{"id":1810,"date":"2012-02-14T03:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottcochrane.com\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2012-04-19T11:23:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T18:23:31","slug":"how-to-tackle-the-3-biggest-challenges-facing-canadian-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/14\/how-to-tackle-the-3-biggest-challenges-facing-canadian-churches\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Tackle the 3 Biggest Challenges Facing Canadian Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take a minute to give an honest reaction to these leadership questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What part of your church is \u201cstuck\u201d, and what would it take to get it moving again?<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How could your church be better positioned to make a significant Kingdom impact?<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What would it take to see more people in your faith community move from \u201cconsumers\u201d to disciples?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottcochrane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/RoundTables.jpg\" class=\"btn-image--openpopup figure alignleft size-medium wp-image-1809\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1809\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottcochrane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/RoundTables-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/RoundTables-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/RoundTables.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In 2011 these were the questions that dominated leadership conversations in Canada. So in 2012 we\u2019re rolling up our sleeves to see church leaders from coast to coast tackle these challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Introducing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.growingleadership.com\/innovate\"><strong>Innovate 2012<\/strong><\/a>. Innovate is not so much a workshop, as it is series of leadership conversations with some of Canada\u2019s pace-setting church leaders.<\/p>\n<p>And we want you and your leadership team to be a part of the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Schroeder, The Leadership Centre Willow Creek Canada\u2019s \u201cNational Pastor\u201d, will host the conversation, featuring leaders who have been making progress on each front.<\/p>\n<p>But this is not an afternoon of \u201ctalking heads\u201d. This will be an energized, interactive four-hour session, where leadership teams will be working on highly practical applications. It will be a chance for church teams to fire questions at the panel of leaders, and then work to apply learnings to individual church settings.<\/p>\n<p>We believe that these conversations are so important to the advancement of the Kingdom in our country that we are not charging an admission fee to participate. We will gratefully receive donations to offset costs, but we do not want finances to be a reason for your team not to take part.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.growingleadership.com\/innovate\" class=\"btn-image--openpopup figure alignright size-full wp-image-1822\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1822\" title=\"Innovate150pix\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottcochrane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Innovate150pix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Innovate150pix.jpg 150w, https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Innovate150pix-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each of the 12 sites is limited to 10 teams of six, so I\u2019d urge you to reserve your place now. For more information, and to reserve your table, <a href=\"http:\/\/growingleadership.com\/innovate\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So make plans now to bring your leaders to the Innovate 2012 site near you.<\/p>\n<p>And let\u2019s get to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a minute to give an honest reaction to these leadership questions: What part of your church is \u201cstuck\u201d, and what would it take to get it moving again?\u00a0 How could your church be better positioned to make a significant Kingdom impact?\u00a0 What would it take to see more people in your faith community move&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,22,744],"tags":[801,124,177,799,800,798,797],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian","category-church","category-team-2","tag-advancement","tag-canadian-churches","tag-challenges","tag-disciples","tag-innovate","tag-kingdom","tag-stuck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1818,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/1818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}