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The Acts 16:5 InitiativeThe Acts 16:5 InitiativeDevelop a Defining VisionDevelop a Defining Vision
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Building a Church from Scratch
Life-Changing Transformational Ministry
The Foundation of a Vision for Ministry
The 3-D Church
Pine Ridge Presbyterian Church – Kansas City
The Double Focus of Ministry: the person and the group
For as in one body we have many members, and not all the members have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ,and individually we are members one of another.
Romans 12:4-5
WitnessPrayer
Care
Word
With-me
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MissionalEndeavor Worship
Fellowship
Discipleship
Leadership
Ministry Mobilization© 2004 E. Stanley Ott
Generosity
WORD
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PRAYER
Send to ministry and mission
© 2004 E. Stanley Ott
The Small Group Movement – groups of 2 or 3 up to 14
Some Acts 16:5 Next Steps 1. Word-Share-Prayer every committee/board2. A new expectation that our Lord has a future for
us3. Organization of a vision team with the pastor4. Clarify your congregation’s Defining Vision5. Begin to align your people’s lifestyle – and your
ministries (programs) with your vision6. Begin to teach people the 3-D lifestyle of
witness, prayer, care, Word, with-me, send7. Become a church of small groups
Missional Endeavor: Shape up AND Ship out!
The 3-D Church
The Three-Fold Missional Mandate
Show up - Speak up - Stand up
‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.’
Luke 4:18-19
‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.’
Jesus’ eyes saw the true needs of the people in front of him:Barimaeus
Widow of NainCanaanite woman’s daughter
Woman at the wellThe Centurian’s Son
Wedding in CanaLepers
Receive People eyes – in your own head – seeing through the eyes of Jesus for people
Every Life
Missional Endeavor:Gathered - Scattered
Gathered
Attraction draws people like iron filings are drawn to a magnet.
Scattered
People diffuse through the community the way ink diffuses through water.
The Missional Cycle
KnowKnow and and experienceexperiencethe the GodGod who loves you who loves you
REACREACHH
EquipEquip and and care forcare forthe the peoplepeople God gives you God gives you
GROWGROW
EngageEngage the the worldworldto which God sends youto which God sends you
SENDSEND
The Missional Cycle
Growing Discipleswith the Ministry Cycle:
Reach-Grow-Send
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SPIRIT-DRIVEN
BIBLICALLY-BASED
DISCIPLE-DIRECTED
NEED-RESPONSIVE
GATHERED-SCATTERED ATTENTIVE
PRINCIPLE-PATTERNED
REFLECTIVELY-PRACTICED
The Practice of Life-changing Transformational Ministry
The Foundation of a Vision for Ministry
REACH | GROW | SEND
© 2004 E. Stanley Ott
REACH
GROW
SEND© 2004 E. Stanley Ott
Aligning a ministry with the Ministry Cycle
align congregational ministries
Reach Grow Sendwitness care sendprayer Word give
with-me
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Ministry Cycle
REACH
GROW
SEND
Ministry or Activity: _____Young at Heart__
Ministry Cycle
REACH Host a St. Patrick’s Day Party.
Everyone to bring a “green” food item
Everyone bring a friend or two
Begin each weekly meeting with prayer
GROW mentioning by name present/absent
Pair off for 30 Day Prayer Covenants
Distribute a name, address, email sheet
Ask people to identify one person to
the evening insights with.
SEND Work day at the local woman’s shelter
Ministry or Activity: Singles +
“Layering” is the practice of aligning existing ministries with additional ways of employing the Defining PracticesBegin with a Sunday School classLAYER 1: add small groups within the classLAYER 2: add the month-long prayer covenantLAYER 3: add quarterly mealsLAYER 4: add a Bible verse memory challenge
align congregational ministries
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Ministry Cycle
REACH
Witness
GROW
Prayer
Care
Word
With-me
SEND
Give
Send
Ministry or Activity: _____________
Ministry Cycle
Reach
Witness Add a “Friday Night Live” all night fun
Grow
Prayer Pray for students by name. 30 Covenants
Care Add “chat room” small groups
Word Teaching and materials for bed-time QT
With-me Students as leaders of Friday Night Live
Send
Send Involve students in a local mission project as a way of
Give teaching them to give themselves to others
Ministry or Activity: Middle School Youth Ministry Aug 15, 2003
Ministry Cycle
Reach Host a cook out at Joan Smith’s. Each
group member or family bring a guest.
