Handouts for first meeting of IBCB's strategic planning process for 2012.

3. IBCB
ReFresh
2012
Retreat #1 of 4:
Jerusalem, Antioch,
Athens
Core Values

4. Friday Evening
•Overview of ReFresh Process
•Vision Team Expectations
•Prayer Time
•Model Churches:
Jerusalem, Antioch, Athens
•Biblical Principles for Being/Doing
Church
•Go home and rest

5. ReFresh 2012 Shared
Vision
 Discovering our Biblical Mission
 Defining our Core Values
 Determining our Shared Vision
Core Values
Biblical
Strategic Ministry
Mission

6. ReFresh 2012
 ReFresh Team –Pastor facilitates team of 15-20
people who will lead the process
 ReFresh Retreats –Team meets 4 x during the
year to walk through the process
 ReFresh Meetings –Team reports to the church
and gets feedback from the church
 ReFresh Report –Team concludes process in a
year-end report to the church celebrating God’s
faithfulness

7. Strategic Planning
Process
Who are
Identity Values
we?
Where are
Direction Vision
we going?
How will
Strategy we get Mission
there?

8. Expectations
•Pray for the team, church, and process
•Participate positively in the process
•Be a team player and work toward unity
•Be at meetings as much as possible.
•Use your personality and gifts to
contribute.
•Get involved with implementation.
•Proactively promote the work of the team.

9. Assumptions
•Great God (Ps 138:5)
•Great Commandment
(Mt 22:37-38)
•Great Commission
(Mt 28:19-20)
•Great Commitment
(Mt 4:17;6:10)
•Great Things (Eph 3:20-21)

10. Theology of Change
•Change is at the core of our
faith. (Rom. 12:2; 2 Cor.
3:18)
•Transformation is the
biblical word for change.
•Some things must change;
others should never change.
•How do we distinguish
between the two?

11. Theology of Change
Timeless (Never Timely (Can
Change) Change)
Functions Forms
Scripture Culture
Mandates Methods
Purpose Systems
Values Structures
Mission Strategy

14. Change in the Church
Growth is the church word for
change. Grow…
•Stronger through Worship
•Warmer through Fellowship
•Deeper through Discipleship
•Broader through Ministry
•Larger through Evangelism &
Missions

15. Model Churches
Jerusalem Acts 2:42-47
Antioch Acts 11:19-29;13:1-3
Athens Acts 17:16-34
1. Who were they? (Identity)
2. What did they value? (Important)
3. What did they do? (Activity)
4. How did they do what they did?
(Motive and Means)

16. Saturday Morning
•Biblical Principles for Being/Doing
Church (Review)
•Intro to Core Values
•Identify our Core Values
•Personal—other statements &
audit
•Corporate—brainstorm & critical
reflection
•Write our Core Values Statement

17. Core Values (Defined)
•Why do we do what we do?
•Identify who we are
•Give expression to our soul
•Foundation of mission and vision
•Timeless functions
•Ends and NOT means
•Explain why and what we do

18. Core Values
(Characteristics)
•Constant—tenaciously unchanging
•Passionate—elicit powerful
emotions
•Biblical—don’t contradict Scripture
•Beliefs—conviction or opinion (NOT
doctrine)
•Core—central and at the heart

19. Core Values
(Working Definition)
Our constant, passionate,
biblical core beliefs that
direct our life together.

20. Core Values (Types)
Shared Unshared
Conscious Unconscious
Personal Organizational
Actual Aspirational
Single Multiple
Corporate Departmental
Good Bad

21. Core Values
(Sample)
Grand Blanc Community Church
We deeply value…
•…the people of Grand Blanc.
•…the truth and applicability of the
Bible, God’s Word to humankind.
•…cultural relevance and involvement.
•…personal authenticity and integrity.
•…excellence at every level.
•…the importance of healthy
relationships, both w/ God and each other.

22. Core Values
(Sample)
•Inspirational worship
•Relevant preaching
•Authentic relationships
•Christ-like virtues
•Common practices
•Diversity in unity
•Life-centered service
•Influence in the world
•Reproducing churches

23. Personal Core
Values
•Describe the “ideal church.”
•Take a look at some other
core value statements.
•Complete a values audit

24. Corporate Core
Values
•What is IBCB’s core values
statement?
•What does our budget say we
value?
•Should we do a church values
audit?
•Storyboard & Critical
Reflection

25. Test Our Corporate
Core Values
•Constant?
•Passionate?
•Biblical?
•Belief?
•Core?
•Actual?
•Aspirational?

26. Write Our Corporate
Core Values
•What form and format?
•Does it attract interest?
•Does it instill pride?
•Does it communicate well?
•Does it include a limited number?
•Is it
clear, simple, straightforward, and
powerful?
•Does it include Scripture basis and

27. What time is it @
IBCB? Why?
•It’s almost time for…
•It’s too late for…
•When it’s ____ o’clock, we
should…

28. Acknowledgements
“Advanced Strategic Planning: A New Model for Church
and Ministry Leaders,” Aubrey Malphurs
“Values-Driven Leadership: Discovering and Developing
Your Core Values for Ministry,” Aubrey Malphurs
“Great Assumptions,” from Sermon Series by Scott Corwin
Gary Preston, ReFresh Consultant, Executive Pastor,
Rock Creek Church, Louisville, CO
International Baptist Convention, Church Development
Ministry Team for making Gary available.
Rock Creek Church, Louisville, CO and Frontline
Community, Ramstein (DE) for being prayer partners in
our ReFresh 2012 process.