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If we don't continually ask that
question, then we tend to plan
things for the people we already
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Roger Jenks, Pastor |
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MINISTRY
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Church recently relocated to different community and
elementary school facility |
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Pastor committed to developing leaders |
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Used five prioritizing questions to focus
church ministry |
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Used Ministry Area Profile
to focus on people outside
of church, help identify
needed ministries and
relocate the church |
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At least one third of
every meeting is spent
on evangelism |
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Evangelism is focused
on reaching unchurched |
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Out of the Fox Hole |
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For Roger Jenks, now senior pastor of Fox Valley
Area Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), it took almost two decades and four
pastorates for him to take the questions that had so impacted his personal life and carry
them over to his congregations's life. "There are five essential questions of
congregational life," said Dr. Lloyd Ogilive, the featured speaker at the conference
Jenks had attended in 1985, five questions that must be asked and answered sequentially.
If you skip any of these, the best that you or your church will ever do is limp."
"For nearly 20 years, those questions have advised me and kept me from limping!"
says Jenks. "BUT, I never applied them to the church! When I came to my current
pastorate, I decided our entire, somewhat beleaguered congregation needed the prioritizing
influence of those five, fundamental questions. I think all I had hoped for was that the
church would seek and take ownership of the answers—I didn't realize how dramatically
these questions would transform us!" -Jenni Keast |
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