Four things you must stop doing, so your church can

start growing.

1. Stop saying Jesus is not

enough.

"Of all professed Christians, Seventh-day Adventists should be foremost in

uplifting CHRIST before the world.“

Ellen G. White, Gospel Workers, p.156

"There need to be far more lessons in the ministry of the Word of true conversion

than of the arguments of the doctrines. For it is far easier and more natural for the

heart that is not under the control of the Spirit of Christ to choose doctrinal subjects

rather than the practical. There are many Christless discourses given no more

acceptable to God than was the offering of Cain. They are not in harmony with

God."{VSS - The Voice in Speech and Song pg 342.3}

Two Dangers

1. Knowledge without power.

a. Knowledge without power is frustrating.

b. Knowledge without power is dangerous.

c. Knowledge without power

makes secondary issues, primary.

2. Compliance without

conversion.

a. A legalistic lifestyle is not sustainable.

b. Compliance can deteriorate

into competition or comparison.

c. Compliance uses less than

ideal methods to achieve,

compliance.

2. Stop appeasing the few. Start reaching the

lost.

The greatest challenge of the

church: to be

other-centered.

Galatians 1:10 Obviously, I’m not trying

to win the approval of people, but of God. If

pleasing people were my goal, I would not be

Christ’s servant.

Two Principles1. You can’t negotiate

with terrorists. You can’t appease them.

2. Have hard conversations early.

3. Stop hating and imitating. Start

innovating.

INNOVATION IS:Painful.Necessary.Requires leadership.

A Whack on the Side of the Head: “Almost every advance in art, cooking, medicine, agriculture, engineering, marketing, politics, education, and design has occurred when someone challenged the rules and tried another approach.”

INNOVATION IS:Painful.Necessary.Requires leadership.

“Your skepticism, which you presume is based on rational thinking and an objective assessment of factual data about yourself, is rooted in mental junk. Your doubts are not the product of accurate thinking, but habitual thinking.

“Years ago you accepted flawed conclusions as correct, began to live your life as if those warped ideas about your potential were true, and ceased the bold experiment in living that brought you many breakthrough behaviors as a child. Now it’s time for you to find that faith you had in yourself before.”Maxwell, John C.

4. Stop hogging the ball. Start passing the

baton.

1. Overprotective.

2.Shallow

3. Anti-science

4. Repressive

5. Exclusive

6. Doubtless“Doubt is the ants in the

pants of faith” Frederich Buchner

Principles to Practice1. Believe and act as if God speaks to young

people too.2. Give them real power.

3. Protect them.

150,000 No’s5,000 Yes