Gavin Adams is a strategic organizational consultant and leadership partner focused on supporting leaders from innovation through implementation. We share a quote from him in every one of our one-day events, so it’s really fun to finally have him on the podcast this week.
Before launching Transformation Solutions, Gavin spent 15 years in ministry leadership, most recently serving as the lead pastor at Woodstock City Church, a campus location of North Point Ministries. Prior to ministry, Gavin spent over a decade in the marketplace working as a business strategy and marketing consultant. (And on the podcast, he told us he and his wife just bought a coffee shop! Whew! )
In today’s episode, Gavin is diving deep into approaching ministry with new strategies, why the pandemic is a disruption rather than an interruption, struggles he’s seeing in churches to actually change, and so much more. This is well worth the listen, and we’re excited to be sharing it with you!
Links to Resources Mentioned or Related
- Transformation Solutions
- [Article] When Interruptions Become Disruptions
- Woodstock City Church
- 95Network Membership
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- Read Stalled: Hope and Help for Pastors Who Thought They’d Be There By Now
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Key Takeaways
1) Developing strategy isn’t as hard as implementing strategy. This has always been true, and is why so many of us have “strategy binders” sitting on our shelves caked with dust. But it doesn’t have to be this way, and leading strategy execution does fall on you as the leader of the church.
2) “What world are you living in if you think things are going back to normal?” Love the honesty of this question from Gavin. The world isn’t going back to 2019, and in many ways, we probably shouldn’t want it to.
3) The rate of change in a disruption is incredibly fast. Disruptions can look like interruptions before we realize it’s changed everything. That’s what happened in the past two years. We can’t interpret that as a pause, or an interruption, but instead must see it as what it is: A full-on disruption to how we approach and live life.
4) You don’t need to do everything, but you do need to change. This is not about putting all the pressure on your shoulders. God uniquely made you and your church. Leverage who God has made you to be, in the acknowledgement of how the culture we are wanting to reach has shifted.
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