Fresh Expressions1 Pioneering Ministry Diocese of Adelaide

Fresh Expressions 1

Pioneering Ministry

Diocese of Adelaide

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How do you make God laugh? How do you make God laugh?


How do you make God laugh? How do you make God laugh?

Tell him your plans!Tell him your plans!

The cure of souls

• ‘Receive the cure of souls which is both mine and yours; in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy. Spirit. Amen.’

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Declaration of Assent• ‘The Church of England ...

professes the faith uniquely revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the catholic creeds,

• ‘Which faith the Church is called upon to proclaim afresh in each generation.’

• ‘Bringing the grace and truth of Christ to this generation.’

Celebrating and building on what is mission-shaped in traditional forms of church…

……andand finding new, finding new, flexible, appropriate ways flexible, appropriate ways to proclaim the Gospel to proclaim the Gospel afresh to thoseafresh to those who do not relate to who do not relate to traditional ways traditional ways

The mixed The mixed economyeconomy

Unpredictable

• Something has happened to the world

• Not some terrible mistake made by the church

• It's not your fault!


• The first principle of Christian leadership is that the Spirit leads and we follow.

• The unpredictable nature of our times provides a renewed opportunity to mature in discernment as the Spirit leads us into God’s future.

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Discontinuous change


‘We have not been here before, so we do not know what to expect.’ Zygmunt Bauman

Unpredictable

• ‘.. the behaviour of complex systems with a number of mutually independent variables is and will forever remain unpredictable. Not just unpredictable to us, because of ignorance, negligence or dim-headedness, but by their very nature.


• Because the world we inhabit is as complex a system as can be imagined, its future is a great unknown, and it is bound to remain unknown whatever we do.

• The future is unpredictable because it is, purely and simply, undetermined.’ Zygmunt Bauman


‘The planet as a whole seems to be in a state of interregnum these days.’

Zygmunt Bauman

A complex culture

• ‘Complex cultures are characterized by a multiplicity of perspectives and competing voices. In this context of flux and accelerated change, there are many voices claiming a place.

• Collectively they create a confusing, relativizing sense of choice. New rules are being written, and everything seems to be in flux.’ Alan Roxburgh

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More of the same won’t do

• ‘It is evident in rapidly changing times that knowledge does not necessarily flow from experience. Yesterday’s solutions and procedures may not provide an adequate or appropriate response to present challenges.’ Eddie Gibbs

Unpredictable Change

• We predicted – the Millennium Bug!

• We did not predict - • the global spread of HIV/Aids, • the national spread of foot and

mouth disease • the assault on the Twin Towers or • the global financial crisis!

Discontinuous Change

Disconnection from hope!

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The St Paul’s debacle


But


Leadership

• ‘Yesterday’s styles of leadership will not be adequate for the opening decades of the twenty-first century. The future is too unpredictable for the predetermined parameters once provided by long range planning.’ Eddie Gibbs

In some places mixed economy means

succession planning

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Tubestation


Tubestation

tubestation


Leadership


Architects to gardeners

• ‘To see the world in this way, as a ceaselessly complex and adaptive system, requires a revolution. It involves changing the role we imagine for ourselves, from architects of a system we can control and manage, to gardeners in a living, shifting ecosystem.’

Joshua Ramo


Strengthen the immune system

• ‘Resilience allows us, even at our most extreme moments, to keep learning, to change … because we’ve prepared in the right way, and because we’ve developed the strength to keep moving even when we’re slapped by the unexpected.

• But resilience has to be built into our system in advance.’ Joshua Ramo


Cultivate Resilience

• Acts 2:42 They devoted themselves to

• the apostles’ teaching • and fellowship, • to the breaking of bread • and the prayers.


The Purpose of Resilience

• Acts 2:42 They devoted themselves to • the apostles’ teaching • and fellowship, • to the breaking of bread • and the prayers ...... because • 'you will receive power when the Holy

Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.'Acts 1:8


To cultivate

•Rootedness in Christ(our immune system)

•Capacity to identify the Spirit’s leading(our flexibility)

• Because


Alan Roxburgh & Scott Doren

• ‘Our rock-bottom conviction is that the Spirit of God is among the people of God. ….

• The Spirit is actually at work in our ordinary common lives.

• This means that God’s future – putting into action God’s dreams for the whole world – is among God’s people.

Alan Roxburgh & Scott Doren

• Very practically , a missional church is formed by the Spirit at work in the ordinary people of a local context.

• A practical implication is that this imagination changes the focus of leadership.

• Rather than having plans, programs, strategies and goal, they ask how they can call forth what the Spirit is doing among the people.’

Cultivation

• ‘Leadership is about cultivating an environment that innovates and releases the missional imagination present in a community of God’s people.’

