Belvedere Baptist Church Leadership Summit

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Belvedere Baptist ChurchLeadership Summit
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Belvedere Baptist ChurchLeadership Summit

• Improving our effectiveness for Christ starting
  NOW!

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Now Therefore
Give Me This Mountain!...

• Leadership Development Insights from the Life of
  Caleb
• Joshua (141-12)

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6Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in
Gilgal and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the
Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing
that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God
concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea. 7Forty
years old was I when Moses the servant of the
LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the
land and I brought him word again as it was in
mine heart. 8Nevertheless my brethren that went
up with me made the heart of the people melt but
I wholly followed the LORD my God. 9And Moses
sware on that day, saying, Surely the land
whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine
inheritance, and thy childrens for ever, because
thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God. 10And
now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he
said, these forty and five years, even since the
LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the
children of Israel wandered in the wilderness
and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five
years old. 11As yet I am as strong this day as I
was in the day that Moses sent me as my strength
was then, even so is my strength now, for war,
both to go out, and to come in. 12Now therefore
whereof the
LORD spake in that day for thou heardest in that
day how the Anakims were there, and that the
cities were great and fenced if so be the LORD
will be with me, then I shall be able to drive
them out, as the LORD said. 13And Joshua blessed
him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh
Hebron for an inheritance. 14Hebron therefore
became the inheritance of Caleb the son of
Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because
that he wholly followed the LORD God of
Israel. Joshua 141-14
give me this mountain,
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Give Me This Mountain!...
The World has taken it to the Church
Christians have either been (1) absorbed into
the world, (2) gotten cozy with mediocrity, (3)
become influence peddlers, (4) become
indifferent to learning and self-improvement, and
(5) distracted by self-aggrandizement or (6) some
unhealthy combination of all of the above. As
advanced tennis players know, competing at higher
levels requires, a weapon (advanced power shot)
in ones arsenal to complement an all around
game. In order to survive the current implosion
of Church and Christian School attendance, we
will have to do the same Develop an all around
game and then complement it by a distinguishing
feature (power shot) that sets us apart from
those who are content with the status quo while
maintaining the integrity of our message and
purpose

• Leadership Development Insights from the Life of
  Caleb
• Joshua (141-12)

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Give Me This Mountain!...

• Leadership Development Insights from the Life of
  Caleb
• Joshua (141-12)

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A Resilient Visionary
A Relentless Strategist
A Resolute Closer
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Three Parts of a Vision
Purpose (Mission) What business are you in? How
will you benefit those whom you serve?
Preferred Picture of the Future Where are you
going? What will your business look like if
everything is functioning as planned?
Principles (Core Values) What do you stand for?
How do you want those whom you influence to
behave when they are working on 1 and 2? Note
These should be a maximum of 5 and rank ordered
The Servant Leader by Ken Blanchard Phil Hodges
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Purpose

• Understand Your Context in the Present (Eph.
  21-5)
• Have Clearly Defined Goal (e.g. Rom 829, Mt.
  2819,20 and incorporate incremental or
  intermediate and support sublevel goals as
  necessary long range and short range)
• Maintain Laser beam focus (keeping your eye on
  the prize Philippians 313,14)
• Develop Adaptive Capacity ( I Cor. 922 note Not
  to be confused with diluting the purpose Geeks
  and Geezers by Warren Bennis)

Eph. 21-5
Rom. 829
Phil 313,14
I Cor. 922
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Picture (of the Future)

• Where do you see yourself one year, five years,
  from now Biblically speaking?
• Will you know more about God? About the Bible?
• Will you be more involved in Church? More regular
  in attendance? A bigger presence in helping your
  church grow?
• Finally, where do you see your church one year,
  five years from now? What are you prepared to do
  to make it happen (person-ally, spiritually, and
  academically

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Principles (Core Values)

• Persistence
• Diligence
• Faithfulness
• Loyalty
• Endurance
• Sensitivity
• Passion
• Humility
• Integrity

• Availability
• Fairness
• Generosity
• Determination
• Responsibility
• Truthfulness
• Boldness
• Sincerity
• Courage

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Resilience

• ability to withstand, bounce back and recover
  quickly after enduring difficult situations and
  circumstances

The first step in becoming a leader is to
recognize the context for what it is a breaker,
not a maker a trap, not a launching pad an end,
not a beginning and declare your
independence On Becoming a leader by Warren
Bennis
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Resilient Visionary

• One who understands his current context and knows
  why he is here,
• Has a very clear picture of where he wants to be
  in the future, maintains strong focus and
  adaptive capacity, and
• Understands he will face opposition from natural
  forces, enemies and sometimes even those close to
  him yet refuses to allow setbacks to dim the
  picture.

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Caleb The Resilient Visionary
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You the Resilient Visionary
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Workshop Experience 3Principles

• How do we want our people (and us) to behave
  while we are working on the Purpose and Picture

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Workshop Experience 1Purpose

• Understanding my context
• Supporting and Opposing factors Church
  attendance declining, political adversities
  (local and national), Biblical indifference,
  Spiritual apathy, relevance of God and Church to
  daily living, Other obstacles, adaptive capacity

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Workshop Experience 2Picture

• What would things look like if everything was
  working perfectly the ideal representation of
  the purpose?

