clergy conferences 2010-2011. 40 meeting together 160 on these conferences 200+ active clergy...

Clergy Conferences 2010-2011

40 meeting together 160 on these conferences 200+ active clergy across the Diocese 400 licensed lay ministers 1000+ Wardens, officers and others 13,000 on electoral rolls 20,000+ all age worshippers 8,000 children in Church schools £5 million + given to support ministry

What kind of ministry do we need to fulfil this vision?

Sustaining communities

Pastors and TeachersPresbyteral Ministries

Prayerful priest required to care for the people

The Christendom mindset is not sustainable

The restoration of the mission of GodPractical experience

In the Church after Christendom ordained ministry no longer equals only priestly or presbyteral ministry.

We experience ordained ministry in its other dimensions

Priestly or Presbyteral Ministry

Identity Isolation

“Pastors struggle to understand the changes that have swept over their roles. For many, ministry roles have changed so dramatically that they are simply trying to hold on and survive” (p.16)

“At this stage the temptation is to find a symbolic

reintegration of pastoral identity and a role fit to deal with the loss of symbolic identity. But many of these roles are borrowed from symbols that have place and prominence in the wider culture. What this suggests is that the level of role confusion for the pastor in liminality is extremely high. For example, the pastor is clinician (therapeutic metaphor), chaplain (institutional metaphor), coach (sports metaphor), entrepreneur, marketer and strategist (business metaphors). Beside the Bible, pastors must read John Bradshaw, know the Twelve Step process, discuss co-dependence, and memorize the business strategies of Attila and Hun and understand the new non-lateral leadership paradigm of Peter Senge”.

PrayerPreachingSpiritual Direction

There are few core tasks for clergy but endless options beyond those tasks with no clear professional boundaries

The unusual pattern of clergy family life

“If you meet George Herbert in the road, kill him”

Summary: the old pattern isn’t working!


Leadership

Episcope: Oversight Ministries

Leadership ChallengesLeadership ChallengesChanging TimesChanging TimesEnabling othersEnabling others

Looking after myselfLooking after myselfDiminishing resourcesDiminishing resources

Renewing visionRenewing vision

Apostles and

Prophets?

Person of vision required to lead multiple congregations through changing times

23 out of 25 adverts in last week’s Church Times use leadership language

Energetic leadership To lead at a time of significant change Are you a supportive team player? A team player and team leader? A motivating leader A vision for mission and can build a team Collaborative, enabling, a team player A team leader with a pastoral heart Actively look for and nurture gifts in others Encourage and support lay leadership An experienced and strategic leader Priest, pastor, leader, friend and missioner Excellent leadership qualities A confident delegator; a strategic thinker

“If the whole people of God is to become more priestly, the clergy must exercise episcope” Diocese of Derby c. 1997

Steven Croft, Ministry in Three Dimensions, 1998

Robin Greenwood, Parish Priests for the sake of the Kingdom

Malcolm Grundy, Leadership and Oversight: new models of episcopal ministry

Priests are ordained to lead God's people in the offering of praise and the proclamation of the gospel. They share with the Bishop in the oversight of the Church, delighting in its beauty and rejoicing in its well-being.

They are to set the example of the Good Shepherd always before them as the pattern of their calling. With the Bishop and their fellow presbyters, they are to sustain the community of the faithful by the ministry of word and sacrament, that we all may grow into the fullness of Christ and be a living sacrifice acceptable to God.


Leadership


Apostles and

Prophets?

Christian leadershipChristian leadershipLooking after yourselfLooking after yourself

Enabling othersEnabling othersGrowing communityGrowing community

Representing the church Representing the church to the worldto the world


Leadership

Beginning new communities

Evangelists

Diaconal Ministries

“more of the same will mean less of the same”

Pioneer required to grow fresh expressions of church across the deanery

Penrith Team Ministry Embrace the Diocesan vision Can lead churches in outreach Will help pioneer a new congregation at

Christ Church

Deacon = Servant (ASB Ordinal) John Collins: diakonia in NT

Agent or ambassador One who is sent Deacons in Acts

Deacon = Agent of God’s love in the world

Connection with pioneer ministries


Leadership


Evangelists

Diaconal Ministries

Mission challengesMission challengesGrowing existing communitiesGrowing existing communities

Planting fresh expressionsPlanting fresh expressionsEncouraging pioneersEncouraging pioneers

Growing new communities Growing new communities to maturityto maturity


Leadership


Evangelists

Diaconal Ministries

Pastors and TeachersPresbyteral Ministries


Apostles and

Prophets?

Whole life,Kingdom focussedOutwardly facingMission shaped

Light structuresOutwardly facing

Making and sustaining disciples

Whole life,Kingdom focussedOutwardly facingMission shaped

the mixed economy churchthe mixed economy church

a midweeka midweekall-age after schoolall-age after schoolserviceservice

Parish CommunionParish Communion

a Sundaya SundayEvening DeaneryEvening Deanery

Youth congregationYouth congregation

A networkA networkof midweek cellsof midweek cells

assembling monthlyassembling monthlyA small communityA small communityin a new housing areain a new housing area

Diakonia Presbyteral Ministry

Episcope

1. Proactive2. Dynamic3. Missionary4. Partnership5. Cherishing the church

WatchingWatchingoverover

yourselfyourself

Individuals and TeamsIndividuals and Teams

Building Missionary CommunitiesBuilding Missionary CommunitiesLocation,Location,RepresentationRepresentationConnexionConnexion