Cultivation

• ‘An environment in which the Spirit given presence of God’s future may emerge among the people of God.’ Al Roxburgh

St George's Deal


8 ‘til late

Stepping

Stones

Greenerway

CoNnect

Trans4m

GreenerwayBridging the GapBridging the Gap

“NO LIMITS”

Lighthouse

8 til late8 til late

Emerge

Centrepoint

BalconyNelsNelsonon

Making connections


‘Leadership is about connecting, not controlling. It is about bringing people together for the purpose of creative synergy.’ Eddie Gibbs

Making connections


“These leaders are attractive to a new generation who longs to be part of creating the ideas and determining the direction. People support what they help create. They will not only help the organisation get to the goal, they will grow in the process.” Tim Elmore

Making connections


‘Leadership is not about giving commands, nor even about making decisions. It is quite literally about leading, clearing the way, making it possible for us to go where otherwise we could not.' Rowan Williams


A pioneering ordained and lay ministry, which includes Ordained Pioneer Ministers

Criterion H: Mission and Evangelism

Candidates should demonstrate a personal commitment to mission that is reflected in thought, prayer and action. They should show a wide and inclusive understanding of mission and the strategic issues and opportunities within contemporary culture.

Criterion H: Mission and Evangelism

Candidates should be able to articulate the good news of the Kingdom appropriately in differing contexts and speak of Jesus Christ in a way that is exciting, accessible, and attractive. They should enable others to develop their vocations as witnesses of the good news. They should show potential as leaders of mission.

H 6: Candidates should have potential for engaging in mission-shaped ministry Evidence for this may be drawn from a candidate's capacity and potential to:

• Be open to new and enterprising ways of engaging with mission and evangelism

• Be creative, innovative and pioneering

• Reflect on past experiences of mission and evangelism, identifying both successes and failures, and to reflect on how this experience might affect the future shape of their ministry

Ordained Pioneer Ministers

• A 1: Candidates should have a realistic and informed vocation to plant fresh expressions of church within contemporary culture

• B 1: Candidates should have a clear vision of the place of their envisaged ministry within the wider church's response to God's mission to the world

• B 2: Candidates should have an authentic and integrated understanding of the particular ministry envisaged

• C 1: Candidates should have a mature and well developed devotional life


Revised Selection Criteria

• D 1: Candidates should have demonstrable maturity and robustness to face the demands of pioneering mission and ministry

• Evidence of this may be drawn from a candidate’s capacity to:

• Lay aside personal preference for the sake of the community being served


• Cope effectively with ambiguity and disorientation.

• Cope effectively with change and stress

• Avoid personal overload.• Have a consistency of character in

varied circumstances• Live sacrificially and endure hardship• Persevere for the long-term rather

than take short cuts for quick results


• D 2: Candidates should have demonstrable self-motivation


• Be a self-starter with a willingness to build from nothing

• Take risks• Negotiate disappointment• Learn from mistakes



• E 1: Candidates have the potential to develop healthy professional and pastoral relationships

• E 2: Candidates should be able to relate to people who are different


• F 1: Candidates should have a demonstrable track record of innovation and initiative


• Identify key opportunities for mission• Minister in creative and non-standard

ways and develop an innovative approach to problem solving and thinking


• Start a new project around perceived opportunities

• Reflect on situations, learn from them and make appropriate changes for the future


Wolverhampton Pioneer Ministries


Learning cultures

• ‘To practice incarnational witness means learning the cultures into which we are sent: learning what they think and how they think, what it feels like to be part of their world, and how to communicate on their terms.’ Darrell Guder


The deep feelings

• 'A willingness in worship to listen to culture, to incorporate what is good and to challenge what is alien to the truth of God. It has to make contact with the deep feelings of people.’ The York Statement


Transforming

• ‘The challenge is always to translate in such a way that the transforming power of the gospel not only is expressed in a given cultural context, but also challenges that context to change so that it can incarnate Christ.’ Darrell Guder



• F 2: Candidates should have well developed abilities to initiate change and to enable others to face it in a flexible, balanced and creative way


• F 3: Candidates should have a demonstrable ability to work collaboratively and in a team


• Develop vision with others• Discern the spiritual gifts in others.• Release and equip others for ministry


• Identify and invest in future leaders• Match the gifts of people with

ministry needs and opportunities• Help people to share responsibility

for the growth and success of the fresh expression



• G 1: Candidates should be able to communicate their faith effectively

• H 1: Candidates should have a well-developed understanding of the interaction between gospel and culture

• H 2: Candidates should have the capacity to evangelize beyond the culture of the Church

• I 1: Candidates should have a lively and engaging mind


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