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Event #6

Explore the parable of the fig tree and reflect on how to be more fruitful in your own life and congregation.

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Event #6

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  1. Event #6

  2. Devos

  3. Interactive Bible StudyLuke 13:6-9 Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. So he said to the gardener, ‘See here! For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and still I find none. Cut it down! Why should it be wasting the soil?’

  4. He replied, ‘Sir, let it alone for one more year, until I dig around it and put manure on it. If it bears fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.’ 

  5. Questions for Reflection • What might need to be pruned in your own life to be more fruitful? In your congregation? • What “fertilizer” might your congregation need to be more fruitful in the future? • What do you find challenging about this parable? • What gives you hope?

  6. Reporting BackAnyone Got Something to Share?

  7. Purpose, Principles and Priorities • Purpose: Why God has you here • Principles: Behaviors you exhibit when you are at your best (reveal core values) • Priorities: Where God wants you to focus time and resources

  8. “PAWN” PROCESS Where We have Been and Where We Are Going: A Way of Being in Ministry

  9. We Are Wired With “Churchy” Eyes

  10. Our Process Grounded in the Great Commandment of Jesus: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind; and you shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

  11. Three overlapping spaces – not three sequential steps.

  12. Three overlapping spaces – not three sequential steps.

  13. Three overlapping spaces – not three sequential steps.

  14. Ways to Know and Be Known in a Community • Demographics • Prayer Walks • Wandering and Watching • Interviews • Regular Presence • Be Outside More • ...

  15. Three overlapping spaces – not three sequential steps.

  16. Ways to Know the Congregation More Fully • Guided discussions • Progressive dinners • Non-business congregational meetings (no decisions allowed!) • Dialog sermons with feedback • Small groups • Interview individuals • Visiting in people’s homes • ...

  17. The Importance of Action(Your summer projects)

  18. Articulate the Larger Strategy

  19. Let’s Take a Break!

  20. Implementing and Sustaining the Work

  21. A. Purpose • Establish a clear purpose • Embed the purpose in your people

  22. B. Principles: • Establish guiding principles. “When we are at our best you will see us...” • Preach and teach on these • Teach people to use them • Principles are the basis for your vision • Help people talk about them and give them tools for sharing them.

  23. C. Priorities • Establish priorities – the places where we focus our energy and resources • Set annual goals/objectives for each priority at least twice a year

  24. C. Working on PrioritiesGetting It Done • Assign leaders and develop working teams to oversee/carry out each goal • Teams make the plans • Someone serves as “project manager” • Teams implement the work (with others as helpful)

  25. C. Working on PrioritiesThe People Dimension • Build relational accountability to help leaders succeed • Celebrate successes and learn from failures

  26. Doing the Work Priority 1 Priority 2 Priority 3 Ideas for Each priority People work On Ideas (teams) Teams come and go as needed

  27. D. Building teams(2 or more people to do something) • Teams are more activist and less long term than traditional committees • Teams are more focused on a specific goal or project – less general oversight • Teams form and disband in the flow of ministry. • Teams focus on what we DO but involve others rather than over see and plan and hope someone does it.

  28. Going Back • When you get your strategy articulated (in the fall) you will be encouraged to go back and share • Let’s them know you listened • Shares where they and you can be partners • Expands the relationships

  29. E. Adjust your council work to monitor goals in priorities first! • If priorities are priorities then council meetings need to reflect that. • Move and/or change what council spends its time and energy on • Do annual assessments in conjunction with annual plans (at least twice a year)

  30. Coaching for Implementation

  31. Questions?

  32. Lunch Time

  33. Spiritual GrowthThe Foundation for Your Work

  34. God is Essential to the Work “When we invite people to reconceive their own mission and the congregation’s mission, it becomes much richer when we stop wanting to know what we can do and open ourselves up to what God can help us to do.” Paul Scott Wilson

  35. Many of us struggle to find our faith impacting our daily life choices More developed Faith life Less developed Faith life

  36. Salvation by grace – the Lutheran motto(Less than half of us actually believe this)

  37. Spiritual Practices of Disciples • Bible (study and devotional reading) • Prayer (in one or more of many forms) • Generosity (within and outside the “church”) • Intentional Community (worship and relational groups) • Engaging the world (service, justice and evangelism)

  38. Cohort Time • In your cohorts discuss: • What spiritual practices do you currently practice on a regular basis? • How does your congregation currently ensure that everyone is exposed to, trained in and encouraged to practice a variety of practices? • What have you learned and/or accomplished as a result of the R3 process? • As you go home, what next steps do the partners in your cohort need to take?

  39. Q & A

  40. The “Final” (intermediate) Product • Purpose – Why does God have us here? • Principles – Values which shape us at our best • Priorities – Where does God want us to focus our energy? • Plans – What will we do and who will do it? • Practice – Do it! • Picture – What vision does this inspire?

  41. Looking at the Your Assignment Seeing Through New Eyes “What is God doing and saying through our neighbors?”

  42. Cohorts • Use your cohort time to share and process your strategy and how clearly you are stating it. • Share stories and help prepare for our next event • Looking back • Looking forward

  43. Our R3 ScheduleNext Event is ReunionMarch 30, 2019

  44. Blessing and Sending

  45. Between EventsA Reminder/Update • Teams Meet Right Away • Coaching Sessions • Set up ahead (Did you do the entire sequence schedule in the first unit?) • NEVER leave a coaching session without the next date confirmed • Cohort Meetings • Check that teams do their homework!

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