1. Early Ministry Institute May 4-8, 2014Stony Point Conference Center

2. Ministry Design 3. Incline Recline Decline 4. Doxological Koinonial Missional The 3-D Church 5. Glorify God Grow Disciples Meet Human Need The 3-D Christian Life 6. Align your personal lifestyle and that of your people with your congregational vision 7. Doxological Koinonial Missional seven lifestyle practices and seven strategic domains 8. Worship Instruction Fellowship Expression Acts 2:42-47 Leadership and Support 9. Doxological Koinonial Missional seven lifestyle practices and seven strategic domains 10. Jack Stewart Envisioning the Congregation (to be released Eerdmans) E. Stanley Ott Twelve Dynamic Shifts for Transforming Your Church Andy Stanley Deep and Wide Russ Crabtree Owlsight Rick Warren The Purpose Driven Church Christian Swartz Natural Church Development 11. The Acts 16:5 InitiativeThe Acts 16:5 Initiative Develop a Defining VisionDevelop a Defining Vision 12. Doxological Koinonial Missional A 3-D Vision 13. Esprit de Corps = ThespiritoftheBody 14. We must be theWe must be the people of Godpeople of God before we do thebefore we do the work of thework of the people of Godpeople of God 15. www.vitalchurchesinstitute.com 16. Valuing People: the 4 SsValuing People: the 4 Ss No SecretsNo Secrets No SubversionNo Subversion No SurprisesNo Surprises (Lots of) Support(Lots of) Support William J. CarlWilliam J. Carl 17. Makrothumia long temper Patience The grace of getting along 18. Love is a willingness to be frustrated! Bernard Harnik 19. Friends of the Road Friends of the Heart 20. The Emmaus Meal www.VitalChurchesInstitute.com Username: Emmaus Password: hospitality 21. People Eyes the eyes ofPeople Eyes the eyes of Jesus for peopleJesus for people Check out the sermon, Get Over Yourself www.Viennapres.org 3-16-14 22. Pizazz And Commitment 23. Doxological Koinonial Missional A 3-D Vision 24. Virtually every study reveals our diminishing fruitfulness in growing disciples of Jesus by almost any measure! Stephen Prothero: Religious Literacy 25. Growing Disciples with the end in mind 26. The end in mind is not: Sunday School classes Bible classes seminars small groups mentoring spiritual direction These are MEANS not ends! 27. Growing disciples with the end in mind 28. Two well- known Profiles of a Disciple offering an end in mind in developing Christ-followers: Celebration of Discipline Richard Foster The Spirit of the Disciplines Dallas Willard See also Spiritual Disciplines Handbook - Adele Ahlberg Calhoun The issue isnt that you must use of these works but using the works of others and perhaps your own assessment, the issue is to have clear expression of the essential marks of a mature Christ-follower. You may then work to grow those marks into the livesof those who are with you for the rest of your life! Adele Ahlberg Calhoun: Spiritual Disciplines Handbook 29. A Profile of a Disciple Doxological - Know, love and Experience the God who loves us Faith in Jesus Weekly worship (Experiencing God) Daily devotional life The fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) Koinonial - Equip and care for the people God gives us Private meals with friends and strangers Participate in a face-to-face group (Equipping the People Commit a percent of my income to Gods work of God) Serve my church with specific ministry Missional - Engage the World to which God sends us Complete my work with excellence Offer the compassion of Jesus (Engaging our world) Bear witness to Jesus Stand up for what is right. 30. The Seven Habits of the Burning Heart A Profile of a Disciple The Seal of John Calvin 31. The Power of Small Multiplying Triads and Quads (The Principle of Multiplication) 32. While the classroom model does still impart information today, it is no longer as effective as it once was in actual life-transformation into the image of Jesus. A strategy for growing disciples: smaller is bigger. Begin with a triad, quad or quint, meet weekly for the school year using serious Bible material and then send (and help) each participant get her or his triad/quad/quint for the next school year. 33. Focus on a few: the pastor as disciple and disciple-grower 34. WORD SHARE PRAYER Send to ministry and mission 2004 E. Stanley Ott 35. Thirty-Day Prayer Covenants Invite people, one to one, to pray for you and for herself or himself even as you will pray for them and yourself daily. An excellent prayer among many in Scripture (and you may also write your own) is Ephesians 3:16-19 36. 16 that God would grant me and _____, according to the riches of Gods glory, to be strengthened with power through God Spirit in the inner person, 17 so that Christ may dwell in our hearts through faith; and that we, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that we may be filled up to all the fullness of God. 37. Doxological Koinonial Missional A 3-D Vision 38. 