These notes accompany Pastor Mark’s Real Leaders podcast “24 War-Time Leadership Lessons from 2020” which can be found HERE on Apple and HERE on Spotify.
24 War-Time Leadership Lessons from 2020
- Run to reality as quickly as possible
- Momentum is gained slowly and lost quickly
- Fear and faith are both contagious
- Remember the liability of policy
- Culture is what you teach and what you tolerate
- Grade your governance
- Prune your problems
- Surveys are silly
- The fast eat the slow
- Pivot leaders vs. process leaders
- Call the shots and take the shots
- Level up your pain threshold
- Ministry is now a 2-lane highway
- The average church is running 36% in person and has 1 staff for every 18 people in person, and 1 person for every 1,273 people online (https://theunstuckgroup.com/2020/10/q3-2020-unstuck-church-report-how-churches-are-engaging-digital-ministry-strategies/)
- Provision follows vision
- Summary: 8% of churches are up, 65% of churches are down financially
giving up 8% of churches
giving steady 27% of churches
giving 10-20% down 34% of churches
giving 30-50% down 22% of churches
giving 75% down or more 9% of churches
- Momentum rows on the oars of visible progress and delivered results
- The longer you are down, the longer it takes to get up
- As a general rule, it takes as long as you are closed to get back to something “normal”
- Kids are crucial
- The feedback is that churches that open with restrictions and without kids run 15%
- Rentals are risky
- Planting and replanting are looming
- As things get darker, people need to go deeper
- Men matter
- Kingdom down, not culture up
- You can make excuses, or you can make plans
- Hear what the Spirit is saying to your church