Network: The Right People...in the Right Places...for the Right Reasons

by Bruce L. Bugbee, Bill Hybels, Don Cousins

Book Overview

The Network Participant's Guide is for your personal journey through Network's Discovery sessions. It contains all the notes and assessments you will need to identify the three elements of your unique... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0310412315
• ISBN13: 9780310412311
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Willow Creek Resources
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Grow Disciples

Network is an amazing system and assessment tool that assists Christians in discovering and applying their spiritual gifts and talents to building God's Kingdom. These materials are definietly the means of growing transformed disciples who will transform the world through dedicated and enthusiastic service in God's Kingdom. This tool provides a three step process: 1) Discovery of an individual's Servant Profile which includes, spiritual gifts, Passion/area of minstry and personal work style, 2) Consultation and 3) Ministry placement. This system provides training modules for Teachers and Consultants and helps a church to define its minitry opportunitues for those looking to become more involved. The Leader's guide provides easy to follow teaching plans and the consultant guide gives the ins and outs of consultations with example phrases and detailed outlines. It provides a complete means of helping an individual understand his or her calling in God's Kingdom!

A practical guide for affirming personal ministry

This is a great guide for the seeker or believer who has a heart to serve and needs a process to explore their personal uniqueness. The servant profile of passion, spiritual gifts and personality is a simple yet effective framework for facilitating a person to find pertinent ministry outlets. Having experienced the process personally, I found the design and flow of the course to be especially good, from the video vignettes to the huddle groups to the gift affirmation process, in which you have others help give perspective to your gifts. I also found the immplementation and leadership materials to be quite helpful in proposing and putting to work a gift-based ministry design in the local church. The only downside to the Network gift-based approach MIGHT be the "modernist" flavor that permeates the material. If you identify more with "postmodern" perspectives you might find Rick Warren's SHAPE process a bit more resonating. Overall though, a very good book that has had a signifigant impact in how churches are designing ministries and placing volunteers for service....I heartily recommend it.

Discover this NOW

I just completed the class this book accompanies. This was a milestone event for my wife and me. Both of us were saying "No wonder I'm like this and you're like that." I would recommend this for you not only to find your place in church (which it can help you with), but also to find your place in life. This book can focus you in on your Passion (where you should be), your Gifts (what you should be doing) and your Personal Style (how you will be doing it). This book will shine a light on you. Stop fighting your innate makeup and tendencies. And figure out just exactly what you are and how God made you.

Greatest Personal Spiritual Growth tool I've ever seen!

We've been using Network at our church for about 4 months and the comments from people regarding their personal growth as well as the dramatic difference evident in lives is nothing short of amazing. As a teacher, I found the materials easy to use and needed only minimal time to prepare. This guide is clear-cut and straight forward as I've been training additional teachers, their comments have been very possitive as well. Not simply a Spiritual Gifts assessment, Network goes the distance and assists people in discovering how and where to use their gifts AND helps people understand more about how they relate to each other in the process.CAUTION: Network is likely to bring renewal to your congregation--use only if you are willing to change!

Excellent material to determine your place in ministry.

The Network course is an excellent study in which to assess your passion, spiritual giftedness, and personal style in ministry. By determing your personal profile through the discovery of your passion in life, your spiritual gifts, and your personal style, you gain a clearer understanding about how God has uniquely created you. Your servant profile will assist you in better understanding in what area of ministry you might serve in your local church body (e.g., discipleship) and what role you might play in that area of ministry based upon your spiritual giftedness (e.g., shepherding/teaching) and personal style (people- v. task-oriented/ structured v. unstructured). This is the most thorough material I have seen to educate the believer in knowing and understanding his or her place in ministry; definning the spiritual gifts in the Bible and the manner in which those gifts contribute to the life of the body; and explaining why we should be motivated to serve.