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10 Reasons Building A Church Isn’t Like Buying a Car

April 4, 2011 in Uncategorized with 1 Comment

10 reasons building a church isn’t like buying a car or anything else for that matter.

  1. A car can make you cool.  Church made Steven Furtick cool, but not Perry Noble, so you can’t always count on church to make you cool.
  2. Churches gets better gas mileage – they’re wind powered.
  3. All cars play traditional and contemporary music.

  4. Cars change regularly to attract new people.
  5. Cars don’t wish they were other cars and talk about why the other cars are so popular because they aren’t true to the manufacturer. (Gotta think on this one)
  6. Cars don’t believe in Hell, some churches do. (Sorry Rob, that was a cheap shot)
  7. We buy cars to get us somewhere.  When we get to church…we think we’re already there.
  8. Your ministry can survive if you spend too much on a car...
  9. There’s no base model church - you don’t come in and pick the red one and have us throw in some spinners.
  10. While driving too fast can make you see Jesus, He doesn’t use cars to get people into heaven.

Here is where the analogy breaks down.

If you decide to by a corvette, and you go to four different dealers and get prices and the lowest price for the same awesomeness is $65,000, do you buy it?

It depends right?  It depends on what you can afford.

Too many people are getting awesome deals on cars they can’t afford.  Affordability IS the dealmaker.  (I’m thinking about getting a forehead tattoo with that on it).   “Understand what you can afford and then go out and make the deal with someone you can trust.” (Sidebar – did you know when you trade a car in; the sales guy gets paid a percentage of the difference between the real value of what you car is worth and what he can get you to take for it?  If you trade them in, have the KBB value printed and in you hand)

Back to affordability

There’s a lot of work that determines what you can “really” afford to spend on a car.  If you’re building a church, that process is magnified.  You have to know how much cash you can raise, what the bank will loan, what the payments on the debt will be to make sure you construction budget doesn’t have an affair with your operating budget and run away with her.

How will inflation affect you affordability?  Are there major, one time, expenses coming your way that will impact operating income and limit your borrowing?

Are you scared yet?  Good….fear is good for making you think before you act.  Heading into a car dealership, or a church expansion project without a grasp of affordability is like rolling the dice at the craps table, you may win from time to time, but when you lose it’s really gonna bite. (not a great analogy for a pastor but it’s better than the one I was working on about planning for the spirit to move instead of preparing a sermon)

If you church is growing fast, sooner or later you have to build or renovate.  Have a plan, get the right people around you from the start before you spend a dime.

If I can help I’d love to be part of the journey with you. I’m passionate about serving churches and would love an opportunity to talk with you about joining you staff to walk you through the process of clarifying exactly what you need and balancing it with what you can afford so you can CRUSH IT FOR JESUS in your city.

Email me and lets set up a time to get to know each other over the phone.

rwchancy@cogun.com

706.830.3782

 

 

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The Boy Who Went To Heaven

March 29, 2011 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

This is worth 6 minutes.

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Personal Board Of Directors

March 23, 2011 in Uncategorized with 3 Comments

I meeting with my Personal Board Of Directors this morning and thought I let you take a look into how I plan to engage these guys, who are my closets friends and most trusted advisors.  I’ve got to brag on them a bit

Brian Cole – Catalyst Conference – Handles all things production for the conferences

Brad Scholle – Orange Conference Operations guru – Husband to the Amazing Jenn from Atlanta Mission.  (no shame promoting that orginization)

Reggie Goodin – CFO of Rethink and the Orange Confernce founded by Reggie Joiner

Mark Cole – Business Manager for The John C. Maxwell Company and Dr. Les Parrott (You gotta check his video channel on marriage relationships when you’re done here)

Yes I’m bragging.  I’m incredibly blessed to have this group of guys keeping me straight.  I grew up in a small town and for much of my early years I was the “slow kid”  now I’m the slow adult and God’s over compensating for me.

