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2. Pioneering Leadership

3. Self identity Who am I? How do I identify myself as a pioneering leader? Who does the church think I am?

4. ‘ Need to identify, select and train pioneer church planters for lay and ordained ministries….. Recommendation 11 It is important that they are not pressed into becoming ministers of existing churches but are deployed in pioneering contexts” MSC p134

5. 2006 Guidelines “candidates who have the necessary vision and gifts to be missionary entrepreneurs, to lead fresh expressions of church and forms of church for an appropriate culture.”

6. 2011 Criteria for Pioneer Ministry • Demonstrable maturity & robustness • Demonstrable self motivation • Demonstrable track record of innovation • and initiative • Demonstrable ability to work • collaboratively in a team

7. Archegos

8. Archegos ‘looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfector of our faith’ Hebrews 12;2

9. Archegos ‘looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfector of our faith’ Hebrews 12;2 How was Jesus a pioneer ?

10. Some important qualifications

11. There is a spectrum of pioneering Pioneer Starter Pioneer Sustainer Sustainer Pioneer Sustainer Developer

12. Danger of one model/image for pioneering

13. “If pioneering is a highly elastic concept that requires different capabilities in different settings, is there a risk of not discovering potential pioneers if the notion is stereotyped.” Mike Moynagh

14. This is not solo pioneering leadership

15. Pioneering teams ‘ one of the great myths of entrepreneurship has been thenotion if the leader as a lone hero… The reality is that successful entrepreneurs either built teams about them or were part of a team throughout.’ Thomas Cooney, What is an Entrepreneurial Team

16. Imaginative Team

17. Innovators • Bridge builders • Persuaders

18. Values of the team • creativity • curiosity • risk • contextual • prototypes • serve

19. ‘ Pioneering gifts are widely distributed in the team and beyond , and the pioneer leader is to help create a context where these gifts can be exercised.’ Mike Moynagh

20. Some possible clues from scripture

21. Ephesians 4; 11-12. ‘the gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some evangelists and some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ.” Unity- Diversity-Maturity

22. Ephesians 4; 11-12. apostles = entrepreneur prophet = questioner evangelist = communicator pastor = humaniser teacher = systematizer Frost and Hirsch, The Shaping of Things to come.p175

23. Apostle Apostle- one who is sent Concerned for overall vigour and extension of Christianity by direct mission and church planting. Entrepreneur, pioneer, strategist, innovator, visionary.

24. Prophet The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us. Guard the covenant relationship Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination, 1978

25. Evangelist Recruit to the cause ‘ As for you always be sober, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, carry out your ministry fully.’ 2 Timothy 4v5.

26. Questions for discussion? • What are the strengths • and weaknesses of these • arguments using Ephesians 4. • What might be its limitations • theologically and practically ?

27. Some possible clues from entrepreneurship

28. Missionary Entrepreneur

29. ‘ This 10 to 15 % of the population should be the leaven that affects the whole.The leaven is not able to do its job because our institutions and bureaucratic systems prevent it. The problem lies deep. Our education system, including theological colleges, are all too often learning regimes rather than talent spotters or developers. Our institutions stifle entrepreneurial initiative.’ p4

30. ‘Releasing the entrepreneurial talent among Gods people is the greatest task facing the church today.’ p4

31. they are people • habitual • creative and innovative • builders • build something of value • build using opportunities ‘A person who habitually creates and innovates to build something of recognised value around perceived opportunities. p12

32. Six FACETS of an entrepreneur • Focus • Advantage • Creativity • Ego • Team • Social

33. by James Fisher & James Koch Studied 230 CEOs 100 of whom founding CEOs Greenwood Press, 2008

34. ‘ It does mean that academic knowledge concerning entrepreneurship seldom is the factor that determines whether or not one becomes an entrepreneur.’ p16

35. ‘ Managers work within facts entrepreneurs work ahead of facts.’ They think and act differently

36. confident • decisive • energetic • disrupt status quo • visionary • risk taker • not give up ‘ The essence of entrepreneurial behaviour is risk taking.’ p38

37. Questions for discussion? • In what ways do you find • the concept of missionary • entrepreneur helpful ?

38. The Qualities of a Pioneer ?

39. People who are first

40. People who are on the edge

41. People who are moving out

42. People who take risks

43. People who are loving change

44. People who know when to stay or go

45. People who know when to bring order or chaos

46. People who are sure of where they are and who they are.

47. People who are dissenters

48. ‘There can be no constructive change at all, even in church, unless there is some form of dissent. By dissent I mean simply the proposing of alternatives…. and a system that is not continuously examining alternatives is not likely to evolve creatively.’ Gerald Arbuckle, Refounding the Church

49. People who reflect, connect and don’t know

50. Questions for discussion? • Which of these do you • most resonate with and why? • What other categories • might you add ?