3. Strengths Finder 2.0
• Most people
think they know
what they are
good at. They are
usually wrong
…. And yet, a
person can
perform only
from strength.”
• Peter Drucker
Strength =
Talent X
Investment
4. I Am a Church Member
“I noted in my
research that church
conflict was
increasing. Over
one-half of the
conflict issues dealt
with church
members arguing
over their personal
preferences.”
The attitude
that makes
the difference.
5. Crisis Mode!
•
•
•
•
You were in it!
We are in it together!
BUT
“I thought we were doing just fine now!”
– 93 new families
– 15% growth in attendance
– 20% growth in membership
– 16 baptisms in 2013 (+ 2 so far in 2014)
– 25 new members (2013 + so far in 2014)
6. Leadership Structure
• Governance:
• Leadership:
• Management:
• Ministry:
Congregation & Elected
Oversight Team
through Guiding Principles
and Constitution
Senior Pastor &
[Executive Function]
Staff (Paid and Volunteer)
Members
8. Zeal Is More!
• Galatians 4:18
– It is fine to be zealous, provided
the purpose is good, and to be so
always, not just when I am with
you. (NIV)
– If someone is eager to do good
things for you, that's all right; but
let them do it all the time, not just
when I'm with you. (NLT)
9. A Church With Zeal
• Acts 2:42-47
–
They devoted themselves to the apostles’
teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of
bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with
awe at the many wonders and signs
performed by the apostles. All the believers
were together and had everything in common.
They sold property and possessions to give to
anyone who had need. Every day they
continued to meet together in the temple
courts. They broke bread in their homes and
ate together with glad and sincere hearts,
praising God and enjoying the favor of all the
people. And the Lord added to their number
daily those who were being saved.
10. A Church With Zeal
• Acts 2:42-47
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
A learning church
A fellowshipping church
A praying church
A reverent church
A happening church
A sharing church
A worshipping church
A happy church
A popular church
A growing church
13. Where Zeal Is Applied
1. Personal
2. Home
2 Peter 1:5-9
For this very reason, make every effort to add to
your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge;
and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control,
perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and
to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual
affection, love. For if you possess these qualities
in increasing measure, they will keep you from
being ineffective and unproductive in your
knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But whoever
does not have them is nearsighted and blind,
forgetting that they have been cleansed from their
past sins.
14. Where Zeal Is Applied
1. Personal
2. Home
3. FRANs
Friends Relatives Associates Neighbours
"The world is far more ready to receive the
gospel than Christians are to hand it out"
George W. Peters
15. Where Zeal Is Applied
1.
2.
3.
4.
Personal
Home
FRANs
Church
16. Where Zeal Is Applied
1.
2.
3.
4.
Personal
Home
FRANs
Church
“The church is the indispensible filling
station where zeal is replenished.”
17. The Church With Zeal
• Six attitudes that make all the
difference.
18. The Church With Zeal
1. I will be a functioning church
member.
– 1 Corinthians 12:12
Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but
all its many parts form one body
– 1 Corinthians 12:26-27
If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if
one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
Now you are the body of Christ, and each one
of you is a part of it.
19. The Church With Zeal
2. I will be a unifying church
member.
– John 13:35
By this everyone will know that you are my
disciples, if you love one another.
20. The Church With Zeal
3. I will not let my church be
about my preferences and
desires
– Mark 9:35
Anyone who wants to be first must be the very
last, and the servant of all.
21. The Church With Zeal
• The Inward Focused Church
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Worship wars
Prolonged minutia meetings
Facility focus
Program driven
Inwardly focused budget
Inordinate demands for care
Attitudes of entitlement
Greater concern about change than the Gospel
Anger and hostility
Evangelistic apathy
22. The Church With Zeal
4. I will pray for my church
leaders.
– 1 Timothy 3:2-5
Now the overseer is to be above reproach,
faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled,
respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given
to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not
quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must
manage his own family well and see that his
children obey him, and he must do so in a
manner worthy of full respect. (If anyone does
not know how to manage his own family, how
can he take care of God’s church?)
23. The Church With Zeal
5. I will lead my family to be
healthy church members.
– Ephesians 5:25-30
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved
the church and gave himself up for her to make
her holy, cleansing her by the washing with
water through the word, and to present her to
himself as a radiant church, without stain or
wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and
blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to
love their wives as their own bodies. He who
loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one
ever hated their own body, but they feed and
care for their body, just as Christ does the
church— for we are members of his body.
24. The Church With Zeal
6. I will treasure church
membership as a gift.
25. The Church With Zeal
• NOT like a restaurant where you
get to choose from a menu but a
family where you eat the meal set
before you.
26. The Church With Zeal
• NOT like a store where you
wander the aisles deciding what
to buy but like a theatre backstage
experience where you learn your
role.
27. The Church With Zeal
• NOT like a diversion where you
engage based on whims or
immediate needs but a place of
commitment where you
demonstrate the Lord’s work
comes before all other possible
uses of time, talent and treasure.
28. The Church With Zeal
• NOT like a dysfunctional family
where people live in silence and
don’t share and work out their
differences but a healthy family
where everyone respects the
others and submits to them.
29. The Church With Zeal
• NOT like a charity where you
decide to support based on the
personal appeal of a cause but a
covenant group where you join
with others and support the
family.
30. The Church With Zeal
• NOT like a workplace where
everyone has a better idea than
the boss but a spiritual team
where everyone sets their
personal ideas and preferences
into the framework of the greater
cause.
31. Why?
• “The church is the indispensible
filling station where zeal is
replenished.”
