Pre-Consultation
Church
Leadership
Workshop
PARTICIPANT WORKBOOK
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Indiana United Methodist Church – revised 02/20/13
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Core Purpose
· Our purpose today is to understand how our world around us is changing and to contemplate the changes necessary in order to stay relevant.
Objectives:
· To consider how cultural changes impact the 21st century church.
· To begin to contemplate what it will take to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world in the 21st century.
· To consider where your church is in the life cycle of its history.
· Understand the key components of the weekend consultation process
Ground Rules:
· Please turn off or silence your cell phones.
· Ask questions if you do not understand something.
· Be engaged by participating openly and honestly.
· Be respectful of other opinions and open to new ideas and concepts.
· Understand that the session goes quickly so the facilitator may need to move things along in order to stay on track.
Why Is This So Hard?
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Did You Know
Facts From the Video
· 7 Billion people on the planet – 5 Billion mobile phones.
· More people have access to a mobile phone than a clean toilet
· 25% of American households have ONLY a cell phone
· 2 Billion people are on the Internet
Ø 750 Million are on Facebook – that’s just over 1 in 9 people worldwide
Ø 200 Million people on Twitter sending over 100 Million tweets per day
Ø If Facebook and Twitter were countries … they’d rand 3rd and 6th in population
Ø YouTube 35 HOURS of video are uploaded every minute. That equals 176,000 full-length Hollywood releases EVERY WEEK
· 29% of all people under 25 get all or most of their TV online.
· Kindle books now outsell hardbacks and paperbacks COMBINED on Amazon
· Wikipedia contains 3.6 Million articles in English alone
· Flicker users have uploaded 5 Billion pictures
· Facebook 50 Billion pictures
· 92% of American children have an online presence by the time they are 2 Years Old
· 80 Million Americans are expected to own an iPad by 2015
Ø iPad sales as of September 2012 – 80 million
· 250 Million Angry Birds downloads
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· The amount of digital information worldwide will increase 44x between now and 2012
· 247 Billion emails are sent every day = 80% are spam or viruses
· 6.1 trillion txt messages were sent last year
· 87% of all teenagers text – They send an average of 3,339 per month
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19Though I am free and belong to no man, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. 20To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. 21To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God's law but am under Christ's law), so as to win those not having the law. 22To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some. 23I do all this for the sake of the gospel that I may share in its blessings.
(I Cor. 9:19-23 NIV)
• What does it mean to you to “be all things to all people?”
• For what purpose?
• What might this look like for your church? Be specific.
NOTES:
Culture Shifts
First / We have moved from / toCulture
Shift / .
We must realize the is sacred the
or is not.
Second / We have moved from anCulture / mode to a / mode.
Shift
Third / We are no longer in ―Christendom we now live in a
Culture / .
Shift
Spirituality Video
VS.
Religion
Almost three-fourths of 18 to 29 year-olds agree they’re more spiritual
than religious. (USA Today October, 2010)
Who to Trust????
The “day of worship” has become a “day to play.”
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Pre-Consultation WorkshopChanges In Our World
1950’s / Today
• / Flourishing, growing churches / • / Declining, dying churches
• / Two-parent families / • / Many forms of family
• / Authority not questioned / • / Everything is questioned
• / Denominational Era / • / ―Big-Box church Era
• Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy assassinated
• / Civil Rights Movement
1968 / • / Role of Women
• / Vietnam War
• / United Methodist Church established
• / Personal Computers / Internet
Today / • / The World is Flat
• / Social Networking
• / Christianity moving south
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Systemic
Obsolescence
• Systems used in most of our churches were designed in the ‗50s and ‗60s
• Our systems are designed to get what they get.
• Need to move from a membership system (caring for our members) to a missionary system (reaching the lost).
