My Ministry Breakthrough: Recent Episodes
My Ministry Breakthrough
Breakthrough ideas with Jay: What does it look like to move from being a “church for the unchurched” to being a “church among the unchurched?” How do we activate and motivate people where they live, work, and study and play to carry their faith beyond the church into neighborhoods and workplaces? What does a shift … Read More Read More
Breakthrough ideas with Will:
- What is the process of designing the life that God dreamed of you?
- What does it mean to be co-creators of your life, with God
- Because we have been saved, we are not just freed from sin; we for living a life of good work.
- God has a dream. And he has prepared specific good works for each person in that dream.
- Yes, God has a plan, but part of that plan is you being actively involved in this design work of planning and being.
- The life design idea is that you get to think about “Who am I?” “Who did God make me become?”
- It is truly amazing when people take a little time to reflect on how much creativity, autonomy, and intentionality we can contribute, with God as the author of our story.
- God does invite us, through Genesis 1, into the opportunity to think, reflect, design, prioritize, orient, goal-set for our lives.
- Life design is stewardship of our one and only life.
- A design only exists within a set of constraints. You cannot design without understanding how God is working. You look at how He has worked in the past and how He’s working in the present.
- Holy Spirit indwells as one a design constraint in your life that makes beauty.
- What do the tools of vision clarity look like for the individual?
- The key to looking forward to your life is the ability to look backward. It’s like a golf swing, your follow-through is defined by your backswing.
- The one problem YOUNIQUE solves for people: God has given you a special assignment created just for you. Understand and live it.
- You cannot maximize your life with only a general sense of where you’re going.
- Without margin, there is no imagination.
- The church ought to be the hero members’ lives to give them great value and help release them in a journey of calling.
- YOUNIQUE’s big dream: Every individual knows their special calling, and that happens through a local community of believers across the country.
- What is debt freedom without personal calling? What is freedom from addiction without knowing what you’re free for?
- What good comes from money in the bank if you don’t know how your calling drives the stewardship of that money?
- Churches are great at recruiting people to turn the widgets and move the dials and levers than need to keep the organization going and neglect the personal calling that produces passionate service.
- If you aim it volunteerism, you’re guaranteed to burn people out. If you aim it special calling, you’ll never have a want for volunteers.
- The church in America, North America, by and large, has lost its value proposition to the average believer. It doesn’t have to be this way.
- The functional mission of the church in North America is going to all the world and make worship attenders, baptizing them in the name of small groups, and teaching and volunteer a few hours a month.
- Part of what the local church must do is move from being teaching centers to becoming training centers.
- God made you to be unique. God has given you a special assignment. Why spend another day, week, month, year of your life without knowing that and understanding that?
- We are unlocking the imagination of individuals, opening the creativity of the church, together dreaming, the kind of stuff that we do at Younique.
Resources in this episode:
The Life Younique Process
Younique by Will Mancini
Church Unique by Will Mancini
God Dreams by Will Mancini
Breakthrough ideas with Bob: Reading becomes caught more than taught, a practice handed down generation to generation. Reading will help you learn critical thinking skills. Critical thinking skills are an essential part of leadership. Then a seminary professor, Al Mohler, always talked about critical thinking and reading in leadership terms. Leadership, at its very core it … Read More Read More
Breakthrough ideas with Bob: The church needs to go where all the people are going. Visioneering Studios is called to help the church put to form the stories about the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven. Every building tells a story, and sometimes the story told is that we are cheap … Read More Read More
Breakthrough ideas with Cory: How can you use the written word to extend your reach? Is there a way to leverage your weekly content to make disciples? What are the best possible ways to shape and leverage your content for disciple-making outside of your Sunday service? The church is a content factory every week, creating … Read More Read More
Breakthrough ideas with Jon: How can a church stay relevant to their culture? How can a church stay relational to the communities in which God has placed them? How can a church remain resolute to their DNA and their calling? If you will create physical space, you allow conversations to begin to happen, that are … Read More Read More
Breakthrough ideas with Todd: 74% of churches have online giving, but they only receive about 15% of their income through digital avenues. 90% of our personal wealth is contained in our assets not in liquid cash – what if your church had a way to enable generosity in this way? What happens if you’ve got … Read More Read More
Breakthrough ideas with Todd: What’s the difference between a church plant and a church that’s planted to be a church-planting church? Imagine if somebody offered you a job where you’re 100% in your sweet spot What does it mean to work 100% of my time in your sweet spot? God made the world with sweet … Read More Read More
Breakthrough ideas with Daniel: What does it look like to live your life with our hands wide open saying, “Lord, here we are?” Every leader, every pastor, goes through those seasons where restlessness clouds every conversation. What do you do? A lot of leaders that come to those seasons of the restlessness, but how do … Read More Read More
Breakthrough Ideas with Jen: When you’re a single woman in the church, you usually kind of keep moving around because you don’t always fit very well. We treated the Bible like it was magical, like if I open it up the Holy Spirit was just going to drop out insight on me just because I … Read More Read More
Breakthrough Ideas with Len: Show me a weakness inventory and I will show you where God can bless others through your life. Our translation of the word “Word” for LOGOS is inadequate; we must embrace the tension. In a “well curve world” we should live out of the overlap of opposites coming together. Our world … Read More Read More
Breakthrough ideas with Will:
- Will Mancini thinks that the Program-Church Paradigm must soon come to an end.
