Winning On Purpose
How To Organize Congregations to Succeed in Their Mission
Published on 1. September 2010
273 pages
978-1-4267-2536-4 (ISBN)
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Do you really want the mission to succeed?
Are you prepared to live within clear boundaries?
Are you ready to align yourself with a greater purpose?
Do you have what it takes?
Winning on Purpose offers leaders a way to organize congregations for success by creating structures that enable church life and health. As a comprehensive and powerful application of the biblical call to mission, Winning on Purpose sets forth the Accountable Leadership strategy. This model of leadership brings together standards for mission, boundaries, and accountability, and then shows how these standards come to life through the performance of four key players: the board, the pastor, the staff, and the congregation.To read a sample from the book click here
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Dr. John E. Kaiser is president of the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada (fellowship.ca), one of the country s larger evangelical denominations. Prior to that appointment he developed and directed GHC Network (ghcnetwork.org), a movement for growing healthy congregations, under the auspices of the American Baptist Churches of the West (abcw.org), based in Northern California. In the 1980s and 90s, he successfully founded and led both a midsize church and a large church in Florida with the Evangelical Free Church of America.
John consults, trains, and coaches leaders of churches, nonprofit organizations, and denominations across North America, New Zealand, and Australia. He lives near Toronto with Lee, his wife of 27 years. They have two adult chi
Content
- Intro
- Winning on Purpose
- Praise for Winning on Purpose
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Series Foreword
- Foreword
- Introduction
- God wins on purpose and wants his Church to do the same.
- We win by using God's gifts for God's purposes.
- Groups cannot normally be expected to lead or be held accountable.
- This book is adaptable to a wide range of contexts.
- PART ONE--DO WE REALLY WANT TO WIN?
- Chapter 1--Playing to Win Beats Playing Around
- A Reason to Exist
- The Kind of Leadership We Need
- Attracting and Keeping Leaders
- SUMMARY & PREVIEW
- Chapter 2--The First Step is to Stop Defeating Ourselves
- Problems of Inward Focus
- Problems of Anarchy
- Problems of Democracy
- Problems of Oligarchy
- Problems of Hierarchy
- SUMMARY & PREVIEW
- Chapter 3--Three Basics Make a Game Worth Playing
- The Object of the Game
- The Rules of the Game
- How to Keep Score
- The Accountable Leadership Strategy
- SUMMARY & PREVIEW
- PART TWO--DO WE UNDERSTAND THE GAME?
- Chapter 4--The Object of the Game Defines Responsibility
- The Source of Our Objective
- Jesus's Final Word on the Matter
- Jesus's Earlier Mission Statements
- The Acts of the (Commissioned) Apostles
- Winning at the Object of the Game
- SUMMARY & PREVIEW
- Chapter 5--The Rules of the Game Create Authority
- A Word of Warning about Rules
- How Boundaries Work
- Fair Game
- Breaking the Rules
- Changing the Rules
- SUMMARY & PREVIEW
- Chapter 6--Accountability is How We Keep Score
- Safe and Effective Organization
- When Goals Are Reached
- Statistics vs. Wins
- Interpretation and Application
- Win, Lose, or Draw
- SUMMARY & PREVIEW
- PART THREE--DO WE KNOW WHAT POSITION TO PLAY?
- Chapter 7--Ministry is a Team Sport
- Diversity on the Team
- Captain of the Team
- Training and Coaching for the Team
- SUMMARY & PREVIEW
- Chapter 8--The Congregation Plays Ministry
- Control vs. Trust
- Moving the World
- Accountability-Official and Otherwise
- SUMMARY & PREVIEW
- Chapter 9--The Pastor Plays Leadership
- The Case for a Primary Leader
- Character of the Pastor as Leader
- Modes of Leading for Three Arenas
- Limitations of Accountable Leadership
- SUMMARY & PREVIEW
- Chapter 10--The Board Plays Governance
- The Governance Distinctive
- Trustees for Whom?
- Defining the Guiding Principles
- Keeping Score and Calling Penalties
- Supporting Pastoral Leadership
- Keeping the Board on Track
- SUMMARY & PREVIEW
- Chapter 11--The Staff Plays Management
- Excellence of Execution
- A Comprehensive Staff
- The Pastor's Team
- Two Degrees of Separation
- Investment, Not Expense
- SUMMARY & PREVIEW
- PART FOUR--DO WE HAVE THE RIGHT EQUIPMENT?
- Chapter 12--Organizational Documents Set Up the Game
- Creating a Corporate "Pair o' Docs"
- Clarity about the Bylaws
- What the Bylaws Need to Cover
- How the Bylaws Need to Be Changed
- An Aside for Unincorporated Congregations
- How Guiding Principles Authorize the Pastor
- Constructing the Guiding Principles
- Mission Principles
- Boundary Principles
- Accountability Principles
- SUMMARY & PREVIEW
- Chapter 13--Schedules Keep the Game in Play
- The Influence of the Annual Calendar
- Proportions of the Meeting Agenda
- Process for Training and Selection
- The Wisdom of a Transition Plan
- SUMMARY & PREVIEW
- Chapter 14--Affiliations Relate the Team to its League
- Winning in the Congregational Leagues
- Winning in the Presbyterian Leagues
- Winning in the Episcopal Leagues
- Winning in the Emerging Leagues
- SUMMARY
- CONCLUSION
- Strategy Recap
- Beyond the Local Congregation
- Training and Consulting
- Jesus Wins
- Annotated Bibliography
- About the Author
- WINNING ON PURPOSE
