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Bishop’s Report 2013 Grand Canyon Synod Assembly

Bishop’s Report 2013 Grand Canyon Synod Assembly. What is your perspective?. When you look at the world today what do you see? When you look at the ELCA today what do you see? When you look at the Grand Canyon Synod today what do you see?

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Bishop’s Report 2013 Grand Canyon Synod Assembly

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  1. Bishop’s Report 2013 Grand Canyon Synod Assembly

  2. What is your perspective? When you look at the world today what do you see? When you look at the ELCA today what do you see? When you look at the Grand Canyon Synod today what do you see? When you look at your local congregation today what to you see?

  3. What do you see?

  4. Does God need to do a new thing? Since 2006 my assembly reports and Conference visits have dealt with the need for change, adaptive leadership, and courage to trust more in the Lord than ourselves.

  5. Why is change so hard?

  6. Our Brains • Tired and stressed out-our brains hate change • Change means learning something new • Creating new connections or a new neuro-network is hard and complex

  7. Look at our lives It is hard to learn with the constant stress, pressure and demands that our choices and our lives throw at us-two major culprits:

  8. Unhealthy eating and poor sleep habits

  9. Our Brains are not in Good Shape

  10. So How Do Create a Better Chance for Change Exercise

  11. Practice Spiritual Disciplines

  12. Change our Diet

  13. Get Adequate Rest

  14. Change Perspectives

  15. Take a Break, Breathe, Rest, Reflect, or PRAY

  16. Summon a Positive Insight

  17. You Cannot Hold a Positive and Negative at the Same time

  18. Find the Bright Spots

  19. Negative Emotions Impair Us

  20. Impair • Thinking • Memory • Creativity • Strategic Perspective

  21. As We Prepare our Brains for Change The main challenge is not to think differently but to act differently Training our Brains and spirits allow us to see and do things differently This is work, not a one-shot fix, but a daily, constant push

  22. Key Ingredients Focus on innovation happening around you in the congregation or in the community

  23. Connect Outside your local place • Local leadership circle • Police Precinct • Fire Captain • Closest School Principal • City Council Member • Neighbors not connected to your congregation • Nearby Business owners

  24. Tweak As innovative ideas for change come they will need to be tweaked

  25. Select • How do you decide which direction to go? • How do you determine what behavior needs to be changed? • How do you see what you are doing incarnating the mission to which you have been called?

  26. Stealthstorming You have to know the political, cultural, spiritual and economic climate within your community Who are the resistors and permission-givers? Who are the ones that can trip the community in one direction or another?

  27. Overriding all these is Persist You got to see the big picture and you have to be in it for the long-haul

  28. Remember Our History

  29. What drives Change/Innovation Fear or Threats do not move people to change Passion does! Angela Lee Duckworth “The Key to success? Grit” West Point, National Spelling Bee, Inner City Schools-what is the ingredient for long-term success-GRIT

  30. Growth Mindset The ability to learn/change is not fixed Abilities and gifts can be cultivated and developed Failure is not a permanent condition We can always start over, learning from what has happened before

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