Back towards the start of my youth ministry career (when I had no concept it would turn into a career) I read both PDYM and Purpose Driven Church (the latter far more helpful than the former in my opinion). I felt like I needed to know what my purposes were before I built a strategy around them. And Warren’s five worship, ministry, evangelism, fellowship and discipleship weren’t quite all for me. I wanted to include purposefully reaching out to the pre-seeker, wanted something that reflected the Wesleyan distinctive of holiness, and wanted to split evangelism into providing a venue that was evangelistic and training students to be evangelists. So rather than five, I went with eight. Probably too many — no one ever memorized it but me, and it almost doubles your banner budget. ;-) But it reflected well what I thought God was calling me to do. Plus it was alliterative!

where did you get the sampler to sower philosophy?

I know you’ve always used it, but I’m not sure you ever told me where it came from or how it was developed.