FOUNDATIONS: The Purpose of Strategic Planning Segment 1
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FOUNDATIONS: The Purpose of Strategic Planning
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Segment 1 Foundations: The Purpose of Strategic Planning
My prayer for you is that you might
“… excel still more.”—1 Thessalonians 4:10b
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My prayer for you is that you might “… excel still more.” (1 Thessalonians 4:10b)
Why plan strategically?Because it allows you to ...
Set your
course
Stay your
course
Sustain your
futureServe
Hischurch
SeekHis
glory
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Why plan strategically? Because it enables you to … Set your course (1 Chronicles 12:32) Stay your course (Proverbs 29:18) Sustain your future (Habakkuk 2:1-2) Serve His church (Matthew 28:18-Set20, Proverbs 1:1-7) Seek His glory (1 Corinthians 10:31)
#1Set your course (1 Chronicles 12:32)
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#1 Set your course This is a fundamental obligation of leadership – leaders are instigators, talent scouts, servants, traffic cops, judge/jury, and gardeners, they are neither ‘gods’ or messengers Provides a framework for all of your decisions – But remember this: “resilient thinking is the inverse of predictive hubris, willingness to know what you don’t know and expect the unexpected.” McChrytal – MORE LATER Keeps you focused on what is most important – “an almost mystical devotion to mission accomplishment”
#2Stay your course (Proverbs 29:18)
Always striving for “a long obedience in the same direction” —Eugene Peterson
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#2 Stay your course Always striving for “a long obedience in the same direction” —Eugene Peterson “Where this is no vision people run amuck” —Solomon Describe the real meaning of this verse CONSIDER THIS INTERESTING FACT: The Fortune 500 list of 2011 in the USA featured only 67 companies that appeared on the list in 1955.” That’s 13.4% We live in an era of chaotic discontinuity, Tom Peters Consider this quote: “A combination of increased mobility, increased information, and increased impact means that we have reached a tipping point. Previously we had a historical pattern of disruption followed by stabilization (give examples) – punctuated equilibrium – but now the pattern itself has been disrupted. Today we find ourselves in a new equilibrium defined by constant disruption.” cited in Team of Teams. EXERCISE: Discuss how that is happening or not happening in your context.
How Should We React?
Predictable
but
Complicated
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1. My years at the Sears Repair Center – fixing my washing machine as a poor Christian school teacher – complicated but predictable
How Should We React
ComplexComplicated
and . . .
Unpredictable
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“There are causes for the events in a complex system but there are so many causes and so many events linked to one another through so many indirect paths that the outcome is ‘practically unpredictable.” Think of the “break” in a game of pool
How Should We React?“Complex systems are fickle and volatile,
presenting a broad range of possible outcomes; the type and shear number of interactions
prevent us from making accurate predictions. As a result, treating an ecosystem as though it were a machine with predictive trajectories is a
dangerous folly.”
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KEY – We must remember this as we launch into our overview of the strategic planning process – emphasis on the word “process” EXERCISE: USE THE WORKSHEET TO PROVOKE DISCUSSION AT YOUR TABLE
#3Sustain your future (Habakkuk 2:1-2)
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PARTNERSHIPS
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#3 Sustain your future “Record the vision and inscribe it on tablets, that the one who reads it may run” —God to Habakkuk Sustain you future through partnerships
#4Serve His church (Matthew 28:18, Proverbs 1:1-7)
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#4 Serve His church Think of what is happening with the Church in the USA today as it thinks through the role of “missions” Common goal: making disciples “Make disciples who…” —Matthew 28
Together is Better
Disciple Making
Schooling
HomeChurch
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For far too many pastors, church leaders, seminary professors schools are the “great other” something to acknowledge but not embrace. Schools are seen as a barrier to the “real purpose” of the church which in far too many cases is not “making disciples who do . . . (thinking and acting in every aspect of life like a follower of Jesus Christ) but ‘making disciples who, hopefully will lead a good morale life and engage in certain spiritual formation activities. Lost is the goal of “taking every thought captive to Christ” or bringing up our children in the “paidea of Christ” We have, unfortunately (in my observation) taken a reductionist view of disciple making “Not so much as the breadth of my thumb . . . “ Abraham Kuyper EXERCISE: How do you see this?
#5Seek His glory (1 Corinthians 10:31)
“My destiny is to manifest the glory of God.” —Ralph Ellison
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#5 Seek His glory “My destiny is to manifest the glory of God.” —Ralph Ellison Let’s talk about what that means “It was good” (Genesis 1-2) “I have shown them your glory” (See John 1, John 17) ILLUSTRATION: Bill Boulet ILLUSTRATION:
