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The Purpose Driven Church

by Rick Warren

Rick Warren, the Saddleback Church, and The Purpose Driven Church have arguable influenced my ministry more than any other single influence. The week I spent at the Saddleback Church Growth Conference absolutely changed my life.  I have listened to one hundred or more tapes by Rick and have been blessed by all of them. It is my privilege to invite you to grab 6 - 10 of your minister buddies and study The Purpose Driven Church.  Even if you have been to the seminar and read the book, I believe you will be changed through a small group discussion of this classic book.

• Lesson One
• Lesson Two
• Lesson Three
• Lesson Four
• Lesson Five
• Lesson Six
• Lesson Seven

Virtual.Seminary
Core Values

• The goal of the Virtual.Seminary is to teach pastors to grow churches.
• 20 million Southern Baptists attending Sunday School by the year 2020.
• Double the number of God worshipers at all churches by the year 2020.
• Continue to double the percentage of Christians vss overall population every 20 years.
• Everything rises and falls on leadership. If we are to realize the goals above, it will be because we improve the quality of leadership in our churches.
• There is a fundamental flaw in the way we train leaders in that our training tends to be all top-down, lecture oriented. We need to combine this top-down approach with an interactive model.
• Success is in the details. It is not in the broad principles of church growth; it is in the details implementation of the principles.
• The need of the hour is not just content delivery and skill building. We also need encouragement and love.
• We believe in the local autonomy of Virtual.Seminary groups.
• Virtual.Seminary groups should be growing, inviting, including, multiplying, growing, multiplying groups.
• There is more to church growth than church growth. Five key study areas for the Virtual.Seminary include
• Church Growth
• People skills
• Preaching & Communication
• Leadership
• Spiritual development
• The goal beyond the goal is to create not only bigger churches, but better churches.
• The goal beyond the goal is not only to grow churches but to transform a culture.