Growing a Vibrant

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Growing a Vibrant Healthy Church

• www.cuyahogachapel.org

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The Leadershop System

• Leadership Present Plans
• Evangelism
• Assimilation
• Discipleship
• Equipment
• Resources
• Spiritual
• Heart
• Organizational
• Purpose

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The Leadership System

• Is your abilities as a leader and the capacity of
  your organization to direct significant ministry
  and to raise up new leaders for Gods kingdom work

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There are 3 factors controlling growth and health

• Contextual Factors
• Number of people in the community
• Industry
• Historical Factors
• Some churches have decided long ago that they
  like being a certain size and refuse to grow
  larger
• Internal Factors
• This is what the LEADERSHOP system is all about
  getting each of the internal factors functioning
  so that God can bless the church

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Symptoms of leadership barrier

• People wont take responsibility for the church
• No sense of direction
• Consistent lack of funds
• Hiring staff people for the wrong reasons
• Little new or innovative programming
• Tolerance of sin because of talent
• Pastor is excited the people are not
• Using power rather than influence people skills
• Problem solving instead of leadership development

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The church rises falls on LEADERSHIP

• Howard Hendricks said, Leadership is the ability
  to know where you are going and the ability to
  convince others to go along with you.
• John Maxwell says, Leadership is influence.

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The church cannot grow beyond the size of the
leaders!!!
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Godly leadership demands and Eph. 4 ministry!

• Teaching and training people to do the ministry
  themselves
• Ephes. 411-12 And he gave some, apostles and
  some, prophets and some, evangelists and some,
  pastors and teachers 12 For the perfecting of
  the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the
  edifying of the body of Christ
• We can no longer settle for the people being
  totally dependent upon the pastor or pastors

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Every time something good is happening in any
ministry it is because of a leader

• It doesnt matter so much the program as it does
  the leader
• We can grow and develop as leaders

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There are 4 major barriers or sticking points in
leadership that must be solved

• They are
• Developing yourself
• Developing your current leaders
• Find and develop future leaders
• Develop the separate leadership strands of a
  growing ministry
• Ministries get stuck when one or more of these 4
  areas is not addressed

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What is your PERSONAL leadership development plan?

• Books on leadership
• Tapes on leadership
• Leaders on leadership
• Classes or seminars on leadership

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Leadership Skills

• Define and declare reality clearly
• This is the state of our church or ministry!
• What are we doing right/wrong?
• Define and cast the vision
• Defining the preferred future
• Goals/problem solving
• Initiation and delegation
• The big ask
• Involvement/money
• Recruiting and developing people
• Recruiting and developing resources
• Mission drift
• Team work

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9 Is of leadership infrastructure

• Initiative Giving yourself permission to act
• Impact Focusing on and accomplishing significant
  tasks
• Influence The ability to change anothers
  behavior
• Imagination The ability to see the church
  future, find the people, marshal the resources,
  raise the funds
• Irresistibility A positive contagious creative
  persistent attitude
• Inclusion Developing leaders into a team
• Immanence Managing yourself, time, emotions,
  passions
• Integrity Having your actions match your words
• Image Dress, words, manner and style increase
  your respect

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What to do if you are not viewed as the leader

• Ask how they want to do ministry WDEFC
• Give leadership if you are not the leader
• Influence the leaders if you are not the leader

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Develop current and future leaders

• Identify your leaders
• Influence assessment blockers pushers chart
• Pray for eyes to see divine appointments

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What is your leadership development plan?
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Develop current and future leaders
SHAPE Spiritual gift Heart Ability Personality Exp
erience
Orthopraxy right living Orthodoxy right doctirine
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Growing ministries need growing leadership teams

• As a ministry grows there is an increasing need
  for specialized leadership
• There is a need for a division of leadership
  responsibilities along gifting and talent lines

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Five types of leadership in the growing ministry

• Ministry Leadership
• Starts with you
• Administrative Leadership
• Church Secretary etc.
• Visionary Leadership
• This is where we have to go
• Organizational Leadership
• Strategic
• Shepherding Leadership
• Brings others along

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If we are to survive and please Christ

• We must put greater amounts of our time into
  leadership development and ministry equipping
• We can not just go on doing ministry ourselves
  (usually at burnout pace)
• Eph 411,12 a lay person is someone who does
  ministry a pastor-teacher equips them to do it