Jerry Twombly

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Building Ministries of Excellence - Part 1

Essential Ingredients to Successful Ministry

Introduction

There are several things that make the journey upon which we are about to embark unique and stimulating. These include:

A. Mission

B. Underlying Philosophy

C. Our Resources

I. The Role of Relationships in Ministry Success

A. Leadership represents those things we do within our organization to build rational relationships with others.

1. Relationships

2. Rational

B. Successful leadership is measured in terms of the ability of an organization to sustain relationships with others in both good and bad times.

The primary and most objective way of assessing success is in terms of attrition. You should be tracking attrition in these key areas:

1. Donors

2. Clients

3. Staff

4. Board

5. Administration

II. The Four Things Common to Successful Ministries

III. The Organizational Circle of Success

In the book Good to Great, Jim Collins evaluated 13 companies in America who emerged from good companies to great companies. While the study was conducted in the secular environment, the principles that characterized these 13 companies are deeply rooted in the Word of God.

A.

There were seven common characteristics of each of these companies (organizations) that distinguished them from other companies functioning in the same arena. These were:

1. Leadership

2. Staffing

3. Condition

4. Awareness

5. Culture

6. Technology

7. Dedication (Momentum)

B. The Organizational Circle

IV. Leadership

What kind of leader are you?

A. Success and Leadership

At the core of success in any ministry is the strength of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). This was certainly true among the 13 companies singled out in the book Good to Great and it is true among ministries with long and rich histories of impact in the world in which we live.

B. Building a Leadership Profile

The primary focus of today’s session is to build a profile of the ideal leader, to assess ourselves, and begin a process of addressing our ministry’s most critical need.

C. Looking at Biblical Leaders

Leader	Passages	Characteristics	Qualities	Deficiencies
Moses
Joshua
Gideon
Saul
David
Jeroboam
Peter
Paul
John
Jesus