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A Resilient Visionary
A Relentless Strategist
A Resolute Closer
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What Others Have to Say

• It is important to understand that we developed
  all of the concepts in this book by making
  empirical deduction directly from the data We
  sought to build a theory from the ground up,
  derived directly from the evidence. Good to
  Great by Jim Collins
• Competency achieved through education, training,
  skills and experience can only be judged by
  demonstration or performance based on numerical
  measurements. An Audit of the System Not of the
  People by Edward Link

• We must confront the paradox, own it, live it,
  celebrate it if we are to make much headway in
  achieving excellence. We must cultivate passion
  and trust, and at virtually the same moment we
  must delve unmercifully into the details. A
  Passion for Excellence by Tom Peters
• Knowing what to measure and how to measure it
  makes a complicated world much less so. If you
  learn to look at data in the right way you can
  explain riddles that otherwise might have seemed
  impossible, because there is nothing like the
  sheer power of numbers to scrub away layers of
  confusion and contradiction. Freakonomics by
  Levitt and Dubner

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Strategic Planning
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Strategic Planning
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Moses Instructions
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17And Moses sent them to spy out the land of
Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way
southward, and go up into the mountain 18And see
the land, what it is and the people that
dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak,
few or many 19And what the land is that they
dwell in, whether it be good or bad and what
cities they be that they dwell in, whether in
tents, or in strong holds 20And what the land
is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be
wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage,
and bring of the fruit of the land. Numbers
13 17 - 20
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Cycle of Strategic Planningfor Effective Results
Collect/Analyze Data
Assess Context
Recalibrate
Measure
Innovate
Execute
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Relentless

• not to be placated or appeased, incessant, not
  easily diverted or distracted

We must confront the paradox, own it, live
it, celebrate it if we are to make much headway
in achieving excellence. We must cultivate
passion and trust, and at virtually the same
moment we must delve unmercifully into the
details. A Passion for Excellence by Tom
Peters
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Relentless Strategist

• One who knows a plan is only as good as the
  underlying data used to help formulate the plan,
• One who thoroughly sweats the small stuff in an
  effort to find the dogs that bark and the dogs
  that didnt bark,
• One who understands that distractions,
  inattention to detail and shoot from the hip
  implementations will sabotage his efforts and
  risk alienating support and therefore persists
  diligently in carefully thought out strategies.

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Caleb The Relentless Strategist
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Workshop Experience 4Data Collection

• What things do you think would be important for
  us to collect data on and analyze numerically in
  search of barking and non-barking dogs to be
  successful in conquering our giants?

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Workshop Experience 5 Methods

• What things can Sunday School teachers do to
  increase learning, heighten interest in Bible
  Studies and/or increase the likelihood of
  increased attendance?

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A Resilient Visionary
A Relentless Strategist
A Resolute Closer
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CloserCompleting the task God has given me
And here I am today, eighty-five years old! Im
as strong as ever in battle, whether coming or
going. So give me this hill country that God
promised me. You yourself heard the report, that
the Anakim were there with their great fortress
cities. If God goes with me, I will drive them
out, just as God said. (Joshua 1412) The
Message translation of the Bible
It is important to grasp that Level 5 leadership
is not just about humility and modesty. It is
equally about ferocious resolve, an almost stoic
determination to do whatever needs to be done to
make the company great. Good to Great by
Jim Collins
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CloserCompleting the task God has given me
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CloserCompleting the task God has given me
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CloserCompleting the task God has given me
Some of us will do our jobs well and some will
not, but we will all be judged on one thing the
result What it takes to be number one by Vince
Lombardi
And Caleb drove out the three sons of
Anak Joshua 1513
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Give Me That Mountain!...
But my servant Caleb, because he had another
spirit with him, and hath followed me fully
him will I bring into the land

• Leadership Development Insights from the Life of
  Caleb
• Joshua (141-12)

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Now Therefore
Give Me This Mountain!...

• Leadership Development Insights from the Life of
  Caleb
• Joshua (141-12)

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Ephesians 2 1-5
1And you hath he quickened, who were dead in
trespasses and sins 2Wherein in time past ye
walked according to the course of this world,
according to the prince of the power of the air,
the spirit that now worketh in the children of
disobedience 3Among whom also we all had our
conversation in times past in the lusts of our
flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of
the mind and were by nature the children of
wrath, even as others. 4But God, who is rich in
mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened
us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved)
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Romans 829
29For whom he did foreknow, he also did
predestinate to be conformed to the image of his
Son, that he might be the firstborn among many
brethren.
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Philippians 313,14
13Brethren, I count not myself to have
apprehended but this one thing I do, forgetting
those things which are behind, and reaching forth
unto those things which are before, 14I press
toward the mark for the prize of the high calling
of God in Christ Jesus.
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I Corinthians 922
22To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain
the weak I am made all things to all men, that I
might by all means save some.
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Dogs that Bark(Observations that jump out)

• Church attendance is down 2 years running
• The last 6 months we have seen 50 increase in
  Sunday School attendance
• The average distance our members drive is a 7
  mile radius
• 75 of our members drive less than 3 miles to
  church

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Dogs that DONT Bark(Observations that dont
jump out)

• Regular Sunday School attendees are more likely
  to leave Church before they are full grown that
  those who only attend church
• Children who regularly attend Sunday School are
  slightly less honest than those who never darken
  the door of a church