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    This document discusses the changing nature of leadership that is needed in modern times. It argues that singular world-class leaders are no longer effective, and that the primary role of leaders going forward will be to develop other leaders and disciples who can then develop more disciples. It also emphasizes that leadership needs to focus more on experience than just information, and that intuitive decision making and a bias toward action will be important for new forms of leadership. The role of the lead pastor should be embedding the organizational DNA throughout the church by developing and empowering other leaders.

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    Leadership On The Other Side

    Bill Easum
    Notes by Dave Kraft

    The nature of our times calls for a different type of leader. We are
    entering a world so complicated and so fast paced that it requires something
    far different from the singular world-class leader. No rules, just clues. Many
    modern leaders sense a need to reinterpret the ministry in light of what is
    happening today. Leadership means asking people to give up old values that
    have served them well. The way people receive and process knowledge is
    changing. Leaders are leaving ministry and giving up on any hope of having a
    thriving church and the primary reason is the absence or loss of personal
    mission in life from God that is bigger than their own lives. Your personal
    mission and that of your organization should match. Leaders need to
    surrender to something bigger than their own lives.

    The good leaders have a holy discontent with the status quo. Think of
    leadership as an art rather than a science. In the thriving church of the
    future the primary role of every leader will be to provide an environment in
    which people can grow to be disciples who grow other disciples. The
    emerging world needs leaders of leaders, not leaders of followers.
    Leaders disciple other leaders instead of collecting followers. Leaders
    grow leaders who grow other leaders. This is the heart of leadership on
    the other side. Leaders feel passionately about a few core issues. Leaders
    have to have an intense passion about the core issues and an amazing
    flexibility with everything else. Every authentic leader I have known has a
    deep, burning passion to change the way things are instead of just taking
    care of people. To the new leaders, meaning is conveyed through experience.
    The need to merge the depths of our mental and emotional sensibilities. The
    difference between changing lives and taking care of people.

    Most of our seminaries teach us to be theologians, chaplains, and managers


    instead of spiritual leaders. There is a need to place as much and even more
    emphasis on experience as on information. In a world ruled by speed, the
    longer it takes a church to make a decision, the less accurate and effective
    that decision is. Trying to revitalize a church without changing the
    leadership style is useless. To be out of control is normal. If you like things
    nice and neat, you’re in for a night of fright or a whale of a migraine.
    People are looking for guides who will travel with them, not experts. These
    new leaders make intuitive, instinctive calls that flow from their vision and
    just do it. It is a bias toward action more than a bias toward reflection.
    Instead of a classic, homiletical style, these pastors have a good sense of
    storytelling and, more importantly, life application. The ability to
    constantly innovate “on the fly” will be essential for these leaders” Five
    things are essential to innovate on “the fly” 1) Imagination, 2) curiosity, 3)
    Retooling, 4) Using wild cards when they come, 5) using symbols and
    metaphors. Listen to your instincts, not your critics. Cultivate “a beginners
    mind.” People with a bag of preconceived ideas will not do well. The art of
    story and picture will emerge as primary forms of communication. People
    will not be convinced and brought to faith as much through logic as through
    the heart and personal experience. “Transition is supersonic change at the
    edge of chaos that phases from incremental to exponential” Leonard Sweet.
    Life on the other side is: Up-front, in-your-face, multidimensional, open to
    interpretation, unpredictable, and above all an extremely exciting ride. PM
    are mentored more by their peers than by their parents. As a result, they
    are intensely tolerant of a vast variety of viewpoints and gods. PM have
    tried almost everything and found it wanting. That is why they are on this
    desperate search for experience. All things, including their biological
    families, have proved to be charlatans. Inclusion is at the core of their
    creed. The only thing they’re closed about is closed mindedness.

    Christianity began as a relational, rather than a propositional religion. PM


    have as a base for their respect for leadership and authority , gifts, and
    demonstrated competence, authentic relationships and inner character
    rather than being academic and credential based. Seldom are laity thought
    of as God’s servants in ministry. “Church Work” has replaced mission and
    ministry. Pastors spend much of their time driving from one hospital to
    another. Prayer concerns in churches are almost totally consumed by prayers
    for the sick. The church is not a hospice where no one ever gets well. We are
    not in the health business. The church is a training ground for growing
    spiritual giants.
    Many churches have confused DNA with genes. Our DNA is made up of
    various genes. The DNA is to become embedded in every person of the
    church. It must resonate deep down in the gut of the majority of the
    leadership.

