Exponential Idiot's Outline

For those attending my session at Exponential (Wednesday morning, 8 am) - here's the outline:

AN IDIOT'S GUIDE TO IDIOTIC CHURCH PLANTING

God’s Way

Acts 4:13, “When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.”

1 Corinthians 4:9For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like men condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to men. 10We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, we are dishonored! 11To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. 12We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; 13when we are slandered, we answer kindly. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world. 14I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you, as my dear children. 15Even though you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. 16Therefore I urge you to imitate me.”

The Forefront Example

Three Paths to Help You Find Your Dream & Vision

First: The Ancient Path

Second: The Mystic’s Path

Third: The Entrepreneur’s Path.
(Blue Ocean Strategy, W. Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne)

Four key questions to challenge an industry’s strategic logic & business model:

1. Which of the factors that the industry takes for granted should be eliminated?


2. Which factors should be reduced well below the industry’s standard?


3. Which factors should be raised well above the industry’s standard?


4. Which factors should be created that the industry has never offered?

Look across alternative industries

Look across time

God Honors This!

Do You See It?