Leadership on the Other Side

Leadership on the Other Side

Bill Easum

The Leader’s Cheat Sheet1.Leaders are obedient to a

call greater than their own lives.

2.Leaders feel passionately about a few core issues, and think paradoxically about most other things.

3.Leaders are keenly aware of their need to be led intuitively by the Holy Spirit.

4.Leaders are constantly innovating “”’’on the fly”.

The Leader’s Cheat Sheet5. Leaders know how to

share Jesus with pagans.6. Leaders sense that the

basic genetic code of the church is to make disciples of Jesus Christ.

7. Leaders function as spiritual directors or guides.

8. Leaders feel and think like cross-cultural witnesses.

9. Leaders are permission-giving.

The Leader’s Cheat Sheet10.Leaders are team based.11.Leaders serve Jesus

Christ in the midst of a congregation instead of serving the congregation.

12.It’s not what leaders know that is important; its what leaders know is not important.

13.Leaders need a clear sense of what it means to be human.

The Leader’s Cheat Sheet14.Leaders need to be able

to help others distinguish reality from fiction.

15.Leaders are willing to change their Life Metaphors.

The OtherSide Manifesto1. Jesus is the only truth we

can be sure that we can take into and out of the wormhole.

2. Chaos is the beginning of all new creation.

3. To be out of control is normal because the wormhole is always under construction.

4. Our experiences are as important as our thoughts.

The OtherSide Manifesto5. Imagination is as

important as logical thought.

6. Questions outnumber answers.

7. Constant flux is normal.8. Because speed is a basic

in the wormhole, constant innovation provides equilibrium.

9. Most things are upside down and backward.

10.The wormhole is not linear.

Clues to the Other Side

This Side Other Side

Matter only Mind, Spirit, and Matter

Greek Hebrew

West East

Command and Control models Permission Giving

Evangelism Explosion Relational Evangelism

Competence Trustworthiness / Authenticity

Position Influence / Relationship

Committees Teams

Making disciples Disciples who make disciples

Program Mission

Clues to the Other Side

This Side Other Side

Denominational Missions Local Church Missions

Denominational Emphasis Affinity Emphasis

Addition Multiplication

Established Churches New World Churches

USA Church Leadership model Third World Leadership model

Customer service Customer experience

People as targets People as resources

Learn, then do Learn while doing

Education Edutainment

Mostly Anglo Leadership Mostly Ethnic Leadership

Clues to the Other SideThis Side Other Side

Work in the church Work in the community

Pledging is out Strategic Givers are in

Job descriptions Adding value

Budgets Various Missions

Competition Cooperation

Experts Amateurs

Either / Or Both / And

Modern age / Christendom Pre Christian

Baptised before 18 Baptised after 18

Grew up in church Grew up outside the church

Rows and Lines Circles

The Death of Two Kissing Cousins

R.I.P. Modernity R.I.P. Christendom

How do you think and feel about the following?

The What Was Side The What is Emerging Side

Stable UnstablePredictable ComplexStatic FluidOrder ChaosLaw PermissionLinear RandomDignity ZaninessDecency IntoxicationRational EmotionalVolunteer Servant

How do you think and feel about the following?

The What Was Side The What is Emerging Side

Mainline DeadlineRigid AdaptiveStructured Bends / BlendsThe Brady Bunch SeinfeldSesame Street BarneyCustomer Service Customer ExperienceExplanation ExperienceGunsmoke The PracticeDo you understand Have you experienced itBooks The Net

Permission-Giving LeadersPermission Givers Controllers

Trust People Don’t trust people

Risk Takers Play it safe

Look for vision and excellence

Look for a Resume

Why not? Why do you want to do that?

Future is more important than past

Past is more important than future

Failure is a learning experience

Failure means it was wrong / bad

Intentional Learners Believe they know enough

Both / And Either / Or

People more important than system

System more important than people

Learn from all sources Use our / Denominational resources


Live without clear maps of the future

Want to follow proven trails

Comfortable with uncertainty

Want guarantees before beginning

Relationships Rules and Regulations

Grace Law

Now Later

Learn from mistakes Don’t make mistakes

Learn from doing More information first

Evaluate Dominate

Collaborate Dictate

Set free Keep hands on


Confident Fearful

Open to Holy Spirit Locked in on Own Agenda

Don’t know all that is happening

Need to know all the details

Open to surprise Want all predictable

Energize others De-energize others

Mentor others Order others

Welcome Screen

Listen Deaf

Group purpose is guide Self agenda is guide

Macro manage Micro manage

Permission-Giving Leaders

Permission Givers Controllers

Celebrate other’s success

Compete with others

Care about growth of others

Care about getting their way

Team builder Team boss

Gentle Harsh

Worship God Act like God

Humble Presumptuous

How did it go? Did you get approval first?

Whose Church is it anyway?

When Mao Tse-Tung took over, there were two million Christians in China. His regime killed the missionaries, arrested the pastors, shut down the churches and persecuted the Christians.

When he died, there were Fifty million known Christians in China…..

Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for Society

The religious and secular worlds will continue to blur in every way except one – religious beliefs and values, which will be crystal clear due to the resurgence of the prominence of the Scriptures.


The clash between the old and the new will shape most of the first two decades of the 21st century in almost every arena of life.


The internet will continue to grow until it is the primary form of communication, information, commerce and networking throughout the world.


Religion and science will become more like kissing cousins than alienated enemies.


Biogenetics will become the major theological battleground replacing today’s flash points of gay rights, abortion and gender.


If it doesn’t entertain, stimulate or touch all the senses, it won’t educate or be worshipful.


Three-dimensional holographic organizational charts will replace the flat organization of the 1990’s.


Society will continue to become more hostile to local congregations and more open to spirituality.


The primary search is for wholeness, identity, dignity, community and empowerment.


People will play books instead of reading them.

Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for the Local

Church

Religious pluralism will flourish, but ecumenism will fight an increasingly losing battle.


Church

The sharpest contrast between thriving and dying churches continues to be a commitment to Jesus Christ, indigenous style of worship and lay ministries.


Church

High commitment churches will have a better chance of reaching non-believers than low commitment churches.


Church

Worship will continue to become more eastern, ancient and high tech.


Church

The majority of Protestant pastors could be woman and the majority of Catholic churches could be run by deacons and woman religious.


Church

Most of the effective pastors will receive their training in a local church.


Church

Church planting will be a major mission of thriving, local church and denominational systems.


Church

Most ministry will be done by te congregation.

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