Leadership
Session Agenda
1. Reconnect with your coaching group (if applicable).
2. Share a devotion and prayer.
3. Record the names of your Church Leadership Team and share them with a ministry friend (or your coaching group). Discuss your team progress:
Church Leadership Team Job Description
1. Pray for God’s vision.
2. Review the church’s current health.
3. Write mission, vision and core values statements.
4. Develop a strategic plan.
5. Lead the church to implement the plan.
6. Communicate with the church body.
7. Overcome roadblocks as a team.
4. Everyday Leadership by Drew Dudley
We’ve all changed someone’s life—usually without even realizing it. Drew Dudley calls on all of us to become everyday leaders and serve others in big and small ways. This talk was presented at TEDxToronto 2010.
Watch for these key moments:
4. Deep Change Discussion
Slow death occurs when the choice for deep change is rejected.
Deep change necessitates courage, motivation, and discipline.
Deep personal change is at the heart of deep organizational change.
Only when people are prepared to take risks will an organization be able to adapt to the changing external demands.
5. “What Kind of a Leader Can Grow a Church?” Discussion
What Kind of Leader Can Grow a Church?
1. A leader must have a profound sense of God’s call.
2. A leader must grow in his relationship with God.
3. A leader must be compassionate.
4. A leader must be passionate.
5. A leader must be visionary.
6. A leader must become entrepreneurial.
7. A leader must be contextual.
8. A leader must be a planner.
9. A leader must be a lifelong learner.
10. A Leader must be a delegator and empowerer of others.
10. To Do Items
Meeting 4 Prep
(to be completed in preparation for Meeting 4)
Read Chapters 1-5 in Advanced Strategic Planning by Aubrey Malphurs.
Prepare to discuss mission and vision at the next meeting.
Leading Change Without Losing It by Carey Nieuwhof
Reclaiming Glory by Mark Clifton
Comeback Churches by Ed Stetzer and Mike Dodson
No Silver Bullets by Daniel Im and Thom Rainer
Replant: How a Dying Church Can Grow Again by Mark Devine and Darrin Patrick
Dying to Restart eBook by Greg Wiens and Dan Turner by Exponential
We provide open access tools to help ministry teams lead, grow and serve.