Rethinking Sustainability The Non-Negotiables Developed by Dr. Alan Pue President, The Barnabas Group

To rethink sustainability we must... Develop a holistic, integrated strategy “To every complex problem there is always a simplistic answer and it is always wrong.”

A Crucial Understanding You are a unique hybrid... ▫Education ▫Ministry ▫Business

We Must Understand The Three Lenses CultureHistoryScripture

My Assumptions Education, by its nature is not... ▫an important caveat... Education, as we understand it, is... We struggle in our primary market... We are not adequately prepared for...

The Typical Christian School Funding Formula “gap”.The operational budget will be created with a “gap”. To keep the gap as small as possible ▫Faculty/staff compensation will be inadequate ▫Insufficient resources will be allocated to program enhancement, facility maintenance, and reserve funds fund- raising.The gap will be funded through some form of fund- raising. affordableThe gap is considered necessary to keep tuition at affordable levels.

To rethink sustainability we must... Be willing to ask the following questions non-negotiablesAre there any non-negotiables to consider? foundational first principlesAre there any foundational first principles to consider? essential practicesAre there any essential practices to consider?

Biblical Principles The First Non-Negotiable - Biblical Principles Calculate the cost (Luke 14:25) Determine the worth (Luke 10:7, I Timothy 5:17-18, Proverbs 27:18) Keep your promises (Leviticus 19:13, Proverbs 13:12) Understand the obligation (1 Timothy 5:13) Instruct the wealthy (1 Timothy 6:17-18) Our responsibility to the poor (Proverbs 3:27-28, 11:24-25, 19:17, 22:9) Represent with accuracy (Genesis 1:26, John 1, 17, Matthew 5:16-18)

Your Core The Second Non-Negotiable – Your Core Create Clarity – Align With Practice ▫Why do we exist? ▫How must we behave? ▫What are we called to do? ▫Who are we trying to impact? ▫What do we hope to achieve? ▫What do we believe?

Create Clarity – Align With Practice Why?How?What? To What End?

Execute With Excellence The Third Non-Negotiable – Execute With Excellence “It was good.” We are image bearers glory o ▫“Do all to the glory of God” The lesson of the lesser laws The most good for the least cost Create “raving fans” Innovation and Imagination

A Question and a Response Question Is it reasonable for a school with limited resources to execute with excellence?Response Yes! “I believe it is no harder to build something great than to build something good. It might be statistically more rare to reach greatness, but it does not require more suffering than perpetuating mediocrity.” Jim Collins, Good to Great