Transformation and Reproduction Across Denominations

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Transformation and Reproduction Across
Denominations

• Bill Easum
• www.easumbandy.com

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Research for This Event

• The goal -
• to discover where congregational transformation
  and reproduction are occurring across a region as
  a result of the intervention of the denomination
• The biggest surprise
• How many Southern Baptist Associations and
  Reformed Church of America Classes are growing

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Research for This Event

• I sent out emails to over 15,000 clients looking
  for examples of regional growth as a result of
  denominational input
• My definition of growth is worship and/or
  baptism growth
• I received over 200 responses
• Only a handful actually showed growth in their
  region

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Common Comments

• In some cases the diocese does rescue failing
  places but only to stabilize them
• There have been numerous good attempts for a year
  or two
• Most churches are on their own to find health and
  hope
• Transformation of congregations goes much deeper
  than we originally realized 

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Familiar Comments

• All of the denominational leaders' efforts and
  programs that I have investigated eventually
  stalled, or more accurately, reverted to old
  dysfunctional patterns
• There are some good exceptions at the local
  level, but they are due more the local leadership
• Are you Kidding me?

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Research for This Event

• Everyone is trying something and most are
  reinventing the wheel and getting nowhere
• Some Examples

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Some Reinvention Examples

• Northwest Texas Annual Conference is involved in
  a process called "The Abide Incubator
• Spiritual Leadership, Inc. and the Incubator
  Program
• http//ww.spiritual-leadership.org

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Some Reinvention Examples

• Congregational Vitality Initiative- UCC
• Bullard's work on life-cycle and full Kingdom
  potential
• Nehemiah Network
• American Baptists
• Reach and Serve Plan (UCC) Missouri
• Don Nations in Texas
• Path One UMC 650 churches by 2012

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Whats Not Working
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Natural Church Development

• Mixed bag
• Helps mainly healthy, growing churches
• Allows the church to focus on its weaknesses
  rather than leverage
• The church decides where to begin
• Isnt qualitative
• Consultant training is short and weak
• Most of the consultants have never grown anything

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Center for Parish Development

• Expensive research with little to no onsite
  intervention
• They gather data for their research instead of
  transforming the congregations
• Baltimore UMC Conference is an example

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Most City Reaching projects

• Mission Houston is an example
• Do a lot of good for the cities
• But seldom get beyond prayer to transformation
  and reproduction of congregations

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Mainline Judicatory Coaching and Programs

• Most mainline judicatories have never grown a
  church
• Large exceptions Baptist, Reformed, Independent
• Most need an outside consultant to see the issues
• We know what works so why reinvent the wheel?
• Turf issues

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Denominational funding

• Lilly Foundation study
• 2005 study of 700 church plants
• Compared those the grew and those that didnt
• The funding amount has no correlation to
  membership size
• Reformed Church in California spends only 30,000
  a plant and is growing the region

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Basic Learning from the Study

• Overview

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Any Region Can Grow If.

• There are enough competent and passionate pastors
  
• 1 issue facing us all
• The judicatory doesnt allow controllers to
  triangulate him or her
• The Judicatory exists for the churches
• Church planting is major part of the equation

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However

• Attendance growth isnt happening in any state
• Mainline leaders do not seem to understand the
  situation nor the solution
• Independent churches have increased the past 15
  years

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The Survival of a Species

• The ability to adapt
• The birth rate

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Keys To the Future
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Apostolic Judicatory Leadership

• Accept that the world has and is changing and act
  accordingly
• Internalize the seriousness of the decline
• Repent and take on a totally new mindset
• Trying to save the denomination isnt enough

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Apostolic Judicatory Leadership

• Develop healthy established congregations
• Quit propping up hospices, hospitals, and museums
• Develop nimble structures and approaches to the
  cultural changes
• Return to the complete message of Jesus
• Social justice and evangelism

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Apostolic Judicatory Leadership

• Top three roles
• Resource the congregation
• The judicatory isnt the church
• Plant churches
• Not listen to whiners
• Most are focusing on
• Church Planting
• Church Strengthening
• Leadership Development

