Streamline: How To Create Healthy Church Systems

by Michael Lukaszewski

You are confident of your calling. You are leading a church with an important mission. You’ve got a carefully worded vision statement, a set of core values, and leaders who say they want to make it happen.But does it feel like you’re not making any real progress? Does it feel like you’re stuck solving the same problems over and over again? Does it seem that you’re always talking about potential, or tomorrow, or after the next hire?After twenty years in ministry, I’ve learned that passion isn’t enough.You can have a clear mission, but without organization you won’t get everyone moving in the right direction. You can preach the vision, but if you don’t have a clear path ready for people, your vision talk will be just talk. I bet you don’t have a mission problem, or a facility problem, or even a volunteer problem. I know it’s trendy to talk multi-site, and popular to run a 40 day campaign. New service times, new programs, and new websites are like candy that captures attention in the checkout aisle. But it’s likely these aren’t the issues holding you back. You can start new services and hire a branding company to create a new website, and in three years from now you’ll likely be in the same place.That’s because you’re knee deep in a system problem. Streamline will help you create and implement healthy systems across all the departments in your church. You'll create alignment with your team and build focus into your ministries. You'll know what's working and why.Each short chapter focuses on one system you can create or improve. You'll walk away with actionable ideas ready to execute.Streamline will help you organize your church around the important mission.

246 pages, Paperback

Published March 7, 2016

Reviews

[Jamie Meyer · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a fairly quick read that was so packed full of tons of information and practical steps to creating church systems. I’m a systems girl through and through, I love them, creating and following them just makes my heart happy. So when I heard about this book, a book all about creating the most important and needed church systems, I knew I had to read it.

This book covered everything from calendars, to preaching schedules, to follow up, to leadership development, to giving, and tons more. The chapters are short and to the point, most don’t have life changing information, but it’s so direct and clear on why each system matters that it makes you reevaluate how your operating in that area, and each chapter ends with practical steps to implement.

I have several things from this book I will be working on implementing over the next few weeks and I can’t wait to get started! If you work at a church, or are interested in working at a church and are curious what all goes into it, I highly recommend this book. In fact, I loved it so much I just ordered a physical copy that I can mark all up and go back to over and over! Excellent read for sure.

[Rand Hall · Rating 5 out of 5]

Streamline has plenty is system nuggets to reward your reading. I found the first two sections to be better than the third which may be related to the fact that I just finished a book-length treatment of assimilation. If nothing else, Streamline will get you thinking about systems. Anything that you systematize will be better.

[H.b. Charles · Rating 4 out of 5]

Practical advice about developing systems for effective church organization.

[Tommy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very practical, nuts and bolts ministry information. Some helpful reminders.