Current Reality
At times, your role as a leader can feel daunting. Given the wide range of dynamics in churches, it can be challenging to stop yourself from approaching every congregation with a menu of programs and ministries and trying to navigate which one fits their needs best.
With the vast customization of the church in western culture Christianity, the era of The Ministry Menu is over. What is needed is an approach that engages congregations in an in-depth conversation about their greatest strengths and what God might be doing to leverage those strengths for His glory and the church’s good.
It’s time to upgrade your clarity-building techniques to ensure breakthroughs for the networks, denominations, associations, and churches you serve. Put another way: It’s time to upgrade your DNA or your Discovering Next Approach.
Our Partners in Ministry
Discovering Next Approach
Our techniques are proven approaches to help an organization or a leader make meaningful progress in their context by embarking with them on a journey of discovering their God-designed uniqueness from within. There are no Ministry Menus; instead, there are meaningful communications about how God is at work in even the smallest of ways to bring about the biggest of impacts. Specifically, we use six techniques to help see the Kingdom advance in a specific context.
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Now that every church is unique it is imperative that coaches and consultants understand a few of the common realities that almost every leader is facing that are ready to fuel or foil their God-inspired future. We flash assess every church with seven quick lenses to ask better questions and help develop contextualized problem solving for each situation.
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Questions are the currency used to purchase insight into an organizations next best step to meaningful progress. We use strategically use questions to mine out opportunities and pain points that teams are facing to help them face their present reality.
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Once a team has identified the possible solutions on how to proceed forward, it becomes imperative that they clarify which steps serve their long-term and short-term objectives. We help teams to reach consensus on what direction God is leading them next.
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Identification of a clear next step is imperative, however, most organizations never develop a formal plan to support taking that next step. We’ve developed several ways teams can chart their next steps to keep them at the forefront of what needs to happen in their context.
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In this stage of the process, we utilize several principles and practices to increase an organization’s movement from idea creation to implementation. We help teams consider the resources they currently have and the roadblocks they may face along the way.
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Although often overlooked, this last part of the Discovering Next Approach is essential because is fuels the team and emboldens the people to embrace their next step toward meaningful progress. Through this stage we help teams tell their story of breakthrough so that others can celebrate and learn from their journey.
Options
DNA Retreat (One or Two Days)
Are you or your leadership team stuck in deciding your best next step forward? Maybe you’re facing a few big decisions and need assistance determining which one will have the desired impact.
DNA Certification (Two Days)
Interested in the leaders in your network, denomination, association, or convention becoming equipped with tools that will help them bring greater value to churches?
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