Fire and ice handout
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Bill Kemp www.billkemp.info Fire & Ice TIIMSA - Denver, 2015 Take-away: Church Conflict can be Vision related (Ideology) Unhealthy congregations have icebergs in their volcanoes. • ICE: Leaders stuck in declining, bland, and vision-deprived, congregations resort to drama and conflict to make things more interesting. • FIRE: Burnout and apathy abound in congregational systems where the expectation thermostat has been set too high. Wesley’s two Vectors: - a Vector has both magnitude & direction FIRE: Nothing to do but to save souls (new people) ICE: How does your soul fare? (small groups / discipleship) Virtues of each box: Vices of each box: 1) Enthusiasm, Innovation Burnout 2) Fruitfulness Difficult to maintain 3) Feels familiar Conflict, Apathy 4) Spirituality, Discipleship Institutionalization Contact [email protected]
Transcript of Fire and ice handout
Bill Kemp www.billkemp.info
Fire & Ice TIIMSA - Denver, 2015
Take-away: Church Conflict can be Vision related (Ideology) Unhealthy congregations have icebergs in their volcanoes. • ICE: Leaders stuck in declining, bland, and vision-deprived, congregations resort to drama and
conflict to make things more interesting. • FIRE: Burnout and apathy abound in congregational systems where the expectation thermostat
has been set too high.
Wesley’s two Vectors: - a Vector has both magnitude & direction FIRE: Nothing to do but to save souls (new people) ICE: How does your soul fare? (small groups / discipleship)
Virtues of each box: Vices of each box:1) Enthusiasm, Innovation Burnout 2) Fruitfulness Difficult to maintain 3) Feels familiar Conflict, Apathy 4) Spirituality, Discipleship Institutionalization
Contact [email protected]
Bill Kemp www.notperfectyet.com
Exiting Box 3 (the realm of Fire and Ice)
1) Keep the main thing the main thing 2) Shift the church’s focus outward 3) Seek to be Unique
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” Jesus (Matthew 7:13 - 14)
Seek Waypoints instead of SMART Goals Smart Goals: • Create winners and losers • Polarizes the two vectors (Evangelism vs. Mission/Discipleship) • Are taken from the business world without theological reflection • Are Guilt-driven
Waypoints • Emphasize teamwork • Sees the two Vectors as complimentary • Supports a Journey narrative • Teaches discernment as an ongoing process “If you think you can see God’s will laid out neatly before you for the next five, ten, or twenty years as a clearly defined path, this is emphatically not the will of God. But if you sense that the next hesitant step you are about to make into an uncertain future is somehow directed by God, that is most probably God’s will for you.”- from a participant in Wendy Wright workshop, Companions in Christ: Participant’s Book p. 236 [also George Donigan’s Three Prayers You’ll Want to Pray]
RESOURCES:1) For today’s Powerpoint go to: www.slideshare.net/BillKemp/fire-and-ice-two-
visions-that-dont-have-to-be-in-conflict 2) For more on Discernment and Waypoints see Chapter 2
Reality Check 101 by Bill Kemp(from Amazon, Smashwords, Kindle, or the Author)
3) Bill Kemp is willing to travel to do workshops in your district or local church Call him at 412-798-2808 or 412-956-2565 (cell) [email protected] 4) Watch for new book coming January, 2016:
How 2 Move: A transitional guide for UMC Clergy by Joe Fort and Bill Kemp
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