New Church Leadership

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New Church Leadership

• The key to the formation of missional
  communities is their leadership
• - Alan J.
  Roxburgh
• Missional
  Leadership

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New Church Leadership

• Leadership is critical to the success of any
  venture, it is especially true of starting a new
  church. One may have resources, personnel, and
  even a sponsoring church but if the leadership
  is poor the new church is at a disadvantage as
  far as viable sustainability is concerned.

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What type of leadership is helpful in starting
new churches?

• For this workshop we will deal with two
• Transformational Leadership
• Relational / pastoral Leadership

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Transformational leaders

• NewStart leaders are to be educated in doing
  missional ministry rather than how to simply
  manage ministry.
• NewStart leaders should think of themselves as
  entrepreneurial and missional leaders with the
  ability to understand the context in which the
  church will do ministry and interpret the dynamic
  changes it has to contend with.

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• Transformational leaders believe that they
  should start new churches using a different model
  than those of years gone by. The old model was to
  secure a piece of property or building purchased
  by the District in an area close to a few
  Nazarene families and try to get a church
  started. This is a franchise mentality that has
  outlived its usefulness.

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• What are the disadvantages of this older model?
• 1. District sponsorship
• 2. Property may be too limiting and you may have
  difficulty securing the property in a timely
  manner.
• 3. Vision is limited to target a few Nazarene
  families.

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• Transformational leaders must lead.
• Churches without good strong leaders will be
  run by dysfunctional ones.
• People dont quit their organizations they
  quit their leaders.
• James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

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• Transformational leaders must stay positive
• Angry leaders vs. gracious leaders
• Cynical leaders vs. optimistic leaders
• High expectation vs. low expectation

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Transformational leaders

• Transformational leaders must have a vision
• Where and how does a NewStart leader
• get the vision for a new congregation?

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Transformational leaders

• Transformational leaders must learn to
• communicate well.
• Vision and purpose must be restated every
  twenty-six days to keep the church moving in the
  right direction.
• 
  Rick Warren

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Transformational leaders must love the people
they lead
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Relational Leadership

• What happens when we do not get along?

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Pastors and Lay leadersIts All About
Relationships

• A 1988 study among Southern Baptists found
  that 2,100 pastors were removed from their
  pulpits during an eighteen month period, 116
  each month, a 31 increase over the rate found in
  a 1984 study. About half of the ousted pastors
  leave the ministry and go into other kinds of
  work.
• Savannah
  news-Press, 10 Feb. 1990

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Pastors and Lay leadersIts All About
Relationships Cont

• This is not unique to Southern Baptists, other
  groups reveal similarly tragic statistics. The
  top reason for many forced departures in pastoral
  ministry is relational problems between the
  pastor and lay leaders.

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Pastors and Lay leadersIts All About
Relationships Cont

• In the secular world, 80 of the people who fail
  at work do so because they do not relate well
  with other people.
• - James A. Autry, Love and
  Profit, the Art of Caring Leadership (New York
  Morrow, 1991), 40.

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Pastors and Lay leadersIts All About
Relationships

• In pastoral ministry, the most basic form of
  ineffectiveness and failure is an inability to
  build and sustain meaningful collegial
  relationships with the churchs lay leaders.
• This is so pivotal - it will make or break your
  ministry.

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Pastors and Lay leadersIts All About
Relationships Cont

• The most fundamental responsibility of all
  pastors is to relate to people in such a way that
  the authentic Christian message becomes
  incarnated. Such relationships must be
  established, nurtured, and maintained.

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It is Biblical

• God created us in his own image, as relational
  beings... God intends for us to relate to Him.
• For none of us lives to himself alone and
• none of us dies to himself alone. If we
• live, we live to the Lord and if we die, we
• die to the Lord. So whether we live or die,
  we
• belong to the Lord
  (Rom. 147-8).

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It is Biblical Cont

• - Christ founded the church to be an
• Organic fellowship, a community of
• People who relate vertically to god in
• Worship and obedience and
• Horizontally to one another in
• Interdependence and unity

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It is Biblical Cont

• - Gods people relate to one another as
• indispensable parts of a body.
• (I
  Cor.1212-16)
• The church should be in one accord presided
  over by those who set an example for the
  believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith
  and in purity. (I Tim. 412)

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It is Biblical Cont

• - The communion of the saints includes
• the relational activities of sharing
  and
• carrying each others burdens
• (Gal. 62).
• - Encourage one another daily
• (Heb. 313)
• - Labor together in Gods vineyard
• (I Cor. 1558)

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It is Biblical Cont

• All Scripture pertains to relationships with
  God and neighbor.

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It is Biblical Cont

• Therefore if there is any encouragement in
  Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if
  there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any
  affection and compassion, make my joy complete by
  being of the same mind, in maintaining the same
  love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. Do
  nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but
  with humility of mind regard one another as more
  important than yourselves. (NASB Phil.
  2 1-3)

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Pastoral Productivity and Relationships

• The productivity of pastors depends heavily on
  being surrounded by persons who are accepting,
  loving, encouraging and reproving. Believing in
  Gods best for us, supportive people stimulate us
  to godliness, mend our shattered egos, forgive
  our trespasses, tolerate our inconsistencies and
  model Gods grace for us. There is no room for
  Lone Rangers.

