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Presented by: Lost Sheep Ministries

Taken from Jim Collins’ book: Good to Great

Though the book, Good to Great, is a study of companies like Walgreens, Kroger, and Wells Fargo, etc.

The principles for moving from Good to Great can be applied to Churches/Ministries as well.

Definitions:A Good Church:

Influences the community

Grows at the rate of the Surrounding Population

Disciples Most New Members

Has a Vision Supported by Members

Financially Sound; In Budget

A Great Church:

Is a Leader in the Community

Grows faster than the Local Population

Disciples All New Members; Spiritual Gifts Identified and properly Applied

Has Level 5 Executive Leader with Quality Christians in Right Positions

Has Finances exceeding Budget and Helps other Churches

Determines Who Gets On the Bus

Determines Who Gets Off the Bus Determines Where They Are Seated

Level 5 Leadership

Level 5 Leadership is the Primary Path to Great Ministry.

Characteristics of a Level 5 Executive Leader.

Humble And Tenacious

First Who then What

Wait to get the Right Christians

on the Team (Bus)

Agree on the Mission (Where to Drive the Bus)

Place Qualified Christians in roles of Leadership (Where

Seated on Bus)

Choose Who will Assist in Leadership Before Agreeing on the Mission

Confront the Brutal Facts

A primary task in taking a Ministry from Good to Great is to create a culture wherein members have unhindered

opportunity to be heard and, ultimately, for the truth to be heard.

1. Lead with Questions, not Answers. 2. Engage in Dialog and

Debate, not coercion.

3. Conduct Autopsies, without Blame.

4. Retain Absolute Faith that you Can and WILL prevail in the end, AND at the same time confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.

Creating a Climate where Truth is heard involves four basic practices:

Hedgehog Concept

What are you deeply Passionate

about

Hedgehog Concept

What drives your Economic Engine

What you canBe the Best inThe World At

Stick to the Core: Don’t venture

outside the Intersection of

the three circles!

This Will Be Your

Hedgehog Concept

What are you deeply

Passionate about?

Enlarging Your

Church?

Changing Your Church to a Good Church or Great

Church?Growing the Kingdom?

Helping Failing

churches?

Meeting the Social Needs

in Your Community?

Other?

Starting a Sustained Global

Ministry?

Traditional churches have depended upon tithes and

gifts from members to sustain operations

Sick and dying churches can no longer depend upon tithes, gifts, and

taxes to sustain operation.

What drives your

Economic Engine?

Financial funding and manpower resources are essential to

becoming Great and remaining Great.

Special “Ministry Opportunities” are sometime

promoted which “tax” members for more funds.

Should a Non-Profit Business or Grants be

considered for augmenting the economic stability of a

Growing church?

What you canBe the Best in

The World At?

No organization can be Best at everything.

To Grow from Good to Great, a church must become like a hedgehog and

stop being like a fox.

The church leadership

should prayerfully

debate what the church can do

better than any other church.

The Hedgehog Concept for a Great church will be to focus

on what it is passionate about that is supported by its economic engine that is

better than any other church.

The Hedgehog CouncilAsk Questions Guided by the Three Circles

Dialogue and Debate, Guided by the Three

Circles

Autopsies and Analysis Guided by the Three

Circles

Executive Decisions, Guided by the Three Circles

Makeup and Function of the Hedgehog Council

The Council exists as a device to gain understanding about important issues facing the church

The Council is assembled and used by the Executive Leader and usually consists of five to eight members

Each Council member has the ability to argue and debate in search of understanding, not from the egoistic need to

win a point or protect a parochial interest.

Council members come from a range of perspectives, but each member has deep knowledge about some aspect of

the church and the culture in which she operates.

The Council is a standing body that meets periodically or as called by any member.

The Executive Leader will be

the final decision maker for the church.

Great Church

Mediocre or Dying Church (s)

Good Church

A Path from Dying or Mediocre to Becoming a Great church

Sustained Great Churches depend upon building a culture full of self-disciplined people who take disciplined action, fanatically consistent with the three circles. Bureaucratic cultures arise to compensate for

incompetence and lack of discipline, which arise from having the wrong people on the bus in the first place.

A Culture of discipline involves a duality. On the one hand, it requires people who adhere to a consistent system; yet on the other hand, it gives people freedom and responsibility within the framework of that system.

Culture of Discipline

The single most important form of discipline for sustained results is fanatical adherence to the Hedgehog Concept and the willingness to shun opportunities that lead outside the intersection of the three circles.

Use a “Stop Doing” List instead of a “To Do” List._______________The Budget must fully fund the Hedgehog and not fund other Good Ministries.

Technology Accelerators

Technology is an accelerator of ministry, not

a creator of it.

Only technology that links directly to the three intersecting

circles should be used.

Mediocrity results first and foremost from Leadership

failure, not technological failure.

Great churches avoid technology fads and

bandwagons, yet they become pioneers in the application of carefully selected technologies. How a church reacts to

technological change is a good indicator of its

inner drive for Greatness versus

Mediocrity.

Great churches respond with thoughtfulness and creativity, driven by a compulsion to turn

unrealized potential into results; mediocre churches react and lurch about, motivated by

fear of being left behind.

Churches can be launched from Good to:

Just Don’t let being a Good Church Prevent Becoming

the Best!