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GREAT Church
GOOD Church
to
Presented by: Lost Sheep Ministries
Taken from Jim Collins’ book: Good to Great
Though the book, Good to Great, is a study of companies like Walgreens, Kroger, and Wells Fargo, etc.
The principles for moving from Good to Great can be applied to Churches/Ministries as well.
Definitions:A Good Church:
Influences the community
Grows at the rate of the Surrounding Population
Disciples Most New Members
Has a Vision Supported by Members
Financially Sound; In Budget
A Great Church:
Is a Leader in the Community
Grows faster than the Local Population
Disciples All New Members; Spiritual Gifts Identified and properly Applied
Has Level 5 Executive Leader with Quality Christians in Right Positions
Has Finances exceeding Budget and Helps other Churches
Determines Who Gets On the Bus
Determines Who Gets Off the Bus Determines Where They Are Seated
Level 5 Leadership
Level 5 Leadership is the Primary Path to Great Ministry.
Characteristics of a Level 5 Executive Leader.
Humble And Tenacious
First Who then What
Wait to get the Right Christians
on the Team (Bus)
Agree on the Mission (Where to Drive the Bus)
Place Qualified Christians in roles of Leadership (Where
Seated on Bus)
Choose Who will Assist in Leadership Before Agreeing on the Mission
Confront the Brutal Facts
A primary task in taking a Ministry from Good to Great is to create a culture wherein members have unhindered
opportunity to be heard and, ultimately, for the truth to be heard.
1. Lead with Questions, not Answers. 2. Engage in Dialog and
Debate, not coercion.
3. Conduct Autopsies, without Blame.
4. Retain Absolute Faith that you Can and WILL prevail in the end, AND at the same time confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
Creating a Climate where Truth is heard involves four basic practices:
Hedgehog Concept
What are you deeply Passionate
about
Hedgehog Concept
What drives your Economic Engine
What you canBe the Best inThe World At
Stick to the Core: Don’t venture
outside the Intersection of
the three circles!
This Will Be Your
Hedgehog Concept
What are you deeply
Passionate about?
Enlarging Your
Church?
Changing Your Church to a Good Church or Great
Church?Growing the Kingdom?
Helping Failing
churches?
Meeting the Social Needs
in Your Community?
Other?
Starting a Sustained Global
Ministry?
Traditional churches have depended upon tithes and
gifts from members to sustain operations
Sick and dying churches can no longer depend upon tithes, gifts, and
taxes to sustain operation.
What drives your
Economic Engine?
Financial funding and manpower resources are essential to
becoming Great and remaining Great.
Special “Ministry Opportunities” are sometime
promoted which “tax” members for more funds.
Should a Non-Profit Business or Grants be
considered for augmenting the economic stability of a
Growing church?
What you canBe the Best in
The World At?
No organization can be Best at everything.
To Grow from Good to Great, a church must become like a hedgehog and
stop being like a fox.
The church leadership
should prayerfully
debate what the church can do
better than any other church.
The Hedgehog Concept for a Great church will be to focus
on what it is passionate about that is supported by its economic engine that is
better than any other church.
The Hedgehog CouncilAsk Questions Guided by the Three Circles
Dialogue and Debate, Guided by the Three
Circles
Autopsies and Analysis Guided by the Three
Circles
Executive Decisions, Guided by the Three Circles
Makeup and Function of the Hedgehog Council
The Council exists as a device to gain understanding about important issues facing the church
The Council is assembled and used by the Executive Leader and usually consists of five to eight members
Each Council member has the ability to argue and debate in search of understanding, not from the egoistic need to
win a point or protect a parochial interest.
Council members come from a range of perspectives, but each member has deep knowledge about some aspect of
the church and the culture in which she operates.
The Council is a standing body that meets periodically or as called by any member.
The Executive Leader will be
the final decision maker for the church.
Great Church
Mediocre or Dying Church (s)
Good Church
A Path from Dying or Mediocre to Becoming a Great church
Sustained Great Churches depend upon building a culture full of self-disciplined people who take disciplined action, fanatically consistent with the three circles. Bureaucratic cultures arise to compensate for
incompetence and lack of discipline, which arise from having the wrong people on the bus in the first place.
A Culture of discipline involves a duality. On the one hand, it requires people who adhere to a consistent system; yet on the other hand, it gives people freedom and responsibility within the framework of that system.
Culture of Discipline
The single most important form of discipline for sustained results is fanatical adherence to the Hedgehog Concept and the willingness to shun opportunities that lead outside the intersection of the three circles.
Use a “Stop Doing” List instead of a “To Do” List._______________The Budget must fully fund the Hedgehog and not fund other Good Ministries.
Technology Accelerators
Technology is an accelerator of ministry, not
a creator of it.
Only technology that links directly to the three intersecting
circles should be used.
Mediocrity results first and foremost from Leadership
failure, not technological failure.
Great churches avoid technology fads and
bandwagons, yet they become pioneers in the application of carefully selected technologies. How a church reacts to
technological change is a good indicator of its
inner drive for Greatness versus
Mediocrity.
Great churches respond with thoughtfulness and creativity, driven by a compulsion to turn
unrealized potential into results; mediocre churches react and lurch about, motivated by
fear of being left behind.
Churches can be launched from Good to:
Just Don’t let being a Good Church Prevent Becoming
the Best!