Ministry Then. Now! There?

1. Ministry Then. Now! There? • How has ministry changed over the past 20+ years? • What are you gleaning from around the state from your pastors? • What would you say to our students – the future church leaders?

4. How has ministry changed over the last 20+ years? • Communication – From printed to digital • Preaching – From proclamation to engaging • Worship – From a weekly program or gathering to an encounter with God • Music – From songs/hymns that fit up to 3 generations to music that can have a life span measured in months. • Worship Aids – From sound to lighting, media and sound.

5. How has ministry changed over the last 20+ years? • Visitation – From checking a list to purposeful and intentional . . . from homes to office • Evangelism – From “sharing a plan” to “sharing your life” • Relationships – From face recognition/fellowship to true friendship. • Leadership – From controlling to empowering • Vision – From pastor’s vision to shared vision • Technology – Has impacted everything!

6. Strategetics • A shorthand language of leadership thoughts, theories and techniques. • Taught by Keith Drury to youth leaders in the 1980’s Strategetics

7. Traditions Strategetics

8. Traditions - Yesterday’s innovations (Innovations: tomorrow’s traditions) Strategetics

9. Today’s problems Strategetics

10. Today’s problems -”Yesterday’s solutions” (Today’s solutions = Tomorrow’s problems) Strategetics

11. What are you hearing from pastors? • What we have been doing is not working. • For many of our congregations, if they closed after service this Sunday, it would make little, if any, difference in the community. • However, there is still resistance to change.

12. What are you hearing from pastors? For the things that matter most: • Resource Us • Measure Us • Holds us accountable From others: • “Get off my back!”

13. Dissatisfaction Strategetics

14. Dissatisfaction – One word definition of motivation. Strategetics

15. To Future Leaders . . . • To minister in a traditional church setting will require a sense of call and patience!

16. 20% per year Strategetics

17. 20% per year -Maximum amount of change humans can tolerate without “pushback.” Strategetics

18. To Future Leaders . . . • Think strongly about forming interdependent teams for ministry. (Pastor/leader is the “first among equals”.) • Your first consideration should be church planting . . . the most effective way to reach those unchurched. • We desperately need some different kinds of churches.

19. The Church Needs Your . . . • Life – most of it is ahead of you. • Passion • Commitment • Heart for God • Ideas • Understanding • The church must make room for you around the decision table!

20. You need the church . . . • Direction • Accountability • Support • Structure

21. I still believe . . . • The church – the body of Christ - is the hope of the world.

22. 1x100 > 100x90 Strategetics

23. 1x100 > 100x90 --God can get more done through one person who is 100% committed than 100 people who are only 90% committed. --Leroy Eimes Strategetics

24. Critical Mass Strategetics

25. Critical Mass Starting small in order to do something big. Strategetics

26. Small Sprocket Strategetics

27. Small Sprocket – We are the small sprocket when trying to effect change. Strategetics

28. Life Wedge Strategetics

29. Life Wedge – The wedge with the sharpest angle drives the deepest. The focused life Strategetics

30. Risk Strategetics

31. Risk “All risk is not leadership but all leadership involves risk” Strategetics

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