1. Four Strategies for Leaving a Legacy of Loving Leaders Robert W. Kellemen, Ph.D. www.rpmministries.org

2. Are You Milton Berle or Ed Sullivan?

4. The Big Question How do we effectively disciple the Body of Christ for one another ministry in the church and to the community? How do we leave a legacy of loving leaders? How do we train leaders for one another ministry in urban contexts?

5. Equipping the Saints Can Feel Like a Maze!

6. Need Some Directions?

7. Some Signs Are Spot On!

8. Some Signs Are Confusing!

9. The Big Picture: The End Goal—Transformed People A relationship with the transforming Person leads to a transforming Pastor wisely leading a transforming Process that transforms People (Individually and Corporately) so they transform People (Church and Community)

10. The Big Picture: Transformed People  A Fellow Traveler, Not the Expert Guide  A Transformational Process, Not a Program  A Relational Strategy, Not a Straight-Jacket  An Approach, Not the Answer  Not One-Size-Fits-All

11. The 4E Ministry Training Strategy  Envisioning: Jointly Creating the MVP-C  Enlisting: Birthing Family/Building Team  Equipping: Transformational Coaching  Empowering: Leaving a Legacy/Loving Leaders

12. 4E Ministry Pictured: The Bus Analogy  Envision: Is the Bus Moving in the Right Direction?—Core Values  Enlist: Is Anyone on the Bus? Are the Right People in the Right Seats?—Committed People  Equip: Is Every Passenger Also a Good Driver?—Coached People  Empower: Is the Engine Running on All Cylinders?—Comprehensive Strategy

13. Envisioning God’s Ministry: Assessing Needs: Examining Heart Health “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet” (Frederick Buechner).

14. Envisioning God’s Ministry: Assessing Needs: Examining Heart Health  Assessment: Not Data Collection and Information Gathering but Soul Connecting  Assessing Congregational Needs: Five Targets

15. Envisioning God’s Ministry: Assessing Needs: Examining Heart Health  Crowds and Compassion: Matthew 9:36-38 Your  Exegete Your Community: Acts 17:16-22

16. Envisioning God’s Ministry: Dreaming God’s Dream  Two Major Problems: Top-Down No MAP

17.  Mission: Universal Calling  Vision: Unique Calling  Passion: Captivating Identity  Commission: MAP—Ministry Action Plan Envisioning God’s Ministry: Dreaming God’s Dream

18.  Open Your Eyes/Open the Word  Exegete Society/Exegete Scripture  We exist to… Envisioning God’s Ministry: Mission: Your Universal Calling

19.  Vision: How has God uniquely shaped us to fulfill His mission? (DNA/Fingerprint)  What is our special calling in our specific community?  It is our dream to… Envisioning God’s Ministry: Vision: Your Unique Calling

20.  Passion: What you’ll die for and thus what you live for.  Who You Are: Captures, Captivates, Communicates  Changing Lives with Christ’s Changeless Truth (“Coach”) Envisioning God’s Ministry: Passion: Your Captivating Ministry ID

21.  Strategy for How You’ll “Get From Here to There”  Strategy for How You’ll “Pull It Off”  Strategy for How You’ll Keep It “Going and Growing” Envisioning God’s Ministry: Commission: Your Ministry MAP

22. We will fulfill our calling to equip God’s people for one another ministry through Christ-centered, comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally-informed writing, speaking, and consulting. We will follow the “4E” ministry training strategy of envisioning, enlisting, equipping, and empowering God’s people to speak the truth in love. We will follow the “4C” map of equipping in biblical content, Christlike character, relational competence, and Christian community. Envisioning God’s Ministry: Commission: Your Ministry MAP

23.  How Do You Get the Congregation on the Bus? Enlisting God’s Ministers for Ministry

24. Enlisting God’s Ministers for Ministry: Preparing the Congregation for Change  A Church Of Not Just a Church With  Don’t Just Have a Discipleship Ministry; Be a Discipleship Ministry

25.  Strategic Change Management  Biblical Conflict Resolution Enlisting God’s Ministers for Ministry: Preparing the Congregation for Change

26.  Recruiting Ministers to the MVP-C: Attracting Individuals to the Ministry  Selecting Ministers: Putting the Right People in the Right Seats  Promoting the Ministry: Maintaining Congregational Excitement Enlisting God’s Ministers for Ministry: Mobilizing Ministers: Family/Team

27.  The Whole Gospel to the Whole Person  Relational Mentoring of Real Life in Real Life for Real Life (Lecture/Lab/Life) Equipping Godly Ministers for Ministry

28.  Many Churches Enlist/Employ Ill-Equipped People  Many Churches Fail to Comprehensively Equip the People They Enlist/Employ Equipping Godly Ministers for Ministry

29. The Résumé of the Equipped Christian Romans 15:14 “I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, complete in knowledge, and competent to instruct one another.”

30. The Apostle Paul and the Ordinary, Average Christian in Rome  Content: “Complete in Knowledge”  Character: “Full of Goodness”  Competence: “Competent to Instruct”  Community: “Brothers”/“One Another”

31. Empowering Godly Ministers for Ministry

32.  Not “Betterment” but “Empowerment”  Be Realistic about Resources: Prioritize Empowering Godly Ministers for Ministry

33.  Implementing Ministries: Launching Ministries Built to Last  Moving from Discipling to Deploying  Assessing “Trainees”/“Graduates”  Assessing the Training/Ministry Empowering Godly Ministers for Ministry

34.  Overseeing Ministries: Organizing the Organism—Leading Ministries from Good to Great  Ad-Ministering the Ministry through Relational Policies Empowering Godly Ministers for Ministry

35.  Protecting Ministries: Ethical/Legal Wisdom  Passing the Baton of Ministry: Leaving a Lasting Legacy of Loving Leaders  Equipping Equippers, Training Trainers, Coaching Coaches Empowering Godly Ministers for Ministry

36. Four Strategies for Leaving a Legacy of Loving Leaders Want to Change Lives?