Grow Introduce 30 day prayer covenants
Add small groups in homes 8:15-9:30
Send Ask people to memorize the Halverson
Benediction
Ministry or Activity: Gathering Bible Study for Adults Wednesday 7-8 p.m. 9/15/06
Exercise: use the Reach-Grow-Send format to suggest ways to re-shape one of the following ministries:Leadership retreatMinistry to mothers of small childrenMen’s breakfast Bible studySunday SchoolMinistry of your choice
align congregational ministries
© 2004 E. Stanley Ott
Three Keys to a Congregation
1st Key to a Missional Congregation:
The Vital 3-D Church
2nd Key to a Missional Congregation:
A Missional People
This is Discipleship
The Halverson Benediction
“Wherever you go, God is sending you, wherever you are, God has put you there, He has a purpose in your being there. Christ Who indwells you has something He wants to do through you where you are. Believe this and go in His grace and love and power.”
- Richard C. Halverson
3rd Key to a Missional Congregation:
Missional MinistriesAnd
Missional Emphases
Adaptive Challengesand Action Learning
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Share an adaptive Share an adaptive challengechallengefacing your churchfacing your church
An Adaptive Challenge
Elements of the Action Learning Process
The Project Question – An Adaptive Challege:
ObjectiveOpportunity
Obstacle
The Action Learning Team (ALT)
The Questioning and Reflection Process
Two Ground Rules:
1.Speak only to ask a question or in response to a question.
2. The learning coach has the power to intervene•(Michael Marquardt)
Two ALT videos
ACTION LEARNING
The Commitment to Taking Action
The Commitment to Learning
LEARNING COACH
• GUIDES THE ACTION LEARNING PROCESS
• KEEPS FOCUS ON LEARNING AND ACTION
• ENSURES PARTICIPATION FROM THE WHOLE TEAM
• LINKS TEAM TO OTHER LEADERSHIP
• OBSERVES & COMMENTS ON GROUP PROCESS
Some Action Learning Training Slides
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Leadership Matters
discipleship development
Growing Disciples by Means of
Ministry Teams
Committees are one dimensional
Ministry teams are three dimensional
© 2004 E. Stanley Ott
discipleship development
Four practices that turn committees
into teams:
1.Word-Share-Prayer2.Rotating Prayer Covenants3.Quarterly meals4.Annual overnight retreat
The Seven Threads
© 2004 E. Stanley Ott
"Shift from a controlling leadership to a permission-giving leadership"
YES!
A NEW IDEA!
Does it move us in the direction of our DEFINING VISION?
The significance of a permission-giving
environment
Levels of “Sending” permission-giving ministry
1. We tell you what to do.
2. You ask us what to do.
3. You ask us for permission for what you want to do.
4.You act on your own but inform us immediately.
5. You act on your own and inform us routinely.
6.You Act on your own.© 2003 E. Stanley Ott
the acts 16:5 initiative
The Power of Goal Setting and Planning
S.M.A.R.T. Goals
S – Specific
M – Measurable
A – Aim High
R – Realistic
T – Timeline (or deadline)
Greek: the more you know the more educated
you are!
Hebrew: you are as educated as you do what
you know!
Moving from Greek to Hebrew takes Leadership!
Shape UPAND
Ship OUT
1.1. Did the learner Did the learner like itlike it??2.2. Did the learner Did the learner learn itlearn it??3.3. Did the learner Did the learner live itlive it??4.4. Did Did it lastit last??
The Three-Fold Missional Mandate
Show up - Speak up - Stand up
‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.’
Luke 4:18-19
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Some of the challengesSome of the challengeswe face in the we face in the cultureculture
Dadipad
In times of rapid In times of rapid change what you change what you know can mis-lead know can mis-lead you .you .Michael Marquardt
Make Vision Shift 1Make Vision Shift 1Shift from your present hopes for Shift from your present hopes for your congregationyour congregation’’s future to the s future to the high expectation that God has a high expectation that God has a transformational future for your transformational future for your church.church.
