship
1. Discipleship cannot be reduced to programs and people
Discipleship can be viewed as 50% Relational 50% Educational
If student’s faith is married to a program or a person, when they are gone, their faith is gone
2. An “On Your Own” Discipleship philosophy is a top down philosophy
A Discipleship Strategy is the [...]
Live Blogging Session 5
Doug Fields: Fellowship
1. Smaller is better when focusing on Fellowship (building relationships)
Christ had a group of 12 but invested in 3
Figure out how to make “Large” Feel “Small”
2. Volunteer leaders are better than paid leaders.
Paid leaders’ main focus should be to develop other volunteer youth workers, the volunteers job is to love [...]
Live Blogging Session 4
Doug Fields: Worship
There is a direct connection between Evangelism and Worship
We need to expand our focus of worship to celebrating God
Genuine Celebration is attractive and makes a heartfelt connection with unbelievers
We have to be careful not to create a “Club” mentality in our environments
Be aware of your audience.
Work hard for an understandable [...]
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 [...]
Live Blogging Session 1
Doug Fields
Food is a value in student ministry at Saddleback
Their Student Ministry was not built around theater seats and a Refinery Student Building
Student Ministry should be simply built on a dependence of God’s Power
There are a lot of Small Values for Student Ministry:
#1 Be Faithful in the Small Things
#2 Have Small Faith
Saddleback [...]
