St. Luke Community United Methodist Church Leadership Institute 2005

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St. Luke Community United Methodist Church
Leadership Institute - 2005

• Leading Your Church Through Transition

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Are We Attuned To The Revolution?

• Movement Away From A Church Culture
• Impact of Secular Media As Primary Knowledge
  Dispenser
• Congregational Faith Development to Individual
  Spirituality
• Institutional To Missional

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Leadership
New Tools For New Tasks

• Understanding The Impact of Cultural Changes
  Taking Place In Our Midst
• Redefining Our Calling From Institutional
  Preserver To Missional Marketer

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Key Elements In Church
Transition

• Assessing The New Norms
• Identification of Need For Transition
• Clearly Defined Vision of The Future
• Ownership of The Vision By The People
• A Strategic Process for Implementation

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Creating The Big Picture

• Prophetic Engagement
• Strategic Intervention
• The Gift of Good Timing
• Transformational Accountability

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Developing And Implementing A Vision Plan For
Your Church

• Cultivating a vision for the churchs future
  should be based on many things, including the
  history and traditions of the Christian church
  and the denomination prayer, personal
  experience, age, race, and culture the Bible
  social, political, economic, and technological
  trends and the needs of the congregation and
  community. Most important though is the
  leadership and guidance of the Holy Spirit.
• --Dr. Carlyle Fielding Steward III
• Excerpt from The Empowerment Church

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New Competencies

• Moving From Solo Leadership to Team Oriented
  Leadership
• Growing Influence of Small Group Community
• Current Trends Causes, Affinity Groups,
  Relational Communities
• Coaching, Mentoring, Learning-Partners
• Cultural Strategist Societal Interpreter

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Connecting Christ and Culture

• Relevant and Contemporary Issues
• Generation Specific Multiple Messages
• Impact of Media As Powerful Communication
  iPods, Google, Smart Phones, Home Information
  Centers, Intelligent Cars
• Making It Digital and Downloadable

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Reorganizing For Collaboration

• Ministry Clusters Based on Related Ministry
  Opportunities Moving Away From Single
  Congregation Involvement
• Cross-Cultural Emergence
• Networking, Missional Marketing, Multiple
  Campuses
• (I)ntegrated (M)inistry (A)ction (P)lans, Life
  Course Instruction, Spirituality In The
  Marketplace

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Re-examining Our Call Changing Our
Leadership Culture

• Ephesians 411-14, NIV
• -- it was he who gave
• -- to prepare people
• -- for works of service
• -- reach unity in faith
• -- Grow Up

• Gifts
• Educate
• Ministry
• Purpose
• Maturity

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Iron Sharpens Iron

• Significant Focus Groups
• Creating New Leadership Cultures At Every Level
• Hanging Out With High Impact Leaders

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Changing Our Ministry View

• What Is God Already Doing?
• What Are Our Strengths?
• What Can We Connect To?
• What Are Our Ministry Priorities?
• What Will Be The Benefits?
• What Will Be The Obstacles?

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Maps, Compasses To GPSs

• Spiritual GPSs
• Understanding Culture Shifts
• Understanding The Communications Revolution
• Understanding The Power of Context

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The New Realities

• The Re-Missioning Church Culture
• From Institutional To Missional To Individual
• Clergy Centered To Empowered Community
• Shift From Church Growth To Kingdom Growth

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Changing Expectations of Church

• From Fellowship to Spiritual Formation
• From Teaching To Learning
• From Curriculum To Life-Driven Application
• From Sanctuary To House Churches
• From Didactic To Experiential

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Regaining The Power of An
Apostolic Ethos

• Moving From Being Reactive to Proactive
• Cultures That Are Intuitive, Irresistible, and
  Improvisational
• Changing The Culture and Changing The Future
• The Freedom To Relinquish, Innovate, and
  Instigate

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Futuring Regaining Our
Prophetic Edge

• Understanding The Plug Play Culture
• Creating New Cultural Totems
• Building Relevance Into Our Mission
• The Power of Listening, Learning and Leading

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Emerging Cultural Changes

• a. Worship As Encounter
• -- sensory, relevant, mind grabbing, portable
• b. Interpreting New Tongues
• -- will it make a difference, is it cool, how
  does the encounter speak to my sense of
  self-discovery
• c. Battle For Commitment
• -- is it worthy my time, is it hip, is it
  necessary?