Here is my outline for my Personal Board meeting:

Life – Intimacy With God

  • 9.5% Body Fat  – See Appendix A
  • Connect Daily with the trinity

 

Family – Live Love

  • 6 Life Memories in 2011 – See Appendix B

 

Marriage – Deep Emotional Connection

  • 4 Overnight Dates With Kristy – 1 Completed (Cruise in June)
  • 20 Dates – 4 Completed – need focus here

 

Work – Worship

  • Make a significant investment in 12 churches – See Appendix C
  • Write and Publish “Church Construction Quick Start Guide” – See Appendix D

 

Church – Serving

  • Missional Community Weekends 1 down 2 to go
  • High school Boys Small Group Leader – Begin May 1

 

Finance

  • Goal of Giving 10% this year net income – Currently Up to date.  Wrote a 950 check last night
  • Save 10% – Lord Help me
  • Live on the rest

 

Opportunities

  • Rest where I am while looking for ways I can be used

 

Threats

  • Investing in churches unwilling to move

 

Appendix A

Body Fat Plan

  • Paleo Diet for 30 Days
  • Assessment at the end of 30 Days and then every 30 days until goal is reached
  • Join Bodyplex with Todd before April 15th
  • Write down everything
  • Update my wardrobe as a reward
  • Date is Jun Goal e 30th

 

Appendix B

6 Life Memories

  • March 11th Miss Com
  • Project x
  • DC trip with Jordan in the summer
  • Camping trip

 

Appendix C

12 Churches

  1. LFBC – In Process
  2. Crosspoint – In Process
  3. BMBC – On Hold
  4. FSDA – In process
  5. AC – In Process
  6. HBC  – In Process
  7. Tulsa Matt – To re-engage
  8. SBC – Meeting Today
  9. TBD
  10. TBD
  11. TBD
  12. TBD

 

Appendix D

Quick Start Guide Schedule

  • Outline with sub-headings completed by April 15th
  • Blog each Title and subtitles
  • Publish by June 30th
  • Blog and Social Media Shock and Awe campaign beginning August 15th

To some of you this probably seems like overkill, and it may in fact be.  But I’ve walked with these guys for 8 years and much of what I am today I give them alot of credit for.   God moves me through them.

Who is moving you?

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5 Things We Need To Do To Get Our Vision Right – Perry Noble

March 16, 2011 in Uncategorized with 1 Comment

These are the notes I took from the first session of the Unleash Conference last week at Newspring Church where Perry Noble is the Lead Pastor.  If you’re looking for a one day “kick in the pants” I’d highly recommend it.

Matthew 25:34-43 (NIV)
“Then the King will say to those on his right, `Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. [35] For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, [36] I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ [37] “Then the righteous will answer him, `Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? [38] When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? [39] When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ [40] “The King will reply, `I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.’ [41] “Then he will say to those on his left, `Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. [42] For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, [43] I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’   
1. Make Jesus the end goal of all we do.
V35. People are walking into our churches and dehydrated and we have to give them the living water.  Told a story about being at a restaurant where they never brought him the food.  Many of our churches are not bringing the food.
The agenda is Jesus.  to hell with any other agenda because that is where it will end up….in hell.
We have to preach the Gospel.  If you don’t you will fail.  Social justice is not Jesus.
People don’t need a blanket they need Jesus.
2.  We must be more concerned with the outsider than the insider.
I was a stranger and you invited me in,
Can strangers show up to your church.  God doesn’t commend the church that doesn’t reach the world for Christ.  The man who buried the talent was called wicked and lazy.  ”every now and then you have got to ask yourself” how can we piss off the religious people”"
Disciples make disciples.  Mature people give up their right first.
3.  we must help people establish a new identity.
Always be able to explain yourself but never feel like you have to defend yourself.
Jesus never went to a funeral he always shut them down and he’s shutting down funerals all over the country in the form of dying churches.
The church has taught people to brag about their self righteousness and then we fail to live up to our own expectation.  We have to teach people that they are brand new.
Philippians 3:4-8 (NIV)
though I myself have reasons for such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: [5] circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; [6] as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for legalistic righteousness, faultless. [7] But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. [8] What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ
he word rubbish is schobilat(sp).  It defines what Jesus thought about religion.
You’ve got to stop bringing the schobilat into the house of God and expect him to celebrate you.  We have to understand that he died for our sin.  We have to re-identify who we are.
4. We must be patient with people as they develop spiritually.
I was sick and you looked after me.  We have spiritually sick people showing up to our churches. We were that sick person and only by the grace of God is it any different now.
Can sick people show up and hang out in your church for years?  Do they feel accepted with their sickness.
5.  We must make it our mission to proclaim freedom in Christ.
Hosanna means please save or save now. People don’t need a cause they need a savior. Screw the organ and the stain glass windows.  We’re going to invest in things that matter.
Acts 2 – how amazing would it be to see 3000 people be saved in one day?  God told me right before this conference and said “you Can”..  If we all go back this Sunday and preach the gospel we can.

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