How do we know we've won?
TXC has an amazing launch team! We've only been formed for the last few weeks but we have definitely got all four C's going on (Character, Commitment, Chemistry and Competence). Tonight we met to discuss the first half of the first practice from Andy Stanley's book "7 practices for effective ministry". The practice is 'Clarify the win' and so we waded through what a win will look like for our faith community as a whole. Next week we'll look at what a win is for individual ministries.
The premise of this practice is that in order for the staff and volunteers to know that progress is being made as a community, the win has got to be clarified. Just like the players on a baseball team understand that in order to win they have to put numbers on the board by getting around the bases and crossing home plate.
We came to the conclusion that a win for TXC has to coincide with our mission statement which reads: Becoming people who contagiously follow Jesus with their whole lives. How we measure if people are being contagious is by filtering them through each of our core values: Purpose, Generosity, Community, Adventure and Passion. I'll go over what these mean to us at a later time, but we will basically be able to see if we are winning in a broad sense by looking and people and seeing if each of these values is in operation in their life. If one is missing, they aren't as contagious as they should be and maybe we need to figure out how to get the percentage a little higher.
Anyways, I was quite pleased walking away from tonights meeting. I think we are going to see some amazing things take place in the coming months that we never thought were possible.
Dream Huge!
By the way, If you want to subscribe to our weekly update, go to www.livethemission.ca and you'll see the link on the front page.
The premise of this practice is that in order for the staff and volunteers to know that progress is being made as a community, the win has got to be clarified. Just like the players on a baseball team understand that in order to win they have to put numbers on the board by getting around the bases and crossing home plate.
We came to the conclusion that a win for TXC has to coincide with our mission statement which reads: Becoming people who contagiously follow Jesus with their whole lives. How we measure if people are being contagious is by filtering them through each of our core values: Purpose, Generosity, Community, Adventure and Passion. I'll go over what these mean to us at a later time, but we will basically be able to see if we are winning in a broad sense by looking and people and seeing if each of these values is in operation in their life. If one is missing, they aren't as contagious as they should be and maybe we need to figure out how to get the percentage a little higher.
Anyways, I was quite pleased walking away from tonights meeting. I think we are going to see some amazing things take place in the coming months that we never thought were possible.
Dream Huge!
By the way, If you want to subscribe to our weekly update, go to www.livethemission.ca and you'll see the link on the front page.
