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Title: The Dimensions of Leadership


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The Dimensions of Leadership
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Restrictive Leadership
  • Too much reliance on the Senior Pastor or the
    Solo Pastor
  • Trained in an individualistic and competitive
    environment
  • Theory divorced from the praxis of ministry
  • Dispel the myth of the limited call

3
Know Your Strengths and Limitations
  • For by the grace given to me I say to everyone
    among you not to think of yourselves more highly
    than you ought to think, but to think with sober
    judgment, each according to the measure of faith
    that God has assigned. For as in one body we have
    many members, and not all the members have the
    same function, so we, who are many, are one body
    in Christ, and individually we are members of one
    another. We have gifts that differ according to
    the grace given to us prophecy, in proportion to
    faith ministry, in ministering the teacher in
    teaching the exhorter in exhortation the giver
    in generosity the leaders, in diligence the
    compassionate in cheerfulness.
  • Rom 123-8 (NRSV)

4
Leadership in the Early Church
  • There is one body and one Spirit, just as you
    were called to one hope of your calling, one
    Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father
    of all, who is above all and through all and in
    all. But each of us was given grace according to
    the measure of Christs gift The gifts he gave
    were that some should be apostles, some prophets,
    some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to
    equip the saints for the work of ministry, for
    building up the body of Christ, until all of us
    come to the unity of faith and of the knowledge
    of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of
    the full stature of Christ.
  • Ephesians 44-13 (NRSV)

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Comments on Ephesians 44-13
  • Not primarily about leadership
  • Concerned with the ministry of each and every
    person according to their gifting
  • Foundational categories by which individual
    members can discern their call
  • Is the five-fold ministry normative?
  • Restricted to the church in Ephesus?
  • Restricted to the 1st century church?

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OutlineEphesians 41-16
  • Calling and character (1-6)
  • Grace-gifts given to every member of the body by
    the Ascended Christ (7-10)
  • Leadership gifts (11)
  • Purpose for which the gifts are givento build-up
    and equip Gods people to serve Christ in the
    church and the world (12)
  • Goalbring about maturity, love and unity by
    connecting the whole body (13)

7
Equipping Ministry Matrix
ApostleGround Breaker
Prophet Truth Teller
Evangelist Story Teller
Teacher Light Giver
Pastor Soul Healer
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Ministry Focus of Christendom Churches
ApostleGround Breaker
Prophet Truth Teller
Evangelist Story Teller
Teacher Light Giver
Pastor Soul Healer
9
Ministry Cluster of Missional Churches
ApostleGround Breaker
Prophet Truth Teller
Evangelist Story Teller
Teacher Light Giver
Pastor Soul Healer
10
Three Dispensations of Apostles
JESUS Hebrews
The Twelve Luke
Numerous Apostles sent by the Holy Spirit Paul
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Preoccupation with Pastor/Teacher
  • The person that local churches rely upon for
    their needs to be met
  • Seminaries and Bible Colleges major on the
    training of pastor/teachers
  • 98 of our financial and curriculum focus is
    directed to equipping students to be proficient
    as teachers and pastors

12
Pastor as Soul Healer
  • Ensure the spiritual health and well-being of the
    church members through the stages, struggles, and
    crises of life
  • The need is greater than ever before
  • Overwhelming counseling load
  • Identify and train members to provide basic
    pastoral support
  • People bring offload their emotional baggage

13
Reasons for Pastoral Overload
  • Dispersal of the extended family
  • Marriages in trouble
  • Increasing divorce rates, cohabiting singles,
    blended families
  • Job Insecurity
  • Downsizing need to learn new skills and find
    fresh opportunities
  • Loneliness resulting from a culture of
    individualism and rootlessness

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Teacher as Light Giver
  • Jesus came as a teacher (rabbi)
  • Proclaim the great themes of Scripture and the
    whole counsel of God
  • Teach systematically and comprehensively
  • PropheticGods word is for Here and Now
  • Need is as pressing as ever
  • Biblical illiteracy among churchgoers
  • Result of a therapeutic gospel

15
Challenges Facing New Pastors
  • Churches unable to pay a living salary
  • Debt incurred to pay for education
  • Mortgaged their ministry
  • Church closures means fewer entry-level positions
  • High casualty rate
  • 50 drop out during the first ten years of
    ministry

16
Challenges Facing Seminaries
  • Preparing people for Christendom contexts, or
    Missional contexts?
  • Biblical and theological debates internal to the
    church
  • More articulate talking in the church sub-culture
    than in the wider world
  • Treat the Bible as a missional text with our
    theology and church history addressing missional
    issues

17
Key Questions
  • Who needs to know?
  • What do they need to know?
  • When do they need to know?
  • How can they best learn to apply their knowledge?
  • What price can they afford?

