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Sustaining
the initiative
And the leaders
Melbourne July 2015
http://davemale.typepad.com/churchunplugged
The service first journey
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Sustaining
What are we sustaining?
Why are we sustaining this?
How we would know we are doing this?
How do we measure
Multiplying
What are we multiplying?
How are we multiplying?
Why are we multiplying?
Sustainability
Three selfs model
self financing
self governing
self reproducing
self theologising
MSC p120
Four possible questions
1. Is it bearing fruit ?
2. Does it pay attention to the flow
3. Is it well connected to the wider family
4. Is there an appropriate degree of freedom
Importance of
• sustaining the leaders
• sustaining the scale
• sustaining the simplicity
Moynagh chapter 20
Start with the end in mind
• creating disciples who make
disciples of Jesus
• indigenous leadership who
will lead in different ways
and places
‘ move from a church where things happen
to a people on a mission to whom we belong.’
Acting too quickly or slowly
‘ Be quick but don’t hurry.’
Start with values- what are we about?
Agreeing principles that guides how these
values are expressed.
Allow maximum flexibility within these principles
Moynagh
The Dangers
•Burn out
•Drop out
•Level out
•Fall out
•Spread out
Competence
Community
Chosen
Courage
Call
James Lawrence; Growing Leaders
Character
We use selective inattention and forgetting
to get through life, we assume it’s the
crazy pace of our lives that is killing us
when really it’s our inattention to our
deepest desire, the desire for God.
Marshall Jenkins
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
Disconnect to
reconnect
Paying attention is not a way by which we
make something happen but a way to see
what is already given to us.
‘Let us open our eyes.’ Benedict
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
Fulfilling
personal
commitments
Handling
suffering
well
Facing
our dark
side
Exercising
spiritual
disciplines
Develop
selfawareness
Dealing with
disappointments
Breaking
through
quitting points
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
The character of the leader
1.Personal maturity
2. Conflict management
3. Personal Courage
4. Trustworthy & trusting