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Changes In Our World, Continued
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The Way We “Do Church” is Changing
• Attendance
o From every week to twice a month
• Meetings
o Used to be times of fellowship
• Committees to Teams
o New people are more interested in action and not reports
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GenerationalDifferences / Generation / Born / Music
Builders / 1915 – 30 / Piano & Organ
Silents / 1930 – 45 / Electric Organ
Baby Boomers / 1945 – 65 / Bands
Baby Busters / 1965 – 82 / Acoustic Guitar
Millenials / 1982 – 2000 / iPod / hard to define
Generation Z / 2000 > / ??? / too early to tell
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Church LifeCycle
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Key
Components
V = Vision (Heart) Where should we go?
R = Relationship (Arms) Whom should we bring?
P = Program (Hands & Feet) How will we get there?
S = Structure (Skeleton) What should we avoid?
(If a stage is capitalized it is a driving force in the church.)
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Church LifeCycle, Continued
There are four key issues that determine where a church is on the lifecycle: Vision, Relationships, Programs, and Structure.
• When vision and relationships are driving a congregation‘s agenda the church will be experiencing the upward side of the lifecycle.
• When programs and structure are controlling the agenda the church will be on the downward side.
Vision In the area of vision there are three main elements:
Mission – why a congregation exists; its purpose. It is important to note that congregations on the downside do not change until they become OUTWARD focused!
Vision – where the congregation is going; motivation to make necessary changes to move from downward to upward.
Values – boundaries that guide the congregation; will reflect the focus of the congregation (inward or outward).
Relationships / The ability for people to develop relationships with others in thechurch is crucial for / the lifecycle of a
congregation.
• People are not looking for friendly congregations; they are looking for a congregation where they can make friends!
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Church Lifecycle, Continued
Programs The purpose of programs in a congregation is to:
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There are two major questions that constantly need to be asked of all programs in a church to ensure that the best programs are in place:
1. How does this program contribute to an outward focused mission? [Does it attract new unchurched/de-churched people?]
2. Is this program growing? [Is God rewarding our efforts by bringing new people through this program?]
Our goal through programs should be to convert consumers into committed disciples of Jesus Christ. There is one program that is not assumed culturally from our churches but is demanded for health and
growth….
Mandate The church needs leaders to fulfill the instruction found in Ephesians 4:10-13 to grow and to mature.
10And the One (Jesus) who climbed down is the One who climbed back up, up to highest heaven. He handed out gifts above and below, filled heaven with his gifts, 11filled earth with his gifts. He handed out gifts of apostle, prophet, evangelist, and pastor-teacher 12to train Christians in skilled servant work, working within Christ's body, the church, 13until we're all moving rhythmically and easily with each other, efficient and graceful in response to God's Son, fully mature adults, fully developed within and without, fully alive like Christ. (The Message)
Structure Structure is like a skeleton in a body. If it can be seen, then you are in trouble…yet without it you will collapse. Also, in healthy bodies, skeletons grow and develop so the body can grow.
For any congregational structure system to be effective three major things must happen:
· The leader must be growing and developing as a leader while developing more leaders.
· The growth of any organization is in proportion to the leaders being developed.
Leadership must reflect how work gets done—responsibility, authority, and accountability.
Groups do not lead and cannot be held accountable, therefore the focus must always be on individuals to lead and be held accountable.
3. The Pastor/Leader must turn the ministry of the congregation over to the laity (equip the saints to perform it) and they must turn the leadership of the congregation over to the pastor/leader.
• Staff members lead their ministries and manage the programs to produce healthy, growing disciples and in turn a healthy, growing congregation.
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Where is your Church?
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Healthy Congregation
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Growing,
Healthy
Churches…
• Externally focused with good deeds and the Good News linked together
• See themselves as vital to the health & well being of their communities
• Believe Christians grow best by serving & giving themselves away to those in need
• Are evangelistically centered & believe in authentic following of Jesus Christ
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The more things
change the more
they remain the
same!
18 And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.“ (Matthew 28:18-20)
Weekend / FridayConsultation
Process / o / Interviews
o / focus group
Saturday
o / leadership focus group
o congregation training *Please help invite others*
o / prescription prep
Sunday
o / Worship service
o reading of report (areas of strength, areas of concern
prescriptions to address concerns)
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