Five ways to describe him: Visionary. Gifted communicator. Committed to Christ. Passionate about his family. And as normal as your next door neighbor (but only if that’s a good thing). What he does for Granger: No, not everything. He’s the first to admit that. Instead, he focuses on the areas in which he excels (have you heard him speak?) and gives Granger’s leadership team the freedom and encouragement to do what they do best, without micromanaging them. In 1986, Mark and his wife, Sheila, planted the seeds of Granger Community Church in their living room, with fewer than 10 people. Their dream was to reach out to those who weren’t currently attending church for whatever reason and share the truth that they mattered to God. And though it began without fanfare, Granger flourished at a phenomenal rate to become one of the top 30 fastest growing churches in the country.
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- When you pray, ask for God’s help so you can live to bring Heaven to earth.
- We (as the Church) talk too much and do too little.
- Stop debating – start doing!
- What should motivate the Church is the awareness that there is a real world in real need.
- If you don’t change your course you are going to crash into a mess and it will
hurt, bad. - Stop talking. Start doing.
- Balance is static, it’s not leaning. If you want to make progress, you have to lean.
- When you lean in, you need to have the right people around you to catch you.
- There is a ‘mess’ in front of a lot of people and unless we act they will be hurt.
- God has not called anyone else to do what He has called YOU to do. There’s no “Plan B.”
- We are in a culture that wants to see something happen.
- We are required to use story and image to picture the truth and translate the
message of the Gospel to our culture. - The Gospel is Good News for RIGHT NOW.
- We have to boil the truth down and communicate it clearly.
- Make it brief enough for people to receive it.
- Something incredible happens when the natural and the supernatural collide.
- We must immediately diagnose reality.
- We are sometimes so removed from poverty that we lose the urgency.
- We must immediately diagnose reality.
