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Creating and BecomingMissional Church

Re-exploring missional leadership vs a vsEphesians 4 leadership giftings

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How do we change our churchculture to equip us for our newparadigm of ministry?

Move churches and leaders frommaintenance to mission

1. Revitalising Existing churches

2. Planting Missional churches3. Retooling current leadership

4. Developing new leadership

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Five Marks of the MissionalChurch

Evangelism through proclamation and sharingthe good news of the Gospel

To teach, baptise, and nurture new believers

To respond to human need by loving service

To seek to transform the unjust structures ofsociety

To strive to safeguard the integrity of creation,seeking to sustain and renew the life of theearth

(Adapted from the Lambeth Bishops Conference 1988)

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Todays Situation:

Most churches primarily pastoral Most leadership trained, empowered and

practice pastor/teacher giftings

Where are the evangelistic, prophetic,and apostolic leadership gifts?

How can we identify, nurture, andrelease them?

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How Did We GetHere?

The legacy of Christendom1. Most people Christian in Europe

2. Primarily needed trained pastor/teachers

3. Little emphasis on mission or discipleship

4. Any other types of leadership was eithertolerated, discarded, or departed and startednew movements

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What Can We Do?

Do nothing and continue to see churchbecome irrelevant and unnecessary

Take risks and encourage newexpressions of leadership and church

Rework our theological and practicaltraining to encompass a five-fold ministrymodel

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Missional Leadership

In practice and lifestyle are focused on those

outside the church and the future directions forthe church

Identify, harness and mentor other leaders

Equip leaders

Call the church constantly back to missionalpurposes

Will exercise this contextually

Come in many modes including Apostolic,Prophetic, Evangelistic, Pastoral and Teaching

giftings

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Jesus and five-fold leadership

Apostolic Prophetic

Evangelistic

Pastoral Teacher

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Our Potential Future:Ephesians 4 leadership

TheApostolic function calls the churchto move and act beyond its own locationand results in the establishment andinitiation of new missional works and

oversees their development

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Our Potential Future:Ephesians 4 leadership

The Prophetic function discerns themind of God in a given situation anddeclares this in any way possible tostimulate the development of Gods

mission

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Our Potential Future:Ephesians 4 leadership

The Evangelistic functioncommunicates the Gospel in such a waythat people respond in faith anddiscipleship

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Our Potential Future:Ephesians 4 leadership

The Pastoral function embodies the loveof God: discipling people to health,wholeness and missional response

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Our Potential Future:Ephesians 4 leadership

The Teaching function communicatesthe revealed wisdom of God in Scripture,so that people become mature disciples

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So that

Gods people are prepared for ministry The body of Christ may be built up

We can all reach the unity in the faithand the knowledge of the Son of God

We can become fully mature

Ephesians 4.12-13

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Missional Leaders:

Awaken passionate commitment to God in Christ Embody and model mission

Creatively equip and nurture Gods People

Envision what can be

Implement mission strategically, contextuallyand effectively

Are sensitive to the Spirit of God

Are radical, dangerous and revolutionary interms of theological paradigm

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Unless the church of the West begins tounderstand this, and unless we develop amissionary theology, not just a theology ofmission, we will never achieve more than merelypatch up the church.

Because God is a missionary God, Gods people aremissionary people. The churchs mission is not

secondary to its being, the church exists in beingsent and in building up itself for its mission (fromKarl Barth Church Dogmatics IV/1 [1956:725].

David J Bosch

Believing in the Future: Toward a Missiology of Western Culture(Leominster: Gracewing, 1995, p. 32)