Breakthrough ideas with Doug:

• How does a church begin as an accidental church plant?
• If the Kingdom of God were to come to your town, would it look like your church?
• Is a church a church until they hold their first worship service?
• How does a church formalize a public witness as the body of Christ gathered?
• What is our discipleship model? Does it work? – Core questions for every church according to Dallas Willard.
• What are the character and competencies of Jesus that are transferrable to every member of your church? Here is one church’s approach.
• The Five Fold Skills of East End Fellowship – the core things that every church leader should know and do.
• Everybody says we need to make disciples, but in the end, are they just promoting another class or programmatic event? We must move into the marks of a growing disciple.
• We signed up for the revolution of the Kingdom of God, and somewhere along the way ended up running a church. Just ask Doug.
• Very few people have experienced life on life disciple-making, much less most of our church leaders. Here’s why.
• What prompted your pastoral calling to begin with? Was it running more programs or reaching and discipling more people?
• Are your people taking spiritual responsibility for being and making disciples? These are.
• What if your church “normal” was everyone growing in a disciple-making relationship?
• How do leaders move out of a programmatic cycle of ministry administration and into a disciple-making rhythm of growth?
• What would happen if your church members did what Jesus said to do?
• As it turns out, Jesus is the best disciple maker who ever lived.
• If a church is thriving and flourishing, it is always through a team more than one leader.
• What happens when the mission of your church moves from being run as an organization to being owned by every member?
• Are we about the image of God in everyone or just in those who are most comfortable for us to reach?
• Saying no to a lot of what you used to say yes to improves missional effectiveness and fights volunteer burnout.
• How do you contextualize the mission of God in your neighborhood? Here’s how one church does it.
• What is the most natural next step for your community to become a part of the body of Christ? Is it necessarily attending a service on Sunday morning?
• What are the most effective ministry vehicles to carry your vision?
• Do you care more about Justice or Jesus? How the missional movement can seem to be sidetracked.
• How do you live in the tension of the whole of the Gospel?
• Fight for being as passionate about personal holiness as we are communal holiness. Be as moved about your sins as you are societies ills.
• Are we as moved to comment about our sin as much as we do government and community?
• Are you a church in reaction to something or conviction of something? Here’s the difference.
• If we are looking at what the next generation will wrestle with in the gospel… it will be between social justice and personal conviction.
• What does a diverse, urban church ministry to reaching the millennial generation look like?
• What if everything that you do in ministry up until age 55 was training for ministry from ages 55 to 75?
• Stop leading ministry as if you have something to prove and instead becoming living proof of the gospel.
• Are you sharing the good news of Jesus or the good behavior of a church member?
• Discipleship is not an option… it is central to the good news of Jesus.

 

Breakthrough resources in this episode:

EastEndFellowship Kickstart Resources    Password: NoPlanB

Master Plan of Evangelism by Robert Coleman

The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson

 

Doug currently helps pastor a team-led church in the inner city of Richmond, VA. He’s the former Global Strategy Director for 3DM, has planted a multiplying missional church, transitioned a mega-church, and was a Teaching Pastor and Multi-Site Director at a multi-site mega church.

Additionally, he has come alongside a myriad of businesses, non-profits, and churches. Doug specializes in re-brands, creating savvy marketing execution and bringing strategic business innovation to increase disciple-making effectiveness. He’s married to Elizabeth, a C-Suite advertising & brand executive for MullenLowe US. They have three precocious and joy-filled kids: Avery, Jude and Sam. And quite recently, they brought a Great Dane puppy into the family!

 

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