The Future of Leadership in Congregations workshop explores what the leadership of congregations will be like as new social models change organizational models.

1. The Future of Leadership
in Congregations
Dr. Ed Brenegar
Community of Leadership, LLC

2. CIRCLE OF IMPACT
Three Dimensions of Leadership
Four Connecting Ideas

3. FIVE TRANSITIONS

4. LEADERSHIP
Leaders take Initiative to
Create Impact
Leadership is Open to Everyone.
Church is a Community of Leaders

5. LEADERSHIP
Do What You Can Do
Invite Others To Do What They
Can Do
Leadership is a Shared
Responsibility

6. MEMBERSHIP
From Member to Personal Call
From Institution to Community
From Spectator to Participant
From Consumer to Contributor

7. WORSHIP
Shift from an Entertainment-
oriented Spectator experience to
A Worship of Christ-focused
Engagement of Spiritual
Formation and Missional Sending.

8. STEWARDSHIP
Shift from a Budget Focus to
a Whole Life Discipleship Focus,
Centered in the Practice of
Gratitude and Generosity.

9. COMMUNICATION
Shift from an Occasional,
Distribution of Information to
An immediate, two-way interaction
that builds trust, understanding
and commitment.

10. HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE

11. NETWORK OF RELATIONSHIPS

12. A COMMUNITY OF LEADERS

13. FIVE GUIDES
to
21 Century Leadership
st
in Congregations

14. Impact
Make A Difference That Matters
You Are Creating Change.
What Difference does this
Make?

15. Initiative
A Decision to Act, to do something
that makes a difference that
matters.
This is Leadership.
We all can do it.

16. Gratitude
Not a Feeling, but Five Actions.
Say Thanks
Give Back
Make Welcome
Honor Others
Create Goodness

17. Relationships
Central
Values
Respect / Trust
Shared Responsibility

18. Life as Worship
Our Lives are an Expression of
What We Love
Our Call from God is a sign of
what is our heart’s desire.

19. Life as Worship
We desire for our lives to be:
Personally Meaningful
Socially Fulfilling
Make A Difference That Matters

20. FIVE QUESTIONS

21. FIVE QUESTIONS
1. What has Changed?

22. FIVE QUESTIONS
2. What is My Impact?

23. FIVE QUESTIONS
3. Who am I Impacting?

24. FIVE QUESTIONS
4. What are my
Opportunities to Create
Impact Now?

25. FIVE QUESTIONS
5. What Keeps from Me
from Creating Impact
Now?

26. QUESTIONS

27. Contact:
Dr. Ed Brenegar
ed@edbrenegar.com
Leading Questions blog:
http://edbrenegar.typepad.com
At the Table of Thanks: Presbyterian Life and
Mission for the 21st Century blog:
http://edbrenegar.typepad.com
/at_the_table_of_thanks/