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Apostolic Pastoral Leadership

• Top three roles of the pastor
• Creating, casting, and managing a vision to reach
  the city rather than grow the church
• Raising up future leaders and coaching the paid
  staff
• Ensuring the multiplication of Kingdom ministries
  by parenting church plants and multi-sites

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The End of Democracy

• Apostolic led churches
• Spirit-led leadership rather than corporate
• The more democratic the less likely to grow
• Leaders who listen to God rather than following a
  board
• Small boards and very few committees
• Sheep dont oversee the shepherd

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Reproducing Church Planting Systems

• It is not enough just to plant churches
• Reproductive systems need to be established

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Importance of Church Planting

• International Pentecostal Holiness Church is the
  fastest growing group in the country
• They plant a church each year for every 15
  existing churches
• Southern Baptists plant one for every 50 churches
  
• UMC plant one for every 500 churches

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Importance of Church Planting

• Every denomination that is planting less than 1
  new churches annually is declining
• A net gain of 3200 churches annually is needed
  to keep up with population growth
• The best way to revitalize an existing church is
  by planting a church

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Essentials to Every Effective Model

• Recruiting
• The right pastor for the right place
• Accountability
• You get what you measure
• No Triangulation
• Judicatories understand Matthew 18

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Growing Denominations

• Great Commission Network
• Reformed Church in America
• Free Methodist in California
• Baptist families
• Anglican Mission in America
• Evangelical Covenant Church
• Wesleyan Methodist in Michigan
• Pentecostal Churches
• Independent Churches
• Church of God

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Growing Denominations

• Nazarene
• Christian Missionary Alliance
• Christian Reformed Church
• Evangelical Covenant Church
• Evangelical Presbyterian
• Free Methodist
• Missionary Church
• North American Baptist Convention
• Presbyterian Church of America

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What Do These Have in Common

• Relatively Healthy churches
• Robust church Planting efforts
• Seminaries are growing
• Nimble Structures
• Little to none denominational oversight

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The Key Question
Are our leaders willing to change their habits
and priorities in order to reach a new world?
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What Is Working?

• The following comes from the research and
• my 20 years as a consultant

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What Is Working

• The Baptist family is the only mainline group
  growing across the country .5 from 2000-2005
• Outgrowing population growth in many of the
  northern states
• Pentecostals are growing 1.7
• Planted more churches between 1969-2005 than any
  other denomination 1,088
• Independents are growing 2.2 and the growth rate
  is increasing

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What Might We Learn

• Demonstrated credentials Academic credentials
• No overhead/oversight Over head/oversight
• no interference Interference
• Apostolic leadership Sheep overseeing the
  shepherd
• Little to no structure top heavy
• Reliance on Holy Spirit Reliance on strategy
• Church Planting Revitalization

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Why Established Churches Grow

• Population growth in the area
• Ability to adapt and change quickly
• Do not allow disunity
• A growing pastor
• A passion for the community

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Why Established Churches Grow

• Commitment to great commission and commandment
• Indigenous worship
• Incubator/hospitality for the stranger
• A clear identity and what it means to be the
  church

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What is Working

• Church Planting
• Multiple Sites
• Cluster Models
• Judicatories Existing for Churches

• Strong/Weak Churches
• Intervention
• Immigrant Church

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Church Planting

• Examples and Learnings

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Two Key Observations

• Nothing changes a region as much as church
  planting
• Those regions that are focused on planting are
  growing
• Those regions focused on the transformation of
  congregations are seldom growing
• Church plants grow 21 times faster

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Lilly Foundation Study

• 2005 study of 700 church plants from 7
  denominations
• Compared thriving church plants with those that
  didnt thrive
• Demographics and location are critical
• As the church grows, the pastor hands-off most of
  the pastoral care

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Lilly Foundation Findings

• As the church grows, the quality and style of
  worship improves dramatically
• The higher the priority the pastor places on
  evangelism and makes personal time for it the
  larger the church

