178: Daniel IM; Valuing Vision For Leading Youth Ministry
In episode 178 Zac sits down with Daniel IM to talk about the importance of vision, strategy, and values for leading in a church and a youth ministry.
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Our Guest: Learn more about Daniel IM
Daniel Sangi Im is the Director of Church Multiplication for NewChurches.com at LifeWay Christian Resources. He also serves as a Teaching Pastor at The Fellowship, a multisite church in Nashville.
Daniel is the the author of No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry and Planting Missional Churches: Your Guide to Starting Churches that Multiply (2nd Ed).
He also co-hosts the New Churches Q&A Podcast, the 5 Leadership Questions Podcast, and a brand new podcast with his wife on marriage and parenting called the IMbetween Podcast.
Daniel has served and pastored in church plants and multisite churches ranging from 100 people to 50,000 people in Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal, Korea, Edmonton, and Nashville. His experience and strength is in creating alignment and momentum within teams and churches by implementing strategies and systems to move the church towards multiplication. Which is why you are going to love today's episode!
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Show Notes:
Let's Talk About Where Vision Fits In:
Vision
Strategy
Values
What is the difference between Vision and Mission (5:01) (way less than you think)
A Vision statement simply answers, "Where are we going?"
Vision is probably not the place for the youth ministry to differentiate
6:26 "Vision is the contextualized version of the
Great Commandment and Great Commission"
Beulah Alliance Church
“Reach 1% of Edmondton”
A strategy is the stuff you do to get your vision done.
2 Strands of Strategy
Leadership Pipeline
Discipleship Pathway
8:10 The reason that every church does ministry
We do things differently because of our set of values.
“If everyone can agree with the value then it is not clear enough”
11:10 “The values of your church should be so clear that a newcomer should read them and be able to opt out”
13:30 Where does the Strategy get decided?
Everything the church does fits within the strategy (either knowingly or not)
Leadership Pipeline: equipping the saints for ministry
Discipleship Pathway: pointing them to Christ, maturing for faith
15:10 Can’t it be both?
16:24 "The shift to a growing larger church is the move to develop the leadership pipeline
"You can’t be a doer, you must become equippers"
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- Conviction
- Culture
- Constructs
Conviction