Visionary Leadership

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Visionary Leadership
Association Summit Southwestern Seminary Fort
Worth, Texas
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This Session on Vision

• In this session you will
• Discovery four characteristics of a
• visionary leader

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Visionary Leadership
1. Visionary leaders are visionaries 2.
Visionary leaders have a personal vision 3.
Visionary leaders lead visionary
organizations 4. Visionary leaders understand
their times and know what to do
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Visionary Leadership
1. Visionary leaders are visionaries
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Visionary Leadership
1. Visionary leaders are visionaries
Visionaries have a clear, challenging
picture of the organizations future as
they believe it can and must be. Take the
Vision Style Audit.
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Development of Vision

• An important factor in developing a vision
• is your vision-style.
• Your vision-style is how you catch a vision.

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Vision Style Audit
Directions Take out a sheet of paper and
number from 1 to 11.
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Vision Audit

• Directions Write down the letter (a or b)
• that best describes your preference.
• 1. I tend to
• a) dislike new problems
• b) like new problems
• 2. I work best with
• a) facts
• b) ideas

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3. I like to think about a) what is b)
what could be 4. I like a) established ways
to do things b) new ways to do things
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• 5. I enjoy skills that
• a) I have already learned and used
• b) are newly learned but unused
• 6. In my work I tend to
• a) take time to be precise
• b) dislike taking time to be precise

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• 7. I would describe my work style as
• a) steady with realistic expectations
• b) periodic with bursts of enthusiasm
• 8. I have found that I am
• a) patient with routine details
• b) Impatient with routine details

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• 9. I am more likely to trust my
• a) Experience
• b) Inspiration
• 10. I am convinced that
• a) seeing is believing
• b) believing is seeing

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• 11. I tend to be
• a) a pessimist
• b) an optimist

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Interpretation
Total the number of As you circled. Total the
number of Bs you circled. Which is the greater
number?
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Interpretation
If you circled more As than Bs, youre the type
of leader who catches a vision by visit- ing
another ministry and seeing it for your- self.
You focus more on the present than the
future. Vision-style Vision Catcher
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Interpretation

• If you circled more Bs than As, youre the
• type of leader who creates a vision in your head.
  You focus primarily on the future
• and are a natural visionary.
• Vision-style Vision Creator

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Visionary Leadership
1. Visionary leaders are visionaries 2.
Visionary leaders have a personal vision
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2. Visionary leaders have a personal vision
Theyre directional leaders- have a clear
lifes direction. Ones life-direction consists
of two core ingredients -Personal mission
-Personal vision
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Personal Mission Definition I
mportance Discovery Development Application
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Definition of Mission A statement
of what God wants you to do with your life.
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Importance of Mission Aids in
discovering your ministry niche Brings a sense
of meaning and significance Focuses your life
and ministry Helps evaluate ones life Key to
developing a personal vision
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Discovery of Mission (Two
Ds) Know your design Gifts Passion
Temperament Know your direction
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Temperament
DiSC D-eagle I-peacock S-dove C-owl M
BTI (KTS)
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Temperament Question What do
people with my temperament do in ministry?
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Discovery of Mission (Two
Ds) Know your design -Gifts -Passion -Temperam
ent Know your direction
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Development of Mission
(Examples) My mission in life is to be used of
God to equip a new generation of leaders
nationally and internationally for high-
impact ministryin the 21st. Century. Slogan
Equipping tomorrows leaders today.
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Development of Mission
(Examples) My mission in life is to come
alongside churches and help them to become all
that Christ wants them to be. Slogan
Envisioning tomorrow today.
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Application of Mission
(Try it!) What are your gifts? What is/are your
passion(s)? What do you feel strongly and
care deeply about? What is your temperament
(DiSC and MBTI)? What are people with your
temperament doing in ministry?
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Application of Mission
(Try it!) What kind of divine design is best for
what you do in the ministry
organization? Who is doing this well, and what
is his/her divine design?
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Personal Vision Definition Im
portance Development Application
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Definition of Vision A clear,
challenging picture of the future of your life
and personal ministry as you believe it can and
must be.
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Importance of Vision While a
personal mission helps you to know where youre
going, the vision helps you to see where your
going.
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Development of Vision Expand your
personal mission statement Build upon each of
your personal ministry core values
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Development of Vision (An
Example) Cf. p. 167 of Being Leaders
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Application of Vision (Lets Try
It!) Based on your personal mission and/or
values, what do you see yourself doing 5, 10,
15 years from now?
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Visionary Leadership
1. Visionary leaders are visionaries 2.
Visionary leaders have a personal vision 3.
Visionary leaders lead visionary organizations
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3. Visionary leaders lead visionary
organizations.
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3. Visionary leaders lead visionary
organizations. Theyre most effective in
visionary organizations. What is your
ministrys vision? How does your personal
vision align with it? If it
doesnt-you need to find one that does!
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Visionary Leadership
1. Visionary leaders are visionaries 2.
Visionary leaders have a personal vision 3.
Visionary leaders lead visionary
organizations 4. Visionary leaders understand
their times and know what to do
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• 4. Visionary leaders understand their times and
  know what to do.
• And the sons of Issachar, men who understood
  the times, with know- ledge of what Israel should
  do, . . .
• 1 Chron. 1232

