BPCES Church Planning retreat briefing

Does it really make any difference year after year to this church even if we don’t have any planning retreat?

After last Sunday (4 Oct) briefing by Pastor, which was more like assigning what job to which people (hope I am wrong), I feel like “here we go again, looking for people to get things going”. The church is like going on a “maintenance mode”.

We have nearly come to an end of year 2009. But, do we see any transformation of people lives? Do we see more people getting more eager to know God – Bible study, talking about spiritual things, … Do we see more care and concern for one another? Do we see an increase in church attendance? Or do we see more slackers, more people not coming for BSG, same old people doing the “job of the church”?

The answer is - yes, and no to some extent.

Which boil down to one thing more personal to me (since I am being appointed to be the BSG coordinator), have we achieved what we want to see in the BSG in 2009?

Sorry, ah, what is the objective for the BSG in 2009? (forget already lah!)

Ok, in 2008 BSG planning retreat, I talk about this:

It has been said:
A leader is a person with a magnet in his heart and a compass in his head.
- Vance Hainer.

If this is true for a leader, then,
A Christian leader is a person with a Cross in his heart and a Bible in his head.
- Mark Lim

(1) Have our BSG leaders develop the Cross Mentality?
(2) Have they grown in the knowledge and love for the Word of God?
(3) Have we found the “Mary” – who have a heart to learn, the “Martha” – who have a heart to serve, the “Lazarus” – spiritually dead or lethargic but can be made alive ; the “Zacchaeus”, the “Bartimaeus”


Think about these 3 questions as we move into year 2010.