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Pioneering Leadership
Developing new frontiers of the Kingdom
Question for discussion?
Why did you come today?
What are you hoping to
get out of today?
2004
30,000 copies sold
Unanimous approval at
General Synod
Discussed and
implemented in
Dioceses
Influence in UK
Ecumenical
Worldwide influence
A fresh expression
is a form of church
for our changing culture
established primarily for the
benefit of people who are
not yet members of any church.
Recent research in the UK.
Across 10 CofE Dioceses in England………..
On average 10% of church attendance
15% of church communities.
In 7 out of 10 dioceses it reversed the decline
in church attendance
20 different models of FX & across socio-economic
groups.
Starting team 3-12 people. Average size 44.
52% leaders lay ( 2/3 female)
77% people outside church, 44% unchurched,
33% dechurched
1,500 Methodist FXs
www.churcharmy.org.uk/fxcresearch
The Mixed Economy
both-and
continue to grow and develop
the church as it is
establish fresh expressions
of church
Question for discussion?
How does the reality
of the mixed economy
impact your work
practically both positively
and negatively?
A missional
re-engagement
with society
‘ the church is missionary
by it’s very nature…….
the church does not have
a mission
but the mission has
a church.’
Prophetic Dialogue.
Bevans and Scroeder
“ we understood mission one
way and organised life to
accomplish it. We have
awakened to find out the
mission moved on us. To
keep focusing on mission, we
have to turn the furniture
around and face a different
direction. We may even have
to move into another room.”
Loren Mead. The Once and Future Church
A re-imagination
of what church is
(and could become)
“how to manage the crossover from what
we do to what God does…..with the sacramental
life flowing through as a sign and channel
of God’s action.
We might need to sit light to a lot of the externals,
to break the mould and concentrate on what
sort of environment allows God the space to be
God,actively and transformingly.”
“ the theological doctrine of the church
cannot be simply expressed in abstract terms
about the churches timeless nature. It will
have to provide points of departure for
reforming the church, for giving it a more
authentic form. Faithfulness and the fresh
start are not antitheses in
the history of the Spirit.”
Jurgen Moltmann, The Church in the Power of the Spirit
‘not leaving the tradition
but driving to it’s heart’
Gerald Arbuckle, Refounding the Church
Church as four sets of relationships.
up
of
out
in
Moynagh, Church for Every Context p 106.
A re-orientation
towards whole life
discipleship.
“ If not part of a mutually
discipling community the
culture will disciple you.”
Graham Cray
•How we see God
•How we see ourselves and others
•How we see our community
•How we see creation and society
Who am I?
How do I
identify
myself as a
pioneering
leader?
Who does
the church/
my church
think I am?
Self identity
I am not in the office at the moment.
Send any work to be translated.
An important
qualifications
This is not solo pioneering leadership
‘ Pioneering gifts are widely distributed in the
team and beyond , and the pioneer leader
is to help create a context where these gifts
can be exercised.’
Mike Moynagh
Pioneering teams
‘ one of the great myths of entrepreneurship has
been the notion if the leader as a lone hero…
The reality is that successful entrepreneurs either
built teams about them or were part of a team
throughout.’
Thomas Cooney, What is an Entrepreneurial Team
Imaginative Team
• Innovators
• Bridge builders
• Persuaders
Values of the team
• creativity
• open system
• risk
• contextual
• prototypes
• serve
Questions for discussion?
•Who do you have with you in this ?
(Your team)
Who might you need to join you?
How will this happen?
The practices
required
Prayer
Love
Relate
Prayer
Create
What kind of practices are required?
1. Prayer and listening.
2. Making or developing relationships
outside the church
3. Developing new communities
4. Articulating and explaining faith
5. Creating organic worship
6. Linking up with like minded people
7. Enabling new leaders
Learn from the spider
Find a suitable starting point
Bridge the gap
Create an anchor point
Questions for discussion?
•Where do you think your church
is in this process?
Visible
Communal
Purposeful
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?
“Creativity is no more
than looking at the same
thing as everyone else
and thinking something different.”
Albert Szent-Gyorgi
‘There can be no constructive change
at all, even in church, unless
there is some form of dissent.
By dissent I mean simply the proposing of
alternatives….
and a system that is not
continuously examining alternatives
is not likely to evolve creatively.’
Gerald Arbuckle, Refounding the Church
Questions for discussion?
•Which of these practices is
most useful for your situation and why?
• Would you add any other practices?
The Innovators DNA
The Five Habits of Highly
Innovative Leaders
Questioning
/
Observing
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Networking
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Experimenting
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Associational Thinking
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Need leaders with discovery skills
rather than delivery skills
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Questions for discussion?
•How might you
develop questioning, observing ,
networking & experimenting skills
as you think about your own situation.
•What stops you doing this?
•What might you have to stop doing?
