The three questions that every church leader needs to understand in order to lead his/her congregation.

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The Three
Questions
A Reality Check 101 Workshop
by Bill Kemp

3. Don’t fix
what you
think is
broken

4. Don’t
ask the people
at worship how
to make
worship better

5. Think
different

6. Jesus says:
Enter through the
narrow gate. For wide is
the gate and broad is the
road that leads to
destruction, and many
enter through it.
But small is the gate and
narrow the road that
leads to life, and only a
few find it...
- Matthew 7:13

7. To Question is the Answer
but,
not all
questions
are useful

8. Anxiety Thermostat
How much anxiety
is in your church?

9. Anxiety verses Urgency

10. Everybody
asks,
“How can we
get more
people in our
church?”

11. 3 Questions
1.What is the real nature of Church?
2.Where is society taking us?
3.How can we do God’s will?

12. 1) What is the nature
of the church?
✤How should we design our life together
so that the church becomes what Christ
had in mind?

13. 1) What is the nature of the church?
✤ Acts 2:42-47
They devoted themselves to the
apostles’ teaching and to fellowship,
to the breaking of bread and to
prayer… They had everything in
common… enjoying the favor of all
the people. And the Lord added to
their number daily those who were
being saved.

14. Church is:
A gathering of people for prayer,
study, and worship, who relate to
each other and to the world as Christ
desires.

15. A gathering of people for prayer, study, and
worship, who relate to each other and to
the world as Christ desires.
✤ Fellowship
✤ Prayer
✤ Study
✤ Mission/witness

16. A gathering of people for prayer, study, and
worship, who relate to each other and to the
world as Christ desires.
Things not mentioned:
✤ Membership
✤ Finances
✤ Building

17. Which is more
“Church” ?
a) 200 people gathered for one hour
on Sunday in a religious building...
b) 20 groups of 10 people, meeting in
coffee shops, nursing homes,
workplace lunch-rooms, etc...

18. 2) Where is
society taking us?

19. 2) Where is society taking
us?
✤How is your church changing to remain
relevant to the people of this
neighborhood?

20. Fewer than
18% of
Americans
were in
church this
past weekend

21. Modernity 1700 to 1980s

22. Postmodern - Today

23. How is your church changing to remain
relevant to the people of this neighborhood?

24. How is your church changing to remain relevant
to the people of this neighborhood?

25. How is your church changing to remain relevant
to the people of this neighborhood?

26. Customer Centric = Mission/Witness
The Church exists by Mission
Just as, fire exists by burning
- Emil Brunner

27. Witness = Relationships
Mission= Seeing a problem or need in the
world and implementing a solution for it.

28. Relevant churches seek to fully
understand their neighbor’s needs,
and then offer some aspect of the
Gospel as a relevant response.

29. The Spiral Rule
Congregations that focus
outward, Travel Upward
Congregations that focus
inward, Travel
Downward

30. 3) How can we do
God’s will?

31. ✤What specific vocation does
God have for your church?

33. ✤What specific vocation does
God have for your church?