Discernment and Decision Making for Your Church's Future
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This document discusses different methods for a church to make decisions: authority, majority vote, and discernment. It states that discernment involves small groups intuitively finding the right path and entrusting the decision to them. Discernment is described as a long but resource-providing process. The document also examines different phases a church may go through - transition, management, and deepening - and provides examples of characteristics for each phase.
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Discernment and Decision Making for Your Church's Future
- 1. Using Discernment to Make Decisions A Reality Check 101 Workshop by Bill Kemp
- 2. Someone having difficulties with the new reality
- 3. Deciding your church’s future: ✓We could let an expert decide ✓We could take a vote ✓Perhaps, we should try discernment
- 4. 3 ways to make a decision Authority, Majority, and Discernment (consensus)
- 5. 3 ways to make a decision IMPLEMENTATION RANGE PROCESS TIME LEADERSHIP EXPECTATION Authority Soon Short Decisiveness Majority Weeks or Months Medium Fairness Discernment Long Long Resource provider
- 6. Study & Prayer Discernment involves entrusting small groups to intuitively find the right path
- 7. Transition Phase - Congregation is discerning it’s calling, identity, and process (wilderness) Management Phase - Congregation is changing to stick to its path I wash, I rinse, I dry... then I do it all over again! Deepening Phase - Congregation is nurturing a transformative faith
- 8. Transition Phase - Congregation focuses on healing, adapting to change, developing healthy decision making processes, reconnecting with the denomination, and redefining the pastoral role
- 9. Deepening Phase - Spiritual formation is achieved through more worship, study, fellowship, and mission related activities
- 10. Management Phase - Work is done to realign church structures with church mission, vocation, and current reality
- 11. What Cycle is Your Church in?
- 12. Which restaurant is your church? Mary’s Buffet
Editor's Notes
- Vision-ing is a particular form of decision making. It involves decisions made for the long haul. It requires discernment. If a family moves into a new home, how do they decide where to put the new clothes line? They could just trust the husband to make a decision based on his control of the tools (Authority). Or they could take a vote (Majority). Or they could discuss each of their long term hopes for using the backyard and come to an intuitive decision based upon how their various concerns and hopes interacted. This last way to make a decision is similar to discernment.
- Vision-ing is a particular form of decision making. It involves decisions made for the long haul. It requires discernment. If a family moves into a new home, how do they decide where to put the new clothes line? They could just trust the husband to make a decision based on his control of the tools (Authority). Or they could take a vote (Majority). Or they could discuss each of their long term hopes for using the backyard and come to an intuitive decision based upon how their various concerns and hopes interacted. This last way to make a decision is similar to discernment.