Breaking 800 in Your Church Plant By Dr. Tom Cheyney By Dr. Tom Cheyney.

Breaking 800 in Your Church PlantBreaking 800 in Your Church Plant

By

Dr. Tom Cheyney

By

Dr. Tom Cheyney

Keeping The Staff Members Who Keep You Moving

Forward

Keeping The Staff Members Who Keep You Moving

Forward

Four Keys to Hang On to Your Most Valuable Talent

Four Keys to Hang On to Your Most Valuable Talent

Ninety-Nine point two percent of churches in the United States of America

have an attendance of eight hundred or less.

Ninety-Nine point two percent of churches in the United States of America

have an attendance of eight hundred or less.

Breaking Barriers

• Only 15% of all churches pass the growth barrier of 200. It is the rare church that finds itself facing the 800 mark.

• Only 15% of all churches pass the growth barrier of 200. It is the rare church that finds itself facing the 800 mark.

Fourteen “Limiters” to GrowthFourteen “Limiters” to Growth

Fourteen “Limiters” to GrowthFourteen “Limiters” to Growth• A PROBLEM-SOLVING FOCUS DOES NOT

NECESSARILY GUIDE A CHURCH TO GROW SIGNIFICANTLY!

• CHURCH LEADERSHIP THAT BELIEVES THEY ARE ALREADY TOO BUSY!

• SOME MEMBERS FOLLOW A LOCKSTEP VISION LIMIT.

• A VISION FOR GROWTH THAT IS DRIVEN BY DESIRE TO KEEP THEIR DOORS OPEN FOR MINISTRY.

• A PROBLEM-SOLVING FOCUS DOES NOT NECESSARILY GUIDE A CHURCH TO GROW SIGNIFICANTLY!

• CHURCH LEADERSHIP THAT BELIEVES THEY ARE ALREADY TOO BUSY!

• SOME MEMBERS FOLLOW A LOCKSTEP VISION LIMIT.

• A VISION FOR GROWTH THAT IS DRIVEN BY DESIRE TO KEEP THEIR DOORS OPEN FOR MINISTRY.


• THE GENERIC STAND ALONE VISION

• THE COMFORT LEVEL LIMITER

• THE NO-VACANCY LIMITER

• A MIGHTY FORTRESS MENTALITY

• THE FAMILY STAFF LIMITER

• THE GOLDEN ERA RESTORATION PROJECT

• CLOSING THE BACK DOORS

• THE GENERIC STAND ALONE VISION

• THE COMFORT LEVEL LIMITER

• THE NO-VACANCY LIMITER

• A MIGHTY FORTRESS MENTALITY

• THE FAMILY STAFF LIMITER

• THE GOLDEN ERA RESTORATION PROJECT

• CLOSING THE BACK DOORS


• THE “SPECIAL” EVENT

• A MESA-CULTURE MENTALITY

• THE OUTGROWN OR ANTIQUATED VISION

• THE “SPECIAL” EVENT

• A MESA-CULTURE MENTALITY

• THE OUTGROWN OR ANTIQUATED VISION

Six Questions to Ask As You Seek to Reach Out Into a

Community

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A Growth Checklist for the Large Church


• Large Group Interaction Reinforces a Sense of Unity

• Large Churches Offer a Preconceived Degree of Quality

• Large Group Interaction Reinforces a Sense of Unity

• Large Churches Offer a Preconceived Degree of Quality



• Large Churches Have Buildings That Are Clearly Mapped Out for Guest

• Large Churches Must Be Staffed To Grow

• Large Churches Place High Priority to Music

• Large Churches Have Buildings That Are Clearly Mapped Out for Guest

• Large Churches Must Be Staffed To Grow

• Large Churches Place High Priority to Music



• Large Churches Have Long-Term Pastorates

• Large Churches Have Abundant Off-Street Parking

• Large Churches Use Media Evangelism Effectively

• Large Churches Carefully Monitor Members Participation

• Large Churches Have Long-Term Pastorates

• Large Churches Have Abundant Off-Street Parking

• Large Churches Use Media Evangelism Effectively





• Large Churches Are Concerned About the Overall Adequacy of the Physical Plant


• Large Churches Are Concerned About the Overall Adequacy of the Physical Plant

Ten Characteristics of the Growth Pastor

Ten Characteristics of the Growth Pastor

Eight Diseases That Keep A Church From Growing

Eight Diseases That Keep A Church From Growing

• Ethnikitis• Old Age• People Blindness• Hyper-Cooperativism• Koinonitis• Sociological Strangulation• Arrested Spiritual Development• Saint John’s Syndrome

• Ethnikitis• Old Age• People Blindness• Hyper-Cooperativism• Koinonitis• Sociological Strangulation• Arrested Spiritual Development• Saint John’s Syndrome

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Taking a Look at the Task of Assimilation

Taking a Look at the Task of Assimilation

The First 1000 are the Hardest!The First 1000 are the Hardest!

• The Saga of the Churches GrowthIts Pastors and Worship

Adding Sunday School Volunteers

Expanding the Deacon Body

Hiring Additional Staff

Keeping Committees Functioning

Hiring Pastors and Program Leaders

• The Saga of the Churches GrowthIts Pastors and Worship

Adding Sunday School Volunteers

Expanding the Deacon Body

Hiring Additional Staff

Keeping Committees Functioning

Hiring Pastors and Program Leaders

Understanding Critical Sizes of a Congregations Growth History

Understanding Critical Sizes of a Congregations Growth History

• Looking at the “Meta-Zoo”

• Looking at the “Meta-Zoo”

Growth PracticesGrowth Practices

Growth by EXPANSION OrOr

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Growth by

EXTENTION

Growth by

RELOCATION

Older Newcomers Younger Newcomer

Older Longtermers Younger Longtermers

Mega-church FormationMega-church Formation

Those That Leave Feeder Churches

Those That Leave Feeder Churches

• Singles• Addictions• Victims• Unchallenged• Recovery• Seeking Meaning

• Singles• Addictions• Victims• Unchallenged• Recovery• Seeking Meaning

• Divorcees• Single Parents• Newcomers• Alienated• Seeking Support• Crisis Coping

• Divorcees• Single Parents• Newcomers• Alienated• Seeking Support• Crisis Coping

Iceberg ChurchesIceberg Churches

Classes On Premises

Cells Off Premises

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Organizational & Leadership in the Local Church

Vocational Staff Chart

Organizational & Leadership in the Local Church

Vocational Staff Chart

Breaking 800 in Your Church PlantBreaking 800 in Your Church Plant

By

Dr. Tom Cheyney

By

Dr. Tom Cheyney

Breaking 800 in Your Church Plant By Dr. Tom Cheyney By Dr. Tom Cheyney.

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