Spiritual Leadership Development: Navigating Change and Empowerment

1. Issachar Coaching Cluster Year 4 Session 4 Managing Change

2. What has brought you joy since our last meeting?

3. A primary objective of the District is to produce Growing Spirit-filled Christ-like Servant Leaders at every level in the Bride of Christ.

4. Growing Spirit-filled Christ-like Servant Leader(ship) Core Competencies Model Abiding In Jesus Christ Competencies: 1-Growing in Intimacy with Christ 2-Crucifying Self 3-Claiming God’s Armor 4-Exercising Spiritual Disciplines 5-Practicing Sacred Pathways

5. Growing Spirit-filled Christ-like Servant Leader(ship) Core Competencies Model Empowering by Holy Spirit Competencies: 1-Claiming the Promise, Presence & Power of the Holy Spirit 2-Obeying the Holy Spirit -Quench Not -Grieve Not -Resist Not

6. Growing Spirit-filled Christ-like Servant Leader(ship) Core Competencies Model Empowering by Holy Spirit Competencies: 3-Being filled with the Holy Spirit 4-Manifesting the Fruit of the Holy Spirit 5-Exercising the Spiritual Gifts of the Holy Spirit

7. Growing Spirit-filled Christ-like Servant Leader(ship) Core Competencies Model Thinking Strategically Competencies: 1-Defining Realities 2-Providing Direction 3-Facilitating Action 4-Thinking Divergently 5-Thinking Convergently

8. Growing Spirit-filled Christ-like Servant Leader(ship) Core Competencies Model Leading Self Competencies: 1-Developing Christ-like Character 2-Establishing Christ-like Priorities 3-Maximizing God-given Abilities 4-Establishing Healthy Relationships 5-Sharpening the Saw/Learning for Life

9. Growing Spirit-filled Christ-like Servant Leader(ship) Core Competencies Model Leading a Team Competencies: 1-Building Trust-filled Relationships 2-Communicating Effectively 3-Unleashing People to Act 4-Cultivating Effective Teams 5-Developing Leaders

10. Growing Spirit-filled Christ-like Servant Leader(ship) Core Competencies Model Leading the Ministry Competencies: 1-Cultivating God’s Preferred Future 2-Managing Change 3-Executing Strategy 4-Adapting Organizational Structures 5-Administrating the Ministry

11. Growing Spirit-filled Christ-like Servant Leader(ship) Core Competencies Model

12. Biblical Teachings Related to Change

13. Matt 4:19-20 19 "Come, follow me ," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men." NIV

14. Luke 9:23 23 Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me . NIV

15. John 10:27-28 27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me . NIV

16. Gen 12:1-4 12:1 The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you… 4 So Abram left, as the LORD had told him…” NIV

17. Ex 3:8 8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey… NIV

18. How do the Biblical images of “journey,” “following,” & “leaving” relate to believers experiencing change? What were some consequences of God’s people not “taking the journey”?

19. Phil 1:6 6 …being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. NIV

20. Rom 8:29 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. NIV

21. When we think about the good work being completed in us and our being conformed into the likeness of Jesus, how might these promises relate to change?

22. Luke 5:36-39 36 He told them this parable: "No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. 37 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined.

23. 38 No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. 39 And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says, 'The old is better.'" NIV

24. As we further explore change, what are some truths contained in this parable of Jesus?

25. In what ways were most of the religious leaders in Jesus day stuck and unable to change? Are there parallels to today?

26. Is it possible for our churches to stay the same and grow more Christ-centered at the same time? Explain your answer:

27. Is it typically easy or difficult for Churches to Change? Please explain

28. Key Principles of Change

29. Cost Of Change Cost of Remaining The Same (Dissatisfaction) The Cost of Change Plus the First Steps of Change Or Change Will NOT Occur

30. Leading Congregational Change: A practical Guide for the Transformational Journey by Jim Herrington, Mike Bonem, James Furr

33. “The strongest indicator that our love for God is pure and obedient is when it results in a more faithful and effective expression of love for others.”

34. Encountering God’s Holiness Experiencing God’s Grace Engaging Community Embracing Unity

35. Encountering God’s Holiness “Effective change leaders consistently serve as catalysts to help people encounter the holiness of God. The fundamental calling of the Christian is to worship God.”

36. Experiencing God’s Grace “Effective change leaders help others make the connection between individual experiences of grace and the need to extend grace to all of life’s relationships.”

37. Embracing Our Unity “When we encounter God and see ourselves for who we are, we are free to embrace one another. If the perfect and almighty God can forgive us, how can we not forgive others?”

38. Engaging Community Unity must be translated into community if God’s people are to have an ongoing impact on the world. Unity is found in God’s mission.”

40. Learning Disciplines

41. Learning from Experience External Processes Experience Reflection on Experience Test concepts in new situations Form concepts, generalizations (make meaning) Internal Processes Figure adopted from D. A. Kolb Experimental Learning. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentiss Hall 1985

42. Learning Disciplines Creative Tension occurs when a compelling vision of the future and a clear picture of current realities are held in juxtaposition.

43. Learning Disciplines Mental Models help us take very complex dynamics and simplify them in order to deal with them on a routine basis. Mental models are the tools we use to make leaps of abstraction from millions of individual pieces of data.

44. Learning Disciplines Team Learning is the process of aligning and developing the capacity of a team to create the results its members truly desire. It is the process of changing the group’s purpose from communicating and coordinating to learning.

45. Learning Disciplines Systems Thinking- Understanding a church’s body life helps change leaders perceive the substance of specific relationships among the congregations components.

46. Seven Congregational Dynamics Congregations have personality Every change changes everything The past is always present Congregations talk their walk Congregations change to stay the same

47. Seven Congregational Dynamics “Solving” a problem can make things worse Strategic points of leverage exist within systems

49. Change Process

50. Making Personal Preparation • Practice Spiritual Disciplines • Revisit God’s Mission for the Church • Conduct an Honest Self-assessment • Be Accountable • Proactively Address Problems • Find the Right Pace