Recharge Session 2

Personal and Corporate Spiritual Discipline

Session Agenda

1. Reconnect with your coaching group (if applicable).

2. Share a devotion and prayer.

3. Discuss Celebration of Discipline with these questions:

What did you hear from the Lord while reading this book?
How did it apply to you and to your church?
What steps can you take to apply it your life?

4. Review “The Priority of Prayer” outline. Discuss the article with these questions:

Has God revealed any personal adjustments to your personal prayer life?
How can you harness the power of prayer in the life of your church?
What are your plans for developing a prayer team in your church?

The Priority of Prayer

I. Developing an understanding of the priority of prayer.
II. Developing your personal prayer life.
III. Developing your intercessory prayer team.
IV. Developing a praying church.

6. Review each church assessment in the group (if applicable). What can we learn from the data you’ve collected?

7. Review the demographic report for your area provided by MissionInsite.

What are the implications for each leader and church?
Who is church serving: those within the church, those outside the church or both groups?
What people group or groups live within the community that no one is reaching for Christ?
What can the church do to reach them?
Is there a need for new congregations, new ministries, new Bible teaching groups and new leaders?

8. Complete the Outreach Focus Worksheet to further clarify the church’s outreach focus.

Outreach Focus Worksheet

List your top 5 segments.
What segments is your church positioned to reach NOW?
Name the segments you could reach with minimal changes.
What ideas might work for these segments?

9. Read the “Understanding and Applying Demographics” outline. Answer the “Key Questions” in the first section to continue your discussion about community research and its implications for your church. What’s the takeaway from the four steps?

Understanding and Applying Demographics

Step 1: Focus Attention
Step 2: Interpret Data
Step 3: Dig Deeper
Step 4: Put It All Together

10. To Do Items

Ask members of your Church Leadership Team to complete “The Vital Signs of a Healthy Church” Assessment.
Order Advanced Strategic Planning by Aubrey Malphurs for each member of your Church Leadership Team.
Finalize any incomplete research assignments from Sessions 1 and 2.
Collect any additional demographic information needed to finish your church and community research assignment.

Meeting 3 Prep

(to be completed in preparation for Meeting 3)

Read Deep Change by Robert E. Quinn. Prepare to discuss how it applies to you and to your church at the next meeting.

Read “What Kind of Leader Can Grow a Church?” by Everett Anthony. Write down some implications from this blog post that apply to your life.

Select your Church Leadership Team Members if you haven’t done so and write down the names as an accountability step. If you’re in a group, bring those names to the next meeting.

Resources

“Deep Change Summary” by Derek Zacharias | Use this book summary to apply what you are learning and begin making some of the changes that Quinn points to. The key is moving from survival mode to a true transformational focus.