For more than 10 years I have been trying to renovate my house but cracks in the walls keep appearing and no matter how many times I fix the doors they will not shut!  The problem was that ¾ of the house had a sand foundation and ¼ was on clay.  The pylons were only put in the ground about 6 inches and there is a spring beside the house!  For 10 years I have tried to fix it from the top down.  I failed and it has cost me tens of thousands of dollars. I realised that there was no way around it I had to dig out the foundations and do it from the ground up.

The two most important days in your life are the day that you were born and the day you find out why!

(Mark Twain)

You were born to glorify God and to expand the Kingdom.  You were born to bring everyone you love and care about safely to Him.  You were born to show people how much God loves them even if you are yet to know them!

You were born to know just how much He loves you!  He put others in your life to do the same for you!

If  You Keep Doing What You Have Always Been Doing, 

In AIM or T4T training we often refer to the 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 training method and that always includes “Vision Casting” at some point in the first 1/3 of a session. We often get asked for vision casting stories. We often get asked how do we encourage multiplication or why people are not achieving multiplication. The answer is usually simple.

Ever been told you can’t do that? What would you know?

A good tree can not help but produce good fruit! Under the right conditions anyone can try to produce fruit no matter how small or young.

A long time ago Dave M shared this concept of how to explain the gospel simply. Since then it has been tweaked and reformed often to suit the target audience.

Here is the classic “3x Circles Gospel Presentation” but with a more complete explanation than usual.

You can get what you need and ditch the rest.

For example instead of a full explanation of what baptism is you could just say that “you need to get washed clean” or similar.

Communist dictator Joseph Stalin is credited with the quote, "The death of one is a tragedy. The death of a million is just a statistic."

While many people may be shocked at both the quote and the person who said it, there is indeed some truth about this saying which teaches us something about the way we perceive lostness. In most countries today, over 90 percent of the population do not have a living relationship with Jesus. Millions upon millions of people are on a collision course with eternity and will perish--yet to most of us, this is merely a statistic!

(Supplied by Stan)

"I would like to ask you 6 Quick Questions:" (Stopping whenever they feel uncomfortable. Don’t comment on any answer they give, just listen to them patiently and move down the list.)

“If God could do a miracle today for you or your family, what would it look like?”

(For more Icebreakers you can search the term “icebreaker”)

This is particularly good if you are forced to work with a group and not an individual. A real challenge sometimes. It seems especially good with pre-teenage and teenage boys or young men.

(Please go with prayer coverage and be sensible about your safety.  It is always better two by two.)

Here’s how it works:

Introduce yourself and ask them if they want to play a simple game. The game gets harder as it goes on but so do the rewards.