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You can sign up all of your teachers by emailing me their email addresses: josh@joshhunt.com If you really want to teach a truth, you have to get the message to prime time. Prime time is Sunday morning. It is one thing to teach the teachers how to double using a video class on Wednesday night. Best case scenario: you will get half your teachers (maybe 5% of your overall attendance) to show up half the time. Far better to find a way to get the message to the masses. That is what this video is about. In The FACTS About Doubling Classes, we get the message to prime time. I like to call this series, "I can double your class in two years or less." I would like to literally teach your class for 13 weeks. We will explore these five topics: Faith and Confidence. Doubling classes believe that God is God and He can fulfill every promise he ever made. They believe God can use them to double their classes every two years or less. Able to Get Along with Almost Anyone. Surprise! People like to be around people who are doubling classes. These people are the nicest people on planet earth. We will unlock the secret to getting along with almost anyone. Consistently Successful. Doubling classes have tapped into God's success principles and are consistently successful on the job, at school and in the family. Violate these principles to your own demise. Tenacious, Bulldog Determination. How do you become a person who never quits? We will show you how. Strategy that Works. In this course, we not only teach the TIGER strategy, we teach classes to live it and love it. This course is taught in the interactive format, where I teach some, ask the group to discuss, I teach some, and so forth. Josh, Hey, you asked to let you know when we are creating another new class. [This class started last summer.] The new class starts 2/2/03. There will be 20 people in the new class, leaving about 36 in ours. Yes, we could have done it sooner, but we were waiting on the leader, and the class added 6 new couples in the last two months. Chris Chris Thixton has implemented the double system as well as anyone I know and would be a great motivational speaker for your church around the theme, "We doubled and you can too!" He lives in Ozark, MO.
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I am predicting that Northwest Baptist in Oklahoma City, where I was this last weekend, will double in the next five years or less. But it is not for any of the reasons you might think. It is not because they have a lot of momentum. They don’t. They have been on a plateau for a number of years. Churches are far easier to keep growing than they are to get growing. They don’t have that luxury. They have a long, solid history. But, not a lot of growth momentum. It is not because they have a great location. They don’t. Although they get a lot of drive-by traffic, theirs is a typical mid-city location (not downtown; not suburbs). The people who attend the church, generally speaking, don’t live in the immediate neighborhood and those who do live in the neighborhood don’t perceive it to be their kind of church. It is not because they have a great building. It is a nice building, but probably a bit uppity for the blue color and ethnic neighborhood. It is not because they worked hard at an aggressive visitation program, although they did. They had forty to fifty teams–count them–one hundred and fifty people out knocking on doors for two solid years with very little results. It is not because they spent money on advertising, although, again, they did. About $50,000 on advertising, mostly billboards. Again, they did not see much difference. It is not because they have started a new contemporary congregation. Although the congregation is doing well with 150 or so in attendance, it has not affected overall attendance very much. This is a new venture for them, and they have just improved the location and called a new worship leader who has raised the music to a new level. The service is hot. I think it will do well. Still this is not the reason I am predicting they will double. It is not because of the myriad of aggressive, creative programs they have done. Things like. . . Nope, none of those things are the reason why I am predicting Northwest will double. None of these things have gotten them the results they want yet. (Sometimes it takes a while for the seed to grow.) I am predicting Northwest will double for a different reason. I predict Northwest Baptist will double because the have an attitude that says, “We must double” and “We will keep trying till we figure out how to double.” The gospel is powerful. The fields are white. God is good. He still saves. He is looking for a people that really want their groups to double and are willing to try and fail and try and fail and try and fail. It is called persistence. This attitude is demonstrated in all the things they are willing to try. But it is not these things, necessarily, that will cause them to grow. It is the attitude behind these things. Some leaders are looking for one silver bullet that will make ministry easy. Maybe it is direct mail, or a seeker service or a new visitation program. More likely it will never be easy. But, with persistence, we can double our classes every two years or less. We can double our churches every five years or less. We can double the Church in the next 20 years. Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. 1 Cor. 15:58 (NIV) | |||
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