NTS_Everyday Faith_02.26.12

LINK TO THE LESSON NOTES = HERE


 Chips to eat ... Why do you come back for more?

- Can't eat just one

 Be Thou My Vision / Ginny Owens (blind)

- I can see clearly now the rain is gone ... washed _______ away.

 Why the garden = Where have we been, where are we now, and where are we going?

- Past Lessons: Lord of Everything, Head of the Church, Grace-Driven Belief

- Personal Faith: Everyday Faith

- And the winner is ... Hebrews 12:1

 Soil Testing = Acidic or Alkaline (see right through ... what to add ... what to take away)

- Approaching relationships and responsibilities

CH / LEADERSHIP, ANDY STANLEY, PODCAST

• Leaders shape the organization culture whether they intend to or not
• Leaders think in ways they can count
• Leaders INHERIT the organization culture
• The leader adapts to the culture or is shaped by the culture (Thriving on Chaos,   Tom Peters (What are the driving forces behind the organization?  What might be disrupted if intervention is pre-term or an ineffective change is made?  What drives and maintains this health culture?  Why are they great or why are they not great?)
• No one effects the culture of the organization more than the leader / leader(s)
• Time in erodes awareness of ... (the longer a leader is anywhere the less aware they are of your surroundings = good, bad, healthy, unhealthy)
• Evaluations = Members evaluate the organization 
• There needs to be a tool in place to monitor the culture of the organization
• Feedback is vital to assess current status (seen, heard, experienced)
• The longer leaders are in place, the more unclear the surroundings become / leaders allow the culture to continue or are the direct catalysts for change
• Healthy cultures attract and keep healthy people
• Unhealthy people are comfortable in unhealthy environments
• Healthy people have low tolerance for disfunction (leave and cannot stay there)
• Unhealthy people are not happy in healthy organizational cultures
• An investment in culture attracts and maintains great people
• Indicators of an unhealthy culture: 
• Drama = unhealthy (more drama) / healthy (get the job done and less drama surrounding the objective)
• Sense of being self-focused = inward vs. outward focused
• "Sideways" energy = a lot of activity without a lot of progress and productivity
• The culture of an organization impacts the long-term effect of the organization = productivity correlates with culture 
• Communication
• Transparency
• Unfiltered debate
• Territorial 
• Collaboration (in healthy organization structures ... examples): 
• The boss does not micromanage
• People don't get their feelings hurt
• People don't feel left out
• The boss does not have to be in every meeting
• Unhealthy culture = buttoned up, red tape, top down (slows down progress and productivity)
• Unhealthy cultures are slow to adapt to change
• The churches that grow and change the fastest are the churches that are not focused on their church members
• Inward focus (he says, she says, why is the boss talking
• to (him/her)
• In unhealthy cultures people resist change
• Necessity = act, react, and flex with the market place

 Why baking soda and vinegar

- Indicators / measurable results
- ALKALINE VS. ACIDIC = HERE

 What do we have to work with? (Colossians 3:5-10)

- Moral climate faced everyday

 What is in the soil?

- In what areas of your life to you feel the most pressing need for renewal?

 What are you going to plant? (Colossians 3:12-17)

- Describe practice ways you can "put on" or "plant" Jesus' love.

 How much work will it take?

- Why is unity important in our relationships?  What happens without it?

 I've never planted a garden ... How do I begin? (Colossians 3:18-21)

- How can practicing submissions strengthen your faith?

- "Obey" vs. "Submission" (vs.18) / gracefully loved and gracefully loving / violates trust and love then also the whole family system

 How do we keep the weeds out? (Colossians 4:5-6)

- Grow in the garden?

- In which situations is it easiest for you to talk gracefully, using language seasoned with salt?  - In which situations is it most challenging?

 How do we keep the pests out?

- Come into the garden from the outside?

- Prayerful defense