Transcript Multiply Your Ministry

Sunday School
Directors
Bob Mayfield
Baptist General
Convention of Oklahoma
Session Overview
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Leadership issues for SS Directors
Commitment to Sunday School
Evaluation Procedures
Open Groups
Forming New Units
How to Enlist Leaders
Are you a director of your church’s
Sunday School?
Or
A leader who directs your church’s
Sunday School?
Leadership is influence – John Maxwell
Leadership is the ability to get someone
to do something they don’t want to do –
Bear Bryant
Whoever wants to be great among you
must be your servant - Jesus
Key tests in Servanthood
1 – Do you welcome and want feedback?
2 – Are you preparing a successor for
when your season of leadership is
over?
3 – Are you letting God be the leader and
you be the servant?
4 – When you are treated like a servant,
do you respond like a servant?
Leading or Managing
Managing
Leading
Transformational Leadership
Personal
Leadership
Matt 3:13 – 4:11
Outcome = Perspective
Organizational
Leadership
One on One
Leadership
Matt 28:18-20
Outcome = Effectiveness
Matt 4:18-22
Outcome = Trust
Team
Leadership
Matthew 10:5-10
Outcome = Community
From Lead Like Jesus by Ken Blanchard
From Lead Like Jesus by Ken Blanchard
Situational Leadership
Low Directive
High Supportive
Supporting
Behavior
“Let’s talk,
Learner decides”
S3
“You decide”
S4
Delegating
Low Directive
Low Supportive
Behavior
High Directive
High Supportive
Coaching
Behavior
“Lets talk & we’ll
decide or leader
S2
decides”
S1
“Leader Decides”
Directing
High Directive
Low Supportive
Behavior
Commit to the Sunday School
Reasons to commit to the Sunday School
as the foundational strategy for doing
the Great Commission…
• It is usually the only organized ministry
that includes all church members and
prospects.
• The SS is focused on biblical
application.
• The SS meets on a regular basis.
Commit to the Sunday School
Reasons to commit to the Sunday School
as the foundational strategy for doing
the Great Commission…
• The leaders of the SS are identifiable
and easily organized.
• The adult SS equips and provides
leaders throughout the church.
• As a strategy, the SS is ongoing.
• The SS is focused on the 5 primary
functions of the church.
Sunday School’s 10 Best
Practices
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Commit to the Strategy
Organize with Purpose
Build Kingdom Leaders
Develop Soul Winners
Win the Lost
Assimilate People
Partner with Families
Teach to Transform
Mobilize for Ministry
Multiply Leaders and Units
Arthur Flake
• Leader of the
Southern Baptist SS
Movement
• Author of Building a
Standard Sunday
School
• 1st Director of the
BSSB
Bible/Teaching
Reaching Division
Flake’s Formula for SS Growth
• Know Your
Possibilities
• Enlarge the
Organization
• Enlist & Train
Workers
• Provide Space
• Go after the people
Needed Today…
People who will commit to the Sunday
School as a foundational strategy for
disciplemaking.
• Commit – To pledge to a position on an
issue; to bind or obligate, as with a
pledge.
SS Directors Evaluate
Reasons for evaluating
• Assumes the existence of a standard
• Affirms the validity of planning
• Accents the positive
• Acknowledges weaknesses
• Assesses effectiveness of resources
• Analyzes the structure
• Activates the person accountable for action
Reflect on your church’s
Ministry
Evaluate Strengths, Weaknesses and
Opportunities
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Evangelism
Discipleship
Fellowship
Ministry
Worship
Sunday School Areas to
Evaluate
• Cleanliness and Appearance of
Facilities
• Are facilities being properly used?
• Are resources provided, monitored and
maintained?
• Is an appropriate amount of money
budgeted for Sunday School?
• How much space is available for
growth?
Start New Units
Why make new units a priority?
1. Birthing new units creates excitement.
2. New units enable growth to take place
naturally without sacrificing quality.
3. New Units grow more quickly than
older established units.
4. New Bible study units are easier for
newcomers to penetrate.
Start New Units
Why make new units a priority?
5. New leaders and members of new units
tend to be more aggressive in
evangelism and ministry.
6. New Bible study groups open up
opportunities for more people to serve
in leadership positions.
Starting New Units
Reasons to start new units…
• Overcrowding/space
• To reach new people groups.
• To stretch the SS out of its comfort
zone.
Starting New Units
When to start new units…
a) Enrollment/Attendance
Enr
Attn
Dept
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Class
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15
Starting New Units
b) When a unit has “leveled off”.
c) When the unit is two years old and
it has not started a new unit.
d) Classes have too wide of an age
span. (more than 10 years)
e) The room in which the class meets
is full
Starting New Units
f) Prospects are available, but no
class exists for the prospects.
g) Unenrolled adult church members.
h) Classes with more prospects than
members
i) Classes with more absentees than
members present.
Starting New Units
Misperceptions of New Units
a) My class will be too small.
b) We won’t get to see each other
any more.
c) We can stay the same and just
add some more chairs (cheaper
too)
Starting New Units
d) People will leave the church if we start
a new class.
e) People like a full classroom!!
f) It will disrupt the close fellowship and
relationships our class enjoys.
g) But didn’t you say, “You want our class
to get closer?” So why are you splitting
us up?
Starting New Units
Every SS grows to the size of its
organization.
The Pyramid Example…
To increase the height, you must add to
the bottom of the structure!!
Starting New Units
Advantages
1) New classes grow faster
2) Leaders emerge faster. There is
no pecking order.
3) Commitment to attend is higher.
How to Start a New Unit
1. Remove the “s” word from your
vocabulary (split). “New” sounds much
better.
2. It takes a committed teacher.
3. Recruit “seed” couples.
4. The teacher must visit his/her
prospects
Starting New Units
5) Persevere.
6) Other teachers must encourage the
new class. Develop a “new class”
culture in the church.
7) Direct all prospects and new members
to the new class
Starting New Units
8) Pulpit support is necessary.
9) Allow for some failure. But don’t be
pessimistic.
Enlist Leaders
• Begin with prayer – Matthew 9:37-38
• Search membership rolls for people
• Ask the right question
“Is this the right person?”
NOT
“Will this person serve?”
Enlist Leaders
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Identify positions to be filled
Identify spiritual gifts needed
Identify leader relationships
Decide on one person
Make an enlistment visit
Making an Enlistment Visit
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Pray for God’s leadership
Explain why you are there
Provide a written job description
Explain the Terms of Service
Provide essential materials for the
person to preview
• Allow them time to decide
Making an Enlistment Visit
• Commit to continue to pray together
• Set a date to talk again about the
position of leadership
• Accept the person’s answer
Sunday School
Directors
Bob Mayfield
Baptist General
Convention of Oklahoma