Four Strategies for Leaving a Legacy

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Four Strategies for Leaving a Legacy of Loving
Leaders
Robert W. Kellemen, Ph.D. www.rpmministries.org
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Are You Milton Berle or Ed Sullivan?
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The Big Question
How do we effectively disciple the Body of Christ
for one another ministry in the church and to
the community? How do we leave a legacy of
loving leaders? How do we train leaders for one
another ministry in urban contexts?
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Equipping the Saints Can Feel Like a Maze!
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Need Some Directions?
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Some Signs Are Spot On!
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Some Signs Are Confusing!
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The Big Picture The End GoalTransformed People
A relationship with the transforming Person
leads to a transforming Pastor wisely leading a
transforming Process that transforms People
(Individually and Corporately) so they
transform People (Church and Community)
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The Big Picture Transformed People

• A Fellow Traveler, Not the Expert Guide
• A Transformational Process, Not a Program
• A Relational Strategy, Not a Straight-Jacket
• An Approach, Not the Answer
• Not One-Size-Fits-All

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The 4E Ministry Training Strategy

• Envisioning Jointly Creating the MVP-C
• Enlisting Birthing Family/Building Team
• Equipping Transformational Coaching
• Empowering Leaving a Legacy/Loving Leaders

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4E Ministry Pictured The Bus Analogy

• Envision Is the Bus Moving in the Right
• Direction?Core Values
• Enlist Is Anyone on the Bus? Are the Right
• People in the Right Seats?Committed People
• Equip Is Every Passenger Also a Good
• Driver?Coached People
• Empower Is the Engine Running on All
• Cylinders?Comprehensive Strategy

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Envisioning Gods Ministry Assessing Needs
Examining Heart Health
The place God calls you to is the place where
your deep gladness and the worlds deep hunger
meet (Frederick Buechner).
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Envisioning Gods Ministry Assessing Needs
Examining Heart Health

• Assessment Not Data Collection and
• Information Gathering but Soul Connecting
• Assessing Congregational Needs Five Targets

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Envisioning Gods Ministry Assessing Needs
Examining Heart Health

• Crowds and Compassion Matthew 936-38
• Exegete Your Community Acts 1716-22

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Envisioning Gods Ministry Dreaming Gods Dream

• Two Major Problems
• Top-Down
• No MAP

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Envisioning Gods Ministry Dreaming Gods Dream

• Mission Universal Calling
• Vision Unique Calling
• Passion Captivating Identity
• Commission MAPMinistry Action
• Plan

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Envisioning Gods Ministry Mission Your
Universal Calling

• Open Your Eyes/Open the Word
• Exegete Society/Exegete Scripture
• We exist to

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Envisioning Gods Ministry Vision Your Unique
Calling

• Vision How has God uniquely shaped us to
• fulfill His mission? (DNA/Fingerprint)
• What is our special calling in our specific
• community?
• It is our dream to

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Envisioning Gods Ministry Passion Your
Captivating Ministry ID

• Passion What youll die for and thus what
• you live for.
• Who You Are Captures, Captivates,
• Communicates
• Changing Lives with Christs Changeless
• Truth (Coach)

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Envisioning Gods Ministry Commission Your
Ministry MAP

• Strategy for How Youll Get From Here to
• There
• Strategy for How Youll Pull It Off
• Strategy for How Youll Keep It Going and
• Growing

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Envisioning Gods Ministry Commission Your
Ministry MAP

• We will fulfill our calling to equip Gods people
  
• for one another ministry through
• Christ-centered, comprehensive, compassionate,
  and
• culturally-informed writing, speaking, and
  consulting.
• We will follow the 4E ministry training
  strategy of
• envisioning, enlisting, equipping, and empowering
  
• Gods people to speak the truth in love.
• We will follow the 4C map of equipping in
• biblical content, Christlike character,
• relational competence, and Christian community.

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Enlisting Gods Ministers for Ministry

• How Do You Get the Congregation on the Bus?

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Enlisting Gods Ministers for Ministry Preparing
the Congregation for Change

• A Church Of Not Just a Church With
• Dont Just Have a Discipleship Ministry
• Be a Discipleship Ministry

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Enlisting Gods Ministers for Ministry Preparing
the Congregation for Change

• Strategic Change Management
• Biblical Conflict Resolution

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Enlisting Gods Ministers for Ministry Mobilizing
Ministers Family/Team

• Recruiting Ministers to the MVP-C Attracting
• Individuals to the Ministry
• Selecting Ministers Putting the Right People
• in the Right Seats
• Promoting the Ministry Maintaining
• Congregational Excitement

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Equipping Godly Ministers for Ministry

• The Whole Gospel to the Whole Person
• Relational Mentoring of Real Life in Real Life
• for Real Life (Lecture/Lab/Life)

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Equipping Godly Ministers for Ministry

• Many Churches Enlist/Employ Ill-Equipped
• People
• Many Churches Fail to Comprehensively Equip
• the People They Enlist/Employ

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The Résumé of the Equipped Christian
Romans 1514 I myself am convinced, my
brothers, that you yourselves are full of
goodness, complete in knowledge, and competent to
instruct one another.
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The Apostle Paul and the Ordinary, Average
Christian in Rome

• Content Complete in Knowledge
• Character Full of Goodness
• Competence Competent to Instruct
• Community Brothers/One Another

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Empowering Godly Ministers for Ministry
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Empowering Godly Ministers for Ministry

• Not Betterment but Empowerment
• Be Realistic about Resources Prioritize

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Empowering Godly Ministers for Ministry

• Implementing Ministries Launching Ministries
• Built to Last
• Moving from Discipling to Deploying
• Assessing Trainees/Graduates
• Assessing the Training/Ministry

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Empowering Godly Ministers for Ministry

• Overseeing Ministries Organizing the
• OrganismLeading Ministries from Good to
• Great
• Ad-Ministering the Ministry through
• Relational Policies

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Empowering Godly Ministers for Ministry

• Protecting Ministries Ethical/Legal Wisdom
• Passing the Baton of Ministry Leaving a
• Lasting Legacy of Loving Leaders
• Equipping Equippers, Training Trainers,
• Coaching Coaches

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