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Hybels, Bill - Vision Night

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Vision Night
by Bill Hybels
Text: None
Topic: How to establish a vision for your church, and carry it out.
Big idea: With three strategic focuses—evangelism, community, and service—Willow Creek's church leadership spells out its vision statement.
Keywords: Community; Evangelism; Goals; Maturity; Small Groups; Spiritual gifts; Spiritual growth; Vision

Introduction
  • Willow Creek Community Church's five-year goals are based on three strategies.
Strategic Focus 1: We need to reach an ever-increasing percentage of the Chicagoland area with the gospel message.
  • It was evangelistic intensity that fueled the launching of this church.
  • We will achieve this goal by teaching the Contagious Christianity course, strengthening our weekend services, inviting seekers to our small groups, starting a Gen. X ministry and increasing attendance to 20,000.
Strategic Focus 2: We're going to move the congregation of Christ-followers toward community, spiritual maturity, and full participation within the life of the church.
  • We will achieve this goal by doubling the number of people in small groups, increasing New Community attendance to 8,000 and increasing church membership to 8,000.
Strategic Focus 3: We are going to invest a greater percentage of our lives and our knowledge and our resources with those in our city, our nation, and our world.
  • To obtain this goal, we will try to involve 8,000 people each year in ministries outside the church, and increase the number of Willow Creek Association churches to 4,000.
Conclusion
  • God appointed you for such a time as this, to help carry out our vision. And we need you.
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