    The primary role of the lead pastor is to be the keeper of the DNA and
    insure that it is embedded throughout the church. Jesus didn’t just take
    care of people; he grew people. All leaders must ask not, What must I do
    today, but whom will I mentor today? Leaders grow people and lead leaders.
    The role of any effective lead pastor will be that of identifying, equipping,
    and placing other leaders into leadership so that they can go and do the
    same with others who will go and do the same with others, and so forth. The
    role of any effective leader is to embed the DNA throughout the church
    through the lives of those who are changed and grown by their contact with
    them. I’ll do it because I’ve never done it that way before. “For Mission’s
    sake, what if Christians were to renounce Christianity and become
    disciples of Jesus? Leonard Sweet.

    In the institutional church, job descriptions replace calling and degrees


    proven competency. Shouldn’t we see to it that more people are in mission
    than meetings, and more time is spent on spiritual matters than
    administrative issues? Spiritual directors (mentors?) are interpreters of
    experience, not delivers of information. Help others interpret what they
    feel God wants them to do with their lives and then equip them to live out
    their lives on behalf of the body of Christ. Such guidance is given without
    force or prodding. Spiritual guidance (mentoring?) is the conscious and
    deliberate attempt to accompany other people on their journey to and in
    God…and in the process, share what we have learned as we have made our
    own journey. Spiritual directors don’t feel responsible for the spiritual
    journeys of the people they are directing. Ministry will not be filling out
    forms and going to meetings. It will be bottom-up and personal, not top-down
    and programmatic. If it is not impossible, God is not in it. People seeking
    guidance are looking for direction more than answers. Run over by God’s
    presence. PM focus more on reaching an area than on building an
    institutional church. They are not tied to any one denomination. The goal is
    spiritual not institutional-to win an entire city to Jesus Christ. As PM pursue
    experiential and mystical spirituality, they will also have a deep need for
    solid theology. Heresy is again becoming one of the major concerns of
    Christians. Those on the way to the other side without habitual spiritual
    disciplines in place probably will not make it through to the other side as
    effective disciples. Everything I know about leadership screams for us to go
    as deep in our spirituality as is possible, to be more and do less.
    So much is happening that no one person or group is in control. Functioning
    more as a web of connections than a world of boxes and lines. Permission-
    giving leaders are willing to take on mean-spirited people and transform
    them or ask them to leave. You can’t live with cancer in the body. We need to
    insure that each person is discipled before being placed into leadership. The
    worst thing to do with an organization in a fast moving world is to try to
    control what is happening. The healthy organization is flexible and does not
    have a central point of authority. Accountability is more important than
    control. The concept of multiple lead pastors with the same DNA but
    different genes. Feelings are back. Community is essential. Intangibles are
    more important than concrete facts, intuition is more valuable than
    knowledge and women have enough domination. Permission-giving can’t reach
    its potential in a traditional voting-based congregation. Pastors have to give
    up control of ministry and begin equipping others for ministry. In the past
    few decades most members have opted out of any form of personal spiritual
    development. They mostly sit and soak. Church leaders must from doers to
    equippers, from teachers to facilitators and from bosses and employers to
    team players. Being nice is often nothing more than a lack of compassion for
    people. Church leaders are robbing people of their spiritual birthright when
    they allow dysfunctional people to bully the church. Before renewal can
    begin, some person or group usually has to leave the church.

    DRISCOLL:
    1. Modernity not only a failure but a sin
    2. Biblical narrative theology better than systematic theology
    3. Difference between being missional and doing evangelism
    4. Networks replacing denominations
    5. From program driven to community driven
    6. From giving data to giving experience
    7. Senior pastor to ministry team
    8. Autonomous self is out
    9. Church health instead of church growth
    Reverting back to an institutional-driven, machine-oriented, propositional
    faith would be the greatest tragedy and travesty I can imagine.
    The churches with the clearest and most focused beliefs and values are
    reaching the most pre-Christian (PM) people. Edutainment is now one of the
    mainstays of people born after 1965.
    Now people find community and identity in the stories shared by their fellow
    travelers. Now it is advancing the kingdom by getting multiple denominations
    to work together around a mission too big for one denomination to achieve on
    its own. Does the ministry the mystery of the East, the integrity of the
    ancient and the high tech of the West. The emphasis upon denominationally
    accredited professionals is being replaced by an emphasis on people with
    personal authenticity, spiritual integrity, and effective leadership.

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