Transcript Remember……. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is NOW.

Remember…….
The best time to plant a tree
was 20 years ago,
the second best time is
NOW
‘Are there structures and patterns which let
that basic event of encounter
happen again and again?
Because if not , the church has become
something very different from where it started;
it’s become a community which says once there
was an encounter with Jesus and we like to
remember that.
We have to ask much more radically , how do
we structure a community in which it goes on
being possible ,even likely ,that people will
meet Jesus and in meeting Jesus will want
more people to meet Jesus.’
There is not one
model or type
of pioneer.
There is always a danger of stereotyping pioneers but there is not one
type of personality, character, or experiences which makes a pioneer. There are
myriad kinds of pioneers who share some of these common traits but
they work out in different people in a huge variety of creative ways.
A pioneer is as a person called by God
who has the character and gifting to
respond first to the Holy Spirit’s initiatives
within a particular context
and to create, with others,
something in response
to these promptings
which opens up new horizons.
The Five things you must do
1. Understand the practices and
processes of starting
Effectuation thinking
Saras Sarasvathy
http://www.effectuation.org/
Effectuation
• organisational mindset
– objectives, strategic plans, timelines
– love market research
• pioneering mindset
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start with what you have got
collaborative
experimental
objectives arise from experience
prefer to network than do market research
• both are valid – in the right context
Saras Sarasvathy, Effectuation, 2008
Prayer
Love
Relate
Prayer
Create
Build a great Team asap
NURTURING COMMUNITY TEAM BUILDING
Community qualities
• Unite around core values (revisit and revise)
• Learn and appreciate differences (personalities, gifts,
roles)
• Openness, vulnerability & service (seed qualities for
the plant)
• Welcoming – ‘ripple out’ to others
MH p.18
Start up team
Members of trusting teams……..
•Admit weakness and mistakes
•Ask for help
•Accept questions and input about their areas
•Give one another the benefit of the doubt if possible
•Take risks in offering feedback and assistance
•Appreciate and tap into one another's skills and
experiences
•Focus time and energy on important issues not politics
•Offer and accept apologies without hesitation
•Look forward to meeting and other opportunities
to work as a group
Two dominant influences on recruiting a team
•Homophilytend to associate & bond with similar others
Familiarlyties exist between people
Questions people may ask?
Can I make a contribution?
Trial time?
Agree with vision?
There is a need for Diversity
Responsiveness
Associative capacity
Calling
Character
Chemistry
Values of the team
• creativity
• curiosity
• risk
• contextual
• prototypes
• serve
3. Develop the multiplying factor
Multiply rather than add
The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are
few, therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to
send out labourers into his harvest.
We do not want you to copy or imitate us.
We want to be like a ship that has
crossed the ocean,
leaving a wake of foam, which soon fades away.
We want you to follow the Spirit,
which we have sought to follow,
but who must be sought anew
in every generation.
Quakers of Balby, 17C
Sustaining
What are we sustaining?
Why are we sustaining this?
How we would know we are doing this?
Multiplying
What are we multiplying?
How are we multiplying?
Why are we multiplying?
I am suggesting that the only
answer is
a congregation of
women and men
who believe the gospel
and live by it.
Leslie Newbiggin.
4.
Stay close to Jesus
‘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
5. The aim are lives changed by Jesus.
‘How does the church become the
evangelising centre it was meant
to be?
Before we think of programmes
or techniques, we need to be renewed
in our vision of who Christ is and
what God’s purposes are for the world.’
Rebecca Manley Pippert.
Defining discipleship
as 'a form of
apprenticeship
undertaken in
community',
“ We are not inviting people to join an
institution, nor to educate people in a
process of interior transformation.
We are inviting people into a renewed
creation made possible by Christ
through the Spirit.”
Rowan Williams
How we are formed to be like Christ
•Gods word
•Gods spirit
•the circumstances of life
•other people
The Four seasons of circumstances.
•the party
•the desert
•the battle
•the victory
Lucy Peppiat, The Disciple ,Cascade Books
What else would you add to this list?
1. Don’t be busy
The Dangers
•Burn out
•Drop out
•Level out
•Fall out
•Spread out
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
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
Be still and still moving
At home on the road
2. Don’t lose your focus
or get distracted
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.
3. Don’t lose your prophetic edge
You can’t predict the outcome
anymore
Control to chaos
Answers to questions
Certainty to risk
Traditional Leadership Complexity Leadership
Alignment & control
Change efforts driven
top down
Rely on leader, vision,
implementation & execution
Interaction & adaptability
Change is emergent
Leader seeds organisation
with ability to generate
change and adapt.
Able handle ambiguity &
make decisions when factors
unclear.
‘The church is a complex adaptive system….
True leadership is the building of adaptive
systems of incredible complexity without a
master plan but with bottom up, self regulating
control. This control starts with chaos and
moves to order, starts with energy and moves
to form, starts with spirit and moves to structure.’
Len Sweet, Aquachurch 2.0
Leadership is an activity which
mobilises people to adapt successfully
to new changes in a way which is
socially useful.
Technical problems
Adaptive problems
“Leadership is taking responsibility
for hard problems
beyond having formal
or informal authority.”
4. Don’t avoid the tough decisions
5. Don’t be put off by failure
A Vision from failure
The process of trial and
error is essential
1. Try new things
2. Make failure survivable
3. Know when you have failed
What else would you add to this list?