{"id":3482,"date":"2013-11-04T22:29:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T04:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottcochrane.com\/?p=3482"},"modified":"2013-11-04T22:29:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T04:29:29","slug":"how-to-build-an-intergenerational-church-bill-hybels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/04\/how-to-build-an-intergenerational-church-bill-hybels\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Build an Intergenerational Church- Bill Hybels"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week I\u2019ve been traveling through South America with Bill Hybels, who has been sharing leadership coaching and teaching to thousands of leaders.<\/strong><\/p>\n

During one stop in Brazil Bill was asked this leadership question:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHow do I lead my church to become more intergenerational?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is Bill\u2019s answer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Remember the old expression, \u201cIf you aim at nothing you\u2019ll hit it every time\u201d? If you want to see intergenerational leaders working together, that must be your aim. That must be your focus.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m very intentional about this around our church.<\/p>\n

Whenever we\u2019re making additions to our elder board I have everybody put their ages on a piece of paper and I say, \u201cWhat would be the ideal arrangement for ages on this board? Do we want all really old people, do we want all really young people? And if it\u2019s going to be a mix, how should that mix look?\u201d And we start there.<\/p>\n

I do the same thing with my staff and with my volunteers. I want to make sure we have older, middle aged, and younger in every strata of the church.<\/p>\n

We had to shake up some things at Willow about two years ago. I looked around me one day, and I watched who was collecting the offering. Every person collecting the offering looked extremely old. And I said, \u201cHow did that happen?\u201d The person who was leading that ministry did not have a vision for intergenerational ministry.<\/p>\n

So, it took us two years to fix that. And now there are young people, middle aged, and older people taking up the offering.<\/p>\n

You have to do this very delicately. But I think it has to be very intentional.<\/p>\n

We often use this phrase. \u201cWe want to be an intergenerational group of leaders providing excellent leadership for our church.\u201d So every time you say the word \u201cintergenerational\u201d it reinforces that value.<\/p>\n

You know how sometimes you\u2019ll make a little video for your church service? You make sure there\u2019s old, middle aged, and young people in the video. If you\u2019re going to have three or four people give a testimony you want to be sure you have all ages.<\/p>\n

How do you ensure your church is intergenerational?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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