W H O I S T H I S F O R

This is for courageous leaders.

The ones who are stuck in ethnocentric churches when you are called to do more.

The ones who are limited by backward-looking leadership when you’re called to look forward.

This is to help you find the right questions to ask — the kind thattrigger the conversations that bring about change.

W H Y D I S R U P T

Ethnocentric churches will die.

This isn’t a bad thing, necessarily. None of Paul the Apostle’s church plants are still around today.

But there are leaders and creative forces of nature sitting in the pews of our dying churches.

What if you could get them plugged into the move of the local church?

The question, really, is why not disrupt?

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C U L T U R E

If your church places culture and tradition over the Gospel...

If your church thinks your culture trumps all others...

WHO are we alienating when we think this way?

IS our church’s local community going to know Christ through us?

WHO will reach our local community if we won’t?

DOES the Bible set a precedent for ethnocentric churches?

WHAT is the Great Commission telling us to do?

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L E G A C Y

If your church won’t move forward because of who founded it...

If your church thinks that evolving to meet the needs in your current context would be damaging to the reputation of its heritage...

If your church won’t ever move forward because everything isabsolutely fine and there’s nothing to ever worry about...

ARE we a hospital for sinners or a museum for our local church’s founding fathers?

WHY would the strategies that worked a generation or two ago still be expected to work now?

WHY would the strategies that worked in another country be expected to work — without adjustments — in this one?

IS there a concern that adjusting our strategies to respond to contemporary contexts is anti-Christian? Why?

WHAT organizations — churches or otherwise — succeed without ever adjusting to change?

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F U T U R E

If your church doesn’t focus on developing leadership...

If your church isn’t concerned with optimizing the talented and called that are sitting in its pews...

If your church lacks a vision for the future...

If your church leadership includes cowardly lion leaders who arelooking backward instead of forward...

ARE we talking enough about leadership?

CAN we pivot some cottage meetings and fasting/prayermeetings into leadership meetings where leader development and vision casting are the primary concerns?

ARE we recognizing and optimizing the talent that attends our church?

WHY should we be shocked if talented leaders and creatives leave our churches if we’re not recognize and optimize them?

WHAT can we do to allow both our older generation and our younger generation to worship in the way they need to?

IS a combined church service — for ethnic-specific adults andcontemporary young people — the answer?

IS it better to have separate services — for ethnic-specific adults and contemporary young people — that are fully funded, supported, and backed by core leadership?

W H Y N O T D I S R U P T ?