March 10, 2010

IN THIS ISSUE:

Leadership Forum

Argentina Summit

Tune Up Your Preaching!

Train Online

Pastoral Coaching

5 MILLION NEW CHURCHES – 1 BILLION SOULS

This week, leaders from around the world address servant leadership at the National Leadership Forum at Southeastern University

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James O. Davis’ twin brother, James L. Davis, is the director of The Leadership Forum and Vice President of Southeastern

Dear Visionary Leader,

Key global thinkers and leaders continue to build bridges to every gate of society, to help fulfill the Great Commission. The Billion Soul Network is pleased to feature those who are training the next generation of leaders. This week, at Southeastern University, some of the most well-known leaders in the world will speak at the National Leadership Forum.

Southeastern’s passion for training servant leaders and to interweave students’ educational experience with exposure to the teachings of world-class leaders, became the catalyst for the first National Leadership Forum in 2007. The Forum is an innovative and creative approach to teaching the servant leadership concept in the academic, business and church communities.

The Leadership Forum this week brings to
Southeastern’s campus former President George Bush, Laura Bush, Brian Houston, Bill Hybels, Craig Groeschel, Tommy Barnett, Marcus Buckingham, Joyce Meyer, Jim Blanchard, Andy Stanley, Erwin McManus, Jim Collins, Mark Floyd, John Kotter, and Patrick Lencioni.

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BILLION SOUL SUMMIT NEXT WEEK IN ARGENTINA
Carlos Belart is senior pastor of Cita con Vida in Cordoba, Argentina. This global-minded church conducts major Sunday services, meeting at 12 different locations simultaneously throughout the city. The average weekly attendance is more than 30,000. Next week, James O. Davis, John Ed Mathison, Jimmy Cornejo and Carlos Belart are meeting with and equipping key pastors from throughout the region.

TUNE UP YOUR PREACHING APRIL 6-8, 2010
The North American Conference on Biblical Preaching is filling up! Only 395 pastors and students will be able to attend this year's gathering, featuring some of the best communicators in the world today. This year's presenters include Kenneth C. Ulmer, Leonard Sweet, Steve Riggle, Walter Kaiser, James O. Davis, Beth Grant, Jim Garlow and Alex Abraham. Each delegate will receive upon arrival The Promise Plan of God by Walter Kaiser, Gutenberg To Google by James O. Davis and the Stephen Olford Collection. Register today!

TRAIN ONLINE AT BILLION.TV!
At www.Billion.tv, global thinkers can find some of the finest training resources in the global Church today. Be sure to take notes on Dr. James Merritt’s course on
“The Process To Powerful Preaching.” Pastor Merritt leads Cross Pointe Church, one of the strongest churches in Atlanta, Georgia. The Billion Soul Network is committed to moving from “The West Going To The Rest” to “The Best Going To Rest”!

Pastoral Coaching

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Do you know the process of developing vision? Do you have a visionary process that moves a minister into multiplication ministry? On a recent weekend, I was fortunate to minister with Pastor Walter Harvey, senior pastor of one of the fastest-growing congregations in the United States, at Parklawn Assembly, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. During our lunch conversation, he shared with me the following insightful, powerful, twelve-step visionary process:

1. Birth Date—The Vision Has To Be Born From Within
2. Subscribe—The Vision Has To Be Owned. The leader reads and studies all the elements relating to the vision.
3. Inscribe—The Vision Must Be Written. The greatest visions are written into short, pungent statements. Short does not mean shallow.
4. Describe—The Vision Must Be Shared With Key Partners.
5. Prescribe—The Vision Must Have Steps For The Involvement Of Partners.
6. Persecution—The Vision Will Be Attacked By Others With Different Agendas.
7. Betrayal—The Vision Will Be Betrayed By Some Who Claim To Be Allies.
8. Death—The Vision Must Die To Be Powerful.
9. Resurrection—The Vision Will Become More Powerful Than Before. Death and resurrection brings greater influence and more results.
10. Provision—The Vision Has Greater Provision Than Ever. People of provision who were watching in the past will begin to give generously for the vision to be fulfilled in this generation.
11. Speaks For Itself—The Vision Now Speaks For Itself. People are now talking about what the vision is accomplishing without the visionary leader doing "all of the communicating."
12. Multiplication—The Vision Has Moved From Addition To Multiplication. All future planning is built upon multiplication thinking and execution for compounding results.

Life is lived in seasons. The ocean has ebbs and flows. Nature has its chain of life. Economies have cycles of growth. Vision has a process of success. I hope you will take the time to ponder and pray over these twelve steps. Read it, write it, keep it, memorize it! The greatest visionary leader of all time, Jesus Christ, was born, persecuted, died, resurrected and multiplied His vision to live eternally. Blessings!

Until The Last Person Has Heard,

James O. Davis
COCHAIR/Global Networking
COFOUNDER/Billion Soul