Planning failure

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Over the last 20 centuries Christians have announced 1,500 global plans to evangelize the world. Most of those plans failed.

The 250 plans that focused on the year 2000 fell massively short of stated goals.

So what do we do now? We put aside our past failures and begin working on our 2020 plans. After that our 2050 plans. To be followed by 2100 plans.

I’m securing the rights to the book title and website for “Reaching the world by AD3000″.

Meanwhile, what could we learn from our planning failures? What could we learn from the unexpected breakthroughs in world missions that took us all by surprise in our vain attempts to engineer what God is up to?

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  1. By Momentum Magazine | Learning from failure on 24 June, 2008 at 10:48 PM

    [...] Steve Addison wrote about our planning for failure. I remember many years back giving a talk–which was not well received at all, I have to [...]

  2. By Transition » Blog Archive » Learning From Failure on 20 January, 2009 at 8:38 AM

    [...] Today Steve Addison wrote about our planning for failure. I remember many years back giving a talk–which was not well received at all, I have to admit–about “planning for failure.” Many of the Americans in the audience felt that I did not have enough faith and power, but it was probably my own failure–to communicate–that caused them to miss the point. We have to experiment, to be willing to fail, if we are to succeed. In other words, it is small failures that keep big failures from happening. [...]

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