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.

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

6. The Roundabout

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