•Reorientating- looking & sending out
•Reconnecting- walls down
•Recreating- Jesus centred communities
How do you develop
creativity in your context?
What are the blocks?
1. Leaders
2. People
3.Time
4. Community
5. Church
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Effectuation thinking
Saras Sarasvathy
http://www.effectuation.org/
Effectuation
Three key questions for creativity
Who am I ?
What do I know?
Who do I know ?
1.They really wanted to do this
2.They begin by taking a small step
3.They stop to see what they have learned.
4.They take another step
Act-learn-build-act………….
‘ Entrepreneurs thrive on contingency.
The best ones improvise their way to an
outcome that in retrospect feels ordained.’
•Who is the mission for?
•Who is the mission by?
•Who is the mission with?
Questions for discussion?
•How do you see this working out
in your own situation?
How can you encourage creativity?
Help people to understand why ‘it’ is
happening
“People responsible for planning &
implementing change forget that while the
first task of change management is to
understand the destination and how to get
there. The first task of transition
management
is to convince people to leave home.
You’ll save yourself a lot of grief if you
remember that”.
William Bridges
Transition communication
•The purpose
•The picture
•The plan
•The part
‘The defining aspect of this change of epoch,
is that things are no longer in their place…..
We cannot simply wait for what we are
experiencing to pass under the
illusion that things will return to being how
they were before.
Pope Francis
•See the need to•Learn enough•Receive enough-
have to
want to
able to
1. Where do you find leadership?
2. Small things matter
3. Trust through consistency
4. Leading form the edge
5. Importance of feedback for learning
6. Challenge control
7. Disturbance is inevitable
How we make decisions in
a fast changing environment
Dave Snowden cynefin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7oz366X0-8
“God grant me the serenity to accept
the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the
things I can,
and the wisdom to know
the difference.”
Reinhold Niebuhr
Questions for discussion?
•What is the main thing you are
going to do after today?
How?
When?
Who?
The Dangers
•Burn out
•Drop out
•Level out
•Fall out
•Spread out
The Red Zone
•physical gauge
•emotional gauge
•relational gauge
•open system gauge
•spiritual gauge
Competence
Community
Chosen
Courage
Call
James Lawrence; Growing Leaders
Character
‘The forming of the soul that it might
be a dwelling place for God is the
primary work of the Christian leader.
This is not an add-on, an option, or a
third-level priority. Without this core
activity, one almost guarantees that
she/he will not last in leadership for
a life-time or that what work is
accomplished will become less
and less reflective of God's honour
and God's purposes. ’
Gordon MacDonald
For most of us, the great danger is not
that we will renounce our faith. It is
that we will become so distracted and
rushed and preoccupied that we will
settle for a mediocre version of it.
We will just skim our lives instead of
actually living them.’
Abstinence
Solitude
Silence
Fasting
Frugality
Chastity
Secrecy
Sacrifice
Engagement
Prayer
Scripture
Study
Worship
Celebration
Service
Fellowship
Confession
Accountability
Apostolic spirituality
‘in Christ we speak …..as persons sent from God
and standing in his presence.’
• at home on the road
• learning to see & listen
• learning to take nothing
for the journey
• learning to live
rhythmically
How do we grow
in character ?
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Mature: humble about strengths, prayerful about
weaknesses, committed to growth
Character
Personality
Mature: build on strengths, integrated,
self aware.
Fulfilling
personal
commitments
Handling
suffering
well
Facing
our dark
side
Exercising
spiritual
disciplines
Develop
selfawareness
Dealing with
disappointments
Breaking
through
quitting points
Self-leadership. Nobody - I mean nobody - can do this
work for us. Every leader has to do this work alone, and it
isn’t easy. In fact, because it’s such tough work most
leaders avoid it. We would rather try to inspire or control
the behaviour of others than face the rigorous work of self
reflection and inner growth.
Bill Hybels
Boundaries for yourself
•open yourself to outside inputs. Open system
•identify where you need fresh input
•be hungry for feedback
•don’t define yourself by outcome
•don’t be ruled by fear
•don’t put off change
•know your weaknesses
•you are in charge of your time and energy
•look for your patterns
Henry Cloud, Boundaries for Leaders.
The people we need
•Seeks God with you
•Challenges you to think
•Corrects you
•Listens to you
•Laughs and plays with you
•Supports you
Questions for discussion?
•Who are these people for you?
•How might you further live your
life?
Iceberg
approaching
The danger of expectations
The problem of measurement
The problem of measurement
• Who is the evaluation for ?
•What is the evaluation for ?
•What is to be measured ?
The problem of measurement
•Expectations
•Time frame
•Criteria
•Who assess
Beware of the default position
Staying the course and
passing on the baton
Losing the focus
Isolation
Taking the tough decisions
The danger
of
domestication
Questions for discussion?
•Which of these dangers have
you experienced?
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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