Hit the Bullseye Dr. Paul D. Borden

Big Question We Constantly Get is HOW CAN WE SEE GOD BLESS OUR CONGREGATIONS WITHOUT BECOMING GHC? Our Answer IMPLEMENT A STRATEGY WITH A HANDFULL OF CONGREGATIONS THAT ADOPTS THE BASIC PRINCIPLES WITHOUT CHANGING YOUR DENOMINATION.

This strategy is being used effectively and working within various denominational groups:  Salvation Army in Australia  United Brethren in Christ  Lutheran Church Missouri Synod  Presbyterian Church USA  Southern Baptists  Pentecostal Church of God  Trinity Fellowship Association of Churches  Seventh Day Adventists

Key Assumptions Underlying the Strategy  People Must be Attracted to Accountability They Cannot be Compelled  Any Denominational Entity is Changed One Congregation at a Time  Change Will Not Occur in Dying Organizations without Significant Pain  All Lasting Change Requires Truth Telling and Hope  Those Leading the Change Must Lead From Knowledge and Effective Experience

THREE PART STRATEGY (Layered Learning)  Pastoral Groupings (Clusters)  Accountability  Leadership  Congregational Health  Missional Thinking  Consultations  Great Commission  Accountability  Congregational Health  Influence Communities  Missional Thinking  Lay Training  Great Commission  Congregational Health  Missional Thinking

Pastoral Groupings (Clusters)  Covenant Based  Pastors Covenant with Each other  Denomination Covenants with the Pastors  Meet One Day a Month for a Minimum of Twelve Months – Focus:  Leadership  Congregational Health  Spiritual Formation  Leader Must Have More Knowledge and Effective Experience Than any Pastor in the Cluster

Congregational Consultations  The Part of the Strategy that Actually Produces Change  Two Parts:  Week End Line in the Sand Event  One Year Coaching with Someone on the Church Campus Each Month

Week End Consultation  Begins Two Months Before – Congregational Self-Study  Interviews and Focus Groups on Friday  Evaluation and Training with Leaders on Saturday  Preaching and Congregational Report on Sunday  Deadline Provided to Accept or Reject the Consultation Report

Consultation Report  Top Five Strengths  Top Five Concerns  Top Five Prescriptions with Deadlines (Addresses Each Concern)  Deadline to Accept or Reject with Consequences

Year Long Congregational Coaching Someone on the Congregation’s Campus Each Month  Purpose:  Implement the Consultation Report  Provide Resources for Health and Growth  Help Leaders/Congregation Learn New Habits and Stop Old Habits  Confront Stubborn Power Brokers  Provide Accountability

Year Long Congregational Coaching  Consultant Must Have More Knowledge and Effective Experience Than the Pastor  Coach Should Have More Knowledge and Effective Experience Than the Pastor

Lay Training Events  During the 12 Month Period – Two Lay Training Events for Congregations Represented in the Cluster  First Lay Training Event – Describing a Healthy Congregation and how to Become One  Second Lay Training Event – Making the Great Commission THE value that Drives all the Congregation Does  Assumes Trainers Have More Knowledge and Experience than the Pastors Leading the Congregations

RESULTS 50% of the Congregations Participating Begin to Grow with Evangelism Growth (This Result Assumes God is Asked to Be a Part of this Strategy) (This Result Assumes it is Led by those with Both Knowledge and Experience)