Welcome to Day Two

Building A Dream Team

Lifecycle Model

1. Preparation: 12. Conception: 2-3-4-103. Prenatal: 404. Prenatal: 805. Birth: 60-120

Growth-Maturity Reproduction

Six Preparation Questions

1. Basic Prep.?2. Who?3. Why?4. What?5. Where?6. How?

II. Conception Stage

1. Clarify Your Dream2. Build Your Teams

Key: DNA Transfer

Day Two Verse

God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever

imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams!

He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us,

his Spirit deeply and gently within us.Eph. 3:20

Critical Mass: 10

Leaders: 10

Teams: 4

2x2

Church Planting Dream

Four Dream Components

Vision Definition

• Vision is the clear and compelling picture of your preferred future as leaders believe it can and must be, based upon an accurate understanding of God, self, and your ministry context.

Dream Dynamics

Mission

Values

Vision

Clear & Compelling

Vision

Your Biggest Challenge

Crystal Clear

CLARITY

Mission

ValuesVision

Compelling

• Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?– Steve Jobs to John Scully

Common Clarity Problems

Clear & Compelling

A. Missional Drift• What is the primary

mission of the church?– 89%: To take care

of me and my family.

– 11%: To make disciples.

B. Values Collision

• “Every church is driven by something. There is a guiding force, a controlling assumption, a directing conviction behind everything that happens. It may be spoken. It may be unknown to many. Most likely it’s never been officially voted on. But it is there, influencing every aspect of the church’s life."

C. Vision Fog• Alice: Would you tell me,

please, which way I ought to go from here?

• The Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to

• Alice: I don't much care where.

• The Cat: Then it doesn't much matter which way you go.

Your Mission

What Is Your True North

Mission: Ministry Compass• Mission is to the

ministry what a rudder is to a ship, a compass to a navigator, a template to a machinist.

• Helps us make mission critical choices

Mission Critical

• Jesus replied, "Let us go somewhere else--to the nearby villages--so I can preach there also. That is why I have come." Mk. 1:38

• Jesus turned his back on dying people to accomplish the mission.

Missional Clarity

• What business are you in?

• How’s business?– Peter Drucker

Mission Definition

• Mission is the brief, broad, biblical mandate that sets the ministry direction of your church.

1. BRIEF

Mission Must Be Memorable!

Moses

• Mission: Bring my people out (Ex. 3:10)

• Vision: Promised land– 9 a land flowing with milk and honey.

10 The land you are entering to take over is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you planted your seed and irrigated it by foot as in a vegetable garden. 11 But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven. 12 It is a land the LORD your God cares for; the eyes of the LORD your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to its end. Deuteronomy 11:9-12

Nehemiah

• Mission: Rebuild the wall

• Vision: Nehemiah 3• 1 Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests went to work

and rebuilt the Sheep Gate. They dedicated it and set its doors in place, building as far as the Tower of the Hundred, which they dedicated, and as far as the Tower of Hananel. 2 The men of Jericho built the adjoining section, and Zaccur son of Imri built next to them. 3 The Fish Gate was rebuilt by the sons of Hassenaah. They laid its beams and put its doors and bolts and bars in place. …

Jesus

• Mission: Seek & Save Lost (Lk. 19:10)

• Vision: Luke 4:18-19 18 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."

Early Church

• Mission: Go … Make Disciples of all people• Vision: After this I looked and there before me was

a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: "Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb." Rev. 7:9-10

Evangelical Free Church

• Mission: To glorify God by multiplying healthy churches among all people.

• Vision: To mobilize a church planting in the United States where every healthy EFCA church reproduces two daughter churches and no EFCA church planter is left alone.

T-Shirt Test

Your Mantra

2. BROAD

You Can’t Be Single Focused!

Single Focus Churches

FamilyClassroomEvangelismWorshipSocial Concerns

87% Problem

BuildEquipDevelopSendWin

Mission Balance

• “Without a system and a structure to balance the five purposes, your church will overemphasize the purpose that expresses the gifts and passion of its pastor.”– Rick Warren

3. BIBLICAL

That Means Great Commission

Disciple Making

• Funny how some things never really change. Church life may look a lot different than it did 10, 20, 50, 500 years ago, but there is at least one area in the church that ought to look exactly the same.

• In every generation, the church ought to be busy doing the Master’s business- making disciples. Jesus did it. The early church did it. Our spiritual fathers did it- and now it’s our turn.

Obedience Not Originality

Five Missional Ministries

Evangelism

Formation

Lay MinistryLeadership Development

Missions

Church’s Perspective

Win Lost

Build Believers

Equip Workers

Develop Leaders

Send Missionaries

Individual's Perspective

Membership

Maturity

MinistryMultiply

Life Mission

Statement Effectiveness

1. Stated in terms of results rather than activities.

2. Encourages participation by every member.

3. Arranged in sequential process

Sample Mission

• The mission of our church is to win lost people to our church family, to build believers into fully devoted disciples, to equip them for ministry, to develop leaders and to send out missionaries.

Your Mission

The End

Key Books