1. Recalibration 3
Creating a Dynamic
Congregational Culture

2. Congregational Culture
Jesus Focused
How Jesus communed with the Father
How Jesus called people to commitment
How Jesus called people to love
How Jesus called people to reconciliation

3. Congregational Culture
Prayer Saturated
Awareness of God’s presence and power
Actively engaging in prayer at all times
Integration of prayer in our personal lives and congregational life
Faith that moves mountains, overcomes mountains, or goes through mountains

4. Congregational Culture
Mark 11:22-25 (TNIV)
“Have faith in God,” Jesus said. “Truly I tell you, if you say to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and do not doubt in your heart but believe that what you say will happen, it will be done for you. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.”

5. Congregational Culture
Growth Motivated
The ways of God are unsearchable
What we know is an enemy to what we need to learn
The purposes of God have yet to be fulfilled
Emphasis is on reaching the outsider

6. Congregational Culture
Hospitality Practiced
Welcoming to the Holy Spirit
Inviting to the neighbor and stranger
Intentional about relationship building within and outside the church walls
Structures are in place that facilitate connections

7. Congregational Culture
Generosity Expressed
Represents a different way to live in terms of time, treasure, and talents
Connects us to the very being of God
Demonstrates tangible love of God
Generosity reproduces itself and is contagious

8. Congregational Culture
Team Oriented
Each person is valuable to the body
Every believer is called to serve
Ministry is done with others for others
The journey together is as important as what you achieve together

9. Congregatoinal Culture
1 Corinthians 12:4-7 (TNIV)
“There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work. Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.”

10. Congregational Culture
Local Church Evaluation
Jesus Focused
Prayer Saturated
Growth Motivated
Hospitality Practiced
Generosity Expressed
Team Oriented

11. Congregational Culture
When Shaping Culture
Remember that Over-Accommodation Creates Dysfunction
It’s All About Consistency
It’s All About Intentionality
Process Matters – Timeline and Communication
Familiarity Creates Blindness and Deafness

12. Congregational Culture
When Shaping Culture
What have you become blind to?
What do new people see?
What have you become deaf to?
What do new people hear?
What have you become desensitized to?
What would new people immediately experience?

13. Triune Brain Theory
Neocortex
Limbic System
Brain Stem and Cerebelum

14. Triune Brain Theory Brain Stem and Cerebelum
Sometimes referred to as the Lizard Brain
Fight or Flight
Functions on autopilot
Instinctual part of brain

15. Triune Brain Theory Limbic System Smallest part of brain
Emotional or feeling part of brain
Hosts memories
Functions as decision making

16. Triune Brain Theory Neocortex Largest part of brain
Slowest in terms of processing
Hosts rational thoughts and language
Functions as thinking part of brain

17. Congregational Culture
Application of Triune Brain Theory
Our natural human response to change comes from the lizard and emotional part of the brain
Creating sustainable change requires time and process for people to engage the rational part of the brain
Leaders need to consider this in decision making and when seeking to create a dynamic congregational culture