Imagine: "Innovation"

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

William Carey: “Expect great things from God. Attempt great things for God.”

William Carey became the father of the modern missionary movement.

INNOVATION is doing the impossible

Man has a history of SHOOTING TOO LOW, not SHOOTING TOO HIGH.

Examples:

• "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943
• "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" -- H. M. Warner (1881-1958), founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927
• "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." -- Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, 1895
• "Everything that can be invented has been invented." -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
• "Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development." -- Julius Frontinus, 1st century A.D.
• "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." -- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
• "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." -- Western Union internal memo, 1876.
• ""The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
• "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." -- A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
• "I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper." -- Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone With The Wind."
• "A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make." -- Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.
• "Space travel is bunk." -- Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal of Britain, 1957, two weeks before the launch of Sputnik
• "All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to life but doomed to failure from an engineering standpoint." -- editor of 'The Times' of London, 1905
• "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates (1955-), in 1981
• "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction". -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
• "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962
• "Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy." -- Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.
• "I confess that in 1901, I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years . . . Ever since, I have distrusted myself and avoided all predictions." -- Wilbur Wright, 1908
• "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre
• "A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements." -- Leonardo da Vinci, 'Treatise on the Flight of Birds,' 1505
• "The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon". -- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon- Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873
• "You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck...I have no time for such nonsense." -- Napoleon, commenting on Fulton's Steamship
• "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." -- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
• "Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances." -- Dr. Lee De Forest, inventor of the Audion tube and a father of radio, 25 February, 1967.
• "The aeroplane will never fly." -- Lord Haldane, Minister of War, Britain, 1907
• "I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere." -- Lord Byron, 1882
• "A certain Liquor which they call Coffee...which will soon intoxicate the brain." -- G. W. Parry (1601)
• "Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of road so that the machine can take to the air." -- Eddie Rickenbacker, 'Popular Science,' July 1924
• "But what ... is it good for?" -- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks,
breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

IT IS DOING THE IMPOSSIBLE.

Innovation is:

NEED + KNOWLEDGE + PROCESS.

PLUS the INSPIRATION AND REVELATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT!

²³ Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.” ²⁴ Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”  Mark 9:23-24 (NKJV)

So Jesus said to them, “ … assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.”  Matthew 17:20 (NKJV)

³⁵ And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God. … ³⁷ For with God nothing will be impossible.”  ³⁸ Then Mary said, “Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.  Luke 1:35, 37-38 (NKJV)

For no word from God shall be void of power.  Luke 1:37 (ASV)

Example:

MOSES.

Was called by God to do the impossible. 

D.L. Moody said it this way “Moses spent 40 years thinking he was somebody; 40 years learning he was nobody; and 40 years discovering what God can do with a nobody.”

ABRAHAM

¹⁶ Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all ¹⁷ (as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations”) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;    Romans 4:16-17 (NKJV)

1.     Kingdom innovators recognize POSSIBILITIES.

¹⁹ And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. ²⁰ He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, ²¹ and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform. Romans 4:19-21 (NKJV)

2.     Kingdom innovators take the STEP of FAITH.

3.     Kingdom innovators discern between FAITH and FOOLISHNESS.

4.     Kingdom innovators never FAIL.

But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them.  Hebrews 11:16 (NASB)