Thr3e Session 1

I posted last week about our experience in Charlotte, NC with the Elevation Church staff and volunteer team. Each session was led by Pastor Steven Furtick and I want to give some of the highlights from each session (there were only 3).

Session 1
Casting Vision, Creating Culture

Each church plant needs to establish 3 important cultures in the DNA of your church:

The Culture of Audacity

• Audacity is a spirit, not a set of actions.
• You have to have a level of insanity to start something from nothing.
• Where there is no vision people cast off restraint.
• God doesn't step in till you step out.
• An audacious leader - See it, speak it, and stand on it until it happens.
• A leader's job is to cast an audacious vision - to see things first before anyone else - and stay with it till it becomes reality.
• An audacious vision is not "cut out and paste" from other ministries. It comes from within you.
• The thing that make you unique is the thing that makes you powerful.

The Culture of Honor

• Respect must be earned but honor is given from the heart.
• You can only receive people at the level you perceive people.
• If your people don't perceive you as a leader then people won't receive you as a leader.
• If you're support staff you should go home & ask "How can we help take weight off our Pastor?"

The Culture of Generosity

• Don't be afraid to preach on giving!
• Pastor Steven Furtick preach (or make applications) on giving 3 of every 4 sermons preached.
• Pastors must give sacrificially. No one can go where the leader hasn't gone. ... If you want the people to bleed, you must hemorrhage.
• Part of generosity DNA at Elevation Church: They partner with outreach programs, not create them. Elevation Church supports 18 local organizations.