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Why You Should Conduct a Unified Campaign

Years ago I read a book where Juan Carlos Ortiz mocked the way we do church and wondered why people don’t change:

• We go to Sunday school and study Jeremiah.
• We hear a sermon on the second coming.
• We come back Sunday night where our mind shifts to follow the sermon on Ephesians.
• In our quiet time, we are reading the Proverbs.
• We come back Wednesday night to hear a devotional on prayer.

Juan Carlos Ortiz was ahead of his time. He dreamed of day where 40 day campaigns were common place and sermon based groups were all the rage.

I was talking to my friend, Steve Reynolds, about sermon based groups the other day. His fear was that people would get bored discussing the same topic that he preached on. (His church also provides growth guides so that can people can orient their quiet time around the same topic.) Steve said repetitiveness has not been a problem at all. He said people love it. By discussing the same thing they are reading and hearing from the pulpit, they feel their spiritual growth has sky-rocketed.

We plan to have four campaigns for you to choose from this Fall:

• After Life, by Brandon Park. (The book is now available on Amazon; Good Question study in progress.) The chapter on Hell is haunting and worth the price of the book. The chapter on Heaven has insights I have never heard, although they are in the Bible that I have been studying my whole life.
• Changed, by Johnny Hunt. (Book should release July 1.)
• Wise Up, by Steve Reynolds. (Shooting for August 1 release.)
• Rooted, by Brad Whitt. (September release.)

For each of these books, here is what you will find:

• Original sermons for you to listen, add further research, personalize, and preach. You are encouraged to adapt the original sermons to your style and personality. Let the Holy Spirit flow His Word through you.
• Books. I am taking the sermons, adding my own research, and reverse-engineering a book. By publishing through Amazon’s Createspace, we will be able to keep the price as low as possible—under $10. This will make them affordable to your whole church. Kindle version of After Life is $4.
• Good Questions. I will be writing Good Questions for you to use in your groups. These will provide quotes from the best writers in print today. For the After Life book, I bought every book I could find on Heaven and Hell. I will do the same with Changed and every other book.

The dream is to provide a unified educational experience where people can read a book on their own, hear a sermon that is complementary, and study the topic in a group. Each experience will be complementary to the other, without duplicating the same content exactly.

For more on this, you might take a look at Larry Osborne's fine book, Sticky Church.