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Evoking Ministry Everyday Everywhere in Everyone
Robert K Martin
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A Tale of Two Types…..
……of Leadership
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• Self
• Others
• Community
3 parts of the Story
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• Self – Desire / Vision
• Others – Desire / Vision
• Community – Desire / Vision
3 parts of the Story
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• Self – Desire / Vision• Others – Desire / Vision• Community – Desire / Vision
3 parts of the Story
SelfDesire/Vision
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• Self – Desire / Vision• Others – Desire / Vision• Community – Desire / Vision
3 parts of the Story
SelfDesire/Vision
OtherCommunity
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• Self – Desire / Vision• Others – Desire / Vision• Community – Desire / Vision
3 parts of the Story
SelfDesire/Vision
Other
GOD
in GOD
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Your spiritual desire
What most renews/fulfills you spiritually?
How might someone lead you into a richer and deeper engagementwith your truest desire in God?
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Evoking Ministry – E3
Two Kinds of Leadership:
1. Directive
2. Evocative
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Evoking Ministry – E3
Two Kinds of Leadership:
1. Directive• Getting others to implement your Vision
a. Leader’s calling and visionb. Leader’s passion and energyc. People: Buy in and align to
Calling and Vision feel EXTERNAL
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Evoking Ministry – E3
Two Kinds of Leadership:
2. Evocative: e (out) vocare (to call)Calling out the Christ Within
Calling and Vision feel INTERNAL
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Evoking Ministry – E3
Evocative Leadership Helping others • explore true desire • discern and live out their divine calling
a. visionb. passionc. ministryd. Leader?
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Why Evoke?
Fosters personal passion and energy Increases corporate vitalityIncreases capacity for self-directionChange is not imposed; change occurs organically, from within.Decreases ConflictFrees leadership for greater reach and depthInherently missional: calls persons out of comfort zone and into greater spiritual practice.
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Evoking Ministry – E3
1. The Incarnational Drive of Your Ministerial Leadership
2. Evocative Leadership 3. Evoking Communities of Greater
Ministerial Practice
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Evocative Leadership:Theological GroundColossians 1:24-2924 I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church. 25 I became its servant according to God’s commission that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, 26 the mystery that has been hidden throughout the ages and generations but has now been revealed to his saints.
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Colossians 1:24-2927 To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. 28 It is he whom we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone in all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ. 29 For this I toil and struggle with all the energy that he powerfully inspires within me.
Evocative Leadership:Theological Ground
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Colossians 1:24-2924 I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church. 25 I became its servant according to God’s commission that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, 26 the mystery that has been hidden throughout the ages and generations but has now been revealed to his saints.
Evocative Leadership:Theological Ground
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Colossians 1:24-2927 To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. 28 It is he whom we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone in all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ. 29 For this I toil and struggle with all the energy that he powerfully inspires within me.
Evocative Leadership:Theological Ground
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Colossians 1:24-2924 I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church. 25 I became its servant according to God’s commission that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, 26 the mystery that has been hidden throughout the ages and generations but has now been revealed to his saints.
Evocative Leadership:Theological Ground
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Theological Conviction:Omnipresence of God
God everywhere, all the time
Immanence: God in all things
Transcendence: All things in God
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Ruler in allRuler over allAlpha andOmega
Christ Pantocrator
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ChristBeyondall things
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Christ
Withinall
things
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Christ Among
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May Christ dwell in your heartsMay you comprehend the breadth and length and height and depthTo be filled with the fullness of God Ephesians 3:14-19
Christ
within
ChristBeyon
dChrist in you You in Christ
Discipleship: Living Out the Christ Within toward the Christ Beyond
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Christ Beyond Beyond all understanding Beyond all traditions Beyond this place
Implications: a. Walk humbly with God beyond, into the
unknownb. Everything human needs redemption, should
move toward transcendence
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Christ within Within all things, everywhere, all the
time.Implication: We need to look for God, especially where we “least” (Matt 25) expect. Within ourselves, among others, especially in our engagement with the ‘least of these’.
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Christ withinOur purpose as Christ-followers is to live out the Christ within toward the Christ beyond.
Implication: We need disciplines that align our selves to and live out – to incarnate - the Truth, the Way, the Life.
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Centering in Christ Within
Personally
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Expanding into Christ Beyond
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Communally
Centering
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Expanding
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Evocative Leadership fostersAwareness: Who am I in God? What is God doing here/now?
To what are we being called?
Intention: To what will we commit? Participation: How will we respond?
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The Incarnational Drive of Your Ministerial Leadership
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Christian Life and Ministry as Incarnational
Generic definition of Incarnation: Embodying the immaterial; enacting the invisible.• Emotions• Ideas• Meaning
INVISIBLE
visible
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Christian Life and Ministry as Incarnational
John MacKay: "To evangelize is so to present Christ Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit, that [all people] shall come to put their trust in God through [Jesus Christ], to accept Him as their Saviour, and serve Him as their King in the fellowship of His Church." "The evangelical word must become indigenous flesh."
Mackay: Ecumenics, 1964
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Christian Life and Ministry as Incarnational
Goal: Union with Christ in the Spirit Because of pervasive sin/alienation,
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Christian Life and Ministry as Incarnational and Baptismal
Awareness of unity and alienation
Raised to new life: “not I but Christ who lives within”
Dying to sin, conforming to Christ
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Leading to Live Out the Christ WithinInto the Christ Beyond
Evocative Leadership:
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Christian Leaders - Authentic Disciples
Christian Ministry is always Christ-like, Spirit-filled
Grounded in, sustained by spiritual disciplines
Living out the Way of Jesus Christ
Christian Leaders ARE the change they seek
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One Obstacle to Authentic Leadership
ProfessionalismDoing to others what you
wouldn’t want done to you.Leading others in ways that are
not authentic to you.Treating others as objects,
instruments, for another end
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Do YOU love me?
John 21:Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?”“Yes, Lord,” he said, “you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.”
Love Ministry
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Loving God: personally in communion
Disciplines:Awareness: Mindfulness
Intention: Focus of Mind/Heart
Participation: Responding personally in communion for effective Christian living.
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Evocative Leadership: fostering greater awareness, intention,
and participation in the Divine Life
Evocative Discipleship: living out our call together