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#130. Don't Export Your God-Given Mission to Others
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Pastor Joshua Hayden has recently authored Remissioning Church, A Field Guide to Bringing a Congregation Back to Life, where he talks about transforming a church from the inside out to bring a new missional presence that brings life and flourishing to the neighborhood.
Book: Remissioning Church
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
- Why the tried and true strategies for church growth not working so well anymore
- Creative Destruction, Exegeting the Culture or Neighborhood, and Traditioned Innovation
- Patterns and Stages that a Church Might Experience in Remissioning
ABOUT THE GUEST:
Josh Hayden is the co-founder and co-president of `Iwa Collaborative, which helps leaders fly high and live low as they lead through change processes in their community. He runs remissioning trainings through `Iwa Collaborative across various denominational, non-denominational, and global networks.
Josh Hayden is the senior pastor at First Baptist Church in Ashland, Virginia. For over 20 years he has worked and led in nonprofit organizations, church plants, and established churches. He has a doctorate in leadership and organizational change from Duke Divinity School and is the author of Remissioning Church and Sacred Hope. He serves on the boards of numerous nonprofits. He and his family live near Richmond, Virginia.
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TIMESTAMPED SHOWNOTES:
01:51 - Book: Remissioning Church
02:11 - Don't export your God-given mission to others
02:48 - Why the tried and true strategies for church growth not working so well anymore
02:54 - ...what most churches are doing have not produced healthy disciples that produce the fruit of the Spirit
03:28 - ...churches don't look much different from any other group
04:30 - ...we have lost the missional impulse to know our neighbors
06:40 - Major sections of the book: Creative Destruction, Exegeting the Culture or Neighborhood, and Traditioned Innovation
06:59 - ...Creative Destruction
08:36 - ...connected to Jesus (Matthew 16 : 24-25 - take up our cross and foloow Jesus)
10:49 - Exegeting the Church and Neighborhood
11:55 - ...creating a plan for how to live on mission creatively with God
14:20 - Traditioned Innovation
15:18 - ...we have to translate the past into what's next
18:55 - Patterns and Stages that a Church Might Experience in Remissioning
19:04 - Free download: www.ivpress.com/Media/Default/Downloads/Excerpts-and-Samples/A1055-Graphic-Image-Download.pdf
19:14 - ...remissioning change cycle
19:34 - ...do we have a mission worth dying for?
19:48 - ...working through pain, disillusionment and being unnerved
20:40 - ...then comes a moment of repent or resist
22:24 - ...do we have a mission worth living for?
27:24 - ...take the necessary time in the wilderness
31:11 - Common Concerns in Remissioning a Church
32:04 - Leading Through Remissioning
36:21 - Favorite Tools
36:25 - ...exegeting the neighborhood
37:13 - ...the work of remembering
39:07 - Remissioning is worth it
39:54 - Getting in Touch with Pastor Joshua Hayden - iwacollaborative.com
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