Canadian Ministries and Vital Churches conference on Ministry Development

1. Ministry Development Conference
Canadian Ministries
May 2016 © 2004, 2016 E. Stanley Ott: The Vital Churches Institute

2. We must be the
People of God
before we do the
work of the
People of God

3. www.vitalchurchesinstitute.com

4. Four Questions for a
Transformational (life-
changing) Ministry

5. Question One: Do you know
and experience the Lord
who loves you?

6. Are you touching Jesus?

7. Do you practice a Rule of Life
– soul care and self-care?

8. A simple Rule – QT – PT - PPT

9. QT - Quiet Time
(Daily Office, Devotions, The Morning Watch)

10. PT - Physical Training – taking care
of your body.

11. Do Lists + Your calendar
© 20013 E. Stanley Ott
PPT – Protected Planning Time
Do LIst

12. What are you asking God to do?

13. GROUP Work:
What kind of Rule of Life are you
willing to engage in your own life?
A simple Rule – QT – PT – PPT
or__________?

14. Question Two: What vision
defines your ministry?

15. Vision is seeing what God wants to do
through you – J. Tozer

16. “The present system is perfectly
designed to get the results it gets!”
W. Edwards Deming

17. Incline
Recline
Decline
Ken Priddy
Vision
Centered
Program
Centered
Structure
Centered

20. “Make no little plans. They
have no power to stir the
hearts of people.”
Daniel Burnham

21. Bless & Add
(Honor &Onward)

22. Group Work:
Is your ministry in incline,
recline, decline?
What is the vision that drives
you and those with you?

23. Question Three: Who is with you?

24. Who is on your “bus?”
Are they in the right seats?
Jim Collins

25. The With-Me Principle
“He appointed twelve, whom
he also named apostles, to
be with him, and to be sent
out to proclaim the message”
Mark 3:14

26. With-me in Discipleship:
With-me in me Family (and friends)
With-me in Hospitality
With-me in Ministry
With-me in Life and Leisure

27. Group work
Do you have the right people on
your bus? In the right seats?
What leadership moves do you
need to make to move to two
yeses?
Who is with you?

28. Question Four:
Who cheers you on?

29. People
VDP – Very Draining People
VIP – Very Important People
(they share your passion
they renew you)
Gordon McDonald – Renewing Your Spiritual Passion

30. Irregular
People
Everyone
someone in
their lives who
isn’t quite right
in the head
(from their
perspecive)!

31. Change or Die - The Fast Company
All leadership comes down to this: changing people's behavior.
Why is that so damn hard? Science offers some surprising new
answers -- and ways to do better.
Change or Die? What if you were given that choice? For real.
What if it weren't just the hyperbolic rhetoric that conflates
corporate performance with life and death... We're talking actual
life or death now. Your own life or death. What if a well-informed,
trusted authority figure said you had to make difficult and enduring
changes in the way you think and act? If you didn't, your time
would end soon -- a lot sooner than it had to. Could you change
when change really mattered? When it mattered most?

32. Yes, you say?
Try again.
Yes?
You're probably deluding yourself.
You wouldn't change.
Don't believe it? You want odds? Here
are the odds, the scientifically studied
odds: nine to one. That's nine to one
against you. How do you like those
odds?

33. Deep Change and Anxious People
(and groups/systems)

34. Mark 2:1-12
Stretcher-Bearers

35. Introduction to Technical
and Adaptive Thinking

36. In times of rapid change
what you know can mislead you.
~Robert Dilworth

38. Technical Challenge- Linear Planning - Flowchart
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40. Action Leaning
Humility
Inquiry
Experiment
Two Ground Rules:
1.Speak only to ask a question or in
response to a question.
2. The learning coach has the power to
intervene
•(Michael Marquardt)

42. Generosity Development
and Fund Raising:

43. You have not because…
you ask not!

44. Five Principles of Giving
1.The Hilaros Principle
2.First Fruits
3.Proportional Giving and the Tithe
4.Offerings of Generosity
5.Almsgiving

45. “ The ASK
• Personal relationship
• Crisp clarity of vision
• Godly Gumption
• The “Ask” (you have not
because you…)
The THANK

46. CROWD-FUNDING
KickStarter
GoFundMe
Indiegogo

47. The Prayer Covenant
Lord, grant me and ______ the
grace today to commit our
lives to the Lordship of Jesus
Christ without reservation, and
grant ______ and me further the
grace to know your strength
and your guidance this day.
Amen.
OR Ephesians 3:16-19

48. The Prayer Covenant
16
I pray that, according to the riches of his glory,
he may grant that you may be strengthened in
your inner being with power through his Spirit,
17
and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through
faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in
love. 18
I pray that you may have the power to
comprehend, with all the saints, what is the
breadth and length and height and depth, 19
and
to know the love of Christ that surpasses
knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the
fullness of God. Ephesians 3:16-19

49. Rotating Prayer Covenants
in groups, boards,
committees and teams

50. Principles of Vital Ministries
Leadership Matters
Lifestyle Matters

51. Pizazz And
Commitment

52. 10% Technical
What are we going to do?
90% Tactical
How to keep people on board?!
The 10-90 Rule

53. © 2013 E. Stanley Ott
Ministry Teams:
Four Centering Practices
*Word-Share-Prayer
*Prayer Partners
*Shared Meals
*Annual Retreats (or
regular retreats)

54. Layering

55. © 2013 E. Stanley Ott
The Seven Threads of Ministry
Team Relationships.

56. Group Work –
Of these matters which is mo
relevant to your next steps?
Why?

57. Principles of Vital Ministries
Leadership Matters
Lifestyle Matters

58. People Eyes
vs
Program Eyes

59. W & W Goals are What and
When Goals – what do you
intend to accomplish and by
when.
Without the “when” your goal is
merely a wish

60. NEXT STEPS

61. Greek: the more you
know the more educated
you are!

62. Hebrew: you are as
educated as you do what
you know!

63. Humility and Teachability

64. Support
Accountability