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Pastoral Productivity and Relationships Cont.

• Some examples
• Onesiphorus who refreshes..(2 Tim 116-18)
• Phoebe who helps (Rom. 161- 2)
• Priscilla Aquila risk their lives.. (Rom.
  163-4)
• A Barnabas who encourages (Acts 436-37)

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Pastoral Productivity and Relationships Cont.

• There are many others who seldom receive the
  credit they deserve. Wise pastors cultivate such
  good relationships with lay leaders. Spiritual
  health and fruitful ministry depend upon quality
  relationships with those who join us as
  co-laborers in Gods work.
• As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens
  another (Prov. 2717)

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Pastoral Productivity and Relationships Cont.

• Jesus wasnt too busy to make good relationships
• Paul wasnt too busy either.
• Maybe ... we too busy?
• We must learn to build and sustain healthy
  relationships with the people God gives to us.

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The Foundation of Relationships

• Know Thyself (Socrates)

Know your people
Know yourself
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The Foundation of Relationships Cont.

• Before excellence in ministry is possible
  spiritual leaders must diagnose their own world
  to discover traits that block the development of
  meaningful relationships.

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The Foundation of Relationships Cont.

• Successful pastors have the courage to examine
  their own blind spots and character flaws.
  Self-examination enhances a persons competence,
  identity, and relational skills, and reduces
  susceptibility to problems of ego and power.

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No Room for Scapegoating

• In-here problems rather than out-there
  problems.
• Core themes in a leaders inner theater
  cause him or her to choose certain courses of
  action, and these themes hold the key to success
  or failure as a leader.
• Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries, Prisoners of
  Leadership (New York Wiley 1989), 9

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No Room for Scapegoating Cont..

• Scapegoaters fail, though they may be sincere as
  hard workers but practice their denial in
  ignorance. Pastors must come to grips with their
  own personality, correct glaring flaws, and seek
  to become whole persons.

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Five Character Traits that Hinder Effective
ministry

• 1. LOW SELF-WORTH

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Five Character Traits that Hinder Effective
ministry Cont

• Low self-esteem breeds an abnormal desire for
  both affection and control, dangerous for those
  in ministry.

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Five Character Traits that Hinder Effective
ministry Cont

• 2. EGOCENTRICITY

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Five Character Traits that Hinder Effective
ministry Cont

• Egocentric people generally desire to avoid deep,
  substantial, and lasting relationships or, if
  they desire them, they are unable to develop and
  sustain them.
• It is not far unthinkable that many pastors would
  love their jobs if only they didnt have to
  relate to people.

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Five Character Traits that Hinder Effective
ministry Cont

• 3. The GURU MENTALITY

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Five Character Traits that Hinder Effective
ministry Cont

• Power tends to corrupt and absolute power
  corrupts absolutely
• Lord Acton
• - King Saul - Hitler - Jim Jones
• - Napoleon - Idi Amin - Sadam
• Hussein

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Five Character Traits that Hinder Effective
ministry Cont

• The key issue is CONTROL and the NEED to wield
  power
• Peter warned against lording over Gods people
  allotted to our charge
• I Peter 53

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Five Character Traits that Hinder Effective
ministry Cont

• Power, advancement, and prestige take
  precedence over people, servanthood, and
  ministry. Gurus run roughshod over people in
  pursuit of their own interests. Their ambition,
  manipulation, exploitation, and intolerance make
  meaningful ministry impossible.

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Five Character Traits that Hinder Effective
ministry Cont

• 4. UNRESOLVED GUILT

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Five Character Traits that Hinder Effective
ministry Cont

• Ministry becomes an attempt at
• self-atonement.
• Often tongue-lashing preaching is no more than
  projections of the preachers own guilt.

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Five Character Traits that Hinder Effective
ministry Cont

• 5. FALSE EXPECTATIONS

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Five Character Traits that Hinder Effective
ministry Cont

• Much in pastoral work is glorious, but the
  congregation, as such, is not glorious. The
  congregation is like Nineveh a site for hard
  work without a great deal of hope for success, at
  least not as I want it measured.

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Five Character Traits that Hinder Effective
ministry Cont

• People who glamorize congregations do us a
  great disservice there are no wonderful
  congregations Parish glamorization is
  ecclesiastical pornography. - Eugene Peterson,
  The Jonah Syndrome Leadership (Summer 1990)

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Characteristics that enhance meaningful
Relationships

• A Non-confrontational Style
• An Attentive Heart (Prov. 1813)
• Shallow relationships or relationships that
  know an early death result when people do not
  listen to each other.

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Characteristics that enhance meaningful
Relationships Cont

• A Transparent Manner
• Therefore, laying aside falsehood, SPEAK
  TRUTH EACH ONE of you WITH HIS NEIGHBOR, for we
  are members of one another. (NASB Ephesians 425)

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Characteristics that enhance meaningful
Relationships Cont

• Non - defensiveness
• How we act when mud flies greatly determines the
  quality of our relationships, and ultimately our
  ministerial effectiveness. By the way, mud
  brushes off better after it dries.

