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SiMPLE CHURCH: Returning to God's Process for Making Disciples

"Discover the power of a SiMPLE CHURCH in this insightful book review by Sherif Morgan. Explore the revolution that simplifies complexity, inspired by biblical teachings and designed for growth. Learn how church leaders can be like designers, creating environments that nurture spiritual growth. Embrace a strategic process for making disciples and serving the world, guided by the simplicity of loving God and others. Join the movement to transform churches into clear, focused, and aligned spaces for spiritual development."

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SiMPLE CHURCH: Returning to God's Process for Making Disciples

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  1. SiMPLE CHURCH RETURNING TO GOD’S PROCESS FOR MAKING DISCIPLES BY: THOM S. RAiNER & ERIC GEiGER St.Paul Service - May 2015 Book review by: Sherif Morgan

  2. SiMPLE CHURCH RETURNING TO GOD’S PROCESS FOR MAKING DISCIPLES

  3. SiMPLE CHURCH The SiMPLE revolution has begun

  4. SiMPLE CHURCH SIMPLE is IN Complex is OUT Atleast out of style

  5. APPLE KNOWS IT T H E Y K N O W I T SiMPLE CHURCH

  6. GOOGLE KNOWS IT T H E Y K N O W I T SiMPLE CHURCH

  7. GRAPHIC DESIGNERS KNOW IT T H E Y K N O W I T SiMPLE CHURCH

  8. GRAPHIC DESIGNERS KNOW IT John Maeda - National Design Award T H E Y K N O W I T SiMPLE CHURCH

  9. SOUTHWEST AIRLINES KNOW IT T H E Y K N O W I T SiMPLE CHURCH

  10. H E A P P L I E D I T SiMPLE CHURCH JESUS IS SiMPLE

  11. Pentateuch - Torah SiMPLE CHURCH Ranking Ranking Ranking Ranking

  12. Mathew 22:34-40 34 But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” 37Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.” SiMPLE CHURCH

  13. He was not lowering the standard of the law • He was not abolishing it • He was capturing all its spirit, all of its essence in one statement. • He made it SIMPLE SiMPLE CHURCH 613 in 2 SiMPLE Complex to

  14. Conclusion: SiMPLE CHURCH SiMPLE Church leaders are Designers. They design opportunities of spiritual growth Complex Church leaders are Programmers. They run ministry programs

  15. SiMPLE CHURCH The SiMPLE and (Not So Simple) Church in Action Comparison

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  17. SiMPLE CHURCH Love God Love Others Serve the World Mark2:27 And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

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  19. SiMPLE CHURCH Love God Love Others Serve the World

  20. Each Country / ministry discussion questions SiMPLE CHURCH 1. How are we like, First Church or Cross Church? 2. Which church would you rather attend? &/or serve in?

  21. SiMPLE CHURCH SiMPLE Church – Extreme Makover

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  24. SiMPLE CHURCH Church/Ministry leaders are like designers SiMPLE Church leaders excel in designing a ministry process that leads to spiritual growth Spiritual growth is a process Therefor it would make sense for church leaders to design their churches around the process of spiritual growth

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  33. SiMPLE CHURCH The Church leaders design a SiMPLE process to create the environments beneficial to spiritual growth

  34. Defining a SiMPLE Church A simple church is a congregation designed around a straightforward and strategic process that moves people through the stages of spiritual growth. SiMPLE CHURCH

  35. Defining a SiMPLE Church A simple church is a congregation designed around a straightforward and strategic process that moves people through the stages of spiritual growth. SiMPLE CHURCH

  36. Defining a SiMPLE Church A simple church is a congregation designed around a straightforward and strategic process that moves people through the stages of spiritual growth. SiMPLE CHURCH

  37. Defining a SiMPLE Church A simple church is a congregation designed around a straightforward and strategic process that moves people through the stages of spiritual growth. SiMPLE CHURCH The leaders Know it The people understand it

  38. Defining a SiMPLE Church A simple church is a congregation designed around a straightforward and strategic process that moves peoplethrough the stages of spiritual growth. SiMPLE CHURCH

  39. Defining a SiMPLE Church A simple church is a congregation designed around a straightforward and strategic process that moves people through the stages of spiritual growth. The leadership and the church are Clear about the process (Clarity) andare committed to executing it. The process flows logically (movement) and is implemented in each area of the church (alignment). The church abandons everything that is not in the process (focus). SiMPLE CHURCH

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  41. Mark 11:15-17 15 So they came to Jerusalem. Then Jesus went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. 16 And He would not allow anyone to carry wares through the temple. 17 Then He taught, saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ” SiMPLE CHURCH People should go to the temple to seek God People lost their focus

  42. Many of our churches have become cluttered. So cluttered that people have a difficult time to encountering the simple and powerful message of Christ. So cluttered that many people are busy doing church instead of being the church. SiMPLE CHURCH

  43. SiMPLE CHURCH What about us?

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