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Living Every Day as Disciples
SEMN Synod Fall Theological Conference
November 2, 2015
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Group Discussion Questions:
What do you hope the church will look like in five years?
What will it take to get us there?
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Mission: Growing leaders with deep, bold, consequential faith in Jesus Christ
Vision:Leaders growing ministries and faith communities to serve the world, living everyday as disciples
Strategy:To resource people in practicing discipleship that loves God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength and loves our neighbors as ourselves
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Process
• identity: Discerning Core Values to follow God into the world
• The Disciple Frame/ Leadership Landscape
• Congregational Assessment/Coaching
• Strategic Planning
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3 types of Core Values
• Core Beliefs• Core Convictions• Core Practices
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Core Beliefs
• These are the deepest values of the congregation – the DNA that includes our way of thinking about God and our theology.
• These usually do not change over time.
• Essence of our “God-view and when fully lived out, also our “world-view”.
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Core Convictions
• Values that are specific to each congregation, representing our unique call in a particular time and place.
• “What defines us as a community?”• Might need to be nuanced from time
to time to reflect cultural context of the congregation and the community.
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Core Practices
• Values that need to evolve and change over the years, yet these are the ones most likely to create conflict when changed.
• Most visible of the Core Values• Easily confused with Core
Convictions
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How do our core values correlate to the way we live
out our faith (both personally and
communally)?
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The Disciple Frame
• Without a frame of reference, congregations can move from one new idea or program to another without ever really having a vision for the future. Framing what you see and do is the beginning of alignment and perspective.
• Jesus’ words provide the frame that defines and sets the path for Christian leadership.
• Mark 12:29-31• Loving God with all our heart, soul, mind, and
strength offers us clear practices for our lives.
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The Leadership Landscape
• The focus of Christian leadership is to grow deep, bold, consequential faith in Jesus Christ.
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About the Quadrants
• These are generalizations and it is possible to be somewhere between one or more quadrants.
• This is a starting place – not prophetic.• This is the beginning of LEAD’s analysis
and represents the best thinking at this time.
• Majority of leaders (ordained clergy) and congregations land in the “Out of Breath” quadrant
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Group Discussion Questions• Who have I listened to in
the last week inside the faith community and in the neighborhood that keep me tuned in to what God?
• How am I connected to other people with whom I can be myself or to a community that is doing things that matter to me?
• What ideas or concepts am I exploring that get me excited about learning new things?
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The Congregational Assesment
• Find our place on the Leadership Landscape• Establish a baseline for the four Growth
Indicators• Build on our strengths to respond to God’s
call within our congregation and neighborhood
• Can shape a path for growth– This path may include training, coaching,
reading, listening in the community, etc.• Invitation to intentionally open leaders and
faith communities to opportunities to grow
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Assessment Itself
• Completed online• Basic demographic info about the
person completing the Assessment • 20 statements about the
congregation. Participants are asked to choose the response that they think best describes the congregation that they are a part of.
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Who takes the Assessment
• A number equal to or greater than 30% of our average worship attendance
• A diverse cross-section of the congregation based on factors of age, gender, ethnicity, and length of time in congregation.
• Both members and visitors (if possible)
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Assessment Process
1. Invite selected people to complete Assessment (two week time period)
2. Receive a report from LEAD within 30 days of closing the Assessment.– Report will include results for each of the
4 Growth Indicators3. Receive a 30 minute consultation with
a LEAD coach, who will walk us through the results, answer any questions we may have, and help us to think about what our next steps may be.
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