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The Senior Pastor is called to lead the church. The staff (both paid and unpaid) reports to the Senior Pastor (not the congregation) and is responsible for managing the church and carrying out the implementation of the vision. The Church Board governs the Senior Pastor through Guiding Principles. The Congregation does the ministry of the church.
1.Most structures create a sense of anxiety…promote disunity and enable dysfunction.2. Most structures have clear lines of authority but no clear lines of accountability.3. Most structure places all the responsibility on the Pastor, but give no authority to the pastor to carry out responsibilities.4. Making difficult and timely decisions are nearly impossible because of the process.
“What Winning on Purpose can do for a congregation is to provide a system to help identify, attract, retain, and support a strong senior pastor. However, both leading that system and following it are dependent on the character and competency of the people in the system..” P. 76
“What is an appropriate response for pastors winning big on the mission question? Short answer in a free system: a big raise. Whatabout pastors who are losing big on mission? No raise and a year or less to turn around their performance to a reasonable degree. What if there is a “draw” on mission - no great gains or losses? No raise until the congregation starts winning and perhaps two or three years to make that happen.” P.104 Winning on Purpose
(1) Develop and implement a plan for increasing the body’s involvement in personal evangelism.(2) Create and implement a comprehensive promotional strategy to communicate our ministry to the larger community
(1) Develop and implement the building blocks for spiritual growth and identify pathways from initial contact to full integration with spiritual formation.(2) Continue training and development of coaching systems for leadership and integration with spiritual formation.
(1) Re-imagine and implement a strategy for developing worship services that help people feel welcomed, inspired and motivated to take the next step.(2) Develop and implement a plan to create a helpful campus orientation, a positive guest atmosphere and an effective connection environment from parking lot to parking lot.
(1) Develop and implement strategies that identify, reach, attract and connect families with young children.(2) Increase and improve connectedness that draws Young Adults (22-30). (as demonstrated through growth through our six spiritual habits)
(1) Complete development of website and procedure for updating and maintaining.(2) Develop and implement procedures to improve oral, written and digital communications internally and externally.
The officers of the board believe that each item below complies with the Guiding Principles andshould be adopted by consent. Any item marked as questionable by a board member will beremoved.
Instructions: Mark any item you believe is questionable with regard to the Guiding Principles, sign theform, and return it to the secretary or another officer prior or upon arrival at the board meeting.
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I hereby vote to affirm each item above except for any I have marked as questionable.
Board members may submit an item for the agenda by completing this work sheet.The chairperson will certify whether the item falls within the board’s written jobdescription and, if so, will schedule the discussion for an appropriate quarterly orspecial board meeting.
1. Which part of the board’s job description makes this issue a board issue?
Creating and revising our Guiding Principles
Evaluating the pastor’s progress toward fulfilling one of our Mission Principles
Identifying a violation of one of our Boundary Principles for the pastor to rectify
Connecting with people in our community in order to serve them ahead of ourselves
Connecting with Christ through prayer and study of Scripture pertinent to our role
Connecting with people in our congregation in order to help them care for one another
2. In one sentence, what is the question you want the board to address?
3. Which one of our Guiding Principles speaks most directly to this question?
4. List the alternatives you see for addressing this question and the implications or each one:
Chairperson’s initials:
certified as board work scheduled for meeting distributed to board