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Church Planting

• Central Baptist Association Phoenix
• Planted 50 new works in five years
• Had 4 churches over 500 in worship
• Now have over 16 churches over 500 
• They focus on
• helping churches get birthed
• find the partnerships
• resources that allow them to grow rapidly
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Church Planting

• San Felipe Baptist Association Southwest of
  Houston
• 21 new churches in the last two years 
• Baptisms and worship have increased substantially

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Church Planting

• Crescent Bay/West Los Angeles Baptist Association
  - In five years
• From 51 churches to 95 in five years
• Five years ago 3 of their churches were healthy
  and growing
• Now over 50
• Their budget has increase 467

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Church Planting

• Hudson Baptist Association Albany/Schenectady,
  NY
• 1998 2007
• Baptisms 88 186
• Attendance 390 1886 
• 3 congregations 15 years ago to 27 today
  with half planted since 2000
• A ratio of 17 baptisms per member

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Church Planting Growth Depends on (Hudson Baptist)

• A heavy emphasis in church planting
• Recruiting excellent leaders who stay
• High emphasis on evangelism
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Great Lakes Evangelical Covenant Church
Attendance
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Church Planting

• Reformed Church of America-Classis California
• From 34 churches (in 2003) to 60 churches by 2007
  
• Attendance has grown by more than 1,200 per year
  for 3 straight years
• 50-60 adult baptisms/decisions per month
• Will plant at least 5 more congregations in 2008

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Church Planting

• Reformed Church of America-Classis California
• 3rd route pastors 90 of the growth
• Denomination allowing him to use non-RCA pastors
• 30,000 a plant
• A model much like Bordens and worth watching

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Church Planting

• Anglican Mission in America (AMiA)
• Adding one church each week
• 100 retention rate
• 2000 4 churches, today 150 (Feb. 2008
• Anglican Best Practices
• High participation rate of laity
• Prayer
• Focus on the unchurched

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Church Planting

• Anglican best practices continued
• Open to new opportunities because tired of the
  old ways
• No baggage from the past
• Disenfranchised people returning

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The Wesleyan Church Penn-Jersey District

• Has seen growth the past five years primarily
  related to starting new congregations

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Church Planting

• Evangelical Free Church New England has grown
  in worship and baptism the past five years due to
  
• Aggressive church plant and multiplication

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Main Learning

• Church Planting is the 1issue facing
  denominations
• That means the real 1issue is
• raising up, training, and coaching
  entrepreneurial pastors

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Main Learning

• Finding the planters is the key issue
• Rather than target an area and find a planter
• identify a person with a vision for planting a
  church in a particular area
• Every denomination needs an intentional church
  planting farm system

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Church Planting Farm System

• Denominational leaders function more as scouts
  and coaches of planters
• Denominational leaders need to come from the
  ranks of church planters so they can coach
• Focus more on church planting than transformation
• Reward those churches who plant churches (even
  reduce their dues)

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Church Planting Farm System

• Seminaries must offer a basic degree in church
  planting
• that includes the second year as intern in a new
  church plant
• Leadership development replaces generic
  theological training
• Regional systems for matching the planter with
  the target area
• so the DNA matches

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Church Planting Churches

• More churches are planting churches along side
  the denomination
• Northwood recruiting, assessing, training,
  deploying, coaching
• New Heights Baptist- focus on Internship
• New Hope Christian Fellowship coaches for a
  year
• Saddleback over 1,000 plants
• Antioch Bible- multicultural plants
• New Life Christian Church four by four

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Common Denominators

• The pastor has grown something before
• The pastor spends a year in a successful new
  church plant
• The pastor has a coach who has actually either
  successfully grown a church, restarted a
  church, or planted a church
• No more parachute drops

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Most Common Mistakes

• Taking Spiritual Warfare Lightly     
• Attempting to reach everyone        
• Premature Launch
• Recruiting ceases after the "grand opening"     
   
• No plan for the other 6 days of the week     
• Fear of talking about money until it's urgent
       
• Not differentiating from an established church
      
• Formalize leadership too quickly   
• Once up and running, Fail to reFocus on the
  target     
• Relying too much on the Advice of Experts

