The Life & Work of a Missional Leader

Leading missionary engagement in Context

Collective Session 2

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• What do you look for in a leader?

• Write down a dozen characteristics

We could ask the Question

• The Life of the Leader – Character/Qualities

• The Work of the Leader – Behaviours

4

• What did Jesus DO? (WDJD!)

• What did Jesus DO for his Followers?

In Groups of 2 or 3

Missional Leader’s Work

• Recognising it’s God’s mission• Understanding the Context• Getting & sharing vision for calling• Gathering & Building team• Process based on discernment & planning• Reading Culture & find Gospel connections• Social engagement & strategic evangelism• Mentoring & multiplying disciples &

leaders• Building Community on values & vehicles

More on these in focussed sessions

1. Recognising it’s God’s Mission

• The “missio dei” – “God so loved the World … – Expect an active initiating God – Love the only mission motivation

• Finding out what God is doing & joining in!

• Spirituality & Theology equal to the Task

Recognising It’s God’s Mission

2. Understanding our Context

Christendom Context

Church

Society

Fringe

Robert Warren – Building Missionary Congregations

Christendom Context

Society

Fringe

Church

Secular Pluralism

Church

• Church of the School

• Surfers Church

• Church of Urban poor (Viv Grigg)

• Church of Retirement Residential Home

• Church of families & kids (“Messy Church”)

• Church of Handicapped

• Church in Café culture

• Romany/Gypsy Church

• Iranian/Afghan asylum church

Eg. Contextual Engagement

All sorts of “fresh expressions” of church

The NationalPopulation

Age

Chur

ch

Non - Churched

Closed De - Churched

Fringe

STOP starting with the church!

Open De - Church

ed

Non-churched (40%)

Closed de-churched (20%)

Open de-churched (20%)

Fringe - less than monthly (10%)

Regular attendees - at least monthly (10%)

Different mission fields

The ends of the earth … the unthinkable?

Non-Churched ?

Samaria … the disagreeable?

De-Churched ?

Judean Journey isn’t enoughJudea … the familiar?

Fringe ?Churched

Notice what happens to the old centre, and the mission shape

• Attractional Church

• Engaged Church

• Emerging Church

3 Missional Approaches

Hirsch & Frost – adapted by Hopkins

Attractional Method

COMECOME

GO and thenGO and then

COMECOME

Engaged Method

GO and then STAYGO and then STAY

and see what ARISES

Emerging Method

Inherited Emerging

Programmes Buildings

Large Groups Organisation

People CommunitySmall Groups Relationships

Church =Building + Priest + Stipend

Church =People + Faith + Action

Robert Warren – Building Missionary Congregations

Changing Church Modes

• Mixed EconomyInherited + New Ways of Church

• Fresh Expressions v. Church Plants

• Mission shaping Church v. Church shaping Mission

Changed language -> Thinking

A Gospel principle at work

• “dying to live”

“ I tell you the truth, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it produces many seeds”

John 12: 24

dvd case study

A story to illustrate

3. Getting & sharing Vision for Calling

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Listen

GET VISIONSHARE

VISION

Define

DiscernConfirm

Own

Cast

From God to the world

Voice of God

Voice of people

Sifts Vision

Sifts followers

Getting & Sharing Vision

4. Gathering & building Team

27

Minister

MusicAssistant

Admin/Secretary Youth & Children

Just 4 Reporting Relationships

What IS and ISN’T Team

28

10 Team Relationships

Leader

Member 4Member 1

Member 2 Member 3

What IS and ISN’T Team

29

WorkingFor

WorkingAgainst

or

Team differences - the Key

5. Processes based on Discernment in Context & Planning

Action

Planning

Discernment in ContextDiscernment in Context

Phased Planning

6. Reading the Culture & finding Gospel Connections

• What do we know already?

• Initial Research

• Deeper Listening

• Reflection and testing God’s call

• Presentation and action

5 Stages of Listening

Affirming aspect

- Leading into every good provision & purpose

Challenging aspects

- Leading out of all in culture that is destructive & diminishing

Know your Gospel … of the Kingdom

“God’s total answer to the Human condition”

Find Gospel Connections

7. Social Engagement & Strategic Evangelism

Community Engagement

Social Engagement- Immersion in theirs

- “invading secular space”

Strategic Evangelism

Strategic approach to Evangelism- Rather than our favourite method

Strategies of Evangelism- “Person of Peace”

- Passing & permanent relationships

- Proclamation & presence

- God’s power & our Preparation

What makes Good soil Good?!

8. Mentoring & Multiplying Disciples & Leaders

Mentor/apprentice

Formal training

Socialisation

3 Processes of Learning/Formation

Mentoring Leaders

Vision & Values of Discipleship

Aim: A transformational journey with Jesus to become like Him

Discipleship Process

Discipleship Method

- Accountability …. “Huddles”

Biblical Discipleship Principles

- Something like “Lifeshapes”

Aim: A transformational journey with Jesus to become like Him

9. Building Community on Values & Vehicles

Community Values

Spoken & unspoken Values

- Recognised & unrecognised

Our Values & Their Values

- Contextual or Imperial

Values build community … in Unity?

But is it “in Context”?

Have you agreed Values?

Sea Level

The iceberg of assumed values

4 Spaces of Belonging

• Intimate space

accountability

• Personal space small

group

• Social space mid-size

community

• Public space

celebration

Joseph R Meyers – The search to Belong

The missing Social Space

Able to express the culture of a context

- the sum of all our contributions

Able to re-build Community

- Restoring a broken society

Mid-size: extended family: synagogue

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Old Testament

Friend Family Synagogue Temple

New Testament

3 12 72 Crowd

Biblical Community Vehicles

10. Summary – Leading through the “Paradigm Shift”

Anglican etc.

Baptist etc.

Based on Control

Alan Roxburgh – Leadership & liminality

Based on Release

Apostolic

Prophetic

Mission Movement

Q & A

What Q’s does this raise for you?

360 degree Listening