Incline(transformationional)
Recline(traditional
) decline
Make Vision Shift 2Make Vision Shift 2Shift from merely running Shift from merely running programs to implementing a programs to implementing a vision for ministry.vision for ministry.
Life-Changing Transformational Ministry
The Foundation of a Vision for Ministry
The 3-D Christian Life
The 3-D Church
The 3-D Christian LIfestyle
Pine Ridge Presbyterian Church – Kansas City
Align your personal lifestyle and that of your
people with your congregational vision
A Profile of a Disciple Doxological - Know, love and Experience the God who loves us Faith in Jesus
Weekly worshipDaily devotional lifeThe fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23)
Koinonial - Equip and care for the people God gives us People eyes (eyes of Jesus for people) Private meals with friends and strangers
Participate in a face-to-face groupCommit a percent of my income to God’s workServe my church with specific ministry
Missional - Engage the World to which God sends us People eyes (eyes of Jesus for people)
Complete my work with excellenceOffer the compassion of Jesus
Bear witness to JesusStand up for what is right.
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WORD
SHARE
PRAYER
The Small Group Meeting
Send to ministry and mission
The 50% GoalThe 50% Goal Devotional lifeDevotional life Emmaus MealEmmaus Meal Seeing self as Seeing self as
sentsent Word-Share-Word-Share- PrayerPrayer
The 50% GoalThe 50% Goal
Reach the 50% Reach the 50% through the through the 20%20%
First Follower Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy
WORD
SHARE
PRAYER
Send to ministry and mission
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4-7 weeks 90 Days of Prayer Discipleship Essentials (Ogden)
WSP Destiny series Unbinding Your Soul (Reese)
Increasing Level of Commitment
Multiplying Triads
(The Principle of Multiplication)
Some Acts 16:5 Next Steps 1. Word-Share-Prayer every committee/board2. A new expectation that our Lord has a future for
us3. Organization of a vision team with the pastor4. Clarify your congregation’s Defining Vision5. Begin to align your people’s lifestyle – and your
ministries (programs) with your vision6. Begin to teach people the 3-D lifestyle of
witness, prayer, care, Word, with-me, send7. Become a church of small groups
WitnessPrayer
Care
Word
With-me
Send© 2004 E. Stanley Ott
GIVE
MissionalEndeavor
Worship
Fellowship
Discipleship
Fellowship
Ministry Mobilization© 2004 E. Stanley Ott
Generosity (Stewardship)
© 2003 E. Stanley Ott
MinistryMobilization
Discipleship
Fellowship
Worship
MissionalEndeavor
TheActs 16:5Church
Leadership
Adaptive Challenge- Non-Linear Planning
ACTION LEARNING: Finding our way in turbulent times
READY
FIRE
AIM
Q & R
ACTION
LEARNING
Permission-giving leadership
ACTION LEARNING TEAMS
Adaptive Challenges and Action Learning
Prepare Your Church for Christmas Visitors – Hospitality Review
EvangelismCoach.org
http://clarkcowden.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/what-is-missional/
SPIRIT-DRIVEN
BIBLICALLY-BASED
DISCIPLE-DIRECTED
NEED-RESPONSIVE
GATHERED-SCATTERED ATTENTIVE
PRINCIPLE-PATTERNED
REFLECTIVELY-PRACTICED
The Practice of Life-changing Transformational Ministry
The Foundation of a Transformational Vision for Ministry
WITNESS | PRAYER | CARE | WORD | WITH-ME | SEND
WitnessPrayer
Care
Word
With-me
Send© 2004 E. Stanley Ott
The 3-D Lifestyle
Identify your “few”
1. Those who live in your home.
2. Your family members wherever they may be.
3. Your small group
4. Your committee, ministry team or leadership team.
5. Random individuals into whose lives you are led to invest yourself in.
design for personal lifestyle
Some Action Learning Training Slides
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Why are we doing this?
