“That you might excel still more”

A Necessary and Worthwhile Effort That Enables You To... Set your Course Set your Course (1 Chronicles 12:32) Stay your Course Stay your Course (Proverbs 29:18) Secure your Future Secure your Future (Habakkuk 2:1-2) Serve His Church Serve His Church (Matthew 28:18-20, Proverbs 1:1-7) Seek His Glory Seek His Glory (1 Corinthians 10:31)

“... men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do...” The sons of Isshacar

“An organization has integrity – is healthy – when it is whole, consistent, and complete, that is when its management, operations, strategy, and culture fit together and make sense.” Patrick Lencioni, The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business

Create Clarity Align with Everyday Practice Execute with Excellence

“Where there is no vision people run amuck” Solomon

Premise 1: We live in turbulent times “Every few hundred years throughout Western history a sharp transformation has occurred. In a matter of decades society altogether rearranges itself – its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its arts, its key institutions. Fifty years later a new world exists. And the people born into that world cannot even imagine the world in which grandparents lived and into which their own parents were born.” Peter Drucker

Premise 2: Our response has been largely ineffectual Paralysis “flattened by the juggernaut of technology” Panicked Pragmatism “mere band-aids” Presumption “we all know”

Premise 3: The necessary response Anticipation Innovation Excellence Clarity Alignment Passion

Premise 4: People naturally resist change Whenever human communities are forced to adjust to shifting conditions pain is ever present. In too many situations improvements have been disappointing and the carnage has been appalling with wasted resources and burned out, scarred or frustrated employees.” John Kotter, Leading Change

“Record the vision And inscribe it on tablets, That the one who reads it may run.” God to Habakkuk

Common Purpose Complementary Resources + Complementary ResourcesTrust

 A common goal –  “Make disciples who...”  “Why are we surprised when...”  A common misunderstanding –  “You do your thing, we’ll do ours.”  “A holding tank with pizza.”  A common experience –  The freight train and the wooden wagon  One in two

“My destiny is to manifest the glory of God.” Ralph Ellison