Wait. What just happened?

How can my church move forward from this?

What’s next?

Well, Jesus is still building his church, and the harvest is still plentiful.

So, let’s reboot and get on with it.

Though much has changed in your church over the past three years, one thing hasn’t: Jesus’ mission.

It’s the same yesterday as it is today and will be tomorrow: Go and make disciples.

Can we get on with that?

Our reboot process aligns your church with this simple command while helping you process the wounds your church may have felt over the past three years.

By fulfilling it, you can answer what’s next and find who’s missing and bring them home.

If we are being truthful, it’s not so easy. Is it?

You would think it would be. After all, “Go and make disciples”  is clear, simple, and reproducible.

Yet, many have found doing it elusive. It’s like trying to pick up a bead of mercury in the chemistry lab: as soon as you think you have it, it scatters.

Adding to the confusion are the countless conferences, books, podcasts, workshops, and the like. Much of it is awesome content and comes from Scripture, and godly hearts.

So, why is aligning a church to The Great Commission so difficult?

Because most want a quick fix. They don’t realize alignment is a highly-skilled process, not a DIY plug-and-play program. It takes discipline, expertise, and perseverance to succeed.

And none of this is taught in seminary, not at the Masters or Doctorate level. Seminary focuses on the academic side. We focus on turning that knowledge into skill.

Our approach:

  • Equips your ministries to engage in outreach, evangelism, and discipleship.
  • Shifts your church’s mindset from just ministering TO the congregation, to ministering THROUGH the congregation.
  • Aligns the perception, vision, strategy, structure, and your people into an integrated whole to fulfill The Great Commission.
  • Roots itself in 10 key Scriptures.
  • Organizes three teams from your congregation to oversee the process and deliver the results.
  • Introduces two biblical models to encourage and inspire.

When churches develop the skill to align themselves, they become healthy and grow spiritually, numerically, and financially as God sees fit.

Healthy churches multiply.

Seem daunting? It is IF you don’t break it down into step-by-step pieces and have someone to walk alongside you who has the expertise to guide you and your congregation.

If this intrigues you and you want to know more, let’s connect. We are happy to listen to where you are and discuss whether or not this would be right for you.

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REBOOT NOW is five-step process of channeling all ministries of the church through the Great Commission so that every ministry is equipped and empowered to go and make disciples and then, to teach obedience to the commands of Christ. It builds a double-edged platform of Spiritual Renewal with Strategic Initiative, each supporting the other as we show our love for God and for our neighbors. This synergy keeps ministry in balance regarding faith and practice.
Aligning Perception allows you to see your church as it really is. You will work through a church health self-assessment and answer the question, “Where are we?” This starting point establishes a baseline of comparison to the ending point of REBOOT NOW. This step usually motivates people to act like few other tools.
Aligning Vision puts the vision for your church in alignment with God’s vision for you. You will work through our proven vision process that answers the question, “Where do we want to be?”
Aligning Strategy makes sure that what you DO in ministry is in alignment with God’s vision for your church. You will wrestle with several questions and our strategy process which will answer the question, “What will get us there?”
Aligning Structure organizes your leadership around the central mission of being faithful to the Great Commission. Allocating resources and defining a decision making process will answer the question, “How will leadership function?” This will support your strategy and vision.
Aligning People draws your congregation into the vision of reaching a community and assimilating those reached into the life and mission of your church. Your leadership will figure out how to keep people involved and realize the future depends on a healthy culture of outreach, evangelism and discipleship.

We work closely with you over a full year to shift your ministry paradigm from ministering TO the congregation to ministering THROUGH the congregation. Not only will the lost in the community be reached, but the found in your congregation will find their spiritual growth accelerating as Great Commission Alignment takes hold.

When pricing “REBOOT NOW” we considered the following:

  1. Your energy: The cost of having limited leadership that drains you.
  2. Your time: The cost of not knowing how to fix the problem in spite of multiple attempts.
  3. Your congregation’s identity: The cost of people in your neighborhood not knowing you.
  4. Your health: The physical toll of pastoring alone that sucks the life out of you
  5. The freedom that comes from figuring it out
  6. The financial burden: The cost of not developing sustainable leaders over the long haul.

The cost is based on the size and scope of the project. Contact us for us quote.

FAQs

What Others Are Saying

“From my perspective, Dr. Kenneth Priddy is one of the top two or three authorities on church revitalization in the United States. His approach to renewing churches is biblically sound, practically useful, and strategically solid. If you wish to see your church be fruitful in its evangelism and outreach, I advise you to listen, learn, and leverage Dr. Priddy’s insights for kingdom growth.”

