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Cultivating Vital Congregations

Discover how to foster life-changing relationships within your congregation, measure vitality, and navigate change cycles to stay relevant in a changing world. This presentation provides practical tools and insights for building a more vibrant church community.

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Cultivating Vital Congregations

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  1. Cultivating VitalCongregations Presentation to Mission Developers August 25, 2017- Cherry Hills Village, CO Linda Bobbitt Congregational Vitality Project

  2. Congregations with life-changing relationships with God, one another and the world. The Holy Spirit breaths through these relationships moving us to live out: Great Commandment Great Commission What is a vital congregation?

  3. Measuring Vitality: Congregational Vitality Survey

  4. Programs Resources Admin/Gov. Culture/Attitudes Local Context Relationships Leadership Mission/Purpose God’s Presence How do we help congregations be vital? Core Identity

  5. Change cycles

  6. Identity established – who we are and what we are all about Crisis question: Shall we continue and if so, why? Congregation starting points Alan Roxburgh and Fred Romanuk, The Missional Leader: Equipping Your Church to Reach a Changing World

  7. Build Imagine Escape Vitality looks different in different seasons

  8. Congregation’s life cycle Congregation’s seasons Programs, volunteers, program staff Interacting systems within congregations

  9. Assumes clear problem and solution (goal) • Assumes there are known steps to achieving the goal • Limited by current imagination and established identity BUILD: Traditional strategic change model

  10. Adaptive Change Journey ESCAPEIMAGINE: From Crisis to Choice Gilbert Rendle: Leading Change in the Congregation: Spiritual & Organizational Tools for Leaders

  11. What if God is building something different?

  12. Adaptive change starts with steps

  13. From activity to impact: Engaging in change that sticksSeven “I”s: Critical conditions for adaptive change

  14. Intentional Invested Make space and time for this work. Make it a priority in the life of the congregation. Invested in outcomes relationally, emotionally, spiritually, financially. Intimate Participants are part of one another’s lives and genuinely care about the other’s wellbeing enough to take risks. Integrated This work is not done in a silo but is integrated into the rest of the congregation and its community.

  15. Internal Team leadership comes from both clergy and lay leaders. Outside facilitators, trainers and coaches can assist, but they aren’t leading the effort. Inspired This work is understood as being inspired by the Holy Spirit. The Spirit is seen as active and presently walking with the congregation and leading it forward. The Spirit is expected and trusted to show up. A deep trust in God means there is no fear of failure. Imagination It is expected that this process will challenge and ultimately expand the congregation’s imagination. When experiments appear to fail, leaders reflect and look to the lessons learned in the “failure”.

  16. How do create more vital congregations? Where is God going next and how does the church join in? Our questions impact our imaginations.

  17. Interacting systems – congregations, denom., culture

  18. What if God is building something entirely new?

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