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155. The Seed Will Be Financially Autonomous

I’ve mentioned many times that The Seed is undergoing many changes. We have more adults than youth now, and many university students have started working. In anticipation of this change continuing, our leadership team submitted last year to KSC leadership the proposal of The Seed becoming financially autonomous. After many presentations and meetings, the plan has passed officially as of last Sunday. As a result, the Seed will begin to manage its finance starting from next year. It means that…

100. Revised Mission Statement

Starting today, we are adding two more words to our mission statement: “fully devoted”. So here is our new mission statement. ”To lead people to become fully devoted followers of Jesus. And here is the reason for the change and I hope this will add more clarity about what this means. If “vision” gives you a preferred future, mission gives clarity of what we are supposed to be doing to see the vision come to reality. Our vision is to…

94. Don’t invite Other Christians

I’ve already explained in the previous blog post (Read #41 on the website) why our church doesn’t accept Christians from other churches in GTA as members. To reiterate, we believe Jesus called his followers to reach out to those who are far from God. We want our church to grow with growing numbers of non-Christians coming to know Christ, not with other Christians joining our church. Therefore, to cut straight to the point, please do not invite other Christians to…

61. A clear goal for house church

One pastor said, “default mode of any organization is complacency, not urgency”. To simply put it, people naturally want to maintain the “present reality” and instinctively repel “new reality”. To avoid this, defining a clear mission and putting all effort to move toward that mission is required. To achieve a mission, you need a set of concrete goals. Because the mission is often very big and it is hard to measure if it is being fulfilled or not. So having…

41. When a believer wants to join The Seed

Our mission is to save the lost and make them disciples of Christ. You might wonder, “Isn’t every church committed to that mission?” In reality, many churches are not reaching out to the unchurched nonbelievers in order to grow their churches. Instead, many often grow their churches by accepting Christians who come from other churches. This is called transfer growth. Since attendance went up, it might look like there is growth on the surface. However, there is no net gain…

37. Without intentionality comes drift

Jennifer and I just celebrated the 9th-year anniversary of our marriage. Our tradition is pretty simple: eating steak at KEG (we are both meat lovers!) and go out for a walk with coffee (must item for Jen!) or watch a movie together. As we were spending the night together, we were both grateful about how our relationships grew over the years but were also surprised how fast time went by in our marriage. As we were talking, we both felt…