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Multi Sites

• One church in many locations
• In most cases this means one mission, same
  values, budget, staff, structure, etc.
• See examples in the workbook
• 1 in 4 mega churches are now multi-site

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Multi Site

• 1 out of 3 churches are considering a multiple
  site
• The estimate is there will be 30,000 multi site
  churches in the next few years
• I predict in 20 years it will be the norm

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Why Multi Sites

• Many established churches with little room begin
  to grow
• The additional sites have a seasoned coach and
  DNA to guide them
• Resources are more abundant than in a church
  plant
• It is ultimately cheaper and keeps all of the
  options open

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Why Multi Sites

• More non-Christians attend
• Multi-Sites are responsible for more converts
  than churches that relocate
• Targeting a new age group (usually younger) or
  different psycho graphic groups
• Do a different kind of worship without upsetting
  the long timers

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Why Multi Sites

• Churches choose to start new campuses in
  friendlier confines
• A growing number of mainline churches are going
  Multiple-Site in order to get around the system

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Exponential Planting Movement

• Independent groups and churches who are devoted
  to a multiplication movement rather than church
  planting or multi site
• Mainline judicatories could learn from them
• Exponential Conference is just one example

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The Making of a Movement

• Developing a reproductive movement depends on
  four shifts
• Shift from church growth to missional movement
  that values the new, the lost, the edge, and the
  sent
• Shift from ministry managers to spiritual
  entrepreneurs
• move people up from the ranks

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The Making of a Movement

• Developing a reproductive movement
• Staff shift from reactive to proactive
• when youre spiritually ready you reproduce even
  if you dont need the space. Leader readiness
• From addition to multiplication

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Judicatories Existing for the Local Church

• Instead of thinking they are the church
• Two examples
• Central Baptist Association (Phoenix)
• Baptist Convention of Ontario Quebec

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Central Baptist Association

• Sold its building and rented
• Reduced staff from 7 to 3
• 98 of its budget goes back to the local church
• Send pastors to conferences
• Plant churches
• Fund significant outreach ministries
• Have a church planter on staff who plants then
  they replace him with another

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Baptist Convention of Ontario Quebec

• In 2000 ended a multi decade decline and since
  have experienced an 6 increase in membership
• Streamlined their board
• Moved from area Ministers to a smaller team of
  more specialized leaders
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Strong/Weak Church

• A strong flagship church takes a weak church
  under its wing
• It has many similarities with the multi site
  movement
• Sends a team of lay people and/or a new pastor to
  lead the church
• Pacific Northwest Conference of the Free
  Methodist Church

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Example of Strong/Weak

• Ginghamsburg UMC
• Medway UMC from 80-200
• Ft. McKinley 40-80
• They were allowed to place the pastor
• Grace UMC
• Olga campus averaging 60 in 2004
• Now averaging over 300
• Olga is 17 miles away with 4 UMC's between the 2
  campuses

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Immigrant Church within a Church

• Housing immigrant churches in healthy
  congregations often strengthens both churches

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Cluster Models

• Churches covenant together to support and
  resource each other to grow
• They do three things
• The congregation is not alone
• Peer growth
• Feel supported
• Need at least one healthy, growing church and
  leader in the cluster

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Cluster Models

• Are best configured around desire to grow rather
  than geography
• Should never be arbitrarily put together by a
  judicatory
• Conflicted churches should not be included

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Cluster Models

• They are working in Pres. Baltimore
• 33 churches that have been in clusters 24 are
  ahead of 1997 in worship attendance
• They worked for me in Central Pennsylvania in the
  90s
• More on this later

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Cluster Models and Planting

• Reformed Church in America
• Classis Pleasant Prairie went from a two decade
  decline of 4 to 5 a year to a 15 growth the
  last five years
• Des Moines Classis Grew by 22 a year the last
  five years
• Both areas use a cluster model for pastors to
  share what is working - cross pollination
• Extensive door to door community surveys, prayer
  walks, and analysis of congregation

