Keeping staff & volunteers on mission

Keeping your staff and volunteers focused on the mission is critical to developing your church plant’s momentum and growth and maximizing your impact in the community. 

1:28 Danny discusses the dangers of playing the comparison game.

2:05 It’s important to find ways to reinforce the values over and over.

3:21 You have to constantly trickle the culture, vision and value system in the life of your people. You have to figure out different ways to communicate it, but never let off the gas pedal.

4:31 When people get more task-focused than relational and ministry-focused, they probably have lost sight of the mission. 

5:42 You have to show it in your own life. You have to reflect it, that this is something you believe in, and you’re living it, and they need to be able to see it, that it’s evident in the way you live life and you approach people and you approach ministry as a whole.

6:01 Find ways to celebrate it. Celebrate life change, celebrate all of those key moments resulting from the mission being carried out. And the celebration itself empowers people in a totally different way than you could ever do on your own. 

7:49 Lee and his team continuously set 90-day goals. "We fight against silos happening by doing that."

9:02 Lee discusses four goals he and his team set.

11:50 When your church plant is young, the timing of your goals has to be shorter.

12:39 Lee talks about the six by six system. What are the six things that you need to accomplish over the next six weeks? 

13:25 Conferences are great places to get ideas. But any idea that you get, you should sit on it for a while.

14:03 As a visionary leader, you’ve got to be careful because a visionary leader can reinvent the vision every 90 days. You will wear your leaders and team out doing that.