Managing Projects for Ministry

Session 1: Defining the Nature of Project Management

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b. Ps. 115.3 – Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.

2. The counsel of the Lord alone is the counsel that will stand, Ps. 33.11 – The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations.

3. God is determined to accomplish his purpose for his own glory and honor, Isa. 46.10 – . . . declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, “My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose.”

B. Project management is a way of collaborating with God, the Holy Spirit, to see the will of God done in a particular enterprise.

1. Laborers are collaborators and co-workers with God in the accomplishment of his will for his glory, 1 Cor. 3.5-9 – What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. [6] I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. [7] So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. [8] He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. [9] For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.

2. Godly project management will always acknowledge God’s unique and final role in all ministry endeavors, 2 Cor. 6.1 – Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

3. Without a direct and Spirit-aided connection to the person, word, and will of Jesus Christ, no activity will be fruitful to advance the kingdom of God, 1 Cor. 3.10-11 – According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled