Powerpoint Study about Church growth. Part 2 of 4.

1. Part 2Taking South Shore Community Church to… THE NEXT LEVEL

2. WHAT IS OUR CURRENT LEVEL AS A CHURCH ?

3. Life Cycle of a Church

4. WHERE ARE WE IN 2010 ? Consolidating Church Growing Church Declining Church Emerging Church Dying Church

5. LEADING THROUGH THE DIFFERENT STAGES Leader you have to look out the windshield, not the rearview mirror, to go forward. – James Taylor

6. LEADERSHIP TYPES Consolidating Church Growing Church Declining Church Emerging Church CATALYZER Dying Church

7. CATALYZER A Catalytic leader is a person who has the ability to bring something into being that didn’t formerly exist In the business world is called an Entrepreneur They express ideas in very simple ways 2% to 3% of all leaders

8. LEADERSHIP TYPES Consolidating Church Growing Church Declining Church ORGANIZER CATALYZER Dying Church

9. ORGANIZER Has the ability to take a disorderly organization and bring the pieces together maximizing the resources. They are multitaskers that juggle numerous programs, concerns and demands. 10% to 15 % of all leaders

10. LEADERSHIP TYPES Consolidating Church OPERATOR Declining Church ORGANIZER CATALYZER Dying Church

11. OPERATOR They like to manage stable congregations by making small changes and maintaining systems at work. They do things correctly rather than doing the correct things. This leader loves reports, meetings and procedures An operator maintains or declines a Church but never grows much. 75% to 80% of all pastors

12. LEADERSHIP TYPES OPERATOR Declining Church ORGANIZER REORGANIZER CATALYZER Dying Church

13. REORGANIZER When a Church enters in decline this leader is needed to refocus for the future. They are able to please long time members but simultaneously build a new congregation within the old wineskin. 5% of all Church Leaders

14. LEADERSHIP TYPES OPERATOR ORGANIZER REORGANIZER CATALYZER Dying Church SUPER REORGANIZER

15. SUPER REORGANIZER Has the same skills of the Reorganizer but has the ability to revive things by radical change Rebirth needs desperate measures and this leader is willing to take risks. 1% to 2% of all Church Leaders

16. BREAKING THE DECLINING CYCLE

17. RENEWAL

18. CONSTANT RENEWAL

19. WHAT IS OUR CURRENT LEVEL AS A CHURCH ?

21. Feedback Loops…positive and negative