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Cluster Model and Planting

• Reformed Church in America
• The Key- supporting only those leaders and
  churches that will drive the Kingdom vision and
  mission
• Money is not the key
• Outwardly Focused Congregational Visioning and
  Strategic Planning
• Multiplication thinking

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My Personal Experience

• Central Pennsylvania

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My Personal Experience

• 1,000 churches
• This study confirms what Ive been saying all
  along
• The skill and passion of the lead pastor
  determines everything
• Church planting is the key focus
• Only now Hispanic
• The basic change has to begin in our seminaries

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Central Pennsylvania

• A three year process with the UMC called Church
  Growth with Integrity
• Involved training
• Cabinet
• Clergy
• Laity
• Intervention and consulting with 30 Congregations

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Trained the Cabinet

• 21 days over a three year period
• Bulk of training during the first six months
• Training included
• Reading the signs of the times
• Turnaround, Growth, and Reproduction Principles
• Explanation of evaluation Process
• The DSs were either in or out

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The Process

• They had 900 congregations and 500 clergy
• Eliminated those churches where they saw no
  future no matter what
• Left with only 500 churches
• Evaluated each church and pastor to see which
  ones had a high potential for growth

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Elimination Criteria

• See the Appendix for the items
• We were left with 100 possible churches

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Positive Elimination Criteria

• The skill and passion of the pastor
• Had he or she grown anything in the past
• How often had they moved
• Does the pastor have a track record
• What seminary did the person attend

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Negative Elimination Criteria

• Every church they served had declined
• Had a history of antisocial behavior
• Did not appear to have great potential
• Were within 10 years of retirement
• Process resulted in 60 clergy and churches that
  met the criteria

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The Training Process

• Bishop invited the 60 pastors to take part in a
  four session training covering eight days- 58
  attended the first session
• 45 attended all four sessions
• Signs of the times, growth and reproduction
  principles, and commitment
• They were asked to go back and talk with their
  leaders about Church Growth with Integrity

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Training

• Bishop invited the laity from the 60 churches to
  attend a one day seminar located throughout the
  Conference
• 0ver 2000 laity attended
• Signs of the times, growth and reproduction
  principles, and commitment time
• Invited to take part in a cluster consultation
• 30 of the churches went forward

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Cluster Consultation

• Each church completed my Ministry Audit which I
  analyzed
• Over a five day period I met with each pastor and
  church
• Met with pastor first
• Met will all four churches first night
• Met with each church one full day, interviewing
  and sharing my recommendations

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Cluster Consultation

• 8 years later a pastor did a doctorate degree on
  the results
• 18 churches took part and all but one of them had
  grown

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Mistakes

• Allowing ten representative churches in the study
  
• we actually had 40 churches
• They balked at serious accountability even in
  dysfunctional situations
• They did not reappoint pastors based on the
  evaluation

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What I Would Add to the Project Today

• Monthly coaching for the key leaders and weekly
  emails for the pastors
• A return visit to each cluster each quarter the
  first year and twice the next year
• I would use two of my new tools

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What I Would Add to the Project Today

• The Readiness Test (appendix)
• Choose churches and pastors under 3.0
• The Permission-giving Test (appendix)
• Choose churches and pastors under (70)

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My Personal Experience

• Southwest Texas Conference

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One Hour Consultation

• Late 80s my Bishop asked me to design the One
  Hour Consultation
• Trained around 50 pastors to use the tool
• Was used in 85 of our Conference over four years
• Conference grew every year and led the nation two
  of the years

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One Hour Consultation

• New Bishop felt he needed an assistant so he
  replaced the Director of Congregational Growth
  with an assistant to the Bishop
• Conference is now in decline

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What Ive Learned
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The Only Common Denominator to Growth

• A transformational Pastor
• Intuition is a basic skill today
• Its all about the pastor being able to
• Lead
• Make the hard decisions
• Hand off ministry to others
• Flagship churches must lead the way
• Seminaries must change

