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Finding your voice

Finding your voice. ‘ As for you, always be sober, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist , carry out your ministry fully. 2 Timothy 4 v5. Envision. Clarity Movement Alignment Focus. Encourage. Equip. Example. Expectancy. What is your biggest personal opportunity?

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Finding your voice

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  1. Finding your voice

  2. ‘ As for you, always be sober, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, carry out your ministry fully. 2 Timothy 4 v5.

  3. Envision

  4. Clarity • Movement • Alignment • Focus

  5. Encourage

  6. Equip

  7. Example

  8. Expectancy

  9. What is your biggest personal • opportunity? • 2. What is your biggest • challenge?

  10. What might this mean for Synod? 12 tentative suggestions………….

  11. Make evangelism a top priority at all levels Pray and plan ( and then pray……..) Discover, treasure, train, equip and network your best evangelists, ordained and lay. 4. Invest in people not buildings 5. Church plant/fx around them.

  12. 6. Develop an integrated policy for fx/church planting including people,budget, training & resources. 7. Presbytery mission staff to be involved in fresh expressions/church planting at least one day pw. 8. Know what’s happening & share good practices 9. Explore the link between evangelism, fx & your agencies. 10. Move from chaplaincy to church. 11. Train all your people to share their story. 12. Train more people through MSM Do what you can, not what you can’t

  13. What is your reaction to this ? What’s good? What will not work? What could be added?

  14. Why are we doing this?

  15. It’s not what you know, it’s the One you know

  16. It’s not what you know, it’s the love you experience.

  17. ………………………………….. You are my dear child, I love you and I’m delighted with you.

  18. A life not shaped by inner compulsions, or captive to outer expectations , but drawn by the inner voice of love. Leighton Ford, The Attentive Life

  19. It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.

  20. It’s not what you know, it’s why you are here now.

  21. It’s not what you know, it’s who you are with.

  22. “ The mission of God does not happen unless we become community as God intended it to be.” Gilbert Bilezekian, Community 101

  23. It’s not what you know, it’s who you are.

  24. It’s not what you know, it’s where you are.

  25. What is God saying to you? • What will you do following today? 3. How has this impacted your thoughts about evangelism?

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