1. Unconscious incompetence2. Conscious incompetence3. Conscious competence4. Unconscious competence

Leadership in Ordained MinistryIME 4-7 ResidentialJanuary, 2010


yourselfyourself

Individuals and TeamsIndividuals and Teams


Priority in the tradition Acts and the Pastorals Joshua; David; Psalms Jesus Patristic Tradition Baxter and Herbert

Priority in experienceA key insight: ministry is very

difficult

“But the scope of our art is to provide the soul with wings, to rescue it from the world and give it to God, and to watch over that which is in his image, if it abides, to take it by the hand, if it is in danger, or restore it, if ruined, to make Christ dwell in the heart by the Spirit” Gregory of Nazienzen, On his flight to Pontus

“I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is; I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of a priest than the gales which disturb the sea” John Chrysostom, On Priesthood

“It is necessary, therefore that [the ruler] should be pure in thought, exemplary in conduct, discreet in keeping silence, profitable in speech, in sympathy a near neighbour to everyone, in contemplation exalted above all others, a humble companion to those who lead good lives, erect in his zeal for righteousness against the vices of sinners. He must not be remiss in his care for the inner life by preoccupation with the external, nor must he in his solicitude for what is internal, fail to give attention to the external” Gregory, Pastoral Rule

And indeed what else is power in the post of superiority but a tempest of the mind wherein the ship of th eheart is ever shaken by hurricanes of thought, it is ceaselessly driven to and fro, until, by sudden excesses of words and deeds it founders on confronting rocks.

Gregory, Pastoral Rule, 1.9

Priority in the traditionPriority in experienceFoundation: taking responsibility for

myselfBuilding good disciplines

Personal prayer IntercessionCapacity for reflectionSpiritual directionStudyEmotional stability and resilienceAptitude for conflict Integrity of lifeFulfilling other responsibilities


yourselfyourself

Priority in the traditionPriority in experienceFoundation: taking responsibility for

myselfBuilding good disciplinesCrisis TransitionChanging down the gears

Time off to time onGiving out to taking inContact with people to solitudeStudy and learning to doingReflection to action

• Time off• Learning• Mentoring• Spiritual direction•Transition

If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out,

How can you compete with horses?If you stumble in safe country, How will you manage in the thickets

by the Jordan?

Jeremiah 12.5


yourselfyourself

IIIndividuals and TeamsIndividuals and Teams


Setting clear expectations Reshaping the agenda Following through to restore confidence Meeting individuals Not winning all the arguments Non-defensive listening Saying sorry Even-handedness Allowing others their space

Designing jobsAppointing mature team players

(Character-Attitude-Skills)Allowing roles to developQuality time built around prayerMoving from affirmation to conflictContinually revising expectations


Leadership

Episcope



yourselfyourself



Setting clear expectations Reshaping the agenda Following through to restore confidence Meeting individuals Not winning all the arguments Non-defensive listening Saying sorry Even-handedness Allowing others their space

Designing jobsAppointing mature team players

(Character-Attitude-Skills)Allowing roles to developQuality time built around prayerMoving from affirmation to conflictContinually revising expectations

Moses and the tribes Crossing the sea Grumbling in the desert The golden calf Sending the spies

I and II Corinthians Identifying threats Correcting error Holding up the vision Catching the tone

Developing visionBuilding shared valuesResearchPlanning and implementationLeading changeHandling conflictKeeping on trackBuilding Missionary CommunitiesBuilding Missionary Communities

Developing visionPrayerBuilding shared valuesResearchPlanning ImplementationLeading changeHandling conflictKeeping on track

Can we develop a robust theology of growth?

Can we aim to grow by 20% over 10 years?

Can we develop a sustainable rhythm of ongoing catechesis?

An ancient word (Luke 1.3) The early catechumenate Lent Catechisms Rite for the Christian Initiation of

Adults Alpha and Emmaus etc Building mature disciples Integrated with the rhythm of the year

CHRISTMAS

EASTER

PENTECOST

Ten Days of Prayer

SUMMER

HARVEST/BTCS

REMEMBRANCE

A 21st Century Catechumenate

Can we develop a robust theology of growth?

Can we aim to grow by 20% over 10 years?

Can we develop a sustainable rhythm of ongoing catechesis?

Can we grow the ministry resources for a growing church?

Can we plant many fresh expressions of church within a mixed economy?

1. Each identify and describe a problem or question

2. The group chooses one to focus on3. Explore the problem/question in more

depth 4. The group offers relevant experience,

biblical insight, learning5. Identify ways forward6. Share with the whole group a summary of

the problem and a way forward


yourselfyourself



9.30 Branton St. Wilfred’s School

1.00 Sheffield Hallam Conferment

19.30 Faith Leaders Meeting

1. Training post2. First incumbency3. Area Dean/Large church leadership4. Chaplain or specialist ministry5. Senior church leadership

MissiologyChristology Ecclesiology

How do you exercise episcope as a representative and in connexion?

What would help you to develop that ministry?

clergy conferences 2010-2011. 40 meeting together 160 on these conferences 200+ active clergy...

Documents

presbyteral ministry

leadership language

identity isolation slide

strategic thinker slide

spiritual direction

team leader

ministry roles

lay leadership