- Will Mancini unpacks the “Functional Great Commission” and involvement in church stuff rather than disciple-making.
- Does your church activity lead people to life on life disciple-making?
- The local church is not only a community of belief; it must be a community of practice as well.
- Program Church was a viable model for a long time, creating an illusion of fluency around disciple-making through attendance in worship or groups. Probably not much longer.
- Every church is both making and faking disciples to some degree.
- Our best churches are beginning to experience a significant decline in attendance, even with what would have been considered relevant, engaging services ten years ago.
- Does counting engagement instead of attendance address the more significant problem of not making disciples at our church?
- What is real church growth? It is the idea that we can be vital and influential in our community through a commitment to both the organization and individual disciple-making.
- Does your programming exist to support and nurture disciple-making?
- What if the most important crowd in your church was the sphere of influence Monday-Saturday of those who show up on Sunday morning?
- The people connected to the people of your church could be your most important crowd. Your church has a more significant footprint of influence for the gospel than you know.
- What if you shifted your focus to impact the “cloud crowd” not the Sunday crowd?
- Real church growth starts first with a culture of mission, not with a culture of worship.
- Mission always precedes worship. Before we respond to the worship of God, we must respond to the mission of God.
- What connects your people emotionally to the church? Most churches would revolve around one of four, temporal connections. Will Mancini shares the four.
- You only have a church to the degree that there are people who are more connected to the mission of Jesus than they are to the building, to a class or group, to a particular program, or the personality of a leader.
- There is a difference in the size of your ministry and the size of your church. You don’t have a church if people are not connected first to the mission of Christ at your church.
- Content has now become a cultural commodity… there has to be more to your church than teaching because better teaching exists in abundance online.
- What if your church moved from a teaching center to a training center?
- Real church growth can happen, but it will not happen fast or without investment.
- The more willing you are to pause and reflect on life, the abler you are to experience progress.
Breakthrough ideas with Carol: Church leaders need to be intentional with their communication beyond just Sunday sermons. The first question to ask in excellent church communication is ”Who is the audience?” Shape the message to the intended audience to maximize effective communication. There are multiple channels to communicate with your church beyond sermons and emails. … Read More Read More
Breakthrough ideas with John: You will commit more money to church buildings and renovations than anything else, ever. It takes a trusted guide to ensure your budget, vision, and environments align during a building project. How can the creative culture at Disney inspire the design and construction of church facilities? Pastors go to seminary not … Read More Read More
Breakthrough ideas with Chad: It is possible to out-envision your vision by building and buying too much. How do you lead when your available ministry budget is less than 5%? How do you lead active ministry when there are no resources? Relationships and caring for people do not require a lot of money. What might … Read More Read More
Breakthrough ideas with Greg: Opening your home, giving people access to you, can be a spiritual commitment. The second someone walks through the door into your home; people can sniff out love, acceptance, and grace. Could your home be a better place to invite someone than the church if you genuinely want to share the … Read More Read More
Breakthrough ideas in this episode: It is essential to stop and recount the faithfulness of God. Keep memorials in front of yourself and your people to mark how God has moved. What are the characteristics of a church built on dynamic worship and strong biblical teaching look? You cannot reach your community until you know … Read More Read More
Breakthrough ideas with Jeff: If your church is going to reach your city, your people must embrace their calling as missionaries. Do our seminaries train us to only care for people inside the walls, and not those outside the walls? Are we helping Jesus followers in our churches to be fully engaged in the community? … Read More Read More
Breakthrough ideas with Doug: How does a church begin as an accidental church plant? If the Kingdom of God were to come to your town, would it look like your church? Is a church a church until they hold their first worship service? How does a church formalize a public witness as the body of … Read More Read More
Breakthrough ideas with Marty: How can a church effectively reach all five of the generations alive today? Wake Forest University is not in Wake Forest, North Carolina, and other learning. Young leaders leaving seminary have a far greater chance to end up in a multigenerational traditional church. Leading a multigenerational church may just be the … Read More Read More
