Josh has recently authored Remissioning Church, A Field Guide to Bringing a Congregation Back to Life, where he talks about transforming a church from the inside out to bring a new missional presence that brings life and flourishing to the neighborhood.
Book: Remissioning Church
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
- How and why congregations might be dying
- Remissioning vs Revitalizing
- Inside-out transformation
ABOUT THE GUEST:
Josh Hayden is the co-founder and co-president of `Iwa Collaborative, which helps leaders fly high and live low as they lead through change processes in their community. He runs remissioning trainings through `Iwa Collaborative across various denominational, non-denominational, and global networks.
Josh Hayden is the senior pastor at First Baptist Church in Ashland, Virginia. For over 20 years he has worked and led in nonprofit organizations, church plants, and established churches. He has a doctorate in leadership and organizational change from Duke Divinity School and is the author of Remissioning Church and Sacred Hope. He serves on the boards of numerous nonprofits. He and his family live near Richmond, Virginia.
RELATED LINKS:
- Iwa Collaborative
- First Baptist Ashland VA
TIMESTAMPED SHOWNOTES:
01:22 - Introducing Pastor Josh Hayden
05:32 - How and why congregations might be dying
06:04 - ...churches in survival mode
06:21 - ...counting, not reflecting Jesus
06:42 - ...want people to lead, but rarely invite or train up leaders
07:16 - ...afraid of conflict, stuck in tradition
07:45 - How Josh's journey influenced the writing of the book
09:22 - Established church vs church plant
10:53 - Exploring the book title: Remissioning Church
11:42 - ...Remissioning vs Revitalizing
14:44 - ...Remissioning was not a word that people were using regularly
16:27 - ...Is it RE-missioning or re-MISSION-ing?
19:12 - How does church leadership assess if the church should be remissioned?
19:28 - ...awareness of where the church is in the life cycle
19:45 - ...spiritual health of the church
19:53 - ...counting vs measuring
20:02 - ...honest evaluation
21:55 - How does the church leadership manage feelings in assessing a church?
24:24 - ...helping people navigate loss and change
25:35 - ...embrace conflict
26:45 - What does a healthy church look like?
26:47 - ...clear sense of how to make disciples who are good for the community
27:30 - ...common life with the community
27:36 - ...see change as God inviting us into a life-death-resurrection journey
28:03 - ...disciple people inside the church so not to export the mission of God to others
30:35 - What is the goal of remissioning a church?
32:51 - What needs to happen for inside-out transformation to take place?
33:19 - ...people discipling someone
34:18 - ...learn to live on mission with God
34:50 - ...live with more purpose and intention
35:25 - How and why is discipleship the mission of the church?
35:57 - ...a lot of pastors haven't been discipled
36:25 - ...not clear on what a mature disciple looks like
37:34 - ...church-hopping is the result of not having a clear discipleship process
40:45 - If your church disappeared, would the community notice?
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