What are you doing to create an organization culture?
What are you doing to understand your own culture?
Get out of your own culture to understand the world around you.
KM: Go to a "Screamo" concert like I did with my daughter
Honesty is so important to understanding your own culture.
If you're saying that your core values are something that they aren't and no one knows it they'll think you're a liar.
Q for audience: Sometimes you have to give the culture not what they want, but what they need
*for = from
Kem: Can you give us an example practically? (Love it.)
No one will respond if they feel forced to change.
*Amen, sister.
KM: You need to have relational collateral in order to ask people to change.
(This is a buzzword-heavy conference.)
The first step is to get out of our culture. The second is to get in relationship with someone from another culture.
KM: Get the back story.
KS: How do we understand the people we interact with?
Kem: What's in the thought bubble above your head?
If you're not in a position of influence on your staff, become a student of the culture of your leadership team!
Learn how to speak their language and understand how they speak. Then speak to them that way....
Always ask the question, "Who are we trying to reach?"
"What's God leading you to reach?"
KM: Don't stop at "What's the cool thing right now?" You stop at "What is reaching people and why?"
KM: I will dismiss certain environments because they are out of touch.
Order: People, problems, pain.
KM: How do we stop ourselves from chasing relevance and be comfortable with the relevance we already have?
KS: We need to go back to the heart of God so we don't become more focused on systems rather than people.
KM: We want to be relevant, but we don't want to focus too much on relevance. That's the tension.
KM: Practically, churches do not know how to practice cultural relevance in their lobby, on the website, in communications, etc.
KM: To be culturally relevant, maybe you need to kill the ministry menu on your website. (YES!)
KM: How can we talk about cultural relevance if churches are still worried about telling people to not bring coffee into the auditorium! (Kem's bringing the heat. For real.)
KS: You're called to reach people and it may only be for a brief segment of their life. (Meaning, they may only be in your church until they get married!)
KM: Our job is not to send the right message but to release the right response.
KM: Are you trying to capture people's attention or are you trying to liberate them?
KM: Are you addressing a problem in culture that is 5 years old?
*And that's a wrap
