100 Days to a Healthier ChurchSample

Day 34

Today’s Big Idea: What are some possible projects to consider? We’ve spent a Big Saturday coming to a clearer understanding of what the church does and all of this week considering the gifts God has deposited within the church body. This puts almost all the necessary ingredients on the table. Yes, almost.

On our next Big Saturday (Day 43) we will be choosing one project to tackle as a way of taking our first big step toward becoming a healthier church. 

Key Verse: Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it? (Luke 14:28)

Thoughts to Consider: You doers on the team are probably thinking, “Yes! After all this navel-gazing, we’re finally going to do something! Let’s pick a project and get to work!” On the other hand, the more introspective folks on the team may be feeling a little apprehensive right now. “How can we pick a project when we haven’t even decided on what issue we’re going to tackle first?”

As we’ve seen in the Key Verse and Passage of the Day, it’s important to strike a balance between the extremes of thinkers and doers. Sorry, go-getters, we won’t be picking a project today, because your introspective friends are right. We don’t have enough information to do that yet. But for my pondering friends, this is the time to start looking at actual forward motion. No, we don’t have all the information we need (no project ever starts with all the information, after all), but we have enough to start brainstorming possible projects.

At this point, there’s enough information to give most of you an idea of what possible issues the church might tackle as a team. So, as we did last Sunday with the church’s current activities and this week regarding spiritual gifts, let’s make yet another list, this time of possible issues to tackle and possible project to address them.

Possible Issues:

Possible Projects: