Here are the notes from yesterday’s message at New Life Community Church. The message was entitled “Innovation” and is the third is the series IMAGINE. If you would like to listen to this message you may do as by going to our website at www.newlifesite.com. God bless!
Imagine, Part 3 Sunday, January 20, 2013
“Innovation”
1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:1-2 (NIV)
Imagine.
Dreams, Visions, Calling of what God can and will accomplish through us.
INSPIRATION
REVELATION
Now INNOVATION
Definition of INNOVATION
Innovation is:
NEED + KNOWLEDGE + PROCESS.
But God adds another element. It is the creative power of the Holy Spirit to bring about something new.
Innovation means doing it.
Definition:
1. the introduction of something new
2. a new idea, method, or device
The process of translating an idea or invention into a good or service that creates value or for which customers will pay.
- “Innovation is creativity with a job to do:” John Emmerling
- Innovation is people creating value by implementing new ideas
- The starting point for innovation is the generation of creative ideas. Innovation is the process of taking those ideas to market or to usefulness
10 And in this I give advice: It is to your advantage not only to be doing what you began and were desiring to do a year ago; 11 but now you also must complete the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to desire it, so there also may be a completion out of what you have. II Corinthians 8:10-11 (NKJV)
Vision produces PURPOSE produces a PLAN
There must be a time for action.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” — Theodore Roosevelt