Since its inception in 1995, North Point Ministries has grown from one campus to five in the Atlanta area and has helped plant over thirty strategic partner churches globally.
Each Sunday, more than 25,000 adults attend worship services at one of NPM’s five campuses: North Point Community Church, Browns Bridge Community Church, Buckhead Church, Watermarke Church, and Gwinnett Church.
Andy’s books included the recently re-released Enemies of the Heart, as well as The Grace of God, Communicating for a Change, Making Vision Stick, Next Generation Leader, The Principle of the Path, and How Good is Good Enough? Andy lives in Alpharetta, Georgia, with his wife, Sandra, and their three children.
For more information about Andy Stanley and North Point Ministries, visit www.northpointministries.org.
- Whether we mean to or not, we have intentionally or accidentally created some kind of organizational culture.
- Every organization has a culture.
- Culture is a set of unwritten rules that determines how people in an organization act, react, communicate, problem-solve and treat each other.
- Culture indicates the attitudes, beliefs, values, standards, expectations, prejudices, approaches,and phobias that characterize its people when they are together.
- Culture is the personality of an organization.
- Your personality is reflected in your organization.
- Who your is reflected in the organization that you create.
- The longer you there the less aware you are of the culture. It becomes invisible to you.
- New people recognize it immediately.
- When we see things in our organization that we don’t like, we tend to look out the window, instead of the mirror.
- You have got to create tools to help you see your or organization and your culture with fresh eyes.
- What can you do to make sure that your culture isn’t invisible to you?
- At North Point, they survey new staff members at their 3 month and 1 year marks of being on staff to evaluate the culture of their organization.
- We need tools and ways to have fresh eyes.
3 – Healthy cultures attract and keep healthy people.
- Unhealthy people flourish in an unhealthy environment; healthy people will flourish in a healthy environment.
- Don’t hire a ministry, have a ministry.
- Unhealthy people will be unhappy in a healthy environment.
4 – The culture of an organization impacts the long-term productivity of an organization.
- A healthy culture is more productive.
- If productivity is tired to a healthy environment, it is essential for us to create a healthy culture.
- If we aren’t productive, God’s work won’t advance.
You have a culture in your church.
- We owe it to ourselves, our people, and to God to create the strongest, healthiest culture.
- We’ll get done, we’ll be more productive and the Kingdom of God will advance.
