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Unfreezing
Leadership
Bill Easum seminar
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Frozen
Unfrozen
Preserving facilities
Being with Jesus
Maintaining Policies
Developing Mission
Protecting Offices
Dying to the
world
Membership Privileges
Servanthood
Supporting Denomination Traveling with
Jesus
Taking Care of People
Transforming
• Frozen: Top down
– Command and Control
– Stifle Story
• Unfrozen: Bottom up
– Out of Control
– Innovation Story
Think
4
1
How can we
do it better?
Who’s in
control?
Law
Grace
What’s our
purpose?
3
There must
be more
than this
2
Feel
• No entire congregation is in only one sphere
• Every congregation has one dominant attitude
– Determined by those in power
• Determining which attitude dominates the
leadership is where transformation begins
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Deciders
Doers
Ignored
Dreamers
Leaders
Think
Grace
Policies,
Controlled,
Centralized,
Top Down
Feel
Law
• Am I clear about what God wants me to do?
• Is my call worth suffering for?
• How badly do I want to transform this congregation?
• Almost always: only the pastor can move the church
out of it
– And most of the time, the pastor loses a job trying.
Think
Law
Grace
Confusion,
Uncertainty,
Conflict
Feel
• Some Doers become Dreamers
• The more Dreamers, the more confusion
• The more confusion, the more Controllers try to control
• Transformation Key:
– Fan the discontent
– Spend time with the Dreamers
Think
Grace
Permission,
Decentralized,
Bottom Up
M
V
V
Invite,Grow,
& send
Feel
Law
• Growth (especially numerical) is normal and
often explosive
• Confusion is normal in the early stages
• Transformation key
– Develop leaders and systems
Think
Balance
Regroup
Breather
Improve
Grace
M
V
V
Feel
Law
• Congregations go into Sphere Four when
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Leaders become tired
Leaders are hard to find
Growth outstrips the ability to grow enough leaders
Rapid growth is degrading the quality of life
• Warning: if a church goes into sphere 4 to rest from sphere 3
and stays too long … they subtly go into sphere 1!
– Often during and after a building project
Think
Order,
Common
Sense,
Balance
Grace
PermissionGiving,Trust,
M
V
V
Decentralized,
Passion,
Mission,
Feel
Law
• Anything that destabilizes the status quo
to where:
– The systems story is destabilized
– The leaders do something radically new
• Nine unfreezing moves
– Five foundational, then final four supplemental
• Find the appropriate unfreezing move
• Focus on it long enough to destabilize system
• Align everything and everyone around the
unfreezing move
• Spiritual leadership
– Sooner or later everything depends on this
– Career-oriented professionals or martyrs?
– Preaching, teaching, conversations, teaching
• Functions around trust
• No major on-going conflict
– You should not proceed is this is present
• Desire to connect with the world
– This is the primary goal
• Unfreezing move #3:
– a clear Mission, Vision, and Values (MVV)
– Purpose
– core values
• V.A.B.E.’s
5. Mobilized
Congregation
4. Indigenous
Worship
6. Missional
Opportunities
• Unfreezing move #3: Indigenous … not
“contemporary!”
• Definition: in language, technology, and culture of the
people
• Safe, relevant place to have an authentic experience
with God
• Easiest way to grow a church and easiest way to get in
trouble
– Best: start a new service rather than change the existing
church
– Multiple tracks of worship are key
Moving toward indigenous worship in America:
Modern
High-Modern Bridge
Postmodern
Speaker: Orator Communicator Sojourn
Content: Reason
Truth
Experience
Offer:
Morals
Advice
Hope
Frozen
Unfrozen
Information
Transformation
Doctrine
Experience
Heritage
Community
Reverence
Hope
Unfreezing move #4 requires:
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3.
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5.
6.
Identifying those who are ready
Recruiting those who are willing
Discerning those who are open to coaching
Equipping those who commit the time
Deploying those who finish the race
Coaching them along in their ministry
1. “How can we assist you?”
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Not, “What can you do for us?”
2. Unpaid Servants
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Not volunteers
3. Called
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Not nominated and electing
4. Matched to gift
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Not coordinated or directed
• Everyone training everyone
• Span of care: ten
– Every 10 people have a pastor
• Key: the first fractal must represent the
mission in macrocosm
Logistics Music
The Arts
Visuals
?
Singers
Writers
Instru-
ments
Organist
Drums
Piano
Keyboard
• Unfreezing Move #5 never gives people “service
opportunities” without making sharing Christ the
core
– Habitat can build a house
– The only thing we can do that no one else can: share
Christ
Sphere 1 & 2
Missions Committee
Active/Involved
Programs
Service Group
Raising Money
Sphere 3 & 4
Missional Attitude
Discipled
Reason for Being
Redemptive
Movement
Sending People
#6
Institutional
Road To Mission
Don’t do Unfreeze #6 until the first 5 are well in place!
#7
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The pastor who spends 80% of time equipping people for
ministry will almost never work more than 30 hours a week
– Which will be spent on
• development of own spiritual life
• and how to communicate it
Lay
Mobil
Admin
Team
Leader
Worship
Out
Reach
• Sphere 1 & 2 = 1 to 100 in worship
• Sphere 3 & 4
worship
= 1 to 200+ in
#8
• “Thou shalt not love thy buildings more than God”
• Place is to the 20th century what relationships are to the
21st century
• The coming use of space in the next 25 years:
– Multiple sites, church-planting centers, and selling property
– Soon, most innovative churches will have 2-3+ meeting places
• The 80% rule
#9
• The more the DNA is embedded, the more
radical the giver
– Leadership must role model radical generosity
• Trust of the leaders is essential
• Your mission must be relevant
• Involve people in hands-on mission
Unfreezing
Leadership
Bill Easum seminar
www.easumbandy.com
www.rasnet.org