Evoking Ministry Everyday Everywhere in Everyone

1. Evoking Ministry Everyday Everywhere in Everyone Robert K Martin

2. A Tale of Two Types….. ……of Leadership

3. 3 parts of the Story • Self • Others • Community

4. 3 parts of the Story • Self – Desire / Vision • Others – Desire / Vision • Community – Desire / Vision

5. 3 parts of the Story • Self – Desire / Vision • Others – Desire / Vision • Community – Desire / Vision Self Desire/Vision

6. 3 parts of the Story • Self – Desire / Vision • Others – Desire / Vision • Community – Desire / Vision Community Other Self Desire/Vision

7. 3 parts of the Story • Self – Desire / Vision • Others – Desire / Vision • Community – Desire / Vision in God Other Self Desire/Vision God

8. Your spiritual desire • What most renews/fulfills you spiritually? How might someone lead you into a richer and deeper engagement with your truest desire in God?

9. Evoking Ministry – E3 Two Kinds of Leadership: • Directive • Evocative

10. Evoking Ministry – E3 Two Kinds of Leadership: • Directive • Getting others to implement your Vision • Leader’s calling and vision • Leader’s passion and energy • People: Buy in and align to Calling and Vision feel EXTERNAL

11. Evoking Ministry – E3 Two Kinds of Leadership: • Evocative: e (out) vocare (to call) Calling out the Christ Within Calling and Vision feel INTERNAL

12. Evoking Ministry – E3 EvocativeLeadership Helping others • explore true desire • discern and live out their divine calling • vision • passion • ministry • Leader?

13. Why Evoke? • Fosters personal passion and energy • Increases corporate vitality • Increases capacity for self-direction • Change is not imposed; change occurs organically, from within. • Decreases Conflict • Frees leadership for greater reach and depth • Inherently missional: calls persons out of comfort zone and into greater spiritual practice.

14. Evoking Ministry – E3 • The Incarnational Drive of Your Ministerial Leadership • Evocative Leadership • Evoking Communities of Greater Ministerial Practice

15. Evocative Leadership:Theological Ground Colossians 1:24-29 24 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.

16. Evocative Leadership:Theological Ground Colossians 1:24-29 27 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.

17. Evocative Leadership:Theological Ground Colossians 1:24-29 24 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.

18. Evocative Leadership:Theological Ground Colossians 1:24-29 27 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.

19. Evocative Leadership:Theological Ground Colossians 1:24-29 24 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. 25I 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.

20. Theological Conviction:Omnipresence of God God everywhere, all the time • Immanence: God in all things • Transcendence: All things in God

21. Christ Pantocrator Ruler in all Ruler over all Alpha and Omega

22. Christ Beyond all things

23. Christ Within all things

25. Christ Among

27. Discipleship: Living Out the Christ Within toward the Christ Beyond Christ within Christ Beyond Christ in you You in Christ May Christ dwell in your hearts May you comprehend the breadth and length and height and depth To be filled with the fullness of God Ephesians 3:14-19

28. Christ Beyond • Beyond all understanding • Beyond all traditions • Beyond this place Implications: • Walk humbly with God beyond, into the unknown • Everything human needs redemption, should move toward transcendence

29. 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’.

30. Christ within Our 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.

31. Centering in Christ Within Personally

32. Expanding into Christ Beyond

33. Centering Communally

34. Expanding

36. Evocative Leadership fosters Awareness: 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?

37. The Incarnational Drive of Your Ministerial Leadership

38. Christian Life and Ministry as Incarnational visible INVISIBLE • Generic definition of Incarnation: Embodying the immaterial; enacting the invisible. • Emotions • Ideas • Meaning

39. 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

40. Christian Life and Ministry as Incarnational Goal: Union with Christ in the Spirit Because of pervasive sin/alienation,

41. Christian Life and Ministry as Incarnational and Baptismal Raised to new life: “not I but Christ who lives within” Awareness of unity and alienation Dying to sin, conforming to Christ

42. Evocative Leadership: Leading to Live Out the Christ Within Into the Christ Beyond

43. 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

44. One Obstacle to Authentic Leadership • Professionalism • Doing 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

45. Do YOU love me? Love Ministry 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.”

46. Loving God: personally in communion • Disciplines: • Awareness: Mindfulness • Intention: Focus of Mind/Heart • Participation: Responding personally in communion for effective Christian living.

47. EvocativeLeadership: fostering greater awareness, intention, and participation in the Divine Life Evocative Discipleship: living out our call together