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Culture change rather than language change


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The danger our actions and strategies reinforce
a culture we are wanting to transform.
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What might this look like at Diocesan, deanery ,
church level?
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• Some possible values
• Strategies are not enough without a changing mind
  set
• Innovation is not primarily a top down process
• Ideas must be valued
• Stay curious, always learning
• Never say No before maybe
• Leave real space for experimentation
• Encourage collaboration
• Recognise and celebrate pioneering
  accomplishments
• This is not a predetermined process
• Make incremental improvements normal

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Eight possible actions
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1. Imagination

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To look at something as though we have never
seen it before requires great courage. Henri
Matisse Seeing in a new way. Johns gospel. we
have seen his glory Acts 10. Peter
Cornelius Perhaps our greatest need is a
baptism of imagination about the forms of
church. MSC report 2004.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in
seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel
Proust
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2. Prayer Imagination

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3. Find the agents of change
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Find the agents of change

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
Importance of questioning. There must be a
better way.
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Three key questions Who am I ? What do I
know? Who do I know ?
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4. Plan for the unpredictable

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Plan for the unpredictable

Mission is often described as if it were a
planned extension of an old building. But in fact
it has been usually more like an unexpected
explosion. John V Taylor. The Go Between God.

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Plan for the unpredictable


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5. Prophetic Partnership

How do we work and learn together ?
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6. Missional Focus

Start with the Church and the mission will
probably get lost. Start with mission and it is
likely the Church will be found. MSC report p116.
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7. Affordable risk

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8. Stay dangerous

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Stay dangerous

Need leaders with discovery skills rather than
delivery skills. The Innovators DNA
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Stay dangerous
You can spend all the time learning and not
doing . And doing, not learning to do is
the essence of pioneering.