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Session Two Church as a Habitat for Creative
Emergence If you can see this, you're connected
correctly!
We'll begin at the top of the hour. In the
meantime, please use the flipchart for some
informal conversation as people gather. You might
begin by typing your name and location into the
white space at the bottom of the box. Also
please tell us a bit about the yearning that
drew you into ministry. Notes recording from
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Welcome
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Introductions
Re-introducing the presenters Opening Prayer
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One Holy One, help us to trust that life
itself is your Yes to this gay, great
happening illimitably Earth. All We fall
into the grace that renews our strength.
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One We feel into our connection with You, with
the unity, and the unifier, who is the Christ,
the center and circumference, the beginning and
end, the push and the pull of this evolving
adventure. All We fall into the unity of
love.
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One We are grateful for this community tonight,
willing to be the future present, the Kin(g)dom
of God for a world profaned by the illusion of
separation. All We fall and land softly on the
forest floor of each others hearts. Amen.
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Today's Agenda
Ministry Anywhere, Anytime, by Anybody Theology
of Creative Emergence Practical steps to
creating the Deal that allows for change
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Small group discussion (5 mins)
Thinking about the yearning that drew you into
ministry, name one thing in your congregation
today that's working, where this yearning is
being expressed
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Ministry Anywhere, Anytime, by Anybody
I am about to do a new thing now it springs
forth, do you not perceive it? Isaiah 4319
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Shifting models

• Away from a command and control organizational
  model
• Toward creative emergence

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Shifting models

• Away from a command and control organizational
  model
• Toward creative emergence
• Away from Five Year Strategies
• Toward tracking emergent signs of life and then
  steering the organization to nurture them

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Shifting models

• Away from a command and control organizational
  model
• Toward creative emergence
• Away from Five Year Strategies
• Toward tracking emergent signs of life and then
  steering the organization to nurture them
• Away from clergy-centred
• Toward lay-driven ministry

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Small Group Discussion (8 mins)How might you do
this sort of thing in your own congregation?

• Away from a command and control organizational
  model
• Toward creative emergence
• Away from Five Year Strategies
• Toward tracking emergent signs of life and then
  steering the organization to nurture them
• Away from clergy-centred
• Toward lay-driven ministry

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New Wine at Cana
Now standing there were six stone water jars for
the Jewish rites of purification, each holding
twenty or thirty gallons. (John 26)
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Complexity theory
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Chaos Theory
Strange attractors Trusting the hidden order, the
pattern underlying the chaos
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The whole is not only greater than the sum of the
parts. It is unpredictably new. The emergent
whole cannot be reduced to its constituent
parts.
Novelty
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Evolutionary Impulseas Sacred Impulse
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Radio Call-in Style Discussion and QA
Complexity Theory
Chaos Theory
Evolutionary Impulseas Sacred Impulse
Novelty
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Parable of the Fig Tree
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Creating The Deal

• Explicit agreement maximum buy-in to do the work

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Creating The Deal

• Explicit agreement maximum buy-in to do the
  work
• The time required to focus on it

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Creating The Deal

• Explicit agreement maximum buy-in to do the
  work
• The time required to focus on it
• The inner conviction that we are ready, willing
  and able to do the work

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Small Group Discussion (8 mins)What would you
need to do in your congregation to move in this
direction?What ministry tasks would you need to
give up to make time for this?

• Explicit agreement maximum buy-in to do the
  work
• The time required to focus on it
• The inner conviction that we are ready, willing
  and able to do the work

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Next Week
Session Three The Engaged Church How
Gift-Based Ministry, Connection Circles,
Clear Expectations can transform your
congregation
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Homework for next week
Fill out the spiritual gift inventory and reflect
on how it feels to think about yourself this
way. Can you imagine doing something like this
with members of your congregation?