Beyond the ABCs

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Beyond the ABCs

• Living in the tension between Management and
  Vision

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First Things First

• Who is Jesus?
• Why Ask?
• Foundational Agreement
• Allows for future assessment

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Beyond the ABCs

• Living in the tension between Management and
  Vision

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Generative Dialogue Issues
Visionary Leadership (V) Relationship experiences
(R) Programmatic Emphasis (P) Accountable
Management (M)
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Generative Dialogue Issues
Visionary Leadership A strong, clear and
passionate sense of our identity (who we are),
our core values (what we believe or highly
value), our vision (where we are heading), and
our spiritual strategic journey as a congregation
(how we are getting there)
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Generative Dialogue Issues
Vision Plus Intentionality
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Generative Dialogue Issues
Relationship Experience We do well at attracting
people into a Christ-centric faith journey
(evangelism) and at helping people who are
connected with our congregation to be on an
intentional and maturing Christ-centered faith
journey (discipleship development) and developing
a willingness for people to get involved both
within and beyond the congregations (lay
mobilization)
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The Life Stages of a Church
Programmatic Emphases Our congregation has
outstanding programs, ministries and activities
for which we are well known throughout our
congregation and our community or the target we
serve. Our programs, ministries and activities
seem to be growing in numbers and quality. Our
programs are meeting real, identified, spiritual
and emotional needs of people.
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Generative Dialogue Issues
Accountable Management Our congregation has
excellent, flexible management systems (teams,
committees, councils, boards) that empower the
future direction of our congregation rather than
seeking to control the future direction.
Decision making is open and responsive to
congregational input. The management systems are
supportive of the visionary leadership.
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Generative Dialogue Issues
Management Bucks Butts Buildings Boards -or- ABCs
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The Life Stages of a Church
VRPM One can determine the life stage of a church
by simply rating the above 4 generative dialogue
issues of congregational life.
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The Life Cycle and Stages of Congregational
Development
Birth Vrpm Infancy VRpm Childhood VrPm Adolesc
ence VRPm Adulthood VRPM Maturity vRPM Empty
Nest vRpM Retirement vrPM Old Age vrpM Death m

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Beyond the ABCs

• Living in the tension between Management and
  Vision

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What are the ABCs A- Attendance B- Building C-
Contributions Why are these so important?
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• Getting Beyond the ABCs
• We need to understand the Life Stage of the body
  who is seeking the information

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Getting Beyond the ABCs 2. We need to ask more
and deeper questions to better gauge our
development
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Output Questions
Output questions measure the success of a
program, process, event, experience, etc. for the
sponsoring people
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Output Questions
Discuss For your new church what are the
important output questions?
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Impact Questions
Impact questions measure the effect of a program,
process, event, experience, etc. on the people
who were the focus.
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Impact Questions
Discuss Based on our output, what are the impact
questions we should be asking?
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Capacity Questions
Capacity questions measure the reproducible
nature of the process, event, experiences, etc.
according to whether or not the people who were
the focus develop the capacity to initiate and
lead
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Capacity Questions
Discuss Based on output and impact, what are the
capacity questions we need to be asking?
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Beyond the ABCs

• Living in the tension between Management and
  Vision