Notes for a lecture on Church Revitalization, based on Tom Bandy's Moving Off the Map. Visit www.drpablojimenez.net

1. FROM VISION TO
STRATEGIC PLANNING
BASIC CONCEPTS
AN EDUCATIONAL NUGGET BASED ON
TOM BANDY’S WRITINGS
Rev. Dr. Pablo A. Jiménez

2. Introduction
 In our previous videos we have
studied the meaning of concepts
such as vision & mission.
 We also saw two models for Church
development and growth, namely the
Declining Church and the Thriving
Church.

3. Strategic planning
 In this occasion we turn our sight to
strategic planning, a key topic for any
Church revitalization plan.
 Our video has been developed in
dialogue with Thomas G. Bandy’s
“Moving Off the Map” (Nashville:
Abingdon Press, 1998).

4. A Book we Strongly
Recommend

5. Basic Concepts

6. Thesis
 The real reason Churches are
dying in the midst of a
changing cultural environment
is that they are relying on the
wrong model of leadership.

7. Theological basis
 Change must be anchored in the
experience of the congregation
with Jesus.
 The real issue before the Church
is not merely theological. It is
christological.

8. Key question
 The key question articulated in
Kicking Habits: Welcome Relief For
Addicted Churches (Nashville
Abingdon, 1997) remains the key
question for Church transformation:
What is it about our experience
with Jesus that this community
cannot live without?

9. Change & Stress
 There are the stresses that lie behind
the demand for systemic change.
 There are the stresses that lie behind
the demand for ownership by the
congregation.
 There are the stresses that lie behind
the demand for change to be
anchored in the experience of the
congregation with Jesus.

10. Key Problem
 The key problem is that they failed to
make intentional connections
between faith sharing and beneficial
action.

11. The Purpose of Church
Leadership
 The whole purpose of Church
leadership in the twenty-first century
is to birth new leadership.

12. Definition of “Leadership”
 Leadership is the process of including
more and more people, with an
infinite diversity of gifts and skills,
within a single leadership event.
 Leadership leads to an enlarged
vision, shared emotion, motivated
action & a passion for justice.

13. Enlarged Vision
 Reorient your leadership energies
from prioritizing Church insiders to
prioritizing the lost, who have no
experience of connection with God.
 Discover in detail the real diversity of
individual needs and potentials.

14. Shared Emotion
 Share the suffering, as well as the
celebration, of the world. Reveal the
spectrum of emotion within you to the
public, even if it leaves you
vulnerable for criticism.

15. Motivated Action
 Anchor every activity in your unity
with God, gifts, and callings.
Simultaneously do good and share
the faith motivation for the deed.

16. Passion for Justice
 Let the passion for justice and the
joy of relationship to Jesus
become a single, seamless flow
of energy.

17. Introduction to Systems
Analysis

18. The Congregational Mission
Assessment
 In “Moving Off the Map”, Bandy
details his Congregation Mission
Assessment (CMA) program.
 The CMA is intended to go beyond
the identification of strengths and
weaknesses to the identification of
hidden corporate addiction.

19. Identifying “Addictions”
 One of the aims of the CMA is to help
the Church identify and abandon its
“addictions”.
 The addictions are habitually self-
defeating behavior patterns that run
like threads among all seven
subsystems of Church life.

20. Systems and Sub-Systems
 The CMA leads planners through
“The Thriving Church System” in
three mayor stages.
 All together, there are eleven different
sub-systems of the Thriving Church
that need to be examined.

21. The Three Mayor Stages
 The following stages are:
FOUNDATION
FUNCTION
& FORM
 These stages are comprised of
Eleven Sub-Systems, detailed in the
following slides.

22. Foundation
 Three Sub-Systems constitute the
Church’s foundation:
Congregational Identity
Congregational Mission
Congregational Organization

23. Explanation
 The first three subsystems are
foundational.
 This stage leads planners to assess
the basic umbrella of congregational
life (core values, bedrock beliefs,
motivating vision, and key mission)
that pervades all congregational life.

24. Function
 Five Sub-Systems define the function
of your congregation.
Experiencing God
Growing in God
Listening to God
Serving God
Sharing God

25. FORM
 And three sub-systems shape the
FORM of your Church Ministry:
Property
Funding
Communication

26. Who Should Participate?
 For the CMA process, seek to include
people from the margins of
congregational life, as well as core
participants.
 The goal, however, is to build as
truthful a profile of congregational life
and mission as possible.

27. THE END
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