Innovative Leadership Project What Makes It Different

Intensive: Session One Innovative Leadershp: 

Intensive: Session One Innovative Leadershp Innovative Leadership Project: What Makes the ILP Different? Craig Kennet Miller http://churchleaderUMC.com Permission is given to use for leadership in the Innovative Leadership Project and in local churches

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Leadership Worship Small Groups Outreach Stewardship Education

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Holy Club

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The Innovative Leadership Project starts with this simple idea: “If you want to change your church, first you have to change yourself.”

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When we first started I was frustrated. I wanted to get to work on the problems we had in our church. But after going through the first month, I realized in order for my church to change, I had to change first. I learned my spiritual life and the spiritual life of the people on our leadership team had a direct influence on the total life of our congregation. 2010-2011 Participant

What makes the ILP Different?: 

What makes the ILP Different? A congregational survey is taken by selected members of the church Results show areas where the church needs to improve Church focuses its resources on fixing the areas that need improvement Assessment First

What makes the ILP Different?: 

What makes the ILP Different? A congregational survey is taken by selected members of the church Results show areas where the church needs to improve Church focuses its resources on fixing the areas that need improvement Assessment First Team First A leadership team commits to learn, pray, and work together for 7-months The team learns a set of tools for leader development and strategic planning The team takes an assessment of its ministries and uses the tools it has learned to develop and implement successful strategies

Becoming accountable for spiritual disciplines : 

Becoming accountable for spiritual disciplines Before a congregation can grow spiritually and numerically, before it can effectively reach new people, it has to perform open-heart surgery. It has to look at its reason for being and at how its leadership team is living out the Christian faith. Innovative Leadership Guidebook, p. 166

The challenge facing the church: 

The challenge facing the church

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The ILP provides your church a great opportunity to build a healthy leadership team that will pray, learn, and create together as they design effective strategies for church vitality.

http://churchleaderUMC.com : 

http://churchleaderUMC.com Innovative Leadership Website