1) Attend church

2) Invite People  (your friends, family, co-workers, neighbors, acquaintances, checkers at HEB, etc. etc)

3) Bring your tithe

4) Serve at church

I’ve left some stuff out for the sake of simplicity. What am I assuming here? What did I leave out? Leave your comment below.

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The point of the story isn’t that you can’t be rich and go to heaven. The point is that you have to let go of EVERYTHING to follow Jesus and find eternal life.

What are you holding on to? Is it money? It’s great to have money, and even to have lots of it. But if you haven’t RELEASED it to him, it’s holding you back. Other things that can hold us back are pride, popularity, greed, sexual sin, materialism, anger, and ANYTHING that God would want you to release.

What’s holding you back? Let it go today!

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From Exponential 2010. Orlando, Florida.

As a leader, no matter what you do, you have to reproduce yourself. Call that person an apprentice, a shadow, or whatever you want… you’ve got to have at least one person you are bringing along. Here’s the process from Dave and John Ferguson.

1) I do. You watch. We talk.
2) I do. You help. We talk.
3) You do. I help. We talk.
4) You do. I watch. We talk.
5) You do. Somebody else watches. The process starts over.

Who is your apprentice? What are your thoughts?

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Christine Caine at Bay Area Fellowship, March 7, 2010 from Randy Bryan on Vimeo.

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1. Serve others.
2. Learn to stay joyful in what you do.
3. Choose to be passionate and have compassion.
4. Be patient.
5. Pray without ceasing.
6. Leadership is sacrifice.
7. Constantly renew your mind.
8. Defeat evil by doing good.
9. Stay humble.
10. Lead hard.
11. Be a bright light.
12. Don’t ever think you know it all, be a lifelong learner.

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1) What do you have to do to take the area you lead to the NEXT LEVEL?

2) Do you have an insatiable appetite for excellence or are you settling for 2nd best?

3) I think your view of God determines your level of excellence as you serve him. Let that sink in for a minute. What do you think?

4) At any given point, you should be leading at least 2 people who could replace you. Who are you leading who could replace you?

5) A friend of mine just told me that his team is volunteering at a local kids organization to mentor disadvantaged youth. I love the idea because it involves raising up the next generation of leaders. Who are you raising up to lead?

6) What level of sacrifice is too much for you as you lead God’s people?

7) What are you DOING to reach those who don’t yet know Christ?

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5) Facebook – We started advertising on Facebook about a year ago. It’s not the most effective method in a way that can be measured… butts in the seats. But I like it because for about $200 we were able to get over 1.3 MILLION pages impressions on the screens of people in the San Marcos area. There are about 20-25,000 Facebook users in our immediate area. I really like the fact that our logo was seen over a million times. I can’t help but think that these were seeds that God will use in the future.

6) Flyers in businesses and schools – San Marcos is a music town and a college town. Because of that, practically every business allows flyers to be posted in their place of business. At one point, we paid a guy part-time just to put up flyers. You know, the kind of flyer with the little tear off part. This guy developed a list of about 150 places to put up our flyers. Hardly a week went by that didn’t see someone show up at FOSM because of one of these flyers. And yes, every time he posted a flyer, he tore off one of the little tear off thingies, just so we wouldn’t look like losers.

A note about Flyers in schools: For a brief while, we were able to distribute flyers to elementary age school kids as long as the event advertised benefited the community. The school district no longer allows “outside” flyers so we are not able to do this anymore.

7) Business Cards – These are little cards with a logo of the church and some church info. Here’s an example of one we are using for BAF San Marcos. These cards don’t do anything earth shaking. They are just tools. Tools that you and your people can use to help you invite people to church. I use them so much I feel inadequate if I don’t have some on me. We give them out to church attenders at our campus almost every weekend.

8) Breakfast Tacos – Around here, everybody loves breakfast tacos. They are pretty much a staple in most of Texas, especially South Texas which just so happens to be the BEST part of Texas, lol. Anyway, we love to serve our community in any way we can, especially with FOOD! It’s awesome to just take 10 dozen or so tacos to the Police Department with a poster that says “Thanks for what you do.” Another way is too take 10 dozen or so up to your local school with the same kind of poster. Some of these people we really RELY on (fire, police, teachers, etc) rarely get thanked or honored. Tacos are a great way to do that. Donuts are too. :)

Coming up in part 3: Serving IN the community

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1) Mailers – These work for some churches and not for others. We’ve had really great success with mailers. Our last mailer went out before Easter. We had our best attendance ever.

2) Cable TV – In our area, local network TV reception is very spotty. We are not a major media market. We are in the middle of two big cities, Austin and San Antonio. There are roughly 30,000 cable “homes” in our market. Pretty crazy when you consider that our town has about 50,000 people. A little over 20,000 are households and the rest are dorms at Texas State. For a couple hundred bucks a month we could advertise in the dorms at Texas State on ESPN and MTV. With auto-fill spots, our money would buy us about 600 spots a month! We would get visitors just about every week who came because of the commercials.

For Easter, we did a spot that matched the look and feel of the mailer. I think that increased the effectiveness of both forms of media.

3) Newspaper – not much luck here. Our local paper is a good paper, but it has low subscription rates. They only sell a few thousand a day. We never saw much return when we advertised in the local papers.

4) Local Theater – Our local theater gets close to 1/2 million visits a year. It’s a nice, modern, clean, etc. theater. It’s the only one of it’s kind within a 20 mile radius. For about a hundred bucks a month a non-profit can advertise on all 12 screens before the movie. We would consistently see visitors at FOSM because of these ads.

We have a good relationship with the local guy who sells the media for TV and the theater.

In Part 2 – Facebook, flyers in businesses, business cards, and breakfast tacos….

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