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• 4. Visionary leaders understand their times and
  know what to do.
• The Gretzky Factor
• Its not as important to know where the puck is
  now as to know where it will be.
• Wayne Gretzky

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• 4. Visionary leaders understand their times
• and know what to do.
• . . .before anyone can learn to lead,
• he must learn something about this strange new
  world. Indeed, anyone who does not master this
  mercurial context will be mastered by it. . .
  Leaders have the sense of where the culture is
  going to be, where the organization must be if
  its to grow.
• Warren Bennis, On Becoming a Leader, pp. 2,
  199

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4. Visionary leaders understand their times and
know what to do. Vision is conceived in the
context of the times in which one lives. Most
often vision is a reaction to ones times A
deep dissatisfaction We can do better Hybels
holy discontent
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• 4. Visionary leaders understand their times and
  know what to do.
• How does one understand the times? The answer
  is to exegete ones culture.
• And the sons of Issachar, men who understood
  the times, with know- ledge of what Israel should
  do, . . .
• 1 Chron. 1232

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• THE GENERAL ENVIRONMENT
• Understanding the Times
• THE MINISTRY ENVIRONMENT
• Knowing What We to Do

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• UNDERSTANDING THE TIMES
• Social Sector
• Technological Sector
• Economic Sector
• Political/Legal Sector
• Philosophical Sector

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UNDERSTANDING THE TIMES
Philosophical Sector Postmodern
Pilgrims
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• KNOWING WHAT TO DO
• 1. In spite of growing secularization, God is
• still working in the world-culture.
• 2. His primary vehicle is the church.
• 3. We need to discover and understand what
• God is doing in these churches.
• 4. The way to do this is to scan the church
  environment.

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• KNOWING WHAT TO DO
• What is God doing?
• International Churches
• National Churches
• State Churches
• Area Churches
• Local Churches

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• KNOWING WHAT TO DO
• What is God doing?
• Seeker Churches
• Emergent Churches
• Postmodern Churches
• Purpose-driven churches
• House Churches
• Cell Churches

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• KNOWING WHAT TO DO
• How do we know its of God?
• A hermeneutic for interpreting the biblical
  passages for doing church
• A theology of change
• A theology of culture
• A definition of the local church

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• KNOWING WHAT TO DO
• A hermeneutic for interpreting the biblical
  passages for doing church
• -Negative vs. positive approach
• -Descriptive vs. prescriptive passages

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• KNOWING WHAT TO DO
• A theology of change
• -Function
• -Form
• -Freedom

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• KNOWING WHAT TO DO
• A theology of culture
• -Culture can be good or bad
• -Three responses to culture
• Isolation-withdraws
• Accommodation-embraces
• Contextualization-communicates

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• KNOWING WHAT TO DO
• A definition of the local church
• A necessary gathering of professing believers in
  Christ who, under leadership, are organized to
  pursue its mission through its functions to
  accomplish its purpose.

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Questions?