The Server
Starts the break.
Usually (but not always) is the person who “resets”, making sure the listener knows who we are, what we’re doing, and why they are needed.
Present.
Really connected to the moment.
Focused.
The person who sets the tone for the break.
There are so many creative ways to do this!
After serving, may become the setter or the spiker.
Connected. Focused. Knows the plan.
The Setter
Brings the content – the heart of the break.
Story or Case Messaging.
Connected to their own soul, connected to the content, connected to the listener.
Does their very important part - and then gets in position to support.
The Spiker
The closer.
The one who locks eyes with the listener.
Leads the charge on tension, urgency, and triggers.
Tension: Creates a tension that only the listener can break.
Urgency: Energy filled with hope and clear expectation.
Triggers: The reason to give RIGHT NOW, and not later.
Lands the plane with high intentionality.
The Defense Support Player
Always ready for anything.
Eye on the ball.
Won’t let the ball hit the ground.
Could take any needed role in the break.
Ready to give the phone number/website at any moment.
Always listening for the phone number/website, making sure it’s given.
Strong “eye contact” with the listener.
Always paying attention.
This is all of us at any moment.
The Blockers
Fear
Feelings of worthlessness and self-hatred
Feelings of failure
Busyness
Apathy
Not having clarity
Inflation tension
Attention deficit
Hardened heart
The Point
You are the one.
This place is not possible without you.
You are needed.
You are the key.
You can make a difference.
You are the reason others can benefit.
You are valuable.
This is your time.
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Questions that need to be answered:
WHY SHOULD I CARE?
DOES MY GIFT MATTER?
The clarity of your answers to these two questions are extremely important.
Joy
Joy is the secret sauce. Joy is how Jesus did the hardest thing (Hebrews 12:2). It fuels our brains. It feeds our identity in Christ and is the hallmark of our Northie culture. All the fundraising strategies, tactics, and skills are important and worthy of study, but joy is the key.
From the book The Other Side of Church by Jim Wilder and Michel Hendricks:
OUR BRAIN NEEDS fuel to run properly. The fuel that our brains were intended to run on is joy. Very simply, joy is what you experience when you can see in another person’s face and eyes that they are happy to be with you. God describes this joy in Numbers 6:25: “The Lord make his face shine upon you.” God commands the priests to bless people with this phrase. It is also the neurological definition of joy as presented by Dr. Allan Schore, a professor at UCLA. He is known as the Einstein of psychiatry, and as far as we know, he is not a Christian. But he discovered what God already knows: joy is the fuel on which the brain was designed to run.
Romans 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit, you may aboud in hope.
Game on Northies!
Ephesians 3:20-21
Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
Volleyball pictures taken from the University of Northwestern Volleyball Facebook page.
