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Evaluating Risk

Risks are not to be evaluated in terms of the probability of success, but in the value of the goal.

Shoot for a star

"It's better to shoot for a star and hit a mountain peak, than to aim for a mud puddle and hit it every time."

Goal = A Dream with a Deadline

?A goal is nothing but a dream with a deadline.? (Basketball coach Pat Riley, in Robb Report, p. 74)

Could Your Plans Be Fulfilled Naturally?

?You should have plans for your spiritual life that couldn?t possibly be fulfilled without a supernatural act of God.? (Jack Murray)

Pilot has Good and Bad News

I heard the story of a pilot who announced to his passengers: ?I?ve got some bad news and some good news: The bad news is that we?re lost. The good news is that we?re making great time.? Without goals, zeal may get you nowhere.

An 86-year-old with 10 year goals

Christian educator Howard Hendricks shared of spunky old lady who refused to stop growing. He remembers a party, where people were standing around making small talk and she quickly tired of it all. So she comes up to him and asks, "Hendricks, what are the best five books you have read lately? Let's not bore each other. Let's discuss something, or argue." I believe it was on her 86th birthday that she died in her sleep. The lady's daughter asked Hendricks to come to the house, wanting to show him something. It seems that before she went to bed that last night, she had written out her goals for what she wanted to accomplish in the next ten years. That's the way I want to go - not coasting to a stop, but pressing on toward the goal. ? Copyright 2002 Steve Miller - All Rights Reserved

The Need For Goals

Do you have specific goals in life? The book, The One Minute Manager, asks why an employee may be highly motivated to bowl, but bored with his job. His answer? Because at work, no one has clued him in as to where the pins are. Since the managers have left the goals too vague, the worker finds himself bowling at pins that are hidden behind a sheet. He throws the ball, and hears the crash of some pins, but has no idea how many fell. No one plays golf on an unlit course at night. Why? Because if you can't see the green or the flag, you'll never know how well you did. (Reworded from The One Minute Manager). When you take the time to write specific goals for yourself, or help your family to write their specific goals, you make the game of life more fun. (Idea: This would make a great object lesson. Get some plastic bowling pins and a ball. Set a sheet in front and let students bowl. Then do it without the sheet. Ask which is more fun and why? Then ask how this would apply to an evangelistic strategy, or piano practice. Or, turn off the lights, give a student a putter and ask him to put for a taped-off area.) ? Copyright 2002 Steve Miller - All Rights Reserved

Goals and Church Growth

"The number one requirement for having real church growth - unlimited church growth - is to set goals." (Rev. Paul Yongg Cho, pastor or largest church in the world, in Korea, quoted from "Strategies for Church Growth," by C. Peter Wagner.)

God and Giants

If our God is big, our giants are small. If our God is small, our giants are big. We look at a giant and say, "He's too big to kill." David looked at a giant and said, "He's too big to miss."

Movie Clip: Mission Difficult or Mission Impossible?

According to God?s Word, we have a power working inside of us that is beyond anything we could ask or think. In light of that, are you asking God to help you accomplish only things that you could expect to do in your own power? Or, are you learning to trust God to use you beyond the humanly possible? In the movie ?Mission: Impossible II,? in a discussion between Anthony Hopkins and Tom Cruise about the difficulty of the assignment, Hopkins reminds Cruise,?It?s not Mission: Difficult, Mr. Hunt?it?s Mission: Impossible.? Have you ever prayed through a mission for your life? Is your personal mission something that could be accomplished with your own human effort (either ?Mission: Easy? or ?Mission:Difficult?), or something that could be accomplished only through the power of God? (?Mission: Impossible?)? ? Copyright 2002 Steve Miller - All Rights Reserved

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