Elemental Children's Ministry

• 2:47 PM henryjz - Millennials no interested in working for Fortune 500 companies and not interested in finding Jesus in churches that feel like them
• 2:43 PM henryjz - mobilize, connect and support is what organizations need to do now
• 2:40 PM henryjz - the challenge is building organizations that can thrive without superhumans at the top rather than finding great leaders
• 2:39 PM henryjz - there is no one leader who can be everything
• 2:38 PM henryjz - in a world of accelerated change, it’s dangerous to give power to a few ppl
• 2:37 PM henryjz - 4. cannot have a top-down model of leadership
• 2:37 PM henryjz - are you more committed to redemption and renewal and reconciliation or are you more committed to the programs, policies and practices of your church?
• 2:34 PM henryjz - check out other churches and see what is being done identical… ask why
• 2:34 PM henryjz - look at all your programs/initiatives and see what hasn’t changed and why
• 2:33 PM henryjz - how?
• 2:32 PM henryjz - 3. need to deconstruct what you already believe (not creeds)
• 2:31 PM henryjz - How do you get as many ppl in your church to contribute to how we make an impact?
• 2:29 PM henryjz - Only way to do that is to have options
• 2:29 PM henryjz - Make sure that change seems more exciting than standing still
• 2:29 PM henryjz - 2. Generate more strategic options
• 2:28 PM henryjz - To fight denial: face the facts, question your beliefs (not creeds), listen to the renegades/dissidents
• 2:25 PM henryjz - Organization misses the future more because the future is unpalatable.
• 2:24 PM henryjz - There is a process of denial: dismissal, rationalization, mitigation, self confrontation
• 2:22 PM henryjz - 1. Conquer denial
• 2:22 PM henryjz - 4 things to fight entropy
• 2:22 PM henryjz - We need to change from being crisis-driven and episodic to opportunity-driven
• 2:22 PM henryjz - It takes a crisis or change in leadership to change the downward direction of an organization
• 2:21 PM henryjz - Success is always self-correcting :)
• 2:21 PM henryjz - Vision leads to strategies leads to policies leads to habits… organizational entropy
• 2:16 PM henryjz - Unprecedented changes bring unprecedent opportunities. In order to take advantage of those, though, we need to have unprecedented strategies.
• 2:15 PM henryjz - Should we be wringing our hands because of the secularization of culture or be thankful for a new opportunity
• 2:13 PM henryjz - Our churches haven’t been potent catalysts for spiritual growth
• 2:12 PM henryjz - most young christians end up leaving within 8-12 weeks of having made a commitment
• 2:10 PM henryjz - Within churches there isn’t a difference between churched or unchurched in lifestyle
• 2:09 PM henryjz - Many Christian institutions are not keeping up… just look at the stats… more people are not attending church… outsiders have low view of Christianity
• 2:08 PM henryjz - Inroduction by John Ortberg

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