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Lessons Learned

• Leadership development never ends
• Learning the ABCs of coaching
• Getting the region to allow them to hold pastors
  and churches accountable
• Matching growth pastors with growth churches
• Measuring results is critical
• Even if initially it leads to low morale

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Lessons Learned

• Mid level judicatories first hurdle is to regain
  the trust of the congregations
• In the National Park trust was given
• In the Jungle is has to be earned
• As long as the church has money it is seldom
  interested in transformation
• Restart churches are good candidates
• More so than mid sized churches with money

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Lessons Learned

• Judicatories and pastors have to think like
  missionaries
• Transformation is seldom enough
• In most areas where regional growth is happening
  it is through church plants
• Reproduction by daughter church plants has a good
  success rate especially if the pastoral staff
  takes a group along to start

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Lessons Learned

• Parachute drops have around a 50 success rate at
  best

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Essentials to any Strategy

• Leadership development top priority
• Evaluation of church and pastor
• Selection of the right pastor for the right
  church
• Ongoing coaching by someone who has been there,
  done that
• Accountability for growth rather than money

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Essentials to an Strategy

• Measurement

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The Elephants in the Room
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Most Views on Congregational Life Are Flawed from
the Beginning
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Flawed Assumptions

• These assumptions lead to the belief that
  congregations have a life-cycle
• Birth, growth, decline, and death
• Congregations can be fixed for awhile
• Fatalistic, focus is on institutional survival
• Both the prophets and Jesus chastised the
  religious leaders for focusing on the institution

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For a Denomination to Thrive

• Christianity is a movement of God throughout
  history
• Not the growth or health of organizations
• Biased toward a Salvation history
• Blessed to be a blessing to all
• Movement DNA must begin to replace institutional
  DNA

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• Movement Religion
• A Leader Avoid Personalities
• Way of Life Belief System
• People of the Way People of the Book
• Principle Rules
• Have a Cause Is The Cause
• Mobile Stationary
• Common Person Elite Insiders
• Servants Entitled
• Cult Religion

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Movement DNA Keys

• A laser sharp call and vision for living out that
  call
• A kingdom rather than pastoral mindset
• Extremely flexible on how things get done

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Anatomy of a Movement

• And how to keep it going

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Anatomy of a Movement

• We are witnessing the birth of two huge movements
• Church Planting Centers in churches
• Multi Site Congregations
• I want to focus on the Church Planting
• History hasnt been kind to movements
• When the founder dies the movement dies

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Anatomy of a Movement

• Phase One the emergence of a Leader of
  leaders
• Because of his passion the movement spreads like
  a fire out of control
• Assumes the mantel of Apostle
• Phase Two the growing number of plants removes
  the Apostle from the core
• Movement aligns itself around the DNA rather than
  the Apostle

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Anatomy of a Movement

• Phase Three the decentralization of the
  Apostles passion continues to be deluded
• The movement responds by electing a centralized
  board with paid staff
• Manages the DNA and churches rather than the
  Apostle fueling the mission
• Signals the beginning of the decline for the
  movement and beginning of an institution

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Phase Three

• Free wheeling mission outposts are replaced by
  management silos
• Quality control replaces passionate actions
• Authority comes from the board not the Apostle
• The movement is dead

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Phase Four

• Centralized and removed from the field, executive
  management becomes paralyzed
• Church planters build churches rather than
  fueling a movement, and church planting slows to
  a trickle
• Executives at the top become isolated

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The Big Question for Judicatories

• What are you going to do both spawn a movement
  and keep it in phrase One or Two?
• The Apostle Paul shows us how

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Lessons from Paul

• He stayed in close contact with the churches he
  planted
• Acted like an Apostle
• He visited and revisited the church plants
• Nothing replaces the passion of the Apostle

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The Secret to this Movement

• Dont focus on planting churches
• Focus on planting churches that plant churches
• Raise up an Apostolic team of passionate leaders
  of leaders
• To stay close to the plants and visit them
  regularly
• Goal- to insure they continue planting

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The Elephants in the Room
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Systems Dominate
Systems always overcome programmatic change

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Two Systems Stories Dominate

• Top down, Command and Control, Stifle Story
• Bottom up, Out of Control, Innovation Story

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How Systems Function
Think
1
4
Whos in control
How can we do it better
Law
Grace
There must be more than this
What is our purpose
3
2
Feel
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How Systems Function

• No entire congregation is totally in one sphere
• Every congregation has one dominate attitude
• Determined by those in power
• Determining which attitude dominates the
  leadership is where transformation begins

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The Key Players in the Story

• Deciders
• Doers
• Ignored
• Dreamers
• Leaders

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Sphere One Churches
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Warning

• 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?

