#GenSend and #GoNow Students Explore #LifeOnMission and #UrbanChurchPlanting in Portland OR

PORTLAND – Coffee shops, climbing walls, parks, yoga studios and other points between are the daily destinations for 56 college students who have made Portland home for a summer of mission focus.....(read more at the link below)

http://www.gonbw.org/home/students-take-portland-streets-by-storm/

For more information about serving with #GenSend contact nwbaptistwes@gmail.com

How Do Great Leaders Inspire Action?

"People don't buy WHAT you do. People buy WHY you do it. "

Golden Circle = Why you do it -belief/cause; How you do it; What you do

"The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs WHAT you have.  The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe (the WHY)"

"When we communicate from the outside-in, yes, people can understand vast amounts of complicated information like features, benefits, facts and figures.  It just doesn't drive behavior."

"When we communicate from the inside-out we are talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior and we allow people to rationalize it with the tangible things we say and do."

"If you don't know WHY you do WHAT you do and people respond to WHY you do what you do and how will people ever get to respond to what you do (buy, vote, etc.). Be loyal."

"If you talk about what you believe (WHY) you will attract those who believe what you believe."


Most of us operate from the outside-in = what/how/why

Great organizations and leaders lead from the inside-out: why/how/what

Here is the 5 minute version:

Here is the 18 minute version:

Simple Rule = Increased Effeciency

Years ago, UPS engineers devised route-optimization plans to increase efficiency, reduce fuel consumption and get drivers back to their centers earlier. They came up with a simple rule:

Minimize – or sometimes, eliminate – left-hand turns.

It's simple but effective.

Since 2004 UPS has saved an estimated 10 million gallons of gas.

Carbon emissions were reduced by 100,000 metric tons – the equivalent of 5,300 cars off the road for an entire year.

One of my favorite passages in the Bible is a qoute from Jesus (the Message version):

"Here is a simple, rule-of-thumb guide for behavior: Ask yourself what you want people to do for you, then grab the initiative and do it for them. Add up God's Law and Prophets and this is what you get. "(Matthew 7:12 MSG)

LIFE with Mission vs. LIFE as Mission

Which picture illustrates the LIFE Christ has for us?

Watch and read more here:

http://www.vergenetwork.org/2013/04/25/what-makes-discipleship-intentional-caesar-kalinowski/

 

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Free e-book::Be the Church - Discipleship and Mission Made Simple

Because the weekends are about experiencing the FREE gift of God's grace through a SABBATH rest, here is a link to a FREE e-booK::

be-the-church-discipleship and mission-made-simple

Nextdoor.com - What if we saw our Neighborhood as our Parish?

If you serve a missionary God, by default, YOU are a missionary. He (God the Father) sends Jesus (God the Son) who in turn sends us and promises us a Helper (God the Spirit). We are to be his ambassadors. We are to be His missionary people. This is what followers of God do. If disciples love Him -Jesus- they (disciples) do what He says.

Where do missionaries in obedience begin to think and act like missionaries? In the places they are planted and rooted- in the NEIGHBORHOOD! Next-door-neighbors, across-the-street-neighbors, out-the-back-door neighbors are the context for missionaries to live for Jesus and invite neighbors into the Kingdom of God.

It is time for disciples who are God's missionary people to see the neighborhood where they live as their parish. This is the place we GO to and then STAY. We go to a church service to celebrate what God is doing in the neighborhood. We don't go to a church building to go on mission. We go to the person next door to be on mission.

Watch this video from nextdoor.com to consider how you might become the neighbor next door to create community, participate in community, be a blessing and tangibly express the Kingdom of God.

http://vimeo.com/59427424

Come back and tell your stories.

 

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