Which way now?

Leadership:

from roots to routes

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“Forget about what’s happened; don’t keep going over old history. Be alert, be present. I’m about to do something brand-new.”

Isaiah 43:18 (The Message)“The local church is the hope of the world”.Bill Hybels – founder & CO Willow Creek Association“Where the church is on a downward spiral, continuing to do what it already does is not an answer…only change offers the possibility of reversing the slide”.Maggie Durran

The Church is in chaos! “Things ain’t what they used to be!”

Traditional values have gone

Authority is to be questioned

Life is for living…now

Seek the moment

24/7 culture v traditional view

Credibility gap

Post-Christendom era

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What is the church response to all this?

Review

Re-configure

Re-structure

What is the result of the three ‘R’s?

More control

Greater internal chaos

No real leadership

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So… what is needed is LEADERSHIP:

‘providing direction for the journey’

However….let’s start at a different place!

WHAT DO YOU SEE?

WE DON’T SEE THINGS THE WAY THEY ARE……..

WE SEE THINGS THE WAY WE ARE……!

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A Draw what come

to mind whenyou hear theword ‘leader’

B If you could have dinner with any leader, who

would you choose and why?

C What is at the heart of what leaders do?

D What do other participants

think?

LEADERSHIP: providing direction for the journey’

KEY CHARACTERISTICS

Reflective Listening

Discipleship Discerning

Visionary Radical

Team

LEADERSHIP: ‘providing direction for the journey’

KEY CHARACTERISTICS

Servant Mentoring

Life long learning Inspirational

Risk taking Managing conflict

What would you add to the list?

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TASK:

Read the abstract from ‘What is a circuit Superintendent?’ and discuss the three questions with others nearby.

Please ensure that you tackle question two

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Jesus’ ministry was about RELATIONSHIPS

Jesus’ ministry was about offering NEW EXPERIENCES

Jesus saw people as INDIVIDUALS not as problems

Jesus’ method of working was CONVERSATION and IDENTIFICATION

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TASK: TEAL TRUST

Using the scoring sheet, work out your preferred Leadership style type indicator.

Share this with a partner or in threes.

What surprised you?

What challenged you?

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To consider:

Creative use of power

Clear communication

Open and honest

Admitting failure

Developing creativity

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If I make no change . . . If I change . . . What are the dangers? What are the dangers?What are the opportunities? What are the opportunities?What are the advantages? What are the advantages?What are the disadvantages? What are the disadvantages?

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If Christian mission is about ‘Seeing what God is doing and joining in’….

What do you need to unlearn?

What do you need to let go of?

What current assumptions do you need to

question?

What do you need to embrace?

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If you have come to help me

Then you are wasting your time.

But if you have come

Because your liberation

is bound up with mine

Then come,

Let us walk together.

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“Costly grace…is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It’s costly because it costs a man his life, and is grace because it gives a man the only true life.”

D. Bonhoeffer

“The real faith of a Christian is more akin to a rolling jazz session than a march on the barrack square. It is about joy and exhilaration, about dancing on the edge”

Richard Holloway

www.teal.org.uk

Finding your leadership style. Keith Lamdin. SPCK 2012ISBN: 978-0-281-06479-6

Hit the ground kneeling. Stephen Cottrell. Church House Publishing. 2010 ISBN: 978-0-7151-4209-7

Skills for Collaborative Ministry. S.Nash, J.Pimlott, P.Nash. SPCK 2008ISBN: 978-0-281-05994-2