A Pastor-to-Pastor Letter from Bestselling Author
Stephen Schwambach
Dear Pastor,
What do you do after you've led your church through 40 Days
of Purpose? I mean...what in the world do you do for an encore
to something like THAT?
That's what I asked Rick Warren several
months ago. I discovered that he and his team at Saddleback
were working hard to come
up with a Christ-honoring answer to that very question.
One thing's for sure. You don't dare go backward. Rick's book
and Rick's 40 Days plan enabled us to lead our congregations
to new heights. The only acceptable follow-up is to find something
so drenched in God's Word, so packed with God's favor, that it
will take our people to the NEXT level in Him.
That's why I shared with Rick what I believe is the perfect
follow-up to 40 Days of Purpose. It's based on a life-changing
Biblical truth that has riveted my attention for the past 20
years. Rick was intrigued. In fact, he liked it so much that
he asked me to pilot it in my church and let him know how it
went.
I told him we'd be honored. Then it occurred to me that we shouldn't
do this pilot alone. If we want to supply Rick and his team with
reliable data, we ought to invite a select group of churches
from around the nation to launch this pilot with us. If the solid
spiritual results in our churches are as dramatic as I expect,
who knows where it might go from here?
The campaign is called 40 Days of Promise™. At
its heart is a one-of-a-kind book called The Signature Bible™. But
here's the huge breakthrough:
Through a rare arrangement
with one of the nation's top
printers, YOUR name, YOUR picture and YOUR signature will
be bound directly into the opening pages of The Signature
Bible™.
This means that YOU will be the one who leads your congregation
through 40 Days of Promise™.
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It won't have my picture or Rick's in it. Just yours. We
will actually create a special edition of the book exclusively
for
your church. The entire first chapter of the book is designed
to feature a message from you to your congregation, signed by
you. You can either use our suggested wording, or rewrite it
to more perfectly fit you.
I know you need a lot more information. Please feel free to
use the links on this page to browse the Seed Bucket Press web
site. I especially invite you to visit The
Signature Bible™ page, where we have
uploaded the first section of the book online. I hope you'll
take just a moment to quickly read through the first eight days. That's
all it will take. By that time - if God wants you to personally
lead your congregation through this amazing experience - I believe
you will be so eager to start that you will want to immediately
E-mail us and request your complimentary copy of The Signature
Bible™.
In short, we want to supply you with everything you need to
know, so you can make a Christ-honoring decision. If you have
questions not answered on our site, please click on the Contact
Us page and feel free to E-mail or
telephone us.
I know you also need to talk this
through with your church leaders and bathe it in prayer. But
first, an integrity issue. I promised
Rick that I would do nothing to compete with what you and he
are already doing together. If you have plans to repeat Rick's
wonderful 40 Days of Purpose campaign, please do so! You are
eligible to participate in our pilot ONLY if you have already
decided not to repeat Rick's 40 Days of Purpose campaign this
soon.
That said, we are now contacting
other carefully chosen churches across the nation. We expect
our pilot to fill up quickly. After
you have your questions answered, please click on the “Sign Up
For Pilot” button at the close of this letter or in the topmast
of each page, if you would like your church to be considered
as a pilot candidate.
Warmly in Christ,
 Steve
Stephen Schwambach
Senior Pastor
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About
Bethel Temple Community Church
Bethel
Temple Community Church was selected for the “Good to Great” churches
project at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and is featured
in Dr. Thom Rainer’s book, Good to Great Churches,
soon to be published by Zondervan.
“I have studied many churches
at both the M.Div. and Ph.D. levels, and I can honestly say that…I
would not hesitate to entrust a new believer into your care.”
—Davy
Bell
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Ph.D. candidate, Louisville,
Kentucky
About Pastor Stephen
Schwambach
Stephen Schwambach earned
his second Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from Trinity Theological
Seminary.
He is a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist and bestselling
author of 6 books (click images below to order from amazon.com)

Featured
on Oprah, Sally Jessy Raphael, etc.

Textbook for Dr. Judith
Schwambach’s
and Dr. Stephen Schwambach’s marriage seminar

Completes the
H. Norman Wright trilogy, Before You Say I Do…After You Say
I Do

The Broadman-Holman devotional
classic republished by Barnes & Noble’s
iUniverse.com

Pastors in Africa hold up
Dr. Schwambach’s book,
Why You Won’t Go To Heaven…Though a Murderer Might.
Thousands of them are using the book as a door-to-door witnessing
tool that testifies to the grace of Jesus Christ.
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