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Leading

Leading. Terri Martinson Elton. About noon the next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. He became hungry and wanted something to eat; and while it was being prepared, he fell into a trance.

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Leading

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  1. Leading Terri Martinson Elton

  2. About noon the next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. He became hungry and wanted something to eat; and while it was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw the heaven opened and something like a large sheet coming down, being lowered to the ground by its four corners. In it were all kinds of four-footed creatures and reptiles and birds of the air. Then he heard a voice saying, "Get up, Peter; kill and eat." But Peter said, "By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is profane or unclean." The voice said to him again, a second time, "What God has made clean, you must not call profane." This happened three times, and the thing was suddenly taken up to heaven. Acts 10:9-16 New Revised Standard

  3. How do you view change?

  4. Folk tale

  5. View of Change

  6. Why study change? Change is a normal part of our world. CHANGE HAPPENS! Change takes place IN THE CHURCH! Leadership always involves change. Yet there are different types of change!

  7. |let’s get personal|

  8. |personal| There is a personal dimension to change that can never be taken away. • Share with a partner one time you dealt very well with leading a change process and one time you did not deal very well with a change process.

  9. |personal| How do you deal with change? • What is your experience both with change and leading change? • What skills do you have needed for leading change? • What’s your change temperament?

  10. |personal| What about those around you? • Do they have experience? • Have skills? • What’s their change temperament?

  11. |personal| Some Resources: • What is your Change Style? • Discovery Learning’s ChangeStyle Indicator • What is your conflict management style? • Speed Leas • Family-systems view • The Leader’s Journey by Herrinton, Creech, and Taylor • How are you gifted? • LifeKeys by Stark, Kise, and Krebs • Strengths Finder by Tom Rath

  12. Developing a Hermeneutic of Leading in the Midst of Change Four views of theology: • Descriptive– WHERE is God in what is? • Historical– WHAT do normative text say? • Systematic– Coherent, congruent, and ethical • Strategic– What languages, relationship, strategies, and practices best accomplish the mission and ministry? Browning, A Fundamental Practical Theology

  13. Where is God in what is?

  14. God is active and present in the midst of change. • Where is God in the midst of rituals, traditions and contextual realities? • What meaning do these hold for that particular community? • How can you unearth what gives meaning to a community of faith? What is shared and what had different meanings?

  15. “All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.” Anatole France, French writer

  16. God’s people are simultaneously saint and sinner.

  17. Where do normative text say?

  18. The Grand Story and Change • Old Testament Themes: • Genesis • Exodus • Kings • Prophets • New Testament • Gospels • Acts • Letters • Revelation

  19. Some things are constant… Godwants to be in relationship with God’s people and the world. Some things do change… God and God’s creation are dynamic, living entities. Christian Community is dynamic. Leaders of communities of faith live in a tension.

  20. The role of leadership is to bring God’s people back into the biblical story – the living word of God. • The biblical story centers a community of faith, giving it its identity, and holds a community, giving it space to wrestle with what it means to be God’s people in the here and now.

  21. The Lutheran Story and Change • Theology Help with change: • Word and Sacrament • Living Word • Theology of the Cross • Law and Gospel • Tradition • Protestant/Reforming church • Educated Leadership • Immigrant church in US

  22. Is this theology coherent, congruent, and ethical?

  23. Systematic Theology is “the fusion of horizons between the vision implicit in contemporary practices and the vision implied in the practices of the normative Christian texts.” (Browning)

  24. Two questions: • What new horizons of meaning is fused when questions from the present practices are brought to the central Christian witness? • What reasons can be advanced to support the validity claims of this new fusion of meaning?

  25. Who could be your conversation partners? • Reformation theologies • Liberation theologians • Feminist view of theology • Missiological • Trinitarian theologies • ???

  26. What languages, relationships, strategies, and practices best accomplish the ministry and mission?

  27. What establishes the norms and strategies of concrete practices in light of the analysis of the concrete situation?

  28. All change is not the same! • Conflict • Transition • Growth • Adaptive • Technical • Individual • Systemic • Paradigm shifts

  29. Change is both an event and a process! • Change is about the way we think and the way we act.

  30. Change is personal and communal, individual and organizational. • Change is continuous and discontinuous.

  31. Change is both natural and normative, and abnormal and disruptive.

  32. Every Season - Nichole Nordeman • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dwpdZdvCl8

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