Daniel Floyd

TURN UP THE VOLUME

What is the loudest volume in your life and ministry?

I have learned something over the past couple of weeks. If you don't turn up the volume on the right things, others will turn up the volume on the wrong things. As the senior leader it's your responsibility to keep the volume UP on the vision. As you grow and add complexity many things will seek to take center stage but it's our job to continue to turn UP the volume of the vision.

The difficult part is that some of the things competing for time and attention are good. They are outreach programs and care programs and the latest great group strategy but if they don't increase the volume of the vision then turn them down and turn the volume UP on the vision. (it will go to 11 - that's for you movie buffs)

YOU START BEFORE YOU START (CAPITAL CAMPAIGN LEARNINGS)

Two Sunday's ago we finished our first of, what I'm sure, will be many capital campaigns. We learned a lot and experience the power of God in so many amazing ways. So, I wanted to share some helpful learnings this week.

Lesson #1 - You start before you start! After crunching the numbers with our consultant we arrived at an initial goal of 1.5 million, which would have been a stretch for us. Especially considering we didn't have a "real project". No building we wanted to build, no property we had our eye on to buy. We simply challenged our church to give towards the vision of "reaching people far from God". To give towards placing us in the best position possible to move on whatever door God opened. To say we were fighting an uphill battle is an understatement.

But you start before you start and we saw the fruit of this big time when 100 of our leaders, two weeks before "commitment Sunday", made their commitments totaling over 1.5 million. This is the fruit of a culture of TRUST. See, long before we ever started an official capital campaign we were creating equity with our leaders. We were coming through on promises made; we were the first to call ourselves out when we blew it. We were proving ourselves trustworthy. So, when the time came to raise 1.5 million as a church with no "real project" 100 of our leaders stepped up and positioned us in a place to experience the unthinkable.

Are you building TRUST? 

Are you following through on promises made with your leaders and your volunteers? 

Are you the first to call yourself out when you blow it or do you hope it gets overlooked? 

Because you start before you start.

INCREASED REVELATION

Love this time of the year!! Time with family, breaking out the Christmas decorations, and plenty of food!!

But it also causes me to stop and realize how good God has been to me. I call it a period of increasing my REVELATION which will increase my APPRECIATION. When I step back and look, God gives me REVELATION of all the blessing I have in recieved. This increased REVELATION in turn increase my APPRECIATION for God's goodness, family, career, friends, etc...which increase my REVELATION of how good God has been to me. (you get the idea)

So may you during this season have increased REVELATION!!

Happy Thanksgiving, friends!

MINISTRY COST MONEY

I know this is not a new revelation for anyone. Obviously, it takes money to operate a growing ministry or a ministry of any sort. However, I have learned somethings about this on a whole new level. This past Sunday we announced the total amount of commitments towards our capital campaign called Accelerate. Through this process God has taught me some things that I want to share with you. So, starting next week I will spend the week sharing some thoughts on raising capital to advance the kingdom. Hope you'll check it out!

WHAT 3 THINGS....

There is a question that has challenged me as of late. Here it is:

"What 3 things could I do, in the next six months, that would allow me to carry 

the ball farther down the field?"

These are the 3 things that if I were to invest my energies in would advance our church, elevate our staff, accelerate our vision.

What are the 3 things for you? 3 things that would advance your career, bring your family closer together, or accelerate your financial position in the next 6 months? Take some time today to answer this question yourself, create a strategy to attack them and then get busy carrying the ball farther down the field in every area of your life.

Ed Young: I'VE SAID SOME THINGS I WISH I COULD TAKE BACK!

UNLEASH CONFERENCE 2009

If you are a volunteer or volunteer leader in any capacity at Lifepoint this is for you!!

March 11th and 12th we are going to Anderson, SC to Newspring Church for a one day conference. You give of your time, your energy, your resources each week to the vision of this church and we want to spend two days investing you. We will leave Fredericksburg on Wednesday stay over night in SC and attend the conference on Thursday. The cost is $50 per person for 4 to a room OR $75 per person with 2 to a room. You will also be responsible for 3 meals while on the road.

Spaces have been filling up extremely fast so get registered today!! We only have 54 spots!! Email Jeremy for a registration form!!

Dates: March 11th and 12th

Cost: $50 for 4 to a room (+ 3 meals) or $75 for 2 to a room (+ plus three meals)

Benefit: God speaking to you and taking you to a whole new level (+ a bus ride with some of your favorite people :)

PERRY NOBLE AND TONY MORGAN

Today at 3:00 pm TonyMorganLive will be hosting a live webcast with Perry Noble. If you are interested check it out here.

DEAD PIGS

So, Jesus commanded the demons to go into the pigs and then they ran off a steep cliff and died. Result: two men freed from demon possession - hallelujah - or if your the owner of the pigs - a bunch of dead pigs.

For most people that day this was an amazing - men that were known to be demon possessed had just been set free by this man named Jesus. However, I imagine that not everyone was thrilled with what took place, especially the owner of the pigs.

The same is true for you - not everyone will be thrilled when Jesus set's you free because it affects their world.

Maybe Jesus set's you free and you stop sleeping with him or her.

Maybe Jesus set's you free and you stop gossiping with her or him (yes, men gossip).

Maybe Jesus set's you free and you stop enabling negativity and critical thinking.

Not everyone will be happy but YOU WILL BE FREE!

THE BIBLE IN A YEAR

Join me in reading the Bible through this year - www.youversion.com