Managing Projects for Ministry

36 Manag i ng Pro j ec t s for Mi n i s t r y

a. Isa. 43.7 – Everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.

b. 1 Pet. 2.9 – But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

c. John 15.16 – You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

D. The implications of constraints

1. Constraints determine the scope of the project (i.e., its size and breadth).

2. Constraints define the quality of the output (“matching brick counts with straw availability”).

3. Constraints provide the limits of our enterprise (i.e., constraints function similarly to rules in a game ).

4. Constraints provoke creative and flexible engagement (i.e., the Apollo 13 crisis).

II. The Benefits of Project Management

Prov. 24.6 – For by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.