Developing Your Leadership Team

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Developing Your Leadership Team
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Good preaching is not so much speaking TO people
as it is speaking FOR people.
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Everything rises and falls on leadership.
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Your success in identifying, recruiting,
motivating and nurturing a team of leaders to be
your partners in this endeavor will be the single
biggest factor in determining whether you succeed
or fail.
Mike Piazza
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Crazy

• Doing the same thing and expecting different
  results.

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7,495 a day
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250 volunteers
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Pastors To Do List

• Leadership Development
• Email/correspondence
• Writing - Sermon/Curriculum/Devotions
• Administration/Finance
• Meetings
• Counseling/Visitation
• Worship Planning
• Denomination/Community/Ecumenical work
• Volunteer Recruiting/Training/Management
• PR/Marketing/Evangelism
• Reading/Research/Study
• Prayer/Devotions

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Christmasand Easter Only
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Churches do not grow larger than their leaders
capacity.
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Developing Your Leadership Team
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Distinguish LEADERSHIPfrom MANAGEMENT.
LEADERSHIP
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MANAGEMENT vs. LEADERSHIP
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MANAGERS vs. LEADERS
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MINISTRY vs. MANAGEMENT
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Let the managers manage and the leaders lead.
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Ten Most Significant People

• Ruth
• Mark
• David
• Rahab
• Nicodemus

• Sarah
• Deborah
• Shadrach
• Rachel
• Fred

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MANAGEMENT vs. LEADERSHIP
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Investing timevs. Spending time
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Leadership development is the best investment you
can make in your ministry.
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280 members in November
18 funerals in January
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The congregation had to change their image of
who a pastor is and what a pastor does.
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From GUEST to HOST
From CONSUMER to PRODUCER
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The pastor has to shift how the pastoral role is
understood.
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There is no limit to what a person can achieve if
they dont care who gets the credit.

• Zig Ziglar

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THE PASTOR
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Vital church leaders know how to get out of the
way.
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Never, never, never surrender leadership.
Specifically, never surrender the leadership of
your church to the management of your church.
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How do you build a leadership team that will
build your church?

• Put on your own oxygen mask first.

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No one ever died of hard work
if they did they were doing it wrong!
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A true leader is not someone who can do the work
of 10 people, but someone who can organize 10
people to do the work.
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How do you build a leadership team that will
build your church?

• Put on your own oxygen mask first.
• Find the people who are better at it than you
  are.

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The gifts God gave were that some would be
apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some
pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the
work of ministry.
equip the saints

• Ephesians 411

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I need your help.
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• Find a person you think might be good at a
  jobhopefully someone who ultimately will be
  better at it than you.
• Ask them to help you.
• Show them how it is done.
• Next time let them do it while YOU help.
• Then ask them to recruit and train someone to
  help them.

Will you help me?
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Introvert
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How do you build a leadership team that will
build your church?

• Put on your own oxygen mask first.
• Find the people who are better at it than you
  are.
• Empower leaders to lead.

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• Our study of 300 congregations that have been
  particularly effective in retaining their members
  learned that an important bonding agent is their
  members discovery of meaning for living.

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What? How?
WHY?
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Leaders respond to why.
Managers respond to what or how.
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A strong WHY will overcome any HOW.
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WHY?
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How do you build a leadership team that will
build your church?

• Put on your own oxygen mask first.
• Find the people who are better at it than you
  are.
• Empower leaders to lead.
• A mirror is a powerful tool, if you know which
  side to use.

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If you want to feel good about yourself, be a
good person.
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Questions?