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Preserving facilities Being with JesusMaintaining Policies Developing MissionProtecting Offices Dying to the worldMembership Privileges ServanthoodSupporting Denomination Traveling with
Jesus
Taking Care of People Transforming People
Frozen Unfrozen
•Frozen: Top down– Command and Control– Stifle Story
•Unfrozen: Bottom up– Out of Control– Innovation Story
Grace
Think
Feel
Law
Who’s in control?
There must be morethan this
What’s our purpose?
How can we
do it better?
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23
4
• No entire congregation is in only one sphere
• Every congregation has one dominant attitude– Determined by those in power
• Determining which attitude dominates the leadership is where transformation begins
•Deciders•Doers• Ignored•Dreamers•Leaders
Grace
Think
Law
Policies,Controlled, Centralized,Top Down
Unhealth
y Ch
urch
Feel
• Am I clear about what God wants me to do?
• Is my call worth suffering for?
• How badly do I want to transform this congregation?
• Almost always: only the pastor can move the church out of it– And most of the time, the pastor loses a job trying.
Feel
Grace
Think
LawConfusion,Uncertainty,Conflict
Unhealth
y Ch
urch
• Some Doers become Dreamers
• The more Dreamers, the more confusion
• The more confusion, the more Controllers try to control
• Transformation Key:– Fan the discontent– Spend time with the Dreamers
Feel
Grace
Think
LawPermission, Decentralized, Bottom Up Invite,Grow, & send
Hea
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MVV
• Growth (especially numerical) is normal and often explosive
• Confusion is normal in the early stages
• Transformation key– Develop leaders and systems
Feel
Grace
Think
Law
Balance RegroupBreatherImprove
Hea
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MVV
• Congregations go into Sphere Four when
– Leaders become tired – Leaders are hard to find– Growth outstrips the ability to grow enough leaders– Rapid growth is degrading the quality of life
• Warning: if a church goes into sphere 4 to rest from sphere 3 and stays too long … they subtly go into sphere 1!
– Often during and after a building project
Grace
Think
Feel
LawMVVPermission-
Giving,Trust, Decentralized, Passion, Mission,
Order,CommonSense,Balance
• Anything that destabilizes the status quo to where:– The systems story is destabilized– The leaders do something radically new
• Nine unfreezing moves– Five foundational, then final four supplemental
• Find the appropriate unfreezing move
• Focus on it long enough to destabilize system
• Align everything and everyone around the unfreezing move
• Spiritual leadership– Sooner or later everything depends on this– Career-oriented professionals or martyrs?– Preaching, teaching, conversations, teaching
• Functions around trust
• No major on-going conflict– You should not proceed is this is present
• Desire to connect with the world– This is the primary goal
• Unfreezing move #3: – a clear Mission, Vision, and Values (MVV)– Purpose– core values
• V.A.B.E.’s
4. Indigenous Worship
5. Mobilized Congregation
6. Missional Opportunities
• Unfreezing move #3: Indigenous … not “contemporary!”
• Definition: in language, technology, and culture of the people
• Safe, relevant place to have an authentic experience with God
• Easiest way to grow a church and easiest way to get in trouble– Best: start a new service rather than change the existing church– Multiple tracks of worship are key
• When invested in, always becomes largest service in 2-4 years
• Seeker/believer services aren’t needed on the road to mission
Modern High-Modern Bridge Postmodern
Speaker: Speaker: Orator Communicator Sojourner
Content: Reason Truth Experience
Offer: Morals Advice Hope
Moving toward indigenous worship in America:
Frozen Unfrozen
InformationTransformationDoctrine ExperienceHeritage CommunityReverence Hope
Unfreezing move #4 requires:
1. Identifying those who are ready2. Recruiting those who are willing3. Discerning those who are open to
coaching4. Equipping those who commit the time5. Deploying those who finish the race6. Coaching them along in their ministry
1. “How can we assist you?” – Not, “What can you do for us?”
2. Unpaid Servants– Not volunteers
3. Called– Not nominated and electing
4. Matched to gift– Not coordinated or directed
• Everyone training everyone
• Span of care: ten– Every 10 people have a pastor
• Key: the first fractal must represent the mission in macrocosm
Music
VisualsThe Arts
Logistics
Writers
Instru-mentsSingers
?
Drums
KeyboardPiano
Organist
• Unfreezing Move #5 never gives people “service opportunities” without making sharing Christ the core– Habitat can build a house– The only thing we can do that no one else can: share Christ
• You need entry level service opportunities for new people
Missions Committee Missional Attitude
Active/Involved Discipled
Programs Reason for Being
Service Group Redemptive Movement
Raising Money Sending People
Sphere 1 & 2 Sphere 3 & 4
Institutional Road To Mission
Don’t do Unfreeze #6 until the first 5 are well in place!
#6
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The pastor who spends 80% of time equipping people for ministry will almost never work more than 30 hours a week
– Which will be spent on
• development of own spiritual life
• and how to communicate it
#7
TeamLeader
LayMobil
WorshipOut
Reach
Admin
• Sphere 1 & 2 = 1 to 100 in worship
• Sphere 3 & 4 = 1 to 200+ in worship
• “Thou shalt not love thy buildings more than God”
• Place is to the 20th century what relationships are to the 21st century
• The coming use of space in the next 25 years:– Multiple sites, church-planting centers, and selling property– Soon, most innovative churches will have 2-3+ meeting places
• The 80% rule
#8
• The more the DNA is embedded, the more radical the giver – Leadership must role model radical generosity
• Trust of the leaders is essential
• Your mission must be relevant
• Involve people in hands-on mission
#9
Unfreezing Leadership
Bill Easum seminar
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