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Encouragement for churches sugar & salt
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Church Encouragement
Services
Workshop
Larry Ferguson - Director
INTRODUCTION
Format of this workshop:
• Intro to Church Encouragement Services
• 14 sessions of the seminar (1X1)
• (Each “session” has 2 parts
A. Sugar = A useful tip you can use now
B. Salt = Something only in the seminar
HOW
CAME ABOUT
It started with
My First
Ministry
• The Old Wyatt
Church
Santa Cruz Church
From Death
To Life
Years Later
• The original Santa Cruz Building
• The new auditorium
• Educational Buildings
ITT Leadership Seminar
Statistics
say that
85%
of churches in America
are either
declining or stagnate
Churches Closing at a Rapid RateIn the forward of the book printed by College Press “Church
Planting from the Ground Up” Edited by Tom Jones & compiled by several authors, are some staggering statistics about dying churches. The author of the forward is Tom Rainer, Dean of the Billy Graham School of Evangelism and church growth. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky.
The statistic is this: of the approximately 400,000 churches in America, it’s estimated that 60,000 of those churches will close in the next 10 to 15 years. In 10 years that would be about 115 per week. 15 years would be approximately 76 per week.
This is staggering not only because of the fact itself, but because previous statistics indicated only about 7 churches per week closing down.
Thus the overwhelming need for Church Encouragement Services Inc.
(New life for churches.)
IMAGINE
76 to 115
Churches
Closing Down
Every Week !
My Heart Is TouchedBy this
Over-whelming Need
That’s WhyI wrote
The C E S Manuscript
“Raising the Dead”
(New life for churches)
ChurchEncourage
mentServicesNew Life For Churches
C. E. S. Logo
Church Encouragement Services
What the Seminar is AboutHow to:
Motivate, Delegate, Deal with Problems, Create a Vision, Establish an Evangelism Ministry, Oversee, Identify Problems, Plan, Implement, Equip, Make Sunday Special, Identify Needs, Make Meetings Productive, Bring Visitors Back, Develop New Leadership, and especially How to Bring God’s Direction to Your Church.
Also:Suggested Agendas, Job Descriptions, Priorities of the
Church, Milk of the Word, Meat of the Word, Signs of a Dying Church, Re-establishing proper authority, Leadership skills, Preparing a Lesson, Developing Curriculum, Finding Hope in Hopeless Situations, Examples of churches that died, A dying church brought back to life, Dealing with discipline, Tools and methods to accomplish God’s task.
THINGS YOU GET
WITH YOUR SEMINAR• 1. Week-end (16 hour) “Power Point” presentation• 2. 500 page (fill in the blanks) personal Student Manuals• 3. Special New Beginnings Bulletin and order of service• 4. New Beginnings Sunday morning worship service• 5. Four “Revival of Prayer” sermon outlines• 6. New Life Master Calendar – (Large - ready for posting)• 7. Strong baby steps (1 step at a time) Implementation • 8. Easy “Baby Steps” follow up program• 9. 54 color “New Life” focus points• 10. Evaluation list “Signs of a Dying Church”• 11. How to bring God into the life of your church.• 12. Materials to activate your “Revival of Prayer”
• 13. Opportunity to Partner with the C E S Ministry
Identifying Twelve Barriers
1. Not recognizing problems
2. Leaving God out
3. No Vision
4. Bible not final authority
5. No Good News
6. Dysfunctional Leaders
7. Leader’s job descriptions distorted
8. No one being equipped
9. Poor or no preparation
10. Sunday not special
11. Problems ignored or poorly handled
12. Much talk - but no implementation
Solutions that bring new life:
1. Problems identified
2. God brought back into the picture
3. Discovering a vision
4. Re-discovering the Bible
5. Good news abounding
6. Leaders leading
7. Job descriptions clearly defined
8. Christians equipped for ministry
9. Quality preparation
10. Sunday made special
11. Problem solving procedure
12. Dreams and plans implemented
Seminar AgendaFRIDAY NIGHT
7:00 to 8:00 - Introduction/Orientation Break - 8:00 to 8:15
8:15 to 9:15 - Chapter One - Consequences
SATURDAY Breakfast - 9 to 9:30
9:30 to 11:00 - Chapter Two - Revival of Prayer Break - 11:00 to 11:15
11:15 to 12:15 - Chapter Three - Creating a Vision Lunch - 12:15 to 12:45
12:45 to 1:45 - Chapter Four - Back To the Bible
1:45 to 2:45 - Chapter Five - What Happened to the Good New?
