FINAL EXAM Flashcards
Five Relational Missiles
- Bless them
- Build relationships
- Break stereotypes
- Begin to pray into the lives you are serving
- Bring the kingdom into the darkness
Common differences between traditional and non-traditional churches
- Evangelism
- Worship style
- clergy style
- lay ministry
- programs
- buildings
Blanchards four levels of change
- change in KNOWLEDGE
- change in ATTITUDE
- change in BEHAVIOUR
- change in ORGANIZATION
Common pitfalls of Church change agents
- Lack of prayer
- Lack of communication
- inadequate response to resistant people
- too much too soon
- borrowing vision
- changing core values/mission
- lack of commitment
- over dependence on methodologies
Wrong assumptions about vision
- Vision must precede any meaningful ministry
- Vision is a “top-down” only process
- Suspicious, hurting people will respond to visionary leaders
THE CHANGE PROCESS:
Facilitating congregational transformation
- Measure of spiritual and relational vitality
- Multi-stage change process
- Developed set of learning disciplines
Spiritual and Relational Vitality
The change process
Life giving power that believers experience when they passionately pursue God’s vision for their life as individuals and a community of faith. Without it the church becomes like any other organization
THE CHANGE PROCESS (8 stages)
STAGE 1: Making personal preparation
STAGE 2: Creating urgency
STAGE 3: Establishing the vision community
STAGE 4: Discerning the vision and determining the action plan
STAGE 5: Communicating the vision
STAGE 6: Empowering change leaders
STAGE 7: Implementing the vision
STAGE 8: Reinforcing momentum through alignment
Disciplines of transformational leadership
- Generating and sustaining creative tension
- harnessing the power of mental models
- enabling team learning
- practicing systems thinking
Two buckets
-Former berry bucket
(senior former & junior former)
-New berry bucket
(Senior new & junior new)
5 approaches to resolving conflict
- FORCE
- ACCOMODATE
- AVOID
- COMPROMISE
- COLLABORATE
CPP
Child in need of protection if has been or likely to be:
- harmed physically
- abused sexually (includes prostitution)
- harmed emotionally
- not given adequate care for treatable condition
- neglected or abandoned
CPP (Steps)
- A person who has reason to believe that a child needs protection must promptly report the matter to a director or a person designated by a director (Ministry of children)
- no action for damages if reporting information unless knowingly reporting false information
- Offence not to report: fine of up to $10,000 and imprisonment of up to 6 months
- Not a defence if information on which belief is based is privileged or confidential
- If in doubt - get legal advice on obligation to report
