New Project: How To Do Ministry

A quest to help aspiring leaders become effective faster

DESCRIPTION: 

Pastors often employ business or athletic models for ministerial leadership. Both require heavy adaptation, and neither is terribly functional, so I’m searching for an alternative.

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS:

Church leaders often request help doing holistic, innovative ministry like Westwinds, so I've begun searching for a suitable model to teach the varied components:

•       Liturgics—why we do the things we do.
•       Staffing—why we hire the people we hire.
•       Budgets—how we use the resources we have.
•       Relationships—How we work with our people.   
•       Mission—Staying focused on the right things.
•       Spiritual Formation—Teaching and growing.
•       Pastoral Interiority—What goes on in our hearts and minds.
•       Prophetic Artistry—cultural provocation and critique.
•       Post-Christian Orthodoxy—How we follow the Bible’s teachings when it doesn't         feel like anyone around us cares.

I don’t want to over-simplify, but I do want to categorize the material so it’s easily readable and usable. Thus far, I have compiled nearly 700 diagrams & illustrations. I’m going to employ the visual model of an orrery—a 3D model of the solar system—and see how far  that gets me.