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Coaching Your Congregational Leaders and Ministry Teams by Applying Learnings from these Articles
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“How Do You Know If You Are Ready for Redevelopment?” by Jim Caprell What are some of the ways in which your congregation has changed in the past year? Have some of your congregation’s members and/or leaders been discussing a need for redevelopment? If so, what seem to be the major motivations for this desire? If not, what are some of the positives in your congregation that your members and/or leaders see as the reasons they are content with your congregation’s present progress? Where does your congregation stand in the five areas that Caprell lists as being five important dynamics of redevelopment or of present health? “How to Address the Stress Points in Turnaround Churches” by Bill Easum Have your congregation’s pastor(s) and spouse(s) encountered any of the seven stress points that Easum lists? Have the church’s leaders, both in the pews and in the judicatory, supported the pastor(s) and spouses(s) in these situations? Do you agree with Easum’s assessment that leaders with strong mercy gifts will find church turnarounds more difficult and stressful? Do you agree that “the mission” must be chosen over “the interests or desires of individuals”? How does that balance with the advice to “Focus on growing people, not the church”? “Building the Human Resources Team” by Tom Bandy Does your congregation have a personnel committee or pastor-parish relations committee, and if so, how does it function? Do you have a committee or team whose sole charge is to make disciples? Do you find that your congregation functions more around finding people to fill vacant positions rather than mentoring and helping people discover their spiritual gifts? What percentage of the people in your congregation do what percentage of the work of the congregation? Are your staff persons expected to do most of the work or to equip the lay leaders and members to do the work of the congregation? “The Church That’s Continually Opening New Doors” by Dale Galloway What group in your community is not being reached (or reached effectively) by a local congregation? Does anyone in your congregation seem to have a passion to reach that group for Christ? If so, is your congregation investigating ways of supporting or being more connected with that ministry? If not, why not? Thinking of some of the insights in “Reversing Unwelcoming Welcome Habits” (see p. 5), how would you evaluate your congregation’s demonstrable interest in reaching out to others outside your church doors?
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