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Sphere Two Churches
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Sphere Two Churches

• Some Doers become Dreamers
• The more Dreamers, the more confusion
• The more confusion, the more the Controllers try
  to control
• Transformation Key
• Fan the discontent
• Spend time with the Dreamers

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Sphere Three Churches
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Sphere Three Churches

• Growth is normal and often explosive
• Confusion is normal in the early stages
• Transformation key
• Develop leaders and systems

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Sphere Four Churches
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Sphere Four Churches

• 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

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Dont Stay in Sphere Four Long
Think
Order, Common Sense, Balance
Policies, Controlled, Centralized, Top Down
M
Law
Grace
V
Permission- Giving,Trust, Decentralized,
Passion, Mission,
V
Feel
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The Innovative Church
Think
Order, Common Sense, Balance
M
Law
Grace
V
Permission- Giving,Trust, Decentralized,
Passion, Mission,
V
Feel
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The Key to Profound Change and Innovation

• To unfreeze the system and keep it unfrozen

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Whats An Unfreezing Move?

• Anything that destabilizes the status quo to
  where
• The systems story is destabilized
• The leaders do something radically new
• Ive discovered nine unfreezing moves

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Foundational Unfreezing Moves

• A Solid Community of Faith
• A biblical sound and culturally relevant DNA

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The Big ThreeUnfreezing Moves

• Indigenous worship
• Mobilized congregation
• Redemptive missional opportunities

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Supportive Unfreezing Moves

• Organized around DNA
• Hiring servants rather than professionals
• Functional place and space
• Radical Generosity

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Three Types of Mindsets

• Church Renewal
• Faith Community
• Missional Movement

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Type One MindSet

• Church Renewal
• Survival
• Reverse decline
• Revitalize church
• Overcome Obstacles
• Centralized
• Living another day is the key

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To Lead a Type One Church

• Clarity about what God wants done in lead pastors
  life
• Handpick and mentor a cadre of leaders to be
• Focus on adult discipleship not programs
• Eliminate controllers and get ready for conflict

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Type Two MindSet

• Building community
• Church effectiveness
• Target ministries
• Start new initiatives
• Seize Opportunities
• Decentralized
• Adding is the key

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To Lead a Type Two Church

• Leave the survival mentality
• Develop spirituality at the core
• Discern and attack key missions
• Aggressively build, model, and embed the
  DNAdismantle or change the organization
• Draw the map of the future

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Type Three Mindset

• Missional Movement
• Kingdom movement
• Multiply missions
• Cross over cultures
• Create opportunities
• Reproductive
• Multiplication is the key

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To Lead a Type Three Church

• Instill a culture of equipping
• Spend time beyond the church
• Decentralize the organization
• Form alliances
• Become an untethered church
• Build a Great Commission church

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MY Best Advice for Judicatories
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Best Advice

• Identify, develop, and support missional,
  transformational, apostolic, missionaries
• This means not listening to the controllers
• Dont prop up dying churches, let them die
• Focus on the larger churches
• Developing a farm system
• Provide training events
• Cluster healthy pastors

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Best Advice

• Plant 4-5 new churches each year
• When possible reduce your structure and personnel
• Focus on the local church not the denomination
• Reduce your structure and personnel and redirect
  most of it back into growing your region

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Best Advice

• Focus pastors on penetrating an area rather than
  growing a church
• Focus your churches on what it means to be
  faithful
• The Great Commandment and the Great Commission
• Be a consultant/coach rather than a manager or
  problem solver

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