Matt Rasch has served as an Every Nation Ministries
campus missionary in Innsbruck, Austria and Budapest, Hungary. He is
now in the process of planting a new church in Marseilles, France. To
earn his Fuller Seminary degree he is writing a paper called “The
Hedgehog Concept” based on the bestselling book, Good to Great by Jim Collins.
Matt asked me to help him finish his paper by answering these three questions:
1. What can our organization be the best in the world at?
2. What drives our economic engine?
3. What are we deeply passionate about?
This blog will take a quick stab at the first question:
What can our organization be the best in the world at?
In
order to answer that question, we must first know exactly what our
organization IS, not what we DO. Our organization, Every Nation, does a lot of different ministry activities – church planting,
cross-cultural missions, campus ministry, military outreach, social justice, orphanages, stopping child trafficking, AIDS care, feeding the hungry, after school programs for at-risk kids, and the list goes on and on and on.
It is easy to confuse what we do with what we are.
What we do is determined by what we are. Every Nation IS a movement of churches that are united together TO DO church planting, campus ministry and world missions.
We ARE a group of churches. We DO church planting, campus ministry and world missions.
So, back to Matt’s first question - what can we be the best at?
I think we can be best at planting new churches that reach the campus, that do world missions and that plant other churches.
Some
churches only want to reach their city - that’s not us. While we want
to reach our cities, we can’t stop there. We must plant churches in
other cites. But we can’t stop there either. We must do world missions.
If we plant churches that do not reach the campus, that do not
reach the world and that do not plant new churches, then we are not
being our best.
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