Leadership in Church Ministry/Ministry Project

Leadership in Church Ministry

(17 pages of PURE CONTENT- NOT INCLUDING TITLE OR REFERENCE PAGE) (Kate-Turabian format) (Footnotes are a must) (No Plagiarism) (No Use of Artificial Intelligence)

MUST CITE THESE TEXTS: Required and Supplemental Resources

1. Cole, Neil. Church 3.0: Upgrades for the Future of the Church. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010.ISBN:9780470529454
2. Hirsch, Alan and Catchim, Tim. The Permanent Revolution. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 2012. ISBN: 9780470907740
3. McNeal, Reggie. Missional Renaissance. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009. ISBN: 9780470453155
4. Rainer, Thom. Autopsy of a Deceased Church. Nashville: B&H Publishing, 2014. ISBN: 9781433683923
5. Scazzero, Peter. Emotionally Healthy Leader. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2015. ISBN: 9780310494584

OTHER SOURCES TO CITE ARE ATTACHED

Ministry Project: For your ministry project assignment, you have some options to choose from as listed below. The variety of choices for this assignment respects the fact that there are many different ministry callings and interests represented in our classone size does not fit all. Guidelines for choosing a direction for these projects might include :

• What subject has energized you most?
• Where is there a ministry need in your local ministry context that might be met through work in an area related to this assignment?
• Do you have a personal hunger to learn more about one of these topics or apply them to your personal life?
• Could you feel the Holy Spirit directing you toward more focused research in one of the following areas?

For any option you choose, it is expected that:

• Lecture Material: You will integrate significant background information learned from the lectures in class
• Reading Material: You will integrate important information from your reading in this class.
• Scholarly Research: You will do additional scholarly research to add to the reading and lecture knowledge base that was established for this class from a variety of books, journals, dissertations, and web-based resource
• Originality: You will add your own creative, reflective, and critical thought to the project to contextualize it for your specific life and ministry, and be careful to cite sources and ideas that originate from other people
• Format: There are a variety of formats in which you can submit your assignment (see below). Specifications and format requirements are:
  • Written Assignment: You can submit a standard written summary of your project. This might work best if you intend to keep the assignment as a record to build further research later on. It would also be best suited for publishing in an informal setting or submitting to a professional or popular journal, website, blog, or Wiki. Follow the guidelines under “Format” above. I would expect this assignment to be at least 15 pages if you are to cover the topic adequately.

Option #1: State of the Ministry: Overall Evaluation

How does the material we have covered in the first half of this course apply to your church, ministry, community, or denominational context (your focal group)? Take on the role of a participant-observer. Conduct interviews or surveys, either verbal or written, with significant sample size, to substantiate your answers. Perform a 360-degree evaluation of the area you choose to evaluate by using the material we have covered so far to answer some crucial questions:

• State: Based on your readings about the state of the church, where does your focal group fit? How would it be located in some of the critical areas that the State of the Church information addressed? Has the attendance declined, plateaued, or grown? What might be some of the reasons for your answers? Be specific with background and demographic information and include interviews with people that may affirm your evaluation.
• Witness: How do the people in the focal group relate to people in the world around them? What kind of image does the focal group project to those who are lost? How does the focal group connect to the world? Based on the matrix of attitudes presented by Gabe Lyons in his book, what kind of attitude does your focal group have toward the world? (For more information on the attitudes presented by Gabe Lyons, click on Modules, scroll down to Course Resources, and select Additional Resources) There you will find a PPT describing What the World Thinks About Christianity and Christian Beliefs.)

• Culture: What kind of culture exists in your focal group? Is it deliberately created or a byproduct of interaction without the groups knowledge? What facets of the culture are desirable and which are damaging, worn out, or in need of change? What traits do you and others observe that lead you to think this way about the focal groups culture? What deliberate things could you do to remake the culture so that it more effectively accomplishes the redemptive mission of the focal group?

• Ministry Paradigms: What overall ministry paradigms are in operation within your focal group? Does it embrace some form of the five-fold ministry concept? If so, describe their view of the fivefold ministry and how some or all of the offices function in the church. Is there another paradigm for ministry in operation? If so, describe that paradigm and its strengths and weaknesses. Is vocational ministry recognized and given its proper place? If so, how?
• Ministry Health: What does the focal group look like as far as health is concerned? Use the material presented in class to evaluate the health of the focal groups leadership to gauge the level of health they possess. What are they doing well? What could be done better? What are the leaders modeling for the others in the ministry?