setting goals – My Ministry Breakthrough

17: Nick Floyd – Cross Church, Northwest AR

By mmb_admin | February 25, 2019

Breakthrough ideas in this episode:

It is essential to stop and recount the faithfulness of God. Keep memorials in front of yourself and your people to mark how God has moved.
What are the characteristics of a church built on dynamic worship and strong biblical teaching look?
You cannot reach your community until you know your community.
First, understand the culture you are called to reach, and then be intentional in how you lead them in, and toward, the gospel.
What are the front door events within your church that engage those in your community who wouldn’t naturally attend on a Sunday morning?
What is the difference in being a college church versus being a church with an active ministry to college students?
Being a church for every generation means being wise and intentional with everything you do… from how you worship to how you dress.
What is your standard of excellence in reaching people? Does this standard affect everything – even how you dress?
How do you steward and strengthen standards of excellence within the culture of your church?
Young leaders can reach older generations in a professional culture, as well as build confidence, by being intentional in small ways, even down to how they dress.
Your building only limits your ability to reach people in the ways that you allow it to. Thinking beyond the box is a critical skill.
Constantly, identifying and developing new leaders is the key to maintaining healthy systems and sustaining growth.
Leverage natural moments of connection, like Christmas and Easter, to recruit and engage new people in serving.
Volunteer leaders who are invested help recruit new volunteer leaders. Sold out leaders call out leaders.
To grow people and to grow a church, the staff must have the heart to raise and enlist others to do ministry, not just do it all themselves.
Continually re-establish the culture of development among your staff. You cannot rest on past recruiting success, even for a week.
Great people developers are leaders who are always with people. It’s not that hard.
When you are with people and have the heart to serve people, development and impact happen.
Numbers aren’t everything, but they do provide insight to the health and growth of a church.
The misuse of numbers in the past often causes church leadership today to run from healthy, and even Godly, ways to connect and keep up with people.
Keeping track of numbers, especially baptisms, helps keep track of the effectiveness of your mission.
Numbers do not tell the whole story, but they do provide a snapshot of the health of your church because disciple-making is a multiplicative action.
Do not be afraid to set goals around things that seem to be only a work of the Holy Spirit, because God will work through your intentional leadership. Healthy goals act as a reminder to lead and serve people well.
Campus pastors will be continually jolted with the shock that they are not the senior pastor. Understand this and lead accordingly.
Second chair leaders must realize that they are not the leader; God has not placed them in the primary leadership role. Therefore trust what God is doing in that first chair leader, even if you disagree.
In the second chair role, when conflict arises, choose to affect what you can. Focus on the things that you can change, not those things you cannot.
There is something that God honors and blesses when people who are under God’s authority follow His leading.
What do you do after achieving a significant milestone like moving into a new building? How do you keep peoples’ focus on the mission, beyond just the means to accomplishing the mission?
Spend time with the Lord in reading the Bible, every day and keep a prayer list that keeps you focused.
Young leaders must know that you cannot skip over the next ten years of your life. You’re not ready for all that the Lord has for you and this season is training and preparation.
Let the Lord do what he wants to do in you, then wait for Him to bring the leadership to you.

Breakthrough resources:

Master Plan of Evangelism by Robert Coleman

Intimacy with the Almighty by Charles Swindoll

Dr. Nick Floyd serves as the Lead Teaching Pastor & Staff Leader for all four campuses of Cross Church Northwest Arkansas. He teaches weekly at the Fayetteville Campus. Nick received his Bachelor’s degree in Biblical Studies from Liberty University and his Master of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He obtained his Doctor of Ministry degree from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary. Nick is married to Meredith, and the couple has four children.

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13: Kelly Kannwischer – Younique

By mmb_admin | December 31, 2018

Breakthrough ideas with Kelly:

Building a strong leadership culture brings out the best in all of your leaders.
Churches are generally great at helping people live out their general calling, but it takes high intentionally to grow people within their special calling.
What is God’s calling for you, in this life stage, at your location, with your circumstances and your specific gifts and talents?
There are only two questions a church should ask: What is our process for making disciples? Is it working?
How does your church help every member understand and live out their unique identity?
There is a distinction between a person’s calling and their vocation.
The church can unintentionally place volunteers into roles that affect the joy of living in their calling
Churches have an opportunity to shift the leadership culture from “What do we want from people?” to identifying and releasing people to live into their call.
How can the church be viewed as a place where strength, skill, and expertise help it become a disciple-making training ground for everyday life?
The church can and should be the training ground for gospel-centered life design.
What if your church had the reputation of developing called people to such a degree that marketplace leaders look there first for new employers?
What is gospel-centered life design? What does that look like in the church?
If we are going to ask questions about our identity, we must ask them in the context of our creator and His unique design for us.
Our calling is revealed over a lifetime when we see God’s shaping of our life as discipleship.
Learning how to listen as leaders is often more important than learning how to speak.
You can make better decisions by asking questions out of security and peace.
Questions from your other leaders are not necessarily those people questioning you.
Strength and vulnerability are twin ideas, not opposites.
Productivity looks different in different seasons of life. Sometimes just getting the chores done is the highest form of accomplishment.
Success should be measured less in how much money you make and more in how you live out your unique life call.
When people get an insight into the power of their call and begin to live in it, they have an even greater idea into the calling of the church.
How can personal clarity within your congregation engage the organizational clarity of your church?
When the people receive the gift of calling, it makes it easier to obtain and engage the leadership pipeline of the church.
Take the long view, there should be a sense of urgency in your work, but urgency shouldn’t lead to panic in the system.
God wants you to be a whole healthy person, as much as He wants you to be a productive, intentional leader.

Breakthrough resources in this episode:

Peachtree Church Atlanta

Vanguard University

Younique

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Girl Meets God by Lauren Winner

Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard

Kelly Kannwischer has spent her vocational life as a not-for-profit executive, consultant, and development professional. Before becoming the CEO of Younique, Kelly founded OptUp Consulting, served THINK Together as the Chief Engagement Officer, and led Vanguard University as a Vice President and President of the Vanguard University Foundation. Kelly graduated from the University of Virginia and earned her Masters degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. She is married to Rev. Dr. Richard Kannwischer and is the proud mother of two teenage girls.

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