We have to define what the core activities of our church. Based on the above definition of a church, every activity is a meeting of some kind, and contains a subset of the activities. You are not going to take up a tithe at each meeting, but you will have a meeting where you take up one.

Jesus prayed in the morning, he met with his disciples as a group, and he preached to the crowd.

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Prayer Meeting

  • Weekly corporate prayer meeting. Luke 10:2.
  • Before being sent, the disciples were commanded to pray for harvesters to be sent into the harvest field.
  • This focuses the church on the mission set before them. Everyone gets on the same page.
  • You plow the fields with prayer. Prayer prepares things in the spirit.
    • Don’t worry about anything, pray about everything.
      • The solution to “idk how it will go” is to pray. That means that prayer alters the outcome. If we are having a service without preparing the outcome, we are leading out of our flesh. The anointing will not fall on flesh.
  • Your level of faith is revealed in your willingness to pray. When you pray you build on his strength, when you don’t pray you build on your strength.

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Weekly / Bi-Monthly Leadership Gathering

  • 1 can take a hundred, 2 can take a thousand.
    • The size of your church is connected to your ability to do the following:
      • make disciples
      • turn them into fishers of men
      • establish them into their call
      • send them into impossible assignments
  • Every pastor falls into the trap of doing. Every day you have a choice to be Mary or Martha.
    • Your time is best spent at the feat of Jesus, and then giving that fruit to the ones closest to you.
    • You will not grow if you are doing everything. If you do nothing, they will do nothing. If you do everything, they will do nothing. If you do some, and invite others to help, they will start to do something.
Defining Church