Home David Mays updated August 2010
Writings
Making Your Life
Count (Sunday
morning message, 30 minutes)
What is the Bible All
About? (Sunday morning
message, 25 minutes)
Where is God? (Sunday morning message, 25 minutes)
Shooting Sacred Cows (Keynote for Harvest
Gathering, 35 minutes)
Challenging three
common notion in missions
Biblical Foundations for a
Missions Strategy
How do you put it
together?
Three key elements
The scope of their
burdens
Four Key Criteria for Missionary
Support
Whole Life Mentoring
Mission
Trips – What Are We Doing?
One tool in the missions enterprise or the whole caboodle?
Missional
Church – Budgets and Scorecards Part I
Establishing mission categories and setting
priorities
Missions: Foundation Fractures in the North
American Church
Four pressures on
missions
A dozen key
foundational verses
Correcting three
common misconceptions in missions
Is being "one of
ours" the only criteria?
The Coming Missionary ‘Crisis’
Where are the trends
taking us?
The Domestication of the Great Commission
Is "make
disciples" the core?
The Expanding Scope of Missions
What happens when
missions includes everything?
The Great Commission-Driven Church
What would it look
like?
What happened to
"the nations" in the Great Commission?
Top Missions Challenges for
the Changing US Church
Six key challenges
What
Belongs in the Missions Budget?
What is Missions
– And Why does it Matter?
How scope and progress are related
Everyone who loves
God or a special category of people?
The Bible is a story
with a beginning, middle and end.
Why Mission Organizations Should Expect to Keep
Tightening Their Belts
The increasing cost of church reduces
available funds.
World Evangelism and the Purpose of the Church
Where does it fit?
Becoming A
World Changing Church
What it would look like and what it would take to
organize your church around the Great Commission.
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Leading Your Church in
Missions: The Effective Mission Leadership Team
A new guide book for the mission team
Accountability Questions
for Men in Ministry
A collection of accountability questions
with suggestions for their use.
Changing Missions Dynamics:
How the church,
people, and missions are changing
Church Missions
Budgets - 2009:
How churches are responding to the economy
Compassion Without
Strings:
Is our heart for eternity keeping
pace?
Critical roles of a missions pastor
Funding Local Ministries:
Should it come from the missions
budget?
How Does a Visitor Know Your
Church’s Priorities?
How to Start a Missions Ministry:
Beginning with
"why"
The
Minimum Factor:
What is limiting your missions
effectiveness?
Missions Ministry Orientation:
Purpose & Task or Relationships & Compassion?
Missions Priorities in
Contemporary Churches:
Nine possibilities
Missions Questions to Ask senior
Pastor Candidates
when you want a
pastor who will lead in missions
Ten
Main Things
To guide your missions
ministry
Ten Steps to an Effective Mission
Trip
The
Image and Substance of Missions: Three Critical Issues
Weighed in the Balance:
A dozen priorities to balance
What is the Best Way to Fund
Missions in Our Church?
What Shapes Your Missions
Ministry?
Ten possible factors
Will You Support Us?
Responding to requests outside your focus
areas
Finding Your Niche in Missions
What is Missions and Why Does
It Matter?
A Visit to the Rescue
Mission
Why do we ignore the people's who have no
spiritual food?
Building the Church
How we approach building the Kingdom
compared to how we build a church building?
Coaching
Putting all our emphasis on trips is like
coaching only sprinters.
Do As I Say...
Do church people use their funds like church
leaders do?
Farming
Do we farm all our fields or only the one
next to the house?
Feeding
the Hungry
How should we balance our efforts between
people who have no food and those who refuse to eat?
Fishing
The local lakes are all fished out, but there
are plenty of fish further away.
Go-Karts and Power
Steering
You can go off the road on either side,
neglecting people nearby or far away.
Measuring
Results
The track of metrics goes in a circle.
Missionary Vehicle
If you could attract nationals to Jesus with
a Hummer limo, would it be a good idea?
Buildings and giving
Selling Pepsi
The Pepsi guy didn't build the building or
organize the show, but he's delivering Pepsi.
What can the church learn from that?
The Dream
Don't give up hope. A missionary will come.
Three Great Ideas and How
They Grew
How buildings can limit growth