missional leadership

Leadership Conversation

Navigating modernism & postmodernism Clash between two philosophical approaches of life &

leadership

Navigating maintaining and mission Clash between focusing “inside” and “outside” the Church.

Navigating between clergy and laity Clash between authority and empowerment

Leadership Conversation

How do pastors address these clashes?

What are the greatest challenges pastors face in becoming a missional leader?

What does it mean to be a missional leader?

Effective Leadership

Discovering Yourself (Self-Awareness)

Serving a Purpose (Missional)

Developing Shared Values (Vision)

Creating Change (Transformation)

Empowering Others (Equipping)

Leadership Approaches

Bureaucratic-boss & hierarchy.

Participatory-involve others in decision making.

Charismatic-people dependent on you as leader. Prophetic Voice.

Missional-focused on God’s mission in the world.

Missional Church

Missional is not a program or project, but the Church’s very nature is to be God’s missionary people.

“A missional church is a community of God’s people who live into the imagination that they are, by their very nature. God’s missionary people living as a demonstration of what God plans to do in and for all of creation in Jesus Christ.” Alan Roxburgh, The Missional Leader

A missional congregation lets God’s mission permeate everything that the congregation does — from worship to witness to training members for discipleship. It bridges the gap between outreach and congregational life, since, in its life together, the church is to embody God’s mission.

Lois Y. Barrett in Treasure in Clay Jars: Patterns in Missional Faithfulness

Missional Leadership

Missional Churches need missional leaders.

Movement from professional pastor to missionary pastor (K. Callahan).

Movement from focus on inside the church to outside the church.

The nature of leadership in the local church will determine the focus of pastoral leadership.

Leadership in a “churched culture”

Ministers serves inside the church

Laity ministers in the world World seeks the church

Don’t be preoccupied with our churches growing!

Be preoccupied with whether our mission is dying!

The church is called to mission for the integrity of mission, not for the sake of church growth!

Leadership Revisioned

When ministers focus inside the church, that’s where the laity focuses

No longer do we train laity who, in turn, do the mission in the world

No longer do we serve inside the church and laity outside in the world

Focus: “in the world,” not “in the church”

Missional Outpost

Focus on relational characteristics

Living on the edge of its resources

In the worldFulfillment of life

searchesValue of missional

leadership God’s missionaries

Church-cultured local church

Focus on functional characteristics

Conserving & holding resources

In the ChurchPleasant programs &

activitiesValue internal

leadershipCaste system of

pastor/laity

Life and Leadership

Callahan says “there is a direct correlation between a persons philosophy of life and one’s understanding of the nature of leadership.” (37)

Nature of leadership, theology of the Church, Emerging trends in culture, & Philosophy of life are interrelated.

Leadership/philosophy/theology

Manager=materialism/institutionalism

Boss=Hierarchy/sacramental hierarchy

Enabler=Developmentalism/process

Charismatic=Apocalyptic/Covenant community.

Discussion Questions

How do you balance pastoral ministry and missional leadership?

Are you a missional leader? Is your congregational missional? Why? Why not?

In what ways can you as a leader foster a missional focus in your congregation?

Missionary Pastor

The nature of leadership is one of discovery and fulfillment.

Philosophy of life is pilgrimage.Theology of the Church is primarily of

mission What does it mean to have a missional theology

of the Church?

Culture is dynamic and changing

Qualities of Missional Leadership

1. Theology of the church is a theology of mission, not a theology of institutionalism.

Three theological streams of thought about the nature of the church

Sacramental-Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox

Prophetic-Lutheran, Presbyterian Covenantal-Baptist, Assemblies of God

Nazarene-sacramental and prophetic.

2. An adequate understanding of the relationship of faithfulness and success in terms of mission:

Being successful is being true to the “mission.”

To be faithful to the “mission.”

3. Confident that compassion and community are more helpful motivations than challenge, reasonability, and commitment.

Often pastors focus on the latter than the former.

Leadership Values Compared

Proactive

Relational

Missional

Intentional

Reactive

Organizational

Institutional

Passive

Leaders are Summoned

Leadership is made or born? Or Summoned?

“Leaders are called into existence by circumstances. Those who rise to the

occasion are leaders.” (L. Sweet, Summoned to Lead, 2004).

Servant Leadership

Robert Greenleaf term “Servant-Leading” and “Servant-learning.” (Servant Leadership)

Servant-Leadership is a disciplined spiritual journey dedicated to the growth of persons and institutions undertaken in the context of community rooted in relational power exercised for the common good.

Leadership

Traditional LeadershipTraditional Leadership Servant-LeadershipServant-Leadership

Exercise of CommandExercise of Command Exercise of Compassion Exercise of Compassion

Pursuit of ControlPursuit of Control Nurturing of CommitmentNurturing of Commitment

Goal of ProductivityGoal of Productivity Goal Developing PeopleGoal Developing People

Individual PerformanceIndividual Performance Team Performance Team Performance

OrderOrder Freedom Freedom

HierarchyHierarchy Participatory Participatory

GuidelinesGuidelines Relationships Relationships

Characteristic of Servant-Leadership

Listening receptively.

Acceptance of others & having empathy.

Foresight and intuition.

Awareness and perception.

Having highly developed powers of persuasion.

Servant-Leadership

An ability to conceptualize and to communicate concepts.

An ability to exert a healing influence upon people.

Building community in the workplace.Practicing the art of contemplation.Recognition that servant-leadership begins

with the desire to change oneself. Larry C. Spears, The Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant-

Leadership

Leading….

Facilitator of learning/development of People.

Empowerment of People

Listening not “telling.”

Create open Context for Growth.