1.  How has ministrychanged over thepast 20+ years?  What are yougleaning fromaround the statefrom yourpastors?  What would yousay to ourstudents – thefuture churchleaders?

4.  Communication – From printed to digital  Preaching – From proclamation to engaging  Worship – From a weekly program or gathering to an encounter with God  Music – From songs/hymns that fit up to 3 generations to music that can have a life span measured in months.  Worship Aids – From sound to lighting, media and sound.

5.  Visitation – From checking a list to purposeful and intentional... from homes to office  Evangelism – From “sharing a plan” to “sharing your life”  Relationships – From face recognition/fellowship to true friendship.  Leadership – From controlling to empowering  Vision – From pastor’s vision to shared vision  Technology – Has impacted everything!

6.  A shorthand language of leadership thoughts, theories and techniques.  Taught by Keith Drury to youth leaders in the 1980’s Strategetics

7. Traditions

8. Strategetics Traditions - Yesterday’s innovations (Innovations: tomorrow’s traditions)

9. Strategetics Today’s problems

10. Strategetics Today’s problems -”Yesterday’s solutions” (Today’s solutions = Tomorrow’s problems)

11.  What we have been doing is not working.  For many of our congregations, if they closed after service this Sunday, it would make little, if any, difference in the community.  However, there is still resistance to change.

12. For the things that matter most:  Resource Us  Measure Us  Holds us accountable From others:  “Get off my back!”

13. Strategetics Dissatisfaction

14. Strategetics Dissatisfaction – One word definition of motivation.

15.  To minister in a traditional church setting will require a sense of call and patience!

16. Strategetics 20% per year

17. Strategetics 20% per year - Maximum amount of change humans can tolerate without “pushback.”

18.  Think strongly about forming interdependent teams for ministry. (Pastor/leader is the “first among equals”.)  Your first consideration should be church planting... the most effective way to reach those unchurched.  We desperately need some different kinds of churches.

19.  Life – most of it is ahead of you.  Passion  Commitment  Heart for God  Ideas  Understanding  The church must make room for you around the decision table!

20.  Direction  Accountability  Support  Structure

21.  The church – the body of Christ - is the hope of the world.

22. Strategetics 1x100 > 100x90

23. Strategetics 1x100 > 100x90 --God can get more done through one person who is 100% committed than 100 people who are only 90% committed. -- Leroy Eimes

24. Strategetics Critical Mass

25. Strategetics Critical Mass Starting small in order to do something big.

26. Strategetics Small Sprocket

27. Strategetics Small Sprocket – We are the small sprocket when trying to effect change.

28. Strategetics Life Wedge

29. Strategetics Life Wedge – The wedge with the sharpest angle drives the deepest. The focused life

30. Strategetics Risk

31. Strategetics Risk “All risk is not leadership but all leadership involves risk”

32.  www.scwesleyan.org - Resources www.scwesleyan.org  Reasonable fee payable in three monthly installments.