“God of victory you are my passion,
its in the way you are, you don’t change at all…
my strength in life is I am Yours
my soul delights because I am Yours,
my will on earth is all I am living for,
Jesus I glorify…
you are my hearts desire,
I live to know you more”
- Jesus Culture

If you like them, why not buy their new 3 track EP ‘My Passion’,
available for download on iTunes.

via Worship Matters by Bob Kauflin

Facebook provides a wealth of evangelistic and outreach opportunities, many of
which are yet to be exploited to their full potential. Here’s just a
couple of ideas:

• create a Facebook Page for your church (and promote it in church
  and in the local community),
• create a social group to promote social activities and fellowship,
• create events (e.g. Easter services, Christmas carols) and invite
  your friends to attend,
• post thought-provoking status updates.

How have you used Facebook for the purpose of outreach?

An opportunity that remains untouched (as far as I’ve seen) is the
capacity Facebook provides to share MP3′s. It’s very simple – when you
post an update, click on the ‘Link’ icon in the attachments area. Add
the link of an MP3 (e.g. the weekend’s sermon), and Facebook will
provide you with space to add the title, artist and album. Here’s how
it looks:

There’s some great potential with this facility – whilst friends and family may not make the trip to the church website to download a sermon, they might be more likely to listen to a talk you recommend on Facebook. Somehow it seems less scary to post a link to a talk via Facebook, than to send an email encouraging a friend to listen! And considering Australians spend 29% of their online time on Facebook, you might as well provide them with something to listen to while they’re there!

You can read more about this facility on All Facebook and The Next Web.

I’ve written more about Facebook at Communicate Jesus.

In 2001 He published a paper entitled: “Sorry To Disappoint, but I’m Still an Atheist! In 2007, however, he was able to publish “There is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed his Mind“

Flew always described himself as a “negative atheist”…

After months of soul-searching, Flew concluded that research into DNA had “shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved”…

Flew went on to make a video of his conversion entitled Has Science Discovered God? and seemed to want to atone for past errors: “As people have certainly been influenced by me, I want to try and correct the enormous damage I may have done,” he said.

Read the full story here

1. Based on people
   Look out into your congregations… at the people God has generously blessed your church family with. Don’t look at the tasks that need doing, but look at the fruit of the Spirit in peoples lives. If there are godly people who love Jesus and love talking about him, why not chat to them about ideas they might have and ask them to think about ideas and encourage them to see ways they can do outreach at your church. Shape ideas around your people, not your people around ideas.
2. Based on Ideas
   Look out into your congregation… to see if there is any correspondence with the things you have dreamed up and the people you find in your congregation.  Find something that would be better delegated, either because you aren’t as skilled as others, don’t have adequate time to commit to it, or have lost interest. Again, shape or modify your ideas around your people, not your people around your ideas. Encourage them to develop the idea-seed and to take responsibility for it.

Really, both are about people, just different starting points. Once you have your teams, make sure you ‘let go’ and ‘support’ them.

Start looking today.
Are there some people in your church who are not actively serving but could be?
Are there some people in your church who are gifted in evangelism?
Are there some people in your church passionately convicted?

Here’s a brief excerpt:

“As if on cue, when I was twenty-three, God opened a door for me to work at a historic downtown church. My dream-come-true slowly turned into a spiritual nightmare. What started out as a good thing quickly became an obsession. My service was never enough. And as my love for ministry burned hotter, my passion for Christ cooled.

My mission had become a job. Instead of studying God’s Word out of personal devotion, I studied only to preach. Instead of preaching messages to bring glory to God, I preached to bring people to church. I promised hurting people I would pray for them, but I usually didn’t follow through.”

I recently got the chance to share an “example of how to speak God’s life-changing word in any and every situation”… read it online 

HT @JohnPiper
A Christmas sound you thought you would never hear. What if 10 million Muslims sang this? Glory. http://ow.ly/P4Zp