Managing Projects for Ministry

Session 2: The Constraints and Benefits of Project Management 41

3. How might God want to expand your horizons beyond the limits of your time and present resources to accom- plish new things for the Kingdom of God where you are?

B. Review carefully the benefits of project management for your church and organization.

1. To what extent can you incorporate the management of projects into your own strategic ministry vision?

2. What steps will you need to take in order to make managing projects a viable and important part of your ministry management strategy?

C. Dare to dream about the kinds of results, impacts, and transformations God wants you to accomplish, and set goals to attain them.

1. Accept your finiteness, but do not be overcome by it.

a. Our futures are uncertain, Prov. 27.1 – Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

b. We are utterly aware of our own insufficiencies and problems, 2 Cor. 3.5 – Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God.

c. It is hard to know what activities and initiatives done at what time will bring forth the greatest amount of fruit, 2 Cor. 6.2 – For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.