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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A fresh expression is a church plant or a new
congregation. It is not a new way to reach
people and add them to an existing congregation.
It is not an old outreach with a new name.
(rebrand) Nor is it a half way house, which
people belong to for a while, on their way into
Christian faith, before crossing over to proper
church. This is proper church. Graham Cray.
An Introduction to fresh expressions
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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 through worship
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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Missionary
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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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
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Questions for discussion?

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