Getting off the Roundabout
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Many churches today are going around and around and not performing the vocation they were called to do. This workshop helps church leaders get off the roundabout and head down one of the four paths that God might be calling their church to walk on.
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Getting off the Roundabout
- 1. Getting off of the Roundabout A Reality Check 101 Workshop by Bill Kemp
- 2. Useless to Useful Jesus says: What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it? It is like an itty bitty acorn (Bill’s translation) Yet when planted, it grows and becomes a mighty oak, with such big branches that the birds can perch in its shade.”
- 4. What do we need to be useful? a heart courage a brain Bacon
- 5. The Yellow Brick road was: Before 1950: promoting your denomination’s Theology Before 1980: having a Program for everyone Today: doing what you are Called to do
- 7. Best Road Enter here Lovely Heart Highway Tomorrowland Pike Chapel Road
- 8. The Roundabout The church can... ✤Take pride in its Legacy ✤Change to be Authentic for the next generation ✤Love like Jesus ✤Strive for Quality
- 9. Play the hand you have been dealt
- 10. Exit 1: Chapel Lane This slow meandering path leads you towards fixing your building(s) and caring for your members.
- 11. Legacy (Hospice) Churches Shift focus from building as idol to building as gift Look for ways to balance care for current members with wise stewardship of kingdom resources Stop looking for savior and start looking for wilderness guide
- 12. Exit 2: Tomorrow Land Pike New poorly marked road is headed towards doing the things that will attract the next generation to church.
- 13. Ordained Expert Material Concerns Hierarchy Friends Relationships Networks
- 14. Friends, Relationships, Networks “The more you see how strangely Nature behaves, the harder it is to make a model that explains how even the simplest phenomena actually work. So [we’ve] given up on that.” -Richard Feynman
- 15. “Only an idiot would chase what used to be... A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.” - Wayne Gretzky
- 16. Exit 3: Loving Heart Highway Toll road; you must be willing to spend time and money to help others.
- 17. What local issues and needs is your church called to respond to?
- 18. Today, all evangelism is need-based Some churches merge exits two and three
- 19. Exit 4: Best Road Standing out from the crowd by being the best in your region
- 20. Search: Bradford, Pa Churches This expressway leads the church into the marketplace, where you will advertise the one or two things that you do better than other churches in the region.
- 21. Church leaders must ask: “Why would someone drive by other churches to come to ours?”
- 22. Churches don’t die by losing members
- 23. Spiritual Passion is the product of people Praying (and expecting results), studying the Bible (and finding it relevant), Witnessing with joy, and Worshiping in a heartfelt way. ✤ Fellowship ✤ Prayer ✤ Study ✤ Mission/witness
Editor's Notes
- I don’t know if Oakmont has done any goal setting or long range planning retreats. I remember a couple years ago every church in the conference was supposed to write a mission statement. What I found was that you get 10 people together in a room, you’ll come up with 11 ideas about the church’s mission. So often times churches will write the long rambling mission statements that don’t mean a thing, or...