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Characteristics that enhance meaningful
Relationships Cont

• Diplomacy
• - Accept limited responsibility (Messiah
  complex)
• - Protect confidential information
• - Give perceptive counsel (know when to refer)
• - Avoid censure (judging people)
• - Play no favorites
• - Demonstrate patience (Col. 312-13)

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Steps to Healthy Relationships

• Study and preach on biblical texts stressing
  relationships with God and one another. Ask God
  for friends who will hold you accountable,
  refresh, nourish, rebuke, and encourage you in
  your ministry.

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Steps to Healthy Relationships Cont

• 2. Identify your personality traits as well as
  your signature themes. You may need help to
  overcome those idiosyncrasies that form barriers
  to meaningful relationships and ministry.

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Steps to Healthy Relationships Cont

• 3. Examine your leadership style.
• Be sure you are not confrontational or
  defensive. Learn the skills of interpersonal
  diplomacy.
• Ask the Holy Spirit to help you navigate
  well.

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Transformational leaders

• Transformational leaders must be risk takers
• Effective leaders today reside somewhere
  between absolute order and chaos. The trick is to
  ride the wave of chaos to its crest without
  becoming engulfed by it. Instead of seeking
  order, leaders count the chaos. Risks are
  required in Turnaround Churches...
  

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Transformational leaders

• The worst thing leaders can do today is to
  avoid the chaos of the moment for the order of
  the past. To do so signs ones death warrant as a
  leader and consigns the organization to death.-
  Bill Easum

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Transformational leaders are pastoral leaders

• ATTITUDES
• AND
• ABILITIES

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ATTITUDES

• 1. A SENSE OF CALL AND COMMITMENT TO JESUS CHRIST
• 2. A SENSE OF HUMOR AND OPTIMISM
• 3. FLEXIBILITY

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ATTITUDES

• 4. A STRONG SENSE OF DIRECTION
• 5. A BIBLICALLY ORIENTED VISION FOR THE CHURCH
• 6. A SENSE OF TRUST IN PEOPLE

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ATTITUDES

• 7. A HEALTHY MIX OF URGENCY AND PATIENCE
• 8. AN INFORMED PERSPECTIVE ON THE ENVIRONMENT
• 9. MATURE, REALISTIC LOVE TOUGH LOVE

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ATTITUDES

• 10. PERSONAL DISCIPLINE
• 11. PERSONAL EGO SECURITY
• THE FREEDOM TO FAIL
• 12. IMAGINATION AND
• INNOVATION

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ATTITUDES

• 13. A WILLINGNESS TO LIVE IN
• COMMUNITY
• 14. A SENSE OF HISTORY
• 15. ASTRONG COMMITMENT TO
• THE GOSPEL AS ENACTED IN
• THE LOCAL AND GLOBAL
• PERSPECTIVES
• 16. PERSONAL STAMINA

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ABILITIES

• To communicate effectively on both a personal and
  corporate level.
• To manage and administer operations effectively
• To be able to establish presence with people
• To know when to delegate responsibilities

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ABILITIES

• 5. To understand the power of symbols and their
  role in worship and in the life of the
  congregation.
• 6. To be able to celebrate corporate
• life joyously.
• 7. To be able to study and grow.

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ABILITIES

• 8. To be able to find resources for support
• 9. To be able to accept people as they are
• 10. To serve as a model for the gospel and
• to enable the congregation to live out
• the gospel.

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ABILITIES

• To be able to live creatively with
• ambiguity and unfinished tasks
• 12. To have the ability to set priorities for
  oneself
• 13. To be able to preach with power

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ABILITIES

• 14. To be able to cope with conflict
• 15. To be able to think theologically and
  biblically about the churchs life
• 16. To understand and live out the servant role
  of a pastor
• 17. To be able to function effectively with
  multilingual and multiethnic groups.

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The Colossian Vision

• These leaders see that Christ dwells in heaven
  as firstborn of creation, the glue that holds the
  universe together, the Lord of all systems and
  structures in the world.
• Both creation and redemption serve as
  functional mandates. The church then becomes the
  base for the transformation of humanity.

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The Philippian Vision

• These leaders see that Christ left the power
  and glory of heaven and came personally to die
  and rise to give people personal, saving
  relationships with God and build churches that
  care for them. They feel at home with the
  powerless of the world.

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Discussion Questions

• How would you describe your leadership style? Are
  you encouraged by the present direction of your
  congregation? Are you thinking of starting a new
  congregation? Have you considered the NewStart
  Assessment?

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Discussion Questions

• 2. Explain your vision for ministry. Is it more
  Colossian or Philippian? Describe what you
  want it to be.

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Sources

• Bickers, Dennis, Intentional Ministry, Beacon
  Hill Press, Kansas City 2009
• Malphurs, Aubrey, Planting Growing Churches for
  the 21st Century, Baker Books, Grand Rapids, MI
  1998
• Means, James, Effective Pastors for a New
  Century, Baker Books, Grand Rapids, MI 1993