Today I get the chance to meet the local administrators and executive pastors in the Knoxville area and share with them a presentation that I did in Phoenix, AZ earlier this year for the Church Solutions Conference on Strategic Staff Planning, Development and Evaluation. Here’s the opening thought:
Structure dictates structure.
Wherever you are, you can only accomplish what your structure allows you to accomplish. SO, you either change your structure or you change your plans. That’s your only two choices (we’ll, I guess leaving is a choice as well).
At FPC, I believe that the structure that Pastor, the Elders and Leadership Team created allows us to impact the Kingdom more effectively. FPC is staff lead, but we receive spiritual accountability from the Elders and financial accountability from the Leadership Team.
Because of the structure, we can make quick changes and try things that we never could if our structure were cumbersome. Our Senior Management Team makes decisions and we move on them. It’s a blast!
I hope the guys there are encouraged to lead at even greater levels because of our time together! Can’t wait to be challenged by them and begin new relationships as well.
Thanks to West Park Baptist Church for hosting the lunch and for their ministry to our city.
Hope it went well and the NACBA folk behaved. How about turning the presentation into an article for the Ledger. Let me know if you are interested. Hope to see you in Long Beach.. http://www.nacba.net/2009
Would enjoy doing that – great idea. Email me the details and we’ll get it done. Really wish I could be in Long Beach but it’s the week in between 2 weeks out! Will make it next year.