1. Transitional Interim Pastor
Pastor Leaves
Leading a church from
Anxiety to Anticipation
Interim Decision
Know Your Church
Know Your Community
Know the Plan
Know God
Know the Path
New Pastor
Assessment
Renewal
Planning
Anxiety
Anticipation
Transitional Interim Pastor
Implementation

2. Right Now…What Are You Thinking?
I’m not sure what all the TIP issues are
We don’t have the resources we need
We need more people & leaders
I don’t fully understand TIP or “ReFocusing”
The church doesn’t have an agreed on plan that we’re currently following

3. But...To know what GOD is thinking! (1 Corinthians 2:9-13)
I Want To Suggest That Our Greatest Need Is Not…To Know What We’re Thinking
But...To know what GOD is thinking!
(1 Corinthians 2:9-13)

4. Knowing God’s Thoughts...
“No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him…BUT God has revealed it to us by His Spirit.”
(1 Corinthians 2:9-10)

5. Knowing God’s Thoughts...
“The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him?”
(1 Corinthians 2:10-11)

6. Knowing God’s Thoughts...
“In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.” (1 Cor 2:11-12)

7. Knowing God’s Thoughts...
“This is what we speak, in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truth in spiritual words… we have the mind of Christ.”
(1 Corinthians 2:13,16)

8. God’s Thoughts...God’s Vision
10 Basic Principles
1. We have the Holy Spirit.
2. The Spirit knows God’s thoughts.
3. We can know what God is
thinking, especially His vision!
4. God is more anxious to reveal His
vision than even we are to seek it!

9. God’s Thoughts...God’s Vision
10 Basic Principles
5. Planning is a VERY spiritual
process (1 Chr 28:19)
6. Jesus taught the value of planning
(Luke 14:28-30, 31-33)
7. People can run with a vision that
is written down (Hab 2:2-4)

10. God’s Thoughts...God’s Vision
10 Basic Principles
8. A key to achieving God’s vision is to receive it and affirm it with godly leaders & other believers
9. Another key to achieving God’s vision is to gain agenda harmony within the church

11. Spiritual Strategic Planning
10 Basic Principles
10. A vision or dream for the church’s future without a plan is simply a wish.

12. Taking The Lid Off Our Thinking...
If we experienced a genuine “God thing” that moved the church forward in a powerful way toward ReFocusing during the interim, what would...
Look different
Be different
How would we know it had happened?

13. The Lid In Preparing a TIPS Church for a great future...
Is Not...
A Lack of Money
A Lack of Leaders
A Lack of a TIP Plan
It Is… How We Think – We Need God’s Thinking!

14. God’s Plan for the Church
What a marvelous creation of God! What an incredible design! What a divine strategy! God’s plan to save all of mankind…and get us ready for heaven…through the church!

15. The Center of Everything
“At the center of everything… Christ rules the church. The church, you see, is not peripheral to the world; the world is peripheral to the church.”
Ephesians 1:22
The Message

16. Required Reading TIPS Leaders
The book is very helpful as supportive material for our understanding as TIP leaders. It catalogues much of our learning at NCS in the past six years.