This document outlines an early ministry institute taking place from May 4-8, 2014 at the Stony Point Conference Center. The institute will focus on developing a 3-dimensional vision for churches and Christians encompassing doxological (glorifying God), koinonial (growing disciples), and missional (meeting human need) elements. It provides resources and strategies for developing ministry teams, defining a congregational vision, growing disciples, and navigating transitional periods in ministry. Key aspects include developing a profile of a disciple, emphasizing small group ministry, and practicing spiritual disciplines like a rule of life and protected planning time.

1. Early Ministry Institute
May 4-8, 2014Stony Point Conference
Center

2. Ministry Design

3. Incline
Recline
Decline

5. Doxological
Koinonial Missional
The 3-D Church

6. Glorify God
Grow
Disciples
Meet
Human
Need
The 3-D Christian Life

7. Align your personal
lifestyle and that of your
people with your
congregational vision

8. Doxological
Koinonial Missional
—seven lifestyle practices and seven strategic domains—

9. Worship Instruction
Fellowship Expression
Acts 2:42-47
Leadership and Support

10. Doxological
Koinonial Missional
—seven lifestyle practices and seven strategic domains—

11. Jack Stewart “Envisioning the Congregation” (to be
released Eerdmans)
E. Stanley Ott “Twelve Dynamic Shifts for Transforming
Your Church”
Andy Stanley “Deep and Wide”
Russ Crabtree “Owlsight”
Rick Warren “The Purpose Driven Church
Christian Swartz “Natural Church
Development”

12. The Acts 16:5 InitiativeThe Acts 16:5 Initiative
Develop a Defining VisionDevelop a Defining Vision

13. Doxological
Koinonial Missional
A 3-D
Vision

14. Esprit de Corps =
The spirit of the Body

15. We must be theWe must be the
people of Godpeople of God
before we do thebefore we do the
work of thework of the
people of Godpeople of God

16. www.vitalchurchesinstitute.com

17. Valuing People: the 4 S’sValuing People: the 4 S’s
No SecretsNo Secrets
No SubversionNo Subversion
No SurprisesNo Surprises
(Lots of) Support(Lots of) Support William J. CarlWilliam J. Carl

18. Makrothumia
•long temper
•Patience
•The grace of getting
along

19. Love is a willingness
to be frustrated!
Bernard Harnik

20. Friends of the Road
Friends of the Heart

21. The Emmaus Meal
www.VitalChurchesInstitute.com
Username: Emmaus Password: hospitality

22. People Eyes – the eyes ofPeople Eyes – the eyes of
Jesus for peopleJesus for people
Check out the sermon, “Get Over Yourself”
www.Viennapres.org 3-16-14

23. Pizazz
And
Commitment

24. Doxological
Koinonial Missional
A 3-D
Vision

25. Virtually every study reveals our
diminishing fruitfulness
in growing disciples of Jesus – by
almost any measure!
Stephen Prothero: Religious Literacy

26. Growing Disciples –
with the “end” in mind

27. The “end” in mind is not:
Sunday School classes
Bible classes
seminars
small groups
mentoring
spiritual direction
These are MEANS not ends!

28. Growing
disciples
with the
end in
mind

29. Two well- known “Profiles of a Disciple” – offering an
“end in mind” in developing Christ-followers:
Celebration of Discipline – Richard Foster
The Spirit of the Disciplines – Dallas Willard
See also Spiritual Disciplines Handbook - Adele Ahlberg
Calhoun
The issue isn’t that you must use of these works but
using the works of others and perhaps your own
assessment, the issue is to have clear expression of the
essential marks of a mature Christ-follower. You may
then work to grow those marks into the livesof those who
are with you for the rest of your life!
Adele Ahlberg Calhoun:
Spiritual Disciplines Handbook

30. A Profile of a Disciple
Doxological - Know, love and Experience the God who loves us
Faith in Jesus
Weekly worship (Experiencing God)
Daily devotional life
The fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23)
Koinonial - Equip and care for the people God gives us
Private meals with friends and strangers
Participate in a face-to-face group (Equipping the People
Commit a percent of my income to God’s work of God)
Serve my church with specific ministry
Missional - Engage the World to which God sends us
Complete my work with excellence
Offer the compassion of Jesus (Engaging our world)
Bear witness to Jesus
Stand up for what is right.

31. The Seven Habits of the Burning Heart A Profile of a Disciple
The Seal of John Calvin

32. The Power of Small
Multiplying Triads and Quads
(The Principle of Multiplication)

33. While the classroom model does still impart
information today, it is no longer as effective as
it once was in actual life-transformation into
the image of Jesus.
A strategy for growing disciples: smaller is
bigger. Begin with a triad, quad or quint, meet
weekly for the school year using serious Bible
material and then “send” (and help) each
participant get her or his triad/quad/quint for
the next school year.