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Multi-Cultural Expansion

• a. The New Color of Ministry
• -- Mixed, ethnically diverse, multi-cultural
• b. Cultural Diversity As The New Norm
• -- One size, kind, method, technique does not
  fit all
• c. Stewardship As Empowerment
• -- Sharing resources in an entrepreneurial
  economy

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Think Steps, Not Programs

• A program is a system of services, opportunities,
  or projects, usually designed to meet a social
  need.
• A step is one of a series of actions, processes
  or measures taken to achieve a goal.
• Andy Stanley, 7 Practices of
  Effective Ministry

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The Next Frontier of Discipleship

• Acts 242-47 The Discipleship Adventure
• Restructuring Discipleship Ministries
• Multi-Cultural, Multi-Ethnic, Multi-Generational
• Taking It To The Streets - Mobile Ministries

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Reloading Worship

• Worship Is Our Primary Window for Opportunity
  Make It Impressive
• Worship Is Our Primary Recruitment Driver Make
  It Inspirational
• Worship Is Our Primary Team Builder Cast
  Vision, Cultivate Community, Solicit Commitment

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Developing Synergy

• Begin With Service To Others In Mind
• Build Character Before Building Ministry
• Become A Lid Lifter
• Practice Shadowing
• I do, You Watch
• We do, Together
• You do, I Applaud!
• Add Value To Others

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Diagnostic Tools

• Ministry Audits
• Consultants
• Coaches
• Mentors
• Learning Partners
• Congregational Self Discovery Process

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Bedrock Principles

• The Church Is To Be The Physical Presence of
  Christ in the World.
• We Are Obligated By Our Calling To Reach
  Non-Religious and Nominally Religious People For
  Christ.
• We Are Challenged In Our Present Cultural Context
  To Turn The Church Away From Its Pre-Occupation
  With Itself and Reorient The Church Outward
  Toward The World.

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The 4 Rs

• Refocus The Churchs Agenda From Church Building
  to Kingdom Building
• Retrain Clergy and Laity For Service As Community
  Missionaries
• Reset Our Organizational Compasses Toward
  Attracting and Inviting People Into A Life
  Changing Relationship In Christ
• Regenerate A Missional Focus As The Primary
  Agenda of New Church Development

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Creating New Expectations

• Value Spiritual Maturing and Spiritual Formation
  As A Normative Practice (Moving Beyond Church
  Membership To Kingdom Equipping)
• Value Moving People From Programs to Preparation
  As A Normative Practice (Equipping People For
  Spiritual Service)

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L 3 Leadership A Path To Transformation

• PVI Personal Vitality Indicator
• IMAP - Incubator Ministry Action Plan
• CVI - Congregational Vitality Indicator

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Developing New Mindsets

• Combining Spiritual Hunger and Missionary
  Thinking
• Churches Parenting Churches
• Multiplying Ministry Expansion
• Commissioning A New Generation of Apostolic
  Leaders

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Recommended Resources

• A Work of Heart Understanding How God Shapes
  Leaders by Reggie McNeal
• As Iron Sharpens Iron Building Character In A
  Mentoring Relationship by Howard and William
  Hendricks
• Being Leaders The Nature of Authentic Christian
  Leadership by Aubrey Malphurs
• Blog Understanding The Information Reformation
  Thats Changing Your World by Hugh Hewitt
• Breakout Churches by Thom Rainer
• Coaching For Performance Growing People,
  Performance and Purpose by John Whitmore
• Character Forged By Conflict Staying Connected
  To God During Controversy by Gary D. Preston
• Culture Shift Transforming Your Church From The
  Inside Out by Robert Lewis and Wayne Cordeiro
• Executive Values A Christian Approach to
  Organizational Leadership by Kurt Senske
• High Impact African-American Churches by George
  Barna and Harry R. Jackson, Jr.
• Now Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham
  and Donald Clifton
• Nurturing Faith and Hope Black Worship As A
  Model for Christian Education by Ann Streaty
  Wimberly
• PastorPreneur by John Jackson
• Planting New Churches In A PostModern Age by Ed
  Stetezer
• Power Surge Six Marks Of Discipleship For A
  Changing Church by Michael W. Foss
• 7 Practices of Effective Ministry by Andy Stanley
• The Externally Focused Churched by Rick Rusaw
• The Elephant In The Boardroom Speaking The
  Unspoken About Pastoral Transitions How To
  Think About and Create A Strategic Succession
  Plan For Your Church by Carolyn Weese and J.
  Russell Crabtree
• The Leadership Baton An Intentional Strategy for
  Developing Leaders in Your Church by Rowland
  Forman