There are a few notes I jotted down from this talk:
*Everyone of us is emotionally attached in how we do ministry.
*Are we leaders or people pleaser's?
*The local church rarely gets serious about change until the money runs out?
*What is in decline? What are we manufacturing energy for?
*What assumptions do we have that are driving our decisions?
*Fall in love with the mission, be infatuated with your system.
*As culture changes so should our assumptions. Not our mission.
My thoughts:
It is difficult to really evaluate a lot of our systems based on the lack of programs and the length in which we have been a church. I think many of these questions will be better next summer as we take a look back and look for area of improvement and overhaul.
I like their willingness to confront redundancy in efforts to combat having stuff on the calender. 7:22 and kidstuff are big things in NorthPoint.
We have to be daring in our mission while at the same time be committed to doing the leg work to build the necessary momentum. Jim Collins in Good to Great calls is The Flywheel. The effort we are putting in today (if attached in the mission properly) will build momentum for the future.
Questions to respond to:
1. Where are we currently building momentum that you believe will have a positive effect tomorrow?
2. Is there already something in decline in our church that we need to address? Secondly, are we manufacturing energy anywhere?
3. Do you have any additional thoughts about the podcast?
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I wrote this before I saw Brandon's post so I am sorry if it is redundant or doesn't quite get any of the questions answered but it is what I have for now...
How are all of the different things we have going on as a staff
working towards our goal of loving God by loving people?
What are the assumptions we are operating on? In service, Sunday
mornings, Bible studies?
Is there anything we are putting energy into that is not bearing much
fruit?
Could there possibly be something that we should already think about
changing or nixing?
I think it might be likely that these questions prove more valuable in
the future than now. Maybe if we asked these questions as we begin
pragrams and projects. As a matter of fact I don't know if we can
really ask these questions about anything but Sunday morning. Since
that is really the only program we have had for any amount of time.
Andy's pocast was great. I actually kept thinking that this talk would have been good and challenging when I lead ministry at The Ridge - but like Bag and Jake said, we should listen to this again next summer.
I feel that we are builing momentum in the serving the schools - a few more people are on board with ESL night and asking themselves, "How can I feed Lake Worth." The seeds we plan now will just keep growing in the future. Like Bag talked about on Sunday, people will be thanking God for the generousity of Merge people.
Bag and Jake had great questions that I am still thinking about in my head. I like the assumption question - I will get back with more answers.
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