The world is changing and we need to change to meet the world’s needs. “Today’s turbulent world forces us to learn faster and better in order to survive. Problems are ever more difficult for us to decipher, much less to understand and resolve. Dilworth (1998) said that change “now tends to outdistance our ability to learn.” Existing knowledge tends to misdirect rather than facilitate problem resolution.”
Michael Marquardt, Action Learning in Action
So what does that mean to us?
• Our church has an Acts 16:5 leadership team that prays, studies and works with our Session and other leaders to build the church
• The leadership team called you…the Action Learning Team (ALT) to address various opportunities for growth and vitality
• As new opportunities and challenges arise, more ALTs may be called
What does an Action Learning Team (ALT) do?
Address an adaptive challenge - an objective, opportunity or obstacle – something for which our present knowledge is inadequate – for which we don’t have a ready-made solution. Something the solution for which would be significant.
When?
The Action Learning Group begins when the Session or other appropriate authority blesses the formation of an ALT to solve a significant challenge and to implement its solution.
“Now that you know these things [reflection],you will be blessed if you do them [action].”
John 13:17
Who?
Four to Eight imaginative and high initiative people with a passion for the challenge assigned the ALT. People with sound rapport and relationship with the congregation, Session, and the pastor.
Our Working Agreements
“Let us be the people of God before we do the work of the people of God.”
- Chuck Miller
• Set a meeting time – commit to the time necessary to do a good job – such as an evening meeting three weeks a month for three months or a Saturday all day meeting once a month for 4 to 7 months and so on.
• 20 minutes of Word-Share-Prayer • Team introductions• Establish team covenant and rules
Covenant Ideas• Engage in Word-Share-Prayer at each meeting
• Share a meal once a quarter
• Rotate monthly prayer partners
• Engage in Bible study and prayer in our personal lives
• Develop friendships with others on team
• Keep team conversation within team
• Communicate directly and thoroughly
More Covenant Ideas
• Keep team confidentiality• Communicate!• Clarify vision and expectations• Serve with freedom and within
boundaries• Loyalty
1. Speak by asking questions or answering them. This rule prevents people from just offering opinions based on what they already know. In the first meetings of the group, the asking and answering of questions about the challenge the group is seeking to solve opens everyone to new ideas – that’s why it is an action-LEARNING group.
2. The learning coach has authority to intervene. This person will not enter the problem-solving discussion of the team. The learning coach has certain responsibilities:
1. Intervene whenever a person is “making a speech” rather than responding to a question or asking a question.
2. Ask the team to summarize its learnings every fifteen minutes or so.
3. Near the end of the meeting ask “who is going to do what” before we meet again – because its an ACTION-learning group.
Review Two ALT Ground Rules
Assess the project – what are we asked to solve, design,
implement, launch?
What is the opportunity, objective, or obstacle that we
are to address?
Review the ALT challenge
How?
• Focus on the right questions rather than the right answers
• Clarify the nature of the objective, opportunity or obstacle
• Reflect on possible solutions
• Take action
• Always take time to learn!
• “Now that you know these things [reflection], you will be blessed if you do them [action].”
John 13:17
Meeting 2, 3 or 4
• Word-Share-Prayer• Reframe the project • Set goals• List issues• Communicate to
congregation and Session as appropriate
• Summarize• Make Assignments
Meeting 3, 4 or 5
• Word-Share-Prayer• Present knowledge• What learning do we seek?• What experimental actions will
advance our learning? • Communicate to congregation and
Session• Summarize• Make Assignments
Meeting 4, 5 or 6
• Word-Share-Prayer• Alternative solutions? • Resources?• Further experimental actions?• Change/transition issues?• Communicate to congregation and
Session• Summarize• Make assignments
Meeting 5, 6 or 7• Word, share, prayer
• Choose a solution
• Develop action plan
• Address change and transition issues
• Communicate to congregation and Session as appropriate
• Summarize
• Make assignments
Meeting 6, 7 or 8
• Word, share, prayer
• Present to Session if appropriate
• Implement plan
• Share learnings, solutions, and process in a deliberate and systematic way
A key website for action learning is the World Institute of Action Learning:
www.wial.org
www.wial.org/publications/articles