Gary L. McIntosh, Ph.D. 

Professor of Christian Ministry and Leadership

Talbot School of Theology 

Biola University 

The Reboot process has helped move Logos Presbyterian forward. This is a church that has had two significant church splits in the last five to eight years, and have plateaued/decline in the last several years.

Logos joined the EPC two years ago and started CR a year and a half ago. The process has given the church a focus. They have two strategic initiatives planned and they have accomplished the first one – the calling of a youth/outreach pastor. The second initiative is to start a second service that is English speaking and more contemporary. This is planned to kick-off next Easter.
Larry Jung has done an excellent job encouraging the church and its pastor and keeping both on track through this season. Larry has preached three times during this process including the sermon for the installation service of the new pastor. Logos welcomes Larry’s direction and experience. His own personal testimony of the importance of “high risk faith” has helped propel the church forward.
The new pastor has 25-35 youth/young adults in the middle school to late 20s range. They are all excited to have a pastor closer in age who wants to see a more contemporary service happen.
I anticipate that in the next year we will ses numerical growth as the enthusiasm grows!
Thanks for the help and prayers!
Rev. Bill McDonald, Logos Presbyterian Church, Seattle, WA. 

“This ministry has greatly helped to keep us on track as a leadership team, Session, and church. We have steadily seen our church grow with more and more people visiting and attending as we have made “people contact” of high priority, seeking to create “people flow” in order to reach lost people. During the time I have known Ken and gleaned from his ministry our church has grown 20% and we’ve added a Fellowship Hall and more classroom space. More than the growth, this ministry has kept our focus on the Lord and His mission to make disciples of all nations, the harvest is truly ripe!”

Dr. Rob Buchanan – EPC of Elkton, VA

“We are a small church (average weekly worship attendance of 70). While we are a mission church in the EPC, we began our journey together when a large group from First Presbyterian Church, Waynesboro (PCUSA) left after a protracted discernment process and the subsequent challenges we experienced in leaving the PC (USA).

In the early stages of our life together (spring of 2013), Dr. Ken Priddy consulted with us providing a very meaningful full-day seminar introducing some of the principles of the GO training (Building Your Church’s Great Commission Matrix). This training provided significant thought-provoking material, which challenged us to look at our life cycle as a new mission church, as well as the need for every ministry to have the same strategic design . . . GO . . . MAKE . . . DISCIPLES. He also introduced us to the Vision Team concept surrounded by prayer teams. We initiated this process shortly after the presentation. It has proved to be quite effective in helping us focus on God’s vision for us, moving from thinking only about what brought us together (shared theological commitments) to focusing on what God is calling us to be for Him and His Kingdom now (a congregation committed to being and making disciples)!

Since this March, I have been engaged in one of Dr. Priddy’s GO Clusters. These bi-monthly GoToMeeting video conferences have provided more specifics to the initial training. One specific gleaning from our most recent conference was to learn how to minister THROUGH our congregation rather than just TO our congregation. As a leadership team we are discerning how to move people to be agents of ministry rather than just recipients of ministry based upon this teaching.

The ministry Dr. Priddy is providing is a true blessing for me and our church as we continue to seek for ways to apply these ministry principles to our life together. I pray more of our EPC congregations across the country will benefit from this excellent training.”

Rev. Glen Holman, Organizing Pastor Hope Community Church in Waynesboro, Virginia.

“The training we received through individual consultation and GO Cluster participation was absolutely invaluable for our church. Rather than a “one size fits all” approach, this provided specific, detailed attention necessary for assessing the Spirit’s unique work here. Peace is attempting a “prayer based model” for church growth, which is not part of a standard “church growth” paradigm. Ken and Tom did not “despise the day of small things;” both recognized that what God is doing here is impacting lives not only in Durham and nationally but in many countries (I have been blessed with a writing ministry in the area of prayer—especially prayer for families with prodigals—and the church embraces this ministry as their own). The outstanding consultation and insight provided enabled us to investigate the relationship between prayer and evangelism in practical ways that have helped us reach deeper into our community. Further encouragement in a missional outlook through regular training at Presbytery meetings has also been indispensable (a recent presentation of “Christianity Explored” was very well received, and we will be launching our first outreach effort with it this Fall). Peace is now exhibiting positive numerical growth, financial stability, and fresh vitality and enthusiasm for a true Kingdom ministry.”

Dr. James Banks – Peace Church, Durham, NC