Well once again, Doug Fields proposes some amazing ministry concepts - he's a great communicator. The idea of identifying the various commitment levels of students is so simple, but SO useful!! I really related to the five circles of the potential audience as they define them. I think those five circles totally fit our situation here too. I think it would be an interesting exercise to sit down with our list of typical students that attend, and classify them. I think it's good to identify where they are now so that we can be intentional about how we're going to help them move to the next phase. What do you think?
I think we would also benefit by doing some of those tables with our programs or program ideas (page 95). This is definitely an exercise that we will do at our staff meeting (that I'm still hoping to have the end of this month). That will TOTALLY help me with what I've been struggling with in our Wednesday services. I feel like we need to do a better job to engage our students where they're at and help them grow!
I agreed completely with the chapter about Evangelism. I think we're working on developing an evangelistic attitude. I was thinking of doing something similar to their Friendship Evangelism Challenge, but I was going to relate it to CMs. I haven't thought it completely through yet, but I thought we'd kick it off in the fall when school starts again. This statement really stuck out to me...
"If our group doesn't grow, we are sending a message to our non-Christian friends to go to hell." (page 110)
Wow. That is painful but true. That is the reason we care about growth. It means we're truly affecting our community for Christ!
Loving this book...I think it's SO applicable!
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