2014 - a year for zeal (part 3)

2014

A Year For Zeal

Passion Capital Ingredients

• Creed

• Culture

• Courage

• Brand

• Resources

• Strategy

• Persistence

Passion Capital =

Energy +

Intensity +

Sustainability

Strengths Finder 2.0

• Most people

think they know

what they are

good at. They are

usually wrong

…. And yet, a

person can

perform only

from strength.”

• Peter Drucker

Strength =

Talent X

Investment

I Am a Church Member

“I noted in my

research that church

conflict was

increasing. Over

one-half of the

conflict issues dealt

with church

members arguing

over their personal

preferences.”

The attitude

that makes

the difference.

Crisis Mode! • You were in it!

• We are in it together!

• BUT

• “I thought we were doing just fine now!”

– 93 new families

– 15% growth in attendance

– 20% growth in membership

– 16 baptisms in 2013 (+ 2 so far in 2014)

– 25 new members (2013 + so far in 2014)

Leadership Structure • Governance: Congregation & Elected

Oversight Team

through Guiding Principles

and Constitution

• Leadership: Senior Pastor &

[Executive Function]

• Management: Staff (Paid and Volunteer)

• Ministry: Members

Decision Making Consent

Command

Consult

Consensus

Convene

Who cares?

Who knows?

Who must agree?

Who needs to give input?

Zeal Is More!

• Galatians 4:18

– It is fine to be zealous, provided

the purpose is good, and to be so

always, not just when I am with

you. (NIV)

– If someone is eager to do good

things for you, that's all right; but

let them do it all the time, not just

when I'm with you. (NLT)

A Church With Zeal

• Acts 2:42-47 – They devoted themselves to the apostles’

teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

A Church With Zeal

• Acts 2:42-47 1. A learning church

2. A fellowshipping church

3. A praying church

4. A reverent church

5. A happening church

6. A sharing church

7. A worshipping church

8. A happy church

9. A popular church

10. A growing church

Where Zeal Is Applied

1. Personal


1. Personal

2. Home


1. Personal

2. Home 2 Peter 1:5-9

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.


1. Personal

2. Home

3. FRANs Friends Relatives Associates Neighbours

"The world is far more ready to receive the

gospel than Christians are to hand it out"

George W. Peters


1. Personal

2. Home

3. FRANs

4. Church


1. Personal

2. Home

3. FRANs

4. Church “The church is the indispensible filling

station where zeal is replenished.”

The Church With Zeal

• Six attitudes that make all the

difference.


1. I will be a functioning church

member. – 1 Corinthians 12:12

Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but

all its many parts form one body

– 1 Corinthians 12:26-27

If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if

one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

Now you are the body of Christ, and each one

of you is a part of it.


2. I will be a unifying church

member. – John 13:35

By this everyone will know that you are my

disciples, if you love one another.


3. I will not let my church be

about my preferences and

desires – Mark 9:35

Anyone who wants to be first must be the very

last, and the servant of all.


• The Inward Focused Church 1. Worship wars

2. Prolonged minutia meetings

3. Facility focus

4. Program driven

5. Inwardly focused budget

6. Inordinate demands for care

7. Attitudes of entitlement

8. Greater concern about change than the Gospel

9. Anger and hostility

10. Evangelistic apathy


4. I will pray for my church

leaders. – 1 Timothy 3:2-5

Now the overseer is to be above reproach,

faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled,

respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given

to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not

quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must

manage his own family well and see that his

children obey him, and he must do so in a

manner worthy of full respect. (If anyone does

not know how to manage his own family, how

can he take care of God’s church?)


5. I will lead my family to be

healthy church members. – Ephesians 5:25-30

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body.


6. I will treasure church

membership as a gift.


• NOT like a restaurant where you

get to choose from a menu but a

family where you eat the meal set

before you.


• NOT like a store where you

wander the aisles deciding what

to buy but like a theatre backstage

experience where you learn your

role.


• NOT like a diversion where you

engage based on whims or

immediate needs but a place of

commitment where you

demonstrate the Lord’s work

comes before all other possible

uses of time, talent and treasure.


• NOT like a dysfunctional family

where people live in silence and

don’t share and work out their

differences but a healthy family

where everyone respects the

others and submits to them.


• NOT like a charity where you

decide to support based on the

personal appeal of a cause but a

covenant group where you join

with others and support the

family.


• NOT like a workplace where

everyone has a better idea than

the boss but a spiritual team

where everyone sets their

personal ideas and preferences

into the framework of the greater

cause.

Why?

• “The church is the indispensible

filling station where zeal is

replenished.”

Why?

Dr. Drew Pinsky says. "The

real issue here is that there is

no way to get this young man

into treatment."

Why?

• “The church is the indispensible

filling station where zeal is

replenished.”