35. Focus on a few:
the pastor as disciple and disciple-grower

36. WORD
SHARE
PRAYER
Send to ministry and mission
© 2004 E. Stanley Ott

39. Thirty-Day Prayer Covenants
Invite people, one to one, to pray for you and
for herself or himself even as you will pray for
them and yourself – daily.
An excellent prayer – among many in Scripture
(and you may also write your own) is Ephesians
3:16-19

40. 16 that God would grant me and _____,
according to the riches of God’s glory, to
be strengthened with power through God’
Spirit in the inner person, 17 so that Christ
may dwell in our hearts through faith; and
that we, being rooted and grounded in
love, 18 may be able to comprehend with
all the saints what is the breadth and
length and height and depth, 19 and to
know the love of Christ which surpasses
knowledge, that we may be filled up to all
the fullness of God.

41. Doxological
Koinonial Missional
A 3-D
Vision

42. © 20013 E. Stanley Ott

43. Change Matters

44. Transitional

45. Flux is not merely
“change.” Flux is
continuous change.

46. Some things are not in flux!
The Love of the God who
Sustains us
The love of the people of
God who encourage us
Our love for those to
Whom God sends us

47. Yet many things are in flux!
DJ Patil explains, "There are
sometimes when you can predict
weather well for the next 15 days.
Other times, you can only really
forecast a couple of days. Sometimes
you can't predict the next two hours."
The business [and ministry] climate, it
turns out, is a lot like the weather.
We've entered a next two-hours era.

48. http://www.wimp.com/dadipad/

49. In times of rapid change
what you know can mislead you.
Michael Marquardt

51. The Cynevin Framework

52. 10% Technical
What are we going to do?
90% Tactical
How to keep people on board?!
The 10-90 Rule

53. The Power of Ministry Teams:
a leadership group that grows the
discipleship of its members and the
friendships among them while
accomplishing its vision and enables a
continuity of leadership.
See “Tranform Your Church with Ministry
Teams” – E. Stanley Ott

54. Ministry TeamsMinistry Teams
Three Dimensional – God, each otherThree Dimensional – God, each other
workwork
1.1.Word Share Prayer each meetingWord Share Prayer each meeting
2.2.Rotate prayer partners each meetingRotate prayer partners each meeting
3.3.Eat together quarterlyEat together quarterly
4.4.Go on an annual 24 hour planningGo on an annual 24 hour planning
retreatretreat

55. Layering – deliberately introduce one “layer”
at a time every three months.

56. The SessionThe Session
Pastor lead (don’t dominate - lead) thePastor lead (don’t dominate - lead) the
nominating process – and thenominating process – and the
invitationsinvitations
Model the practices of a ministry teamModel the practices of a ministry team

58. Vision TeamVision Team
Pastor ledPastor led
Works with and is subordinate toWorks with and is subordinate to
SessionSession
People of imagination andPeople of imagination and
initiativeinitiative

59. Staff Team:
Five Dysfunctions of a Team - Lencioni

60. Nemawashi!
© 2006 E. Stanley Ott

62. The Barnabas Leadership Group
A Presbytery-Based Process to develop the leadership capacity
of pastors, CRE’s, candidates and elders.

63. Self-Leadership

64. imperative
A command
Plural
For all of
us
Present
Now and
Every now
Passive
To be done
“to us” so
YIELD!
Be Filled
Tend to you own yieldedness to the Spirit’s
presence now – and every now. In the Greek,
he verb, “be filled” is PPPP:

66. The Law of
Present Demand
“Learn to live with the load of the unfinished.”
Bob Oerter

67. A Rule of Life
ruleoflife.com
Spiritual Disciplines Handbook:
Practices that Transform Us
– Ahlberg Calhoun

68. QT – PT - PPT

69. PPT =
Protected Planning Time
Do Lists + Your calendar
© 20013 E. Stanley Ott

70. © 20013 E. Stanley Ott
PPT
PPT = Protected Planning Time. An
hour a week, offline, to clarify
priorities for the coming week and
your to-do list.
PPT is a discipline that manages and
shapes your to-do list – which helps
clarify your vision, set and
accomplish goals – not just what you
need to do but what you want to do
with others – with the implied
leadership moments.

71. © 20013 E. Stanley Ott
For helpful insights on the PPT
check out:
“The Weekly Review McGhee”
http://www.mcgheepro.com/MPSWebsit
e/media/Documents/PDF%20Docs/The-
Weekly-Review.pdf

72. Life Management Skills
Utilized Laura Stack type books

73. Memory in Ministry!

74. Dr. William J. Carl III on preaching without
notes:
http://theshortpreacher.blogspot.com/2012/02/dr
You will well served if you commit the basic
words of the following services to memory (in
other words, you life will be easier and your
people appreciative:
Communion
Baptism
The Memorial Service – missing the particulars
of the individual – both sanctuary and
graveside
The Wedding

75. Greek: the more you
know the more educated
you are!

76. Hebrew: you are as
educated as you do what
you know!

77. Moving from Greek to Hebrew equals “transfer”
of concepts into into life.
We have covered many very useful concepts in
the practice of vital ministry.
If you focus on a couple – such as Word-Share-
Prayer and the People Eyes – or pick your two –
and actually integrate them into your ministry
you will see new fruit – then pick a couple more!
Otherwise you will think, “Here are lots of good
ideas and wind up with no real shifts.
May our loving Lord greatly encourage you! Stan

78. The Acts 16:5 InitiativeThe Acts 16:5 Initiative
Develop a Defining VisionDevelop a Defining Vision

79. The Barnabas Leadership Group