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Equipping Ministry Matrix
ApostleGround Breaker
Prophet Truth Revealer
Evangelist Story Teller
Teacher Light Giver
Pastor Soul Healer
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Apostle as Ground Breaker
  • Lukes use of Apostle (of Christ)
  • In his Gospel 6 times Acts 28 times
  • Restricted to the Twelve
  • Counter the Gnostic challenge
  • Pauls use of apostle (of the Church)
  • Ground breakers for the advance of the gospel
  • Barnabas, Silas, Timothy, James, Apollos,
    Junias, Andronicus, Epaphroditus and himself
  • Earliest use of the term apostle

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The Role of Apostles of the Church
  • Birth and care for networks of new faith
    communities
  • Made for adventure
  • risks, hardship, adversity
  • Manifest an independent spirit
  • I am free with respect to all (1Cor 919)
  • (Martin Garner, A Call for Apostles Today.
    Cambridge Grove Books, 2007)

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Apostolic Distinctives
  • An ability to go with nothing
  • Messagethe kingdom is near
  • Pray for the sick
  • Depend on God to supply sustenance including
    those we are reaching out to
  • Have faith that the harvest is plentiful
  • Trust that key people will be found to open up
    whole communities

22
What an Apostle is NOT
  • The celebrity leader of a megachurch
  • Controlling
  • Franchising
  • A title or position in the church
  • An ecclesiastical appointment
  • A self-appointed office
  • A person claiming to be the channel of continuing
    revelation beyond the norms of Scripture

23
Examples of Apostles
  • John Wesley
  • William Carey
  • Hudson Taylor
  • Jackie Pullinger
  • Neil Cole, Organic Churches Growing Faith Where
    Life Happens, (Jossey-Bass, 2005)
  • Note None of the above claimed the title of
    apostle.

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Apostles are made by God for adventure!
  • Martin Garner, Apostles in the Bible go where
    there is NO work and No church.
  • Take risks, suffer hardship and adversity.
  • Willing to tackle the seemingly impossible.
  • Have eyes of faith and wills of steel.
  • Start from scratch with no resources.
  • Make something from nothing
  • Live with financial insecurity
  • Reach those hardest to reach

25
Putting the cart before the horse!
  • Undo a long-established church culture
  • Preferred style of worship
  • Times and place of meeting
  • Religious language
  • Mode of baptism
  • Type of government
  • Style of communicationpreaching
  • Belief system

26
New Testament Sequence
  • Where a culture has no indigenous expression of
    the gospel
  • Kingdom Mission Church

27
The Role of Apostles of the Church
  • Clear sense of call to a region, people or place
  • Made for tackling the seemingly impossible
  • Prepared to face suffering and hardship
  • Face financial insecurity
  • Prepared to live by faith (and hard work!)
  • Have eyes of faith for the missional task

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Prophets as Truth Revealers
  • As nervous about prophets as about apostles!
  • Brought the church into disrepute and led it
    astray
  • Do not bring extra-biblical revelation
  • Remind us about truths that have been neglected
    or rejected
  • Bring a sense of urgency

29
Prophets in the Early Church
  • In predominantly Gentile Churches the Hebrew
    Scripture may not have been readily available
  • Many of the New Testament Letters and Gospel had
    not yet been written or widely distributed
  • Dependence on oral sources
  • Pastoral and doctrinal issues that arose
  • Need for guidance, correction and encouragement

30
The Prophet Speaks the Word of God into a
Situation
  • May occur in the course of the exposition of
    Scripture
  • Bring encouragement, exhortation, warning, and
    guidance
  • Address both the people of God and the wider
    society
  • Prophets cannot claim infallibility
  • Church must exercise discernment
  • Beware of spiritual blackmail!

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Evangelists as Story Tellers
  • Decisions for Christ
  • Influence of Revivalism
  • Knowing the Jesus story
  • Provide adequate and reliable information
  • The gospel in the Gospels
  • Belonging in order to believe
  • It takes a community in order to communicate
  • Only two other texts in the NT that refer to the
    evangelist (Acts 218 2Tim 45)
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