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2007 will be a year of on purpose ministry at Canyon Creek. Legend has
recalled Pro Football’s Coach Vince Lombardi’s speech to both rookies
and veterans of the game… every season he would begin, “This is a
football.” He would describe its feel, its shape, its size, how it can
be kicked, carried, or passed. He took them out on the field again
telling, “This is a football field.” He would tell the dimensions,
shape, and begin telling some of the rules. I imagine to some degree
this was embarrassing to some of the veterans of the game, but Lombardi
wanted people ingest the basics. If the basics were digested, then
winning would be how the team metabolized them.
On purpose ministry at Canyon Creek will be best demonstrated when we focus on and measure five basic areas.
1. Worship participation. It is our goal to have 140 people in
each of our morning services (280 total morning worship). That is a
goal we can only make when we take opportunities to expand our small
groups and tie guests those not yet our guests to the various events.
2. Sunday School average attendance with new units. In Sunday
School we want to see 250 by the end of 2007. This will mean working
toward and then creating 1 new Senior Adult class, 1 Median Adult
class, 1 Young Adult class, 1 Youth class, 1 Children’s class, and then
1 Preschool class. We will talk further about why new classes are
amazing tools for new growth.
3. Baptisms. Canyon Creek will bring 30 people to and then through baptism by the end of this year.
4. Discipleship. By the end of 2007 Canyon Creek will have 40
people who are mentors (walking with someone through some basic
discipleship materials) and 40 others who are being mentored.
5. Individual mission activity through the Sunday School. 50 people will participate with their class in some mission project.
These five measurable areas will help us to keep the challenge of
Christ’s Great Commission in front of us. It will call us to be
accountable to one another for the results of basic ministry as Jesus
outlined. “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I
am with you always, to the very end of the age.” (Matthew 28:19-20,
NIV) If we are disciplined in doing what is right, we will be able to
see people come to Christ and begin to grow up in him. Vince Lombardi
also said “Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time
thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in
a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.
Unfortunately, so is losing.” Church, let’s make disciples.
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