Developing Missional

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Developing Missional Leaders for the 21st
Century Church
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Sometimes things change and they are never the
same again. This looks like one of those times.
Life moves on. And so should we.
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The first task of the leader is to define
reality.
Max De Pree
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The pessimist complains about the wind, the
optimist expects it will change. The leader
adjusts the sails.
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1. Missional leadership is the key
2. Most models repackage old paradigms
3. Discontinuous change is the norm
4. Congregations still matter
5. Leaders need new capacities frameworks
6. A church is a unique organisation

Alan Roxburgh. The Missional Leader
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What or who is a Missional leader ?
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Recognising the changing context
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this majority (66) presents a major challenge
to churches. Most of them are unreceptive and
closed to attending church churchgoing is
simply not on their agenda. Churchgoing in
the UK Report 2007
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What is taking place is not merely the continued
decline of organised Christianity but the death
of the culture which formerly conferred
Christian identity upon the people as a
whole. Callum Browne Death of Christian Britain
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Understanding the Mission of God (missio dei)
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it is not the church of God which has a
mission but the God of mission who has a
church. Tim Dearborn
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• How do we join with God in his mission here
• How do we lead others as we join with God in
  his.
• How do we equip others as we join with God

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What does a leader for the open seas look like?
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a person with a detailed knowledge of an area of
water, who goes on to a ship to direct it safely.
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Spectrum of pioneering
Pioneer Starter
Pioneer Sustainer
Sustainer Pioneer
Sustainer Developer
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Four enduring features?

• Dissatisfied
• Not grumbler but wanting change for the better
• Visionary
• Looks beyond what is to what could be
• Hopeful
• Change is possible and this inspires others
• Risk takers
• Acts on convictions and out of comfort zones

Stuart Murray Ch 7 Planting Churches who?
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Danger of one model for pioneering
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Questions for discussion?

• Where are you in the spectrum? Do
• you know?
• What do you think are the key qualities
• that makes a pioneer? Do you
• have them?
• Any questions

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What are we trying to do in these new waters?
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Building team
Building community
Exploring Jesus together
Listening, praying loving in the Kingdom
Becoming Christ like together centred on Him
Underpinned by prayer, on going listening and
relationship to the wider church
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Able to pray, listen and discern
if Christian mission is about, seeing what God
is doing and joining in. then discernment
the cultivating of an environment which enables
discernment are the leadership capacities most
needed at this time.
Graham Cray, The
Discerning Leader
Grove Book 2010
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Able to love and serve
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Stickyness
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• Membership
• Influence
• Integration and fulfilment of needs
• Shared emotional connection
• Sense of community is a feeling that members
  have of
• belonging, a feeling that members matter to one
  another and
• to the group and a shared faith that members
  needs will be met
• through their commitment to be together.
• D.McMillan and D.Chavis. A
  sense of community

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Evangelist
do the work of an evangelist.

• envision
• encourage
• equip
• example

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Ecclesial former
How do we communally express what is happening to
us as we meet Jesus?
re infect the world with worship
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• Reorientating- looking out
• Reconnecting- walls down
• Recreating-sending out

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Questions for discussion?

• What does re-orientation
• mean for you?
• Reconnection?
• Recreating?
• Any questions

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What are the key characteristics of missional
leaders?
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People who are
first
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People who are
on the edge
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People who are
moving out
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People who know
when to stay or go
The final missionary step as regards the people,
and the most important lesson we will ever teach
them -is to leave them.
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People who know
when to bring order or chaos
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People who
take risks
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People who are
sure of where they are and who they are.
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Questions for discussion?

• Which of these characteristics
• do you identify with?
• Any questions

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How do you create a missional leader ?
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I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to
provide the conditions in which they can
learn. Albert Einstein
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• Environment
• Exposure
• Experiences
• Education/training
• Cohort

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The icebergs
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The danger of expectations
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The problem of measurement
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Be aware of the default position
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Its a marathon not a sprint
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Losing the focus
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Isolation
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Disturb us Lord, when we are too well pleased
with ourselves, when our dreams have come
true because we have dreamed too little, when we
arrived safely because we sailed too close to the
shore.
Sir Francis Drake