Breakthrough ideas with Chad: 

• It is possible to out-envision your vision by building and buying too much.


• How do you lead when your available ministry budget is less than 5%?


• How do you lead active ministry when there are no resources?


• Relationships and caring for people do not require a lot of money.


• What might God do If you set aside substantial time to pray every Sunday?


• What if prayer in your worship services was more than just a transition?


• What if prayer in your staff and congregation was more than something you did and was something you are?


• Prayer turns the mentality of your church from “what can we do?” to “what can God do?”


• Instead of asking why did God allow this? What if you asked, “what is God doing in this?”


• The great commission does not call us to “Go and Build Buildings.”


• Inward focus distracts from your outward calling.


• Until the problems of who is not here become a greater focus than the preferences of who is already here you will starve the Great Commission.


• When it seems like every obvious clue says no way, sometimes the Spirit says go anyway.


• There is no church that God is not big enough to revive.


• You can only play the “…because I’m the pastor” card once.


• Trust is built by being transparent and deal directly and honestly with critical issues.


• Your church has a functional mission, survival, making a budget, building a building.


• It doesn’t cost anything to train people and become a more welcoming church.


• Does your structure help you accomplish the mission or does it stand in the way of your mission?


• When is it time to change your structure from committees to elders?


• In most cases, you will struggle to out-give an overbearing debt but you can out-grow the debt by making disciples.


• Whether you’ve incurred or inherited an overwhelming debt, reaching and making disciples impacts more than campaigning.


• Nothing inspires people about getting out of debt, but life change moves hearts and minds.


• It doesn’t cost any money to make a couple of calls and recruit volunteers to welcome THIS SUNDAY.


• Embracing the outsider with hospitality is reaching people as Jesus commanded.


• There is a way out, no matter the size debt or challenges, God is bigger than those moments.


• Stick with what God has planted in your heart – when He called you to the church, God knew what the problems were even if you didn’t.


• Own your mistakes and be honest – genuinely love your people, and they will love you back.


• Practice tactical patience, you don’t have to get involved in every situation.


• God will honor faithfulness – He loves your church more than you do


• Is there a difference in giving God your “first time” versus your “best time” every day?


• Why is it important to be gentle and friendly with those you disagree with?


• How do you shift from assuming the worst in disagreement to thinking the best in someone?

Breakthrough resources:

Brothers, We Are Not Professionals by John Piper

The Treasure Principle by Randy Alcorn

I Am a Church Member by Thom Rainer

Chad Keck currently serves as the Senior Pastor of FBC Kettering, OH. He is married to Candace, and they have four children; Hadley, Shepherd, John, and Calvin. Chad also is an adjunct professor at Cedarville University and works for the Executive Committee of the SBC as a Cooperative Program Catalyst. He loves to snow ski, read, and travel.