Recentered Vision, 2022
Multiplication—that wondrous potential Jesus calls us to through His command to make disciples of all nations—is the key word guiding our vision for Recentered in 2022.
2022 is the year God is telling us to take our original vision and mission to the next level.
Judy and I launched Recentered with a passion to call churches back to what matters most to Jesus—applying the Great Commission and the Great Commission to leadership relationships through practical-teaching, exercises resources, and mentoring that release their strengths while protecting them from their weaknesses.
Our forty-plus years of pastoral ministry taught us that discipleship flourishes in healthy assemblies led by servant shepherds who love one another with a courageous love that affirms their giftedness while speaking hard truths into their lives. We restore church health, starting with the leaders so that they can equip the saints for the work of the ministry through layered discipleship.
That’s our mission, our niche: Recentered Group equips church leaders to experience the joy and freedom of pursuing their calling without the distractions of strained relationships, church politics, and the loneliness of trying to make disciples in an unsafe culture.
Let’s be honest—church health seems to be at an all-time low.
It’s easy to blame this pandemic for the spike in the disunity of God’s people and the discouragement of Jesus’ under-shepherds. The unique challenges facing leaders trying to shepherd God’s people through the heartaches, fears, and tribalism over the death of loved ones, mask mandates and vaccinations are overwhelming.
But my hands-on approach to working with churches and their leaders forces me to admit that often this pandemic is just exposing what was already true—lack of trust between the leaders had overflowed into a culture of control and an atmosphere of performance and fear. The pandemic was just the spark that ignited the already tinder-dry mess of tensions, frustrations, unresolved conflicts, and unreconciled relationships.
2021 was the year I realized that my highest priority is to admit my finitude and my age.
2022 will be the year I concentrate on multiplying the impact of what I offer through personal discipleship and the development of resources.
Multiplication Priorities for 2022:
Offer The Recentered Intensive, our foundational course that connects what we do to key biblical texts on the original gospel, our identity in Christ, and building relationships of trust in an atmosphere of grace.
Launch The Recentered Podcast that will focus on the real problems facing real leaders who are trying to move toward what matters most to Jesus—making disciples and loving one another.
Schedule at least one regional pastors conference.
Begin equipping two seasoned pastors to do what I do so that our unique and effective approach to restoring church health, beginning with the leaders, so that disciplemaking can flourish. Now Recentered will not be limited to my time constraints and aging capacity to travel.
Equip one “Recentered Facilitator” to leave behind in every church to take every leader through The Great Exchange process that affirms leader’s strengths and protects them from their weaknesses.
Rewrite Beginning In Grace, a discipleship manual I created in 1997 that’s been used to disciple hundreds of believers. We’ll reformat the dated look and I will edit the content to line up with the lessons we’ve learned over the years. This is a response to pastors asking me for any discipleship materials that emphasize the grace of God embedded in the original gospel.
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