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The Role of Pastor in Times of Change

The Role of Pastor in Times of Change

Dr. Patrick Keifert

Dr. Patricia Taylor Ellison

Church Innovations Institute

Dr. Patrick Keifert

Dr. Patricia Taylor Ellison

Church Innovations Institute

Who is Church Innovations Institute?Who is Church Innovations Institute?

• innovating your church’s capacities to be renewed in God’s mission

• The Partnership for Missional Church– a 3-5 year journey of spiritual discernment

taken by local churches in clusters of 12-15 seeking God’s call to their congregation into God’s mission

• innovating your church’s capacities to be renewed in God’s mission

• The Partnership for Missional Church– a 3-5 year journey of spiritual discernment

taken by local churches in clusters of 12-15 seeking God’s call to their congregation into God’s mission

Where have we worked?Where have we worked?

• North American churches since 1980Mostly on the margins– Mennonites, Church of Christ, also old-line

protestant (Presbyterian, Lutheran, Episcopalian), few old-line evangelical

– center city, rural, some suburban– smaller congregations, some larger

• North American churches since 1980Mostly on the margins– Mennonites, Church of Christ, also old-line

protestant (Presbyterian, Lutheran, Episcopalian), few old-line evangelical

– center city, rural, some suburban– smaller congregations, some larger

Where have we worked?Where have we worked?

• southern African churches since 2002 in clusters that deliberately cross lines– cultural– ethnic– language– denomination

• newly launched in the United Kingdom

• southern African churches since 2002 in clusters that deliberately cross lines– cultural– ethnic– language– denomination

• newly launched in the United Kingdom

The Partnership for Missional Church

Phase 1Phase 1

Discovering Discovering our Partnersour Partners

Phase 2Phase 2

Missional Missional ExperimentingExperimenting

Phase 4Phase 4

Learning Learning & Growing& Growing

Phase 3Phase 3

Visioning for Visioning for EmbodimentEmbodiment

The Partnership for Missional Church

Phase 1Phase 1

Discovering our Discovering our PartnersPartners

LISTENINGLISTENING

Phase 2Phase 2

Missional Missional ExperimentingExperimenting

RISKINGRISKING

Phase 4Phase 4

Learning & Learning & GrowingGrowing

BECOMINGBECOMINGPhase 3Phase 3

Visioning for Visioning for EmbodimentEmbodiment

FOCUSINGFOCUSING

Phase OnePhase One

The first phase, Discovering Your Partners, assists the local church and its leaders to discover its partners inside and outside.

LISTENING

The first phase, Discovering Your Partners, assists the local church and its leaders to discover its partners inside and outside.

LISTENING

Phase TwoPhase Two

The second phase, Missional Experimenting, guides those partners in experimenting with some challenges facing the local church in walking into God’s preferred and promised future.

RISKING

The second phase, Missional Experimenting, guides those partners in experimenting with some challenges facing the local church in walking into God’s preferred and promised future.

RISKING

Phase ThreePhase Three

The third phase, Visioning for Embodiment, learns from the second and puts that sense of missional vocation tempered by the experiments in the second phase into a plan of action .

FOCUSING

The third phase, Visioning for Embodiment, learns from the second and puts that sense of missional vocation tempered by the experiments in the second phase into a plan of action .

FOCUSING

Phase FourPhase Four

The fourth phase, Learning and Growing, helps the local church embody the larger sense of missional vocation .

BECOMING

The fourth phase, Learning and Growing, helps the local church embody the larger sense of missional vocation .

BECOMING

Throughout the four phases, mentors and teachers are discerned, coached, and trained to pass on their good habits and capacities for innovating a missional church. This is called Sharing and Mentoring, and it goes on throughout the Partnership voyage.

Throughout the four phases, mentors and teachers are discerned, coached, and trained to pass on their good habits and capacities for innovating a missional church. This is called Sharing and Mentoring, and it goes on throughout the Partnership voyage.

During the journey through the PMC, at least 5 things happen

with pastors:

During the journey through the PMC, at least 5 things happen

with pastors: • The pastor establishes the emotional field within

which change takes place in the local church.

• The pastor can have high influence on process or high influence on outcome.

• We encourage the pastor to use that influence on process, functioning as the spiritual leader and teacher rather than the governor.

• The pastor establishes the emotional field within which change takes place in the local church.

• The pastor can have high influence on process or high influence on outcome.

• We encourage the pastor to use that influence on process, functioning as the spiritual leader and teacher rather than the governor.

• The pastor must establish beforehand what possible outcomes would place him or her in statu confessiones and thus she or he could NOT support.

• The pastor needs a God-centered self-definition which allows both healthy distancing as well as staying in touch.

• The pastor must establish beforehand what possible outcomes would place him or her in statu confessiones and thus she or he could NOT support.

• The pastor needs a God-centered self-definition which allows both healthy distancing as well as staying in touch.

During the journey through the PMC, several things happen with pastors:

During the journey through the PMC, several things happen with pastors:

Phase 1: ListeningHelp spiritual leaders get first things first…1

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Phase 2: RiskingHelp spiritual leaders attend to their role as …

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Phase 3: FocusingHelp spiritual leaders turn the congregation’s expectations...

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Phase 4: BecomingHelp spiritual leaders really grow into their role of evangelical public leaders in mission…

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Spiritual Leaders’ Time through the Phases of PMC

Spiritual Leaders’ Time through the Phases of PMC

Phase OneListening

Phase OneListening

Help spiritual leaders

• get first things first

• attend to the personal

• build/strengthen their theocentric self-definition

by means of deep listening and action-reflection learning with a twin

Help spiritual leaders

• get first things first

• attend to the personal

• build/strengthen their theocentric self-definition

by means of deep listening and action-reflection learning with a twin

Phase TwoRisking

Phase TwoRisking

Help spiritual leaders

• attend to their role as public leaders who guide the formation of Christian community through one-on-one skills

• use the stability from their theocentric self-definition to lead through risk and change

by means of deep listening and action-reflection learning with a twin

Help spiritual leaders

• attend to their role as public leaders who guide the formation of Christian community through one-on-one skills

• use the stability from their theocentric self-definition to lead through risk and change

by means of deep listening and action-reflection learning with a twin

Phase ThreeFocusing

Phase ThreeFocusing

Help spiritual leaders • turn the congregation’s expectations for them

toward the role of leader in the formation of Christian community

• build on their theocentric self-definition and experience of leading through risk

by means of deep listening and action-reflection learning with a twin

Help spiritual leaders • turn the congregation’s expectations for them

toward the role of leader in the formation of Christian community

• build on their theocentric self-definition and experience of leading through risk

by means of deep listening and action-reflection learning with a twin

Phase FourBecoming

Phase FourBecoming

Help spiritual leaders

• really grow into their role of evangelical public leaders in mission as the whole congregation grows into their missional vocation

• build on their theocentric self-definition and experience of leading through risk

by means of deep listening and action-reflection learning with a twin

Help spiritual leaders

• really grow into their role of evangelical public leaders in mission as the whole congregation grows into their missional vocation

• build on their theocentric self-definition and experience of leading through risk

by means of deep listening and action-reflection learning with a twin

A Day for Spiritual Leaders includes

A Day for Spiritual Leaders includes

• Dwelling in the Word

• Meet with Accountability Partner

• Spiritual Practices • Spiritual Leadership in Change

• Reflection on Congregation’s Recent Work

How do you do these things?

• Dwelling in the Word

• Meet with Accountability Partner

• Spiritual Practices • Spiritual Leadership in Change

• Reflection on Congregation’s Recent Work

How do you do these things?