20013 E. Stanley Ott 39. Change Matters 40. Transitional 41. Flux is not merely change. Flux is continuous change. 42. Some things are not in flux! The Love of the God who Sustains us The love of the people of God who encourage us Our love for those to Whom God sends us 43. Yet many things are in flux! DJ Patil explains, "There are sometimes when you can predict weather well for the next 15 days. Other times, you can only really forecast a couple of days. Sometimes you can't predict the next two hours." The business [and ministry] climate, it turns out, is a lot like the weather. We've entered a next two-hours era. 44. http://www.wimp.com/dadipad/ 45. In times of rapid change what you know can mislead you. Michael Marquardt 46. The Cynevin Framework 47. 10% Technical What are we going to do? 90% Tactical How to keep people on board?! The 10-90 Rule 48. The Power of Ministry Teams: a leadership group that grows the discipleship of its members and the friendships among them while accomplishing its vision and enables a continuity of leadership. See Tranform Your Church with Ministry Teams E. Stanley Ott 49. Ministry TeamsMinistry Teams Three Dimensional God, each otherThree Dimensional God, each other workwork 1.1.Word Share Prayer each meetingWord Share Prayer each meeting 2.2.Rotate prayer partners each meetingRotate prayer partners each meeting 3.3.Eat together quarterlyEat together quarterly 4.4.Go on an annual 24 hour planningGo on an annual 24 hour planning retreatretreat 50. Layering deliberately introduce one layer at a time every three months. 51. The SessionThe Session Pastor lead (dont dominate - lead) thePastor lead (dont dominate - lead) the nominating process and thenominating process and the invitationsinvitations Model the practices of a ministry teamModel the practices of a ministry team 52. Vision TeamVision Team Pastor ledPastor led Works with and is subordinate toWorks with and is subordinate to SessionSession People of imagination andPeople of imagination and initiativeinitiative 53. Staff Team: Five Dysfunctions of a Team - Lencioni 54. Nemawashi! 2006 E. Stanley Ott 55. The Barnabas Leadership Group A Presbytery-Based Process to develop the leadership capacity of pastors, CREs, candidates and elders. 56. Self-Leadership 57. imperative A command Plural For all of us Present Now and Every now Passive To be done to us so YIELD! Be Filled Tend to you own yieldedness to the Spirits presence now and every now. In the Greek, he verb, be filled is PPPP: 58. The Law of Present Demand Learn to live with the load of the unfinished. Bob Oerter 59. A Rule of Life ruleoflife.com Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices that Transform Us Ahlberg Calhoun 60. QT PT - PPT 61. PPT = Protected Planning Time Do Lists + Your calendar 20013 E. Stanley Ott 62. 20013 E. Stanley Ott PPT PPT = Protected Planning Time. An hour a week, offline, to clarify priorities for the coming week and your to-do list. PPT is a discipline that manages and shapes your to-do list which helps clarify your vision, set and accomplish goals not just what you need to do but what you want to do with others with the implied leadership moments. 63. 20013 E. Stanley Ott For helpful insights on the PPT check out: The Weekly Review McGhee http://www.mcgheepro.com/MPSWebsit e/media/Documents/PDF%20Docs/The- Weekly-Review.pdf 64. Life Management Skills Utilized Laura Stack type books 65. Memory in Ministry! 66. Dr. William J. Carl III on preaching without notes: http://theshortpreacher.blogspot.com/2012/02/dr You will well served if you commit the basic words of the following services to memory (in other words, you life will be easier and your people appreciative: Communion Baptism The Memorial Service missing the particulars of the individual both sanctuary and graveside The Wedding 67. Greek: the more you know the more educated you are! 68. Hebrew: you are as educated as you do what you know! 69. Moving from Greek to Hebrew equals transfer of concepts into into life. We have covered many very useful concepts in the practice of vital ministry. If you focus on a couple such as Word-Share- Prayer and the People Eyes or pick your two and actually integrate them into your ministry you will see new fruit then pick a couple more! Otherwise you will think, Here are lots of good ideas and wind up with no real shifts. May our loving Lord greatly encourage you! Stan 70. The Acts 16:5 InitiativeThe Acts 16:5 Initiative Develop a Defining VisionDevelop a Defining Vision 71. The Barnabas Leadership Group