Thinking Systemically

Change how you see your church and discover the secret to increasing your church capacity.

Overview

As a pastor, you know that your church needs to have ministry systems that ensure biblical functions are being done regularly and consistently. But you may not know how to actually build the systems your church needs. Rather than just describe the systems, Church Equippers meets your needs by:

Helping you to identify the person we call an ‘implementer’ who will partner with you to build the right ministry systems that fits your church’s vision and strategy.
Offering you tools to train you in a step-by-step system building process, which allows you and your implementer to assemble the systems that will work for your church properly.

Our goal is to help you increase your capacity to make and retain more disciples.

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FAQ

What do you mean by ‘increase your capacity’?

Pastors often want to know how to make and retain more disciples. Many churches struggle with having as big a back door as a front door. Why aren’t new people connecting? It could be because your church body has run out of ‘relationship slots’—personal connecting points that allow new people to feel wanted and needed in your congregation. If you have only 80 slots, the church will remain at this size until your change your ministry systems to allow the creation of more relationship slots.

This is what we call increasing church capacity. In training and coaching pastors and church leaders in systems, we teach them how to build or rebuild ministry systems to actually increase the church’s ability to make and retain more disciples.

Where to go for coaching?

Sometimes it just makes sense to get someone with experience to help you build ministry systems. If you need a systems coach, contact us by emailing [email protected].

What kind of training is needed?

A pastor or implementer can pick up The Increasing Church Capacity Guidebook and immediately begin to build ministry systems. But to get the most out of the guidebook, you need training in systemic thinking. Church Equippers provides the system training package with the guidebook to help you successfully build your systems. We also offer the Increasing Church Capacity Primer to introduce all your church leaders to systemic thinking so they will support the changes in ministry systems.

How do you know which ministry systems need help?

With eighteen ministry systems to build, it can be daunting to know where to begin. The best first step is to take the Triage for the Stuck Church Evaluation, which measures the health of your five critical systems—Spiritual Life, Vision, Evangelizing, Discipling and Leadership Training.

If you discover that any—or many—of these five systems are on life support, that is where you will need to start.

The 18 Church Systems

Vision: Seeing the lost people that God has sent you to reach with the gospel and developing your strategy to do so.

Leadership: Partnering with and empowering the people that God has sent to accomplish the vision strategy together.

Decision Making: Creating the processes that allow good decisions to be made in a timely and accountable manner.

Evangelizing: Developing the right approach that allows the church to be effective in sowing the gospel in the community.

Discipling: Laying out the process of how new believers grow in grace until they are mature and able to teach others how to obey everything Jesus taught us.

Gathering: How the leaders will pray, plan and execute the weekly gathering of the congregation so that they worship and learn from God weekly.

Connection: Moving visitors from the gathering into the core congregation by connecting them to deeper relationships through the Growth Systems.

Leadership Training: Designing a pathway for new leaders to be trained and deployed into ministry.

Financial: Two prong system that allows the church to navigate the legal responsibilities of handling money and guide the congregation toward generosity in giving.

Facilities: Developing a plan to utilize your gathering place effectively and to be prepared for growth.

Shepherding: Creating a team of people who care for the spiritual, emotional and physical needs of the people in the congregation.

Spiritual Life: Addressing how the congregation develops a deepening awe of God and together grow in their walk with Him.

Teaching: How and when the church teaches doctrine and biblical knowledge.

Communication: Process by which people hear what is planned and give feedback to those who lead.

Community Relations: Connecting deeper with the community in which the church exists to minister and influence people who are not part of the congregation.

Small Groups: Developing a structure of small gatherings for the people in the church regularly meet together to care, study, pray and be on mission together.

Ministries: Forming a process where believers are recruited, trained, resources, celebrated and retained in their roles, according to their passion and gifts, as ministers in the kingdom.

Missions: Planning how your church will go about in its role to fulfill Jesus’ Acts 1:8 mission of proclaiming the gospel locally, regionally and worldwide.