Breakthrough ideas with Kelly: Building a strong leadership culture brings out the best in all of your leaders. Churches are generally great at helping people live out their general calling, but it takes high intentionally to grow people within their special calling. What is God’s calling for you, in this life stage, at your location, … Read More Read More
Breakthrough ideas with Danny: When God says “I am doing something…” words begin to create worlds. Learn why nobody wants to give their life away to show up and help somebody find a parking space. Why serving on a hospitality team is a lot of fun for about three weeks but becomes a lousy hobby … Read More Read More
Breakthrough ideas with Cal: What does church planting look like 30 years in? How does a church move from program driven to presence driven after years of ministry success? It’s possible to go deep with your weekend sermons and still be responsive to those who are not in a relationship with Christ. If someone is … Read More Read More
Breakthrough ideas with Chris: The ethos of six-man football reflects the grit and resilience of small-town life on the west Texas plains. It also inspired this church’s vision. Who will reach the small town? Who will take the gospel to those places that were once the center of life in our rural communities? This church … Read More Read More
Breakthrough ideas with Chris: What if we could get everyone in here out there, instead of trying to get everyone out there in here? How do we equip and deploy people to really love their neighbors every day of the week? It is hard to love your neighbor when you don’t know your neighbor. Don’t … Read More Read More
Breakthrough ideas with Phil: Reaching the lost requires removing every possible barrier of understanding – even some things you love. It’s time to let go of some of these weird practices of the church that have nothing to do with Jesus. Are your worship services evangelistically understandable? If you are not sure, they probably are … Read More Read More
Breakthrough ideas with Barrett: How can a church reach Christians who live in the city, from within the city, not just the suburbs? True fulfillment as a Christ-following leader comes from a deep sense of two key understandings. Why it is important to bring yourself back to your calling as a leader, not someone else’s. … Read More Read More
Breakthrough ideas with Talbot: Twitter is a great place to improve as a wordsmith because it forces clarity of communication. It is possible for social media to make you a better pastor and leader. Making diversity the cause only results in political correctness, so make Jesus the cause and let diversity be the result. Bringing … Read More Read More
Breakthrough ideas with Eric: Leadership transitions will always happen, but what actually makes succession a success? Following God involves holding two conflicting emotions in tension: grieving what has been and anticipating what will be. There will always be unfinished work. The “unconquered territory” reminds us the work is God’s not ours. How can pastors keep their … Read More Read More
Breakthrough Ideas with Todd Adkins: There is a difference between just placing leaders in a role and actually developing leaders for ministry. Great leaders are not just intuitive, they are highly intentional as well. Systems, process, and structure are critical but the relationship moves people. We can do leadership gatherings better by leveraging both technology and … Read More Read More
Breakthrough Ideas with Brady Cooper: To fight complacency in the church, we must stay hungry evangelistically. Building a church culture that engages men, requires a shared value toward challenging men. For his staff, the intentional discipleship of 2-3 other people is not up for negotiation. Keeping your family healthy is your primary responsibility as a senior … Read More Read More
Breakthrough Ideas with Dave Rhodes: The physical location of your church and the mission of your church should be inseparable. Moving to the fringe of the organization, instead of the center, empowers younger generations to step up and lead. Boomers and Millennials CAN get along; however, each generation must take a different approach to the other. … Read More Read More
In this inaugural episode, Will Mancini, founder of Auxano sits down with My Ministry Breakthrough host, and Auxano Lead Navigator, Bryan Rose, to unpack the concept behind “breakthrough clarity” in the mission statement of Auxano. When it comes to crafting church vision and casting church vision, the tunnel of chaos is unavoidable. But by moving through the church conflicts, volunteer leadership issues, and congregational governance challenges, pastors can achieve church vision that is clear, concise, compelling and catalytic to everyone in their congregation. Will and Bryan also discuss the origin story of Auxano and the importance of slowing down in order to speed up ministry effectiveness.
You can read more from Will Mancini in his two groundbreaking books on church vision clarity: God Dreams and Church Unique.
Learn more about Auxano and schedule a vision clarity conversation here.