Inconvenienced Me by Pastor Julia

Yesterday I posted “Think away from the Box Church”.

Here’s my friend Pastor Julia Amosa’s response and excellent comment on practical ways we can all do to reach people.

Inconvenienced Me,

I have make a well calculated choice to start with ME.. Making friends with my neighbours one person at one time, share a brief faith hope love story with the person and invite him/her to church..this is friendship evangelism…then Christ comes easy to them, then all else make sense to them as far as the Kingdom of God is concern. Free of charge…

On my way to town, I stop at the bus stop at the corner, I pick up one person at one time and drop him or her to the train station or bus stop, the same thing, another friendship evangelism.

While shopping at the mall, I stop for a moment to help someone, sometimes I purposedly sit on a seat, someone always sit next to me and talk to me, another opportunity, By the end of the month wow wow wow. I figure out if 100 people in each church do this in a year most likely thousands will come to Christ…

Some have gone and visit churches on their own…

Thinking Away from the Box Church

Last weekend i had the privilege of speaking at the i3 Conference hosted by our friends Pastor Chris and Seira Sola who pastor a fantastic church -The Dream Centre in our city.
I came away thinking more about ways for the church to stay current and be relevant in our communities!
In my presentation I challenged people to ‘think away from the box’ rather than outside the box.

Here are some questions I ponder over and over again and i encourage all church leaders who want to influence their community to consider. Spend sometime to think away from the box and see what solutions you come up with? Hope you can share them.

1. How can the church be effectively relevant to the community it serves?
2. What are we doing as a church that we need to stop doing?
3. What are the problems of my community and how can we the church be the solution?
4. What innovative ideas that the church can use to reach people that are cost effective with high impact?
5. Do people get inspired on Sundays when they come to our church services?
6. How intentional are we as a church in the Great Commission? What’s our strategy?
7. How intentional are we as a church in discipleship? Is there a definite discipleship pathway for new believers?
8. What is the one main thing we believe God has called our church to do?
9. If you were asked to reach your community without any financial resources, what would you do different?
10. Define Boring?

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Random Thoughts after Midnight!

• Just upgraded to IOS 5! Its OK! not much excitement except for the iCloud sync feature!
• Had a great conversation the other day with a Senior citizen, an 80 year old businessman who refused to retire. I asked him for advice: He said “If you want to be successful, here are two words for you. Be Consistent and Never never Give Up!
• You don’t need things to enjoy life. You need life to enjoy things! Lord grant me good health!
• Pruning must be painful for the tree, but its a necessary exercise in order to bear fruit!
• I have a been a good boy for a while now, one teaspoon of sugar for my coffee / tea. In fact I have lost the graving for coffee! Jesus heals!! Lol!!
• I preached at a church on Sunday. It was different! A bit quiet, loved the simplicity factor!
• I sat through a meeting yesterday wondering ‘Lord is this why you brought me here?’ I didn’t get an answer!
• 8 new leaders graduated from our school of leaders last night! I enjoyed listening to them, presenting their assignments on leadership models!
• Reading 2 Chronicles: amazed with the wisdom of Solomon!
• In a few days we will be in Indonesia ministering in several churches and orphanages. Im looking forward to do what Jesus did to the children.
• Yesterday I was totally challenged by the testimony of a Samoan missionary from Brazil whos been there for over 20 years working with street kids in a city of 16 million people. A city with some major problems, mostly unemployment, poverty, corruption, and infested with drugs and gangs!
• Reading ‘The Samoan who said Yes”. Truly Inspirational story! get the book!
• Speaking this weekend at i3 Conference. I’m pumped!
• I want to stay in a Monastery for week! I’m serious! I need a retreat!
• Had an interesting conversation today with some pastors of our city about the use of social media! very stimulating! of course different opinions! I hope I didn’t sound like a salesman for Apple, Facebook and Twitter!
• I have so many things i wanted to complete tonight….ummmm……………………..i think I should go to bed now and not worry about them!
• Final thought: It is always better to fail at something than to excel at nothing. Get up and try again! You Can do it!!