Today, I will highlight the last of six new realities presented in "The Present Future". I hope that this has been beneficial to you and that we are better for it.
I'll turn my thoughts and this blog to another recent read next week.
I'm headed to Ft. Worth with a great group of men and leaders in the Church of Oklahoma City. You can learn a bit more about our endeavors at www.Vision360.org. And I look forward to sharing some thoughts on our time with you.
New Reality Number Six – The Rise of Apostolic Leadership.
You are being asked to lead during a time when you are not sure where all this is going. If previous history is an accurate indicator, the kinds of changes we are undergoing will not settle out for another century or more.
This really encourages me to slow down and seek an evolutionary approach to change rather than a revolutionary approach that demands change now. Let's not euthanize an old model and latch on to a new up-and-comer. The cycle of change may in fact be: conception, celebrate, wait, birth, infancy, grow up, life, come of age, death, grieve, resurrection.
Wrong Question #6: How Do We Develop Leaders For Church Work?
This is probably harsh, but who cares about church work? Kill the bubble -Serve the world!
We are training mechanics to work on machinery of the church industry when we need a new engine. We need transitional leaders who will help the church find a new expression in the emerging world. What does this leadership look like and how will it be developed?
I'm sure I'll get to this in more depth with a future blog book review, but try this on for size. If the railroad people were really concerned with transporting people then they would own the airlines. But instead railroad people became about the railroad and were passed by, left in the dust, reminiscing about the good ole days of superior travel by rail. Meanwhile people are whizzing by overhead. What is our version of transporting people? What does this mean to the Church? Let's not miss the point.
Tough Question #6: How Do We Develop Leaders For The Christian Movement
While the term "movement" is becoming quite cool of late, I still love what it entails, movement, journey, change, go, new, next, flex, give, take, stretch, etc.
The goal of a congregation’s leadership development process is to create a core of leaders who are capable of strategizing, launching, and conducting a mission for expanding the kingdom of God.
What strategies do you often think about? What are you becoming convinced of? What new thing would you like to see? What has never been done? Where does the light of the kingdom of God need to push back darkness?
I believe Jesus is the hope of the world. I believe God has called out a people to make sure the world knows this. These people are the church. Nothing less than dying to ourselves will free us from ourselves so we can come alive to God and become captured by his heart for people.
Let's be a people that are full of hope. Let's extend that hope to people everywhere. Let's be the church. What do you need to die to? Be freed from? Come alive to? Be captured by?
I'll turn my thoughts and this blog to another recent read next week.
I'm headed to Ft. Worth with a great group of men and leaders in the Church of Oklahoma City. You can learn a bit more about our endeavors at www.Vision360.org. And I look forward to sharing some thoughts on our time with you.
New Reality Number Six – The Rise of Apostolic Leadership.
You are being asked to lead during a time when you are not sure where all this is going. If previous history is an accurate indicator, the kinds of changes we are undergoing will not settle out for another century or more.
This really encourages me to slow down and seek an evolutionary approach to change rather than a revolutionary approach that demands change now. Let's not euthanize an old model and latch on to a new up-and-comer. The cycle of change may in fact be: conception, celebrate, wait, birth, infancy, grow up, life, come of age, death, grieve, resurrection.
Wrong Question #6: How Do We Develop Leaders For Church Work?
This is probably harsh, but who cares about church work? Kill the bubble -Serve the world!
We are training mechanics to work on machinery of the church industry when we need a new engine. We need transitional leaders who will help the church find a new expression in the emerging world. What does this leadership look like and how will it be developed?
I'm sure I'll get to this in more depth with a future blog book review, but try this on for size. If the railroad people were really concerned with transporting people then they would own the airlines. But instead railroad people became about the railroad and were passed by, left in the dust, reminiscing about the good ole days of superior travel by rail. Meanwhile people are whizzing by overhead. What is our version of transporting people? What does this mean to the Church? Let's not miss the point.
Tough Question #6: How Do We Develop Leaders For The Christian Movement
While the term "movement" is becoming quite cool of late, I still love what it entails, movement, journey, change, go, new, next, flex, give, take, stretch, etc.
The goal of a congregation’s leadership development process is to create a core of leaders who are capable of strategizing, launching, and conducting a mission for expanding the kingdom of God.
What strategies do you often think about? What are you becoming convinced of? What new thing would you like to see? What has never been done? Where does the light of the kingdom of God need to push back darkness?
I believe Jesus is the hope of the world. I believe God has called out a people to make sure the world knows this. These people are the church. Nothing less than dying to ourselves will free us from ourselves so we can come alive to God and become captured by his heart for people.
Let's be a people that are full of hope. Let's extend that hope to people everywhere. Let's be the church. What do you need to die to? Be freed from? Come alive to? Be captured by?
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