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Only God can make a church grow. But we can create conditions favorable for growth through clarifying the essentials, giving away ministry to others, utilizing small groups, focusing outward on your community and teaching people how to tell their story.
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After defining what leadership is and clarifying why strong servant leadership is vital to the church, this session focuses on eight qualities of what a missional leader looks like. Topics covered include being a passionate follower of Christ, serving out of your giftedness, having a heart for the lost, empowering others, building healthy relationships, and designing/developing healthy church systems. Seven vital church systems are described.
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Discusses the critical importance of handling God-given resources properly while focusing on the personnel, policies and procedures for developing the 11 financial systems of the church.
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The church landscape is littered with men who have destroyed their ministry through moral failure, laziness, greed or pride. There are seven steps that every leader needs to take to keep from becoming a ministry casualty
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Values are those core beliefs that distinguish a church and anchor it in the Word God. Vision is a clear and challenging picture of the future as you believe it can and must be. Together values and vision drive the ministry of the church forward.
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Everything rises and falls on leadership. This lesson focuses on 4 key components for becoming a good leader: character, conduct, communication and conflict.
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Discipleship involves growing people to spiritual maturity. In order to produce mature disciples a church must know what a disciple looks like (characteristics), what it wants him to know (doctrine), what changes it wants to see in his life (habits) and what it wants him to be able to do (skills).
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The making of disciples lies at the heart of the church’s mission, but it has been replaced by ineffective programming in many churches. Church need to simplify and restructure their ministries so each activity contributes to achieving the church’s mission of making disciples.