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Leadership on the Other Side

Leadership on the Other Side. Bill Easum. The Leader’s Cheat Sheet. Leaders are obedient to a call greater than their own lives. Leaders feel passionately about a few core issues, and think paradoxically about most other things.

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Leadership on the Other Side

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  1. Leadership on the Other Side Bill Easum

  2. The Leader’s Cheat Sheet • Leaders are obedient to a call greater than their own lives. • Leaders feel passionately about a few core issues, and think paradoxically about most other things. • Leaders are keenly aware of their need to be led intuitively by the Holy Spirit. • Leaders are constantly innovating “”’’on the fly”.

  3. The Leader’s Cheat Sheet • Leaders know how to share Jesus with pagans. • Leaders sense that the basic genetic code of the church is to make disciples of Jesus Christ. • Leaders function as spiritual directors or guides. • Leaders feel and think like cross-cultural witnesses. • Leaders are permission-giving.

  4. The Leader’s Cheat Sheet • Leaders are team based. • Leaders serve Jesus Christ in the midst of a congregation instead of serving the congregation. • It’s not what leaders know that is important; its what leaders know is not important. • Leaders need a clear sense of what it means to be human.

  5. The Leader’s Cheat Sheet • Leaders need to be able to help others distinguish reality from fiction. • Leaders are willing to change their Life Metaphors.

  6. The OtherSide Manifesto • Jesus is the only truth we can be sure that we can take into and out of the wormhole. • Chaos is the beginning of all new creation. • To be out of control is normal because the wormhole is always under construction. • Our experiences are as important as our thoughts.

  7. The OtherSide Manifesto • Imagination is as important as logical thought. • Questions outnumber answers. • Constant flux is normal. • Because speed is a basic in the wormhole, constant innovation provides equilibrium. • Most things are upside down and backward. • The wormhole is not linear.

  8. Clues to the Other Side

  9. Clues to the Other Side

  10. Clues to the Other Side

  11. The Death of Two Kissing Cousins R.I.P. Modernity R.I.P. Christendom

  12. How do you think and feel about the following?

  13. How do you think and feel about the following?

  14. Permission-Giving Leaders

  15. Permission-Giving Leaders

  16. Permission-Giving Leaders

  17. Permission-Giving Leaders

  18. Whose Church is it anyway? When Mao Tse-Tung took over, there were two million Christians in China. His regime killed the missionaries, arrested the pastors, shut down the churches and persecuted the Christians. When he died, there were Fifty million known Christians in China…..

  19. Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for Society The religious and secular worlds will continue to blur in every way except one – religious beliefs and values, which will be crystal clear due to the resurgence of the prominence of the Scriptures.

  20. Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for Society The clash between the old and the new will shape most of the first two decades of the 21st century in almost every arena of life.

  21. Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for Society The internet will continue to grow until it is the primary form of communication, information, commerce and networking throughout the world.

  22. Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for Society Religion and science will become more like kissing cousins than alienated enemies.

  23. Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for Society Biogenetics will become the major theological battleground replacing today’s flash points of gay rights, abortion and gender.

  24. Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for Society If it doesn’t entertain, stimulate or touch all the senses, it won’t educate or be worshipful.

  25. Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for Society Three-dimensional holographic organizational charts will replace the flat organization of the 1990’s.

  26. Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for Society Society will continue to become more hostile to local congregations and more open to spirituality.

  27. Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for Society The primary search is for wholeness, identity, dignity, community and empowerment.

  28. Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for Society People will play books instead of reading them.

  29. Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for the Local Church Religious pluralism will flourish, but ecumenism will fight an increasingly losing battle.

  30. Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for the Local Church The sharpest contrast between thriving and dying churches continues to be a commitment to Jesus Christ, indigenous style of worship and lay ministries.

  31. Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for the Local Church High commitment churches will have a better chance of reaching non-believers than low commitment churches.

  32. Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for the Local Church Worship will continue to become more eastern, ancient and high tech.

  33. Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for the Local Church The majority of Protestant pastors could be woman and the majority of Catholic churches could be run by deacons and woman religious.

  34. Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for the Local Church Most of the effective pastors will receive their training in a local church.

  35. Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for the Local Church Church planting will be a major mission of thriving, local church and denominational systems.

  36. Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for the Local Church Most ministry will be done by te congregation.

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