Ministry Blackboard

26Oct/120

DC Orange Tour Stop Highlights: Small Groups

God created us for community..Jesus illustrated community...the church practiced community

1. Be present - connect their faith to a community

  • Show up predictably, Show up Consistency, Show up Randomly
2. Create a safe place - clarify their faith as they grow
  • Lead the group, Respect the process (God is in charge!  You may not see the fruit). Guard the heart
3. Partner with Parents - Nurture an everyday faith
  • Cue the parent, Honor the parent, Reinforce the family
  • How the parents perceive the church could be how they and their child perceive you
4. Make it personal - inspire their faith by your example
  • You live in community, You set priorities, You be real
5. Move them out- engage their faith In a bigger story
  • Goal is for them to own their own faith.  You have to connect them to others beyond you.
  • Move them to someone else, Move them to be the church, move them to what's next
  • You should start packing a students bags the day he or she shows up
The goal isn't to keep them.  The goal is to launch them

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25Oct/120

Morning Highlights of DC Orange Tour Stop

Theme is lead change, lead small

Reggie Joyner opened up...
- Church and families combined can make a lasting impact...two combined influences make a greater impact.

At least 30% of the audience is Volunteers at the event

Reggie picks back up again...
- "Change is not an option, but how you respond to it is."
- 3 responses to change: 1. Ignore it, 2. Hold on and let it drive you to where you don't want to go, 3. Make an adjustment & use it to where you want to go
- leadership is leveraging change to get to where you want to go
- when you lead change you decide to make adjustments to present methods for the sake of a sacred mission
- adjust the method for the sake of the mission
- we need to figure out for each individual ministry what is the methods we need to use and change for the sake of the mission
- 25% of Americans treat Sunday like a holy day...everyone else treats it like a holiday
- our problem is that we won't leave the 25% to go after everyone else
- something radical has to happen in the church for the community to realize that we care about them
- families are changing, the culture is changing...we need to make every family (regardless of what they look like) to understand the restoration story of Christ
- your response to their family will determine how they feel about the church...regardless of what their version of family looks like
- there is a lot at stake
- if we don't adjust, you risk of becoming irrelevant and ignored

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