shared learning experience

Shared Learning Experience

Aiming Real Leaders at the Mission Field

Session Three

WELCOME!

Core Purpose

Our core purpose today is to help participants understand the kind of leadership and communication needed to lead a church through change.

Objectives

• Understand how critical communication is to change process.• Identify the qualities of effective

leaders.• Discover methods to use to

determine spiritual, physical, social needs of your community and how God wants your church to address them.

Objectives

• Learn the importance of recruiting, developing and reproducing effective leaders continually.

Objectives

• Understand the importance of establishing 3 key teams -Prayer -Vision -Leadership Development

Ground Rules

• Be on time• Be engaged• Be curious• Be respectful:

Please silence cell phones

Spiritual CenteringExodus 18:13-27

13 The next day Moses sat as a judge for the people, while the people stood around Moses from morning until evening. 14 When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What’s this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, while all the people are standing around you from morning until evening?”

Spiritual CenteringExodus 18:13-27 (Common English)

15 Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God. 16 When a conflict arises between them, they come to me and I judge between the two of them. I also teach them God’s regulations and instructions.”


17 Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing isn’t good. 18 You will end up totally wearing yourself out, both you and these people who are with you. The work is too difficult for you. You can’t do it alone. 19 Now listen to me and let me give you some advice. And may God be with you! Your role should be to represent the people before God. You should bring their disputes before God yourself.


20 Explain the regulations and instructions to them. Let them know the way they are supposed to go and the things they are supposed to do. 21 But you should also look among all the people for capable persons who respect God. They should be trustworthy and not corrupt. Set these persons over the people as officers of groups of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.


22 Let them sit as judges for the people at all times. They should bring every major dispute to you, but they should decide all of the minor cases themselves. This will be much easier for you, and they will share your load. 23 If you do this and God directs you, then you will be able to endure. And all these people will be able to go back to their homes much happier.”


24 Moses listened to his father-in-law’s suggestions and did everything that he had said. 25 Moses chose capable persons from all Israel and set them as leaders over the people, as officers over groups of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens. 26 They acted as judges for the people at all times. They would refer the hard cases to Moses, but all of the minor cases they decided themselves.


27 Then Moses said good-bye to his father-in-law, and Jethro went back to his own country.

Reflection Questions…

1. Describe a time you stopped to ask yourself in the midst of ministry busyness, “Why am I doing what I’m doing?”

2. Have you ever been in a similar situation to Moses? What did you do about it? Are you there now?

3. In what ways do you and your church leadership develop teams to carry out the mission of the church?

Action Plan Review

Action Plan ReviewTips for a Good Discussion

1. Time-keeper and Facilitator2. Each person share3. Move the discussion along-20 min4. Away from “right or wrong” and toward learning and growth5. Peer mentoring opportunities

Action Plan ReviewQuestions

Accountability: Were you able to accomplish your plan? If not, what got in the way?

Application Learning: How did you apply what you learned to your specific situation?Peer Mentoring:

How can your teammates help you achieve your plans?

Action Plan ReviewAssignments

1. Did you make a plan for how you will spread what you are learning with others in your church?

2. Did you register with MissionInsite and discuss your findings in your debriefing session with your pastor?

Direct Hit – Key Concepts


Two reasons churches remain inwardly focused:

1. People are not willing to lead, or don’t believe they are leaders.

2. The leadership of the church doesn’t have a well-developed communication strategy to lead the church through change.


Leadership Topics for Today:• The Importance of Communication• The Qualities of Effective Leaders• Leadership Development and

Reproduction• God’s Heart for Your Community• Three Teams of Leaders

Direct Hit – Communication

The ability of an organization to effectively accomplish its purpose is ultimately determined by leaders who are effective because they communicate well.


Your job as a church leader is to lead the congregation to find

strategies that enable followers of Jesus to effectively reach lost

and dying people with the Good News.


Renewal that refocuses believers on seriously carrying out the Great Commission is perhaps the greatest priority facing the church. Leaders desiring to drive such change must understand that this demands the strategic use of words.


A major overhaul of communication

strategy is required to lead a change to

fulfilling the Great Commission.


One of the most effective ways to motivate people to get involved in a mission is to show them examples of others carrying it out. Show them people hitting the target.Celebrate successes elaborately.


The vision must be communicated all the time

and everywhere.


Vision is cast primarily through well-told stories with compelling metaphors.


A crucial element of communicating effectively in order to move a church from being inwardly focused to being mission focused is communicating urgency.

The presentation of vision must always be accompanied by a presentation of urgency.


Wise leaders always give people a choice between a preferable future and an unacceptable present.

Direct Hit The Great Commission

8 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always to the very end of the age.”

