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Recent Sermon Notes The Bare Facts for Last Sunday was the fifth in a sermon series on Good to Great. This week’s message was all about The Hedgehog Principle – finding our “one thing.”
What is a Hedgehog Principle, for a person or a church? It is “a clear, focused understanding of what you can do better than anyone else in the world.” It’s not a plan, strategy, or dream to be the best – but an UNDERSTANDING that we can be the best. The word “Hedgehog” comes from a Greek myth, The Fox and the Hedgehog. The point of that myth is “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows only one big thing.” Looking at your own life you might be like the fox. Your life’s direction may be diffuse, with numerous different activities pointing in all directions and keeping you scattered and unfocused. Perhaps you are doing many things in a mediocre way, and missing out on the one or two things that you were MEANT to do superbly. The same struggle applies to us as a church. There are three questions related to our Hedgehog Concept. They are: What can we do better than anyone else? What are we passionate about? What will drive our economic engine (in other words, our giving)? What we can do superbly, what we care about deeply, what we are motivated to give to support – the intersection of these three answers is our “Hedgehog.” So for Dayspring the question is: “What can our church do better for the · Should we send out one short term missions team each year? Three? Nine? · Should adding Mike McCrae to our staff full-time be our # 1 financial priority? · Should we make a radical commitment to E.K. Powe school? · Do we need to be deeply involved with Child Evangelism Fellowship? · What role do we have with Yates Baptist Association? Where or in what do we invest? · How should we use the church’s house at · Does God want us to buy additional land in this neighborhood? When? How much? You are invited to join a conversation. First, it is a conversation with God in prayer…but it’s also a conversation in your Homegroup, among our elders and among the deacons, around your own dinner table with your family, in the youth group, wherever and whenever Dayspring folk gather. The topic: What is our Hedgehog Principle, our Hedgehog Concept? We need a crystal-clear understanding of what we can do better than anyone else for God’s kingdom, and we need to let that one thing guide us into the future of serving God with greatness. © Copyright 2002 - 2003 Dayspring Fellowship |
