12 Shifts of the 21st Century Church from Steve Pike

 

Here are my notes from Steve Pike's training session at EFCAOne 2023 in Fullerton, California.

 I believe this is condensed from his book,  

Next Wave: Discovering the 21st Century Church

12 Shifts

1. We have to rediscover the church.
1. Not building an institution, but rather catalyzing a movement.
2. Must rest on a solid, minimal ecclesiology.
3. Primary purpose of the church is to be a community of disciples with Jesus on His mission.
2. Re-imagine discipleship.
1. Lifestyle of disciplemaking.
2. First principle of the church - go and make disciples.
3. We give lip service to it, but have no idea how to do it.
4. How do I help people who don't think they need the church / Jesus.
5. What was happening in your life, just before you started to follow Jesus.
1. All of them said, they knew someone who was following Jesus.
1. How did you get in relationship with them? Some interest they have in common. Non-spiritual relational connection.
2. When you know someone by name, you can begin to pray for them.
6. Church full of disciplemakers, because that was what they knew. That is how they came to faith.
3. Reinvent funding.
1. The shift is from self-sustaining to sustainable.
2. This requires opening up a full spectrum of funding.
1. Tithes and offerings. Discipleship thing, not a pay-the-bill thing.
2. Donor-based giving.
3. Co-vocational ministry.
4. Non-profit partnerships. (i.e FOOF grant!)
5. For-profit partnerships.
4. Rethink team building
1. From titles and team building to communities of disciples on mission.
2. Not looking for the best person to run the program.
5. Redeeming architecture
1. Part of the mission.
2. Empty buildings to fully utilized assets.
6. Reclaim the ecosystem
1. From isolating to complementing.
2. What do we have in common rather than what is different?
3. Collaborate well you have to compromise.
4. Complement not collaborate.
1. You be really good at what you do, and we'll be really good at what we do.
7. Recalibrate the timeline.
1. Seeking side takes time. You have to a missionary mindset.
2. One to 5 years in the planting stage.
8. Refreshing the metrics.
1. Butts and Bucks is what often is counted.
2. What do we count and how do we count it??
3. Measure how many people we are making aware of us in a positive way.
1. Step of disciplemaking.
2. How can we learn their name so we can pray for them?
3. How can we transfer that into relationships?
4. How many people are we having spiritual conversations with?
9. Refocus church habits.
1. Spend more time with lost people.
2. How do we help them interact with lost people in an intentional way?
10. Reconsider core values
1. Moving from excellence to obedience.
11. Recommit to multiplication.
1. Foundation is making disciples.
2. Does everyone in your church see themselves as a disciple maker?
3. Have to have a good definition of disciple. They have to become a parent.
12. Reactive Spirit dependency.
1. When you are on mission with Jesus, He going to be calling you to danger and on the edge, and He will show up.

NextWave Discovering the 21st Century church.