Saddleback Launches New Plan to Multiply Their Global Impact
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- Posted on: Mon, October 22, 2007
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According to an article at The Christian Post...
“One of the most important words in the Christian life [is] ‘go,’” said Rick Warren, founding and senior pastor of Saddleback, during his “Multiplying Our Impact” sermon series last month. “The Christian life is a journey and over and over again God says you are to go. We are not a passive faith; you are a ‘going’ faith.”
Thousands of Saddleback congregants and staff have been on the move to open a campus in Corona and Irvine late this year and early 2008. Two pastors have already been picked out of the Saddleback staff to lead the sites, which will have their own live worship music and video feed from the main Lake Forest campus. The campuses will host smaller congregations of 400 to 600 people.
Matt McGill, pastor of regional campuses for Saddleback, calls the expansion “decentralized congregations” rather than the popular term “multi-site” which more churches are venturing into.
“We clearly are looking at this strategy as one church meeting in decentralized locations to be most effective in reaching those communities for Christ,” said McGill.
“Our shift to a regional approach is not about making worship more convenient for our members or emptying seats from our Lake Forest campus,” he noted. “We’re making this shift to empower our people for evangelism and to reach new communities in the name of Jesus.”
The expansion, called the 10x10 vision, also includes 10,000 small groups in homes, work, school and on the Internet and 1 million personal invitations given out by church members.
Answering critics of the multi-site approach, which has become the next big thing for effective outreach, McGill said there will always be critics of any new methodology but methodologies must always change in order to be as effective as possible in the generation we live, he commented. But the message in the church, meanwhile, never changes.
You can read more of Saddleback’s vision here at The Christian Post...
Within the next three years, Saddleback Church aims to launch nine new off-site campuses in addition to its San Clemente campus, which meets every weekend at the local high school, and step up its global P.E.A.C.E. plan. By 2010, Saddleback hopes to see 10,000 more lives changed and baptized. That's just part of the plan recently released...
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Ducati Fairings on Wed, September 24, 2008
Just curious about themethod to reach people, Is the building of more churches the way to offer salvation to people?
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I personally don’t think you can give personal attention to 400 or 600 people in one congregation, but maybe 70, then you would be able to do it.
persol 2761 on Thu, October 09, 2008
As a preacher of the word I dont know any other system that works better than person to person conversation.
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Yep, although nowadays with Internet people can get religious information at home too.
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I would say that old school is better to transmit God’s word to others
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Preaching the word on the streets.
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Saddleback Launches New Plan to Multiply Their Global Impact———Sound good!
Fiona on Tue, June 02, 2009
One of the most important words in the football game is “run”. So I like NFL jersey more than churches. I like running, but I would not like to go.
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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
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There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, ‘It all depends on me.’
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