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Get Their NameGrow Your Church by Building
New Relationships
Get Their Name: Grow Your Church by Building New Relationships May 2015
Get Their Name: Grow Your Church by Building New Relationships
Kay L. KotanWife to Bob, 22 years
Mother to Cameron, 19 years old
Credentialed Coach, PCC
Healthy Church Initiative (HCI) Consultant
Author
Faculty for Coaching4Clergy
Path One Coach
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Get Their Name: Grow Your Church by Building New Relationships
Evangelismvs
Missional
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Get Their Name: Grow Your Church by Building New Relationships
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1. Inwardly focused churches practice evangelism as reconnecting the disconnected.
2. Outwardly focused churches practice evangelism as connecting the unconnected to Jesus first and then the church.
3. Pool of churched shrinking and pool of unconnected growing exponentially
4. Membership versus discipleship
Book Basis: Four Observations
Get Their Name: Grow Your Church by Building New Relationships
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Building authentic relationships with people
we don’t know.
Evangelism
Get Their Name: Grow Your Church by Building New Relationships
The harvest is bigger thanyou can imagine, but there are few workers.
Luke 10:2
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Gradual process over a period of time
Four steps for equipping1. Faith sharing in service2. Faith sharing in groups3. Faith sharing in worship4. Faith sharing with the unconnected
Get Their Name: Grow Your Church by Building New Relationships
How to Find & Share Your Faith Story
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Get Their Name: Grow Your Church by Building New Relationships
Faith Sharing in Service
Good Deed + Good Word = Good News
Relational Evangelism through service
Clear invitation to connect with God and our church
We must meet people where they are, not where we are.
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Faith Sharing in Groups
How have you experienced God recently in your life?
We must find our own story.
Practice your story in safe places.
Just playing church is no longer acceptable.
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Get Their Name: Grow Your Church by Building New Relationships
Faith Sharing in Worship
Faith sharing starts with leaders.
Offer consistent faith sharing stories during worship.
Use digital recording to capture.
Faith sharing in worship is rooted in our Wesleyan roots.
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Faith Sharing with the Unconnected
Learn other faith-sharing through three earlier steps first to prepare for personal invitation to worship.
Relationship comes before invitation.
Special Sundays give people a reason to invite.
An invitation has three characteristics:PersonalSpecificRelational
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Team Activity
Have each team member share their
take-away from Session One. Based on the
collective take-aways, what is one step your church could take in
encouraging and equipping your
congregation to share their faith story?
Becoming a 21st Century Missionary
The church has become in alien in our own world.
We are all missionaries.
Engage the radar!
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Beginning Outside Conversation
Have an intentional plan Set a Daily Goal Build trust Mutual Respect The Conversation Become a Model
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Engage the
radar!
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Creating Opportunities for
New RelationshipsHow much time are you
spending with the unconnected?
Concentrate on the important rather than the urgent.
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Eight Strategies to Build New
Relationships
1. Normal affinities2. Member-Guest
events3. Outside Comfort
Zone4. Create Margins
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5. Routine Introductions
6. Create Hang-out Places
7. Offer Blessings8. Organization
Connections
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Six Steps to Move from Conversation to
RelationshipListen to Their Story
Watch for SignalsBridge-Building Phrases
Know Your Elevator StoryWhy God? Why Church? Why my Church?
Know Your Faith StoryFind Need & Connect
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Get Their Name: Grow Your Church by Building New Relationships
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Team ActivityHave each team
member share their take-away from Session
Two. Based on the collective take-aways, what is one step your church could take in
encouraging and equipping your congregation in
becoming a 21st Century Missionary?
Creating an Outwardly Focused
Culture
Relationship Trinity =God + Others + Availability
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Get Their Name: Grow Your Church by Building New Relationships
Leadership Matters
Strategic Ministry PlanningMissionVisionGoals, Objectives, Core Values
Equipping “Your church is only going to grow as fast as you raise up good leaders.”
Modeling Missional focus
Preaching “Got to preach it ‘til you see it.”
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Connection Strategies
Friendship SundaysF.R.A.N. PlanMajor Sundays5-10-10 RuleChurch-Wide Hospitality TrainingSkits/DramaMove Fellowship to the Front DoorHospitality Desk or KioskGo DigitalThree Touches
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Get Their Name: Grow Your Church by Building New Relationships
Your Building MattersHospitality Checklist: Exterior signage and accessibility First impression of human hospitality How to get their names Think guest, not visitor Connector Welcome center Lobby Nursery Pre-worship atmosphere Meet & greet Announcements Worship participation After worship experience Hire mystery worshipers Improve your social media presence Critical mass
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Relationships MatterDon’t leave the connection
process to chance!”
From Outsider to Guest
Prayer
Bridge Events
Follow Up
From Guest to Connected
From Connected to Disciple
From Disciple to Ambassador or Missionary
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Nothing new . . .
Reaching new people we don’t know for the sake of Jesus is inherently a biblical idea.
God wants to reach people and do a new thing.
Are you willing to be in the new movement, to be a new people, to do a new thing? If so . . .
Get their name Start a conversation Build an authentic relationship that leads to the
possibility for a faith conversation Bring them back to the gathered faith
community
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Get Their Name: Grow Your Church by Building New Relationships
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Team Activity
Have each team member share their
take-away from Session Three. Based on the collective take-aways, what is one step your church could take in
creating an outwardly focused culture?
Kay [email protected] Get Their Name: Grow Your Church by
Building New Relationships
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