Church PLANT Manual

96 • Church PLANT Manual

PWR PREPARE

• Pray (Discover his plan.) • Set context (God is God of history.) • Clarify the values and vision. • Develop alternatives (Don’t go with the first, most obvious answer.) • Set priorities (Don’t just try all the alternatives.) • Make assignments (Don’t leave people guessing about the specifics of their assignment.) WORK (Stop talking and start doing.) • Be bold; innovate. • Friction: things seldom go as planned. • Better to execute a poor plan than poorly execute a great plan. • Be creative (Matt. 25:14-30). • Two extremes: rigidity and lack of discipline. REVIEW (Don’t assume what you did was effective.) • Make half-time adjustments (Sanballat, Cornelius, Gideon, Macedonian vision). • Check the fruit (John 15:2). • “The most important part of any mission is the debrief.” • Be reflective. “Poverty and disgrace come to him who ignores instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is honored. . . . Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence” (Prov. 13:18; 15:32). • Celebrate!