Break - 2:45 to 3:00
3:00 to 4:00 - Chapter Six - Leaders
4:00 to 5:00 - Chapter Seven - The Preacher Break - 5:00 to 5:15
5:15 to 6:45 - Chapter Eight - Elders
Supper - 6:45 to 7:15
7:15 to 7:45 - Chapter Nine - Deacons and/or Ministry Leaders
7:45 to 8:45 - Chapter Ten - Equipping
Break - 8:45 to 9:00
9:00 to 9:45 - Chapter Eleven - It Pays to Prepare
SUNDAY New Beginnings Worship Service
Lunch - 12:30 to 1:15
1:15 to 2:15 - Chapter Twelve - Making Sunday Special
2:15 to 3:15 - Chapter Thirteen - Problem Solving
Break - 3:15 to 3:30
3:30 to 4:30 - Chapter Fourteen – Implementation
4:30 to 5:00 - Conclusion and Graduation
After the seminar you will be prepared toHave a “Revival of Prayer”
The ♥ of a “Revival of Prayer”*Four sermons on prayer
*13 weeks of lessons on prayer
*3 prayers in the worship service
*15 minutes of prayer at every meeting
*Prayer room early Sunday mornings
*24 hours of prayer
*Day of Prayer and fasting
New Life For Churches
Now for the 14
Sugar & Salt tips
REMEMBER
Sugar = A useful tip you can use now
Salt = Something only in the seminar
1. BENEATH THE SURFACEConsequences
of major
problems
Sugar - Don’t Deny - Identify
Salt - 113 signs of a dying church.
2. PRIORITY COMMUNICATIONIt starts with a “Revival of Prayer”
Sugar - The need for
effective, fervent
calling out to God.
Salt - 13 week curriculum for
“Revival of Prayer”
3. HOW TO START A FIRECreating a vision
Sugar - The church must
have a vision of
what can be accomplished
with God.
Salt - How to create an effective vision team.
4. REDISCOVERING
THE BIBLE
Sugar - The Bible must be the only & final authority.
Salt - 38 descriptions of what (only) the Bible is.
5. GOD’S HEART
OUR HANDSWhat happened to the good news?
Sugar - The priorities of God -
Must have new babies -
Emphasize Jesus!
Salt - Scriptures
relating to salvation -
11 methods that work.
6. EFFECTIVE LEADERS
Sugar - As the leaders go
so the church goes.
Salt - Dynamic, workable & essential leader skills.
7. THE COACH Preachers
Sugar - The preacher must have
the freedom & the support
to do what God asks him to do.
Salt - The preacher’s job description.
How to take care of your preacher.
The preacher’s contract..
8. SHEPHERDS or ELDERS
Sugar - Much responsibility -
Little training and support.
Salt - Many surprised by
their biblical job description.
Graph complete responsibilities.
9. THE SPARK PLUGS Deacons - (Ministry leaders)
Sugar - Prescribed by God to be helpers for the whole church,
Especially the leaders.
Salt - Their biblical job description.
10. EQUIPPING (For what?)
Sugar - Most Christians are
un-equipped for ministry.
Salt - How to do the equipping.
11. BE PREPAREDIt pays to prepare
Sugar - Poor preparation leads to poor results.
Salt - Workable tips for quality preparation.
12. MAKING SUNDAY SPECIAL
Sugar - Out of the rut
- into exciting Sundays.
Salt - Loads of ways to make Sunday special.
13. HELP FOR
DEALING WITH PROBLEMS
Sugar - Problems are
opportunities, but
opportunities to do what?
Salt - Problem solving procedure.
14. LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION!Implementation
Sugar - Often much talk
without much doing.
Salt - A way to get the job done efficiently & timely.
OTHER THINGS
THAT ONLY THE SEMINAR OFFERS
(More salt)
□ 500 page full color resource manual.
□ Humorous but pointed elder’s meeting dialogues
□ 64 focus points.
□ Examples of churches that died
□ Songs that emphasize the topics
□ Fun songs
□ Illustrative stories
Free introduction packets available
Church Encouragement Services Inc.
512 Coventry Court
Plymouth, Indiana 46563
(574) 272-8288