4 Components of aNew life cycle (VRMS)

Fresh Vision for the future

Relationships that embrace new people

Ministries that focus on outreach

Structures that enable the mission and provide accountability

STRUCTURE

Structure is in the back seat on the way up the curve.Structure holds the body together.Structure allows the proper management and coordination of the Vision.

Leadership

1. Bureaucratic: (Responsibility – Authority = Safe but not Effective)

Jen & Barry’s Ice Cream

People enjoy:•Ice Cream•In Summer•Flavorful

Jen & Barry’s Ice Cream

Too much sugarUnhealthy

Too expensive

Jen & Barry’s Ice Cream

1. Ice cream only served between November and February (saves refrigeration cost).

2. Vanilla only (by consensus of Board)

3. No cones, only paper cups (cuts cost)

Leadership

1. Bureaucratic: (Responsibility – Authority = Safe but not Effective)

2. Autocratic: (Responsibility + Authority – Accountability = Effective but not Safe)

Leadership

1. Bureaucratic: (Responsibility – Authority = Safe but not Effective)

2. Autocratic: (Responsibility + Authority – Accountability = Effective but not Safe)

3. Accountable Leader: (Responsibility + Authority + Accountability = Safe & Effective)

ACCOUNTABLE LEADERSHIP

IN THE CHURCH

Board = Role is governance

Pastor = Role is leading

Staff = Role is managing

Members = Role is ministering

ACCOUNTABLE LEADER MODELBoard is composed of people who accept the God given/voter-established vision for the congregation and support the ministry of the congregation according to time, talent, and treasure.

People spend less time in meetings, more time in meaningful ministry.

Ministry groups or taskforces carry out the work of the congregation and are resourced by a staff member.

Leadership Goals

1. Disciples• New• Growing

2. Leaders

3. Ministry

Accountable Leadership

Boundaries and Goals

Doctrine

Moral

Legal

Fiscal

MISSION

C. F. W. Walther

For if the entire Christian church is the real mission society which God Himself has established, then all those who ignore mission work and do not care anything for it certainly are not true and living members of the church, that is, not true Christians. They break the oath of allegiance which they have made to Christ at their baptism. They want to carry the keys of the kingdom of heaven in their hands and yet do not want to open heaven to those who are still outside. They want to be spiritual priests and yet not do the work of a priest. They want to be God’s wheat, and still are not fruitful grains of wheat. They want to have faith, yet have no love. They have no compassion in their hearts for the distress of the heathen, and thereby show that even though they are baptized, they still have a heathenish heart and that they themselves are in darkness and the shadow of death. They are brothers of Cain and say with him: “Am I my brother’s keeper?” C. F. W. Walther, “The Mission Society Established by God,” in The Word of His Grace,

Occasional and Festival Sermons. Translated and edited by the Evangelical Lutheran Synod Translation Committee, Lake Mills, IA: Graphic Publishing Company,

Inc., 1978, p 23.

MISSIONMISSION CHOICES:

Inward

Outward

Both

If both, what is the balance?

GOD’S MISSION

Matthew 28:16-20

OUR MISSION1 Peter 2:9John 20:21

Go therefore and baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything I commanded you.

make disciples

We’re on a Mission from God.

Unofficial motto of the USCG;

“We have to go out, we don’t have to come back.”

The mission is out there!

Outreach is the goal and is focused on those who do not yet know Christ. Acts 1:8, Matt 28:18-20

Discipleship that calls every person to full maturity in Christ. Ephesians 4:11-13

Worship that is vibrant and Christ centered 1 Cron. 16:29

Leadership multiplying servants to multiply ministry 1 Peter 4:10

Service that connects the community to Christ Matthew 5:15-16

To accomplish God’s MissionA New life cycle

Fresh Vision for the future

Relationships that embrace new people

Ministries that focus on outreach

Structures that enable the mission and provide accountability

Change Gen. Eric Shinseki

If you don’t like change,

you’re going to like irrelevance even less.

New life cycle Brainstorming

Your turnInstructions: Create a grid like below and answer this question for each quadrant:

“What can we do to help Zion start a new life cycle and

become a

Missional Church?”

Vision Relationships

Ministries Structures

Video clip

What did you feel as you watched this video?

What questions does this video raise for you?

How does this video challenge you and your church about your community?

Prayer Time

In your groups, spend some time praying for yourselves, your congregation and for people in your community who do not yet know Jesus through faith.

Prayer

Lord Jesus, You said, “I came to cast fire on the earth; and would that it were already kindled!” (Luke 12:49, ESV).

With these words You meant the fire burning with Your love in hearts that cannot cease speaking of You to poor sinners and that cannot cease calling them to You.

But more than 2000 years have passed, and many millions, knowing nothing of You, their Savior, still sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. O Lord, that is not Your fault, but the grave fault of man, also of Your Church. Alas, all too soon Christendom has sunk into the sleepof security and carelessness. All too soon it has forgotten its high calling to be a light to them that sit in darkness.

O Lord, awaken your sleeping Church! Fill it again with ardent love for those who are still without God and without hope in this world. Grant unto us that through it the Word may be brought into all lands by great multitudes of evangelists. Yes, arise, Lord, even in this last hour of the world to rescue that which still may be rescued, and count also us worthy of taking part in this most blessed work. . . . AMEN C. F. W. Walther, paraphrased