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Unfreezing Leadership

Unfreezing Leadership. Bill Easum seminar John.chandler@vbmb.org. Frozen Unfrozen. Preserving facilities Being with Jesus Maintaining Policies Developing Mission Protecting Offices Dying to the world Membership Privileges Servanthood

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Unfreezing Leadership

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  1. Unfreezing Leadership Bill Easum seminar John.chandler@vbmb.org

  2. Frozen Unfrozen Preserving facilities Being with Jesus Maintaining Policies Developing Mission Protecting Offices Dying to the world Membership Privileges Servanthood Supporting Denomination Traveling with Jesus Taking Care of People Transforming People

  3. Frozen: Top down • Command and Control • Stifle Story • Unfrozen: Bottom up • Out of Control • Innovation Story

  4. Think 4 1 How can we do it better? Who’s in control? Law Grace There must be more than this What’s our purpose? 3 2 Feel

  5. 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

  6. Deciders • Doers • Ignored • Dreamers • Leaders

  7. Think U n Policies, Controlled, Centralized, Top Down h e a l t h y Law Grace C h u r c h Feel

  8. 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.

  9. Think U n h e a l t h y Law Grace C Confusion, Uncertainty, Conflict h u r c h Feel

  10. 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

  11. Think h c r u h C M V V Law Grace y Permission, Decentralized, Bottom Up Invite,Grow, & send h t l a e H Feel

  12. Growth (especially numerical) is normal and often explosive • Confusion is normal in the early stages • Transformation key • Develop leaders and systems

  13. Think Balance Regroup Breather Improve h c r u h C M V V Law Grace y h t l a e H Feel

  14. 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

  15. Think Order, Common Sense, Balance M Law Grace V Permission- Giving,Trust, Decentralized, Passion, Mission, V Feel

  16. 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

  17. Find the appropriate unfreezing move • Focus on it long enough to destabilize system • Align everything and everyone around the unfreezing move

  18. 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

  19. Unfreezing move #3: • a clear Mission, Vision, and Values (MVV) • Purpose • core values • V.A.B.E.’s

  20. 5. Mobilized Congregation 4. Indigenous Worship 6. Missional Opportunities

  21. 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

  22. Moving toward indigenous worship in America: ModernHigh-Modern BridgePostmodern Speaker: OratorCommunicatorSojourner Content:ReasonTruthExperience Offer:MoralsAdviceHope

  23. FrozenUnfrozen Information Transformation Doctrine Experience Heritage Community Reverence Hope

  24. Unfreezing move #4 requires: • Identifying those who are ready • Recruiting those who are willing • Discerning those who are open to coaching • Equipping those who commit the time • Deploying those who finish the race • Coaching them along in their ministry

  25. “How can we assist you?” • Not, “What can you do for us?” • Unpaid Servants • Not volunteers • Called • Not nominated and electing • Matched to gift • Notcoordinated or directed

  26. Everyone training everyone • Span of care: ten • Every 10 people have a pastor • Key: the first fractal must represent the mission in macrocosm

  27. Music Logistics The Arts Visuals

  28. ? Writers Instru- ments Singers

  29. Organist Drums Piano Keyboard

  30. 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

  31. Sphere 1 & 2 Sphere 3 & 4 Missions Committee Missional Attitude Active/Involved Discipled Programs Reason for Being Service Group Redemptive Movement Raising Money Sending People

  32. #6 Institutional Road To Mission Don’t do Unfreeze #6 until the first 5 are well in place!

  33. #7 ` 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

  34. Admin Lay Mobil Team Leader Worship Out Reach

  35. Sphere 1 & 2 = 1 to 100 in worship • Sphere 3 & 4 = 1 to 200+ in worship

  36. #8 • “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

  37. #9 • 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

  38. Unfreezing Leadership Bill Easum seminar www.easumbandy.com www.rasnet.org

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