Direct Hit The Great Commission

Jesus gave all His authority to us, and He

expects results.

“The Great Commission” by arikodi

Direct Hit Leadership Qualities

Passion for God, for reaching the lost. Willing to die for this.


Courage to shift the power

center of the church away

from those who are not

mission-focused to

those who are.


Flexibility about how the mission is carried out. Unbending about the mission itself.


Missional. Think

strategically about how to

bring the Kingdom of

God to earth.


Missional leaders welcome accountability.

Missional leaders make sure people are discipled to:

a. Find their place in ministry.b. Be engaged in the mission of the

church to make disciples.


Wisdom: the ability to apply

biblical knowledge to

human experience to

produce a spiritual

behavior that honors God.


Wisdom directs a pastor that if a congregation member chooses not to participate in making disciples, then they are not given a voice or authority in how the mission will be accomplished.


Positive about the Lord’s ability to go before us and produce Victory.


Positive leaders believe that the people they lead:

a. Want to serve.b. Want to be effective.c. Are willing to sacrifice for the

cause.


Positive leaders don’t use guilt. God has wired humans to not respond to service on the basis of guilt. We respond when we get a vision of a great God who has called to great things.


Responsibility: Effective leaders

don’t blame others or make excuses when things are not

going well.


Unfortunately, the church shies away from responsibility perhaps better than any other organization in society.

Pastors and lay leaders often perform in an environment where faithful endeavor is honored, but fruitful results are not expected nor demanded.


The importance of Leadership Developmentand Reproduction!

Direct Hit Leadership Development

A congregation grows in proportion to the number of new leaders that are being developed every year.


One of the reasons

churches become

inwardly-focused and

begin to die is that people in

the congregation do

not believe they are leaders.


The key to growing a healthy, fruitful congregation is to develop a leadership community that is constantly identifying and growing new leaders.


God’s heart for your community.

Direct Hit God’s Heart for Your Community

The most basic question every Christian must wrestle with is

whether a person living in this world

is a lost individual, spiritually

separated from God….


If lost people matter to God, they must matter to us.


How you can determine God’s heart for your community:

1. Pray cosmically.2. Exegete (understand) your

community.3. Assess your congregation’s

strengths.


Where the community’s needs intersect with the congregation’s strengths and the leader’s passion is your church’s sweet spot for ministry.

The Congregation’

sStrengths

The Community’

sNeeds

The Leader’sPassion

Vision Holy Spirit moves throughout

Direct Hit The Need to Establish 3 Teams

Team One: PrayerTeam Two: Vision or DreamTeam Three: Leadership Development

Direct Hit Prayer Team

• It should have been put in place at the beginning of FCJ.

• Uniquely different from other church prayer teams.

• Focus is on the FCJ process and the church’s mission, especially the church reaching out to and connecting with its community.

Direct Hit Vision or Dream Team

• Works closely with the pastor to dream about the church’s future.

• Studies the community to understand its needs and dreams.

• Discerns where God is at work and how the church should join in.

NOTE: Wait until Step 2 of FCJ before creating this team.

Direct Hit Leadership Development Team

• This is your FCJ Team!• Use this curriculum as your

initial study.• Look for new leaders.• Provide training for leaders

beyond your team throughout the Shared Learning Experience and even after it ends.

Key Learnings

Action Plan & Prayer Concerns

Next-Step Assignments

1. Make sure your church has a prayer team for the FCJ.

2. Continue to make and carry out a plan for sharing what you are learning with others.

3. Conduct some interviews with people in your community.

4. Go to www.inumc.org for resources.

http://www.inumc.org/

Continue the Conversation!

1. Facebook page = http://www.facebook.com/makingdisciplestransformingcommunities

2. Blog Site = http://churchdevinumc.wordpress.com/

http://www.facebook.com/makingdisciplestransformingcommunities

http://www.facebook.com/makingdisciplestransformingcommunities

http://churchdevinumc.wordpress.com/

http://churchdevinumc.wordpress.com/

Our FCJ Toolbox

• Asking the “so that…” question• Using a team/church covenant• MissionInsite demographic tool• Prayer Team• Leadership Development

Team

Core Purpose

Our core purpose today was to help participants understand the kind of leadership and communication needed to lead a church through change.

Objectives

• Understand how critical communication is to change process.• Identify the qualities of effective

leaders.• Discover methods to use to

determine spiritual, physical, social needs of your community and how God wants your church to address them.

Objectives

• Understand the importance of establishing 3 key teams -Prayer -Vision -Leadership Development

Wrap-Up & Closing

Next book:• Taking Your Church to the

Next Level, by Gary McIntosh • Evaluations

Have a great month!

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