STRATEGIC THINKING AND

SPIRITUALITY (A different leaders job description)

Arturo Meneses Villanueva.

A discernment based proposal

reflecting on the signs of the times

What is a Job description for a leader in our Organization? Is that the only one thing wee need to say yes to? The foundational theology for this reflection is pretty simple and I have used with my teams, my family and my students for a long time..

Bible references about

context analysis:

Be careful then how you live, not as unwise people butas wise, making the most of the time, because the days

are evil. So do not be foolish, but understand what the

will of the Lord is (Ephesians 5:15-17 NRSV)

But test everything; hold fast what is good; abstain fromevery form of evil (1 Thessalonians 5:21-22)

He answered them: When it is evening, you say, It will befair weather, for the sky is red. And in the morning, It

will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.

You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but

you cannot interpret the signs of the times (Mathew 16:2-3)

The world changes 4 Waves in History(Source: THE FOURTH WAVE. Business in the 21st Century. Herman

Bryant Maynard and Susan E. Mehrtens)

ONE: THE AGRICULTURAL

WAVE (Neolithic period, afterhunting and fishing)

Paradigm: We are hungry and need to get something to eat

daily

TWO: THE INDUSTRIAL

REVOLUTION WAVE (from1740-1840 and from 1880-1914)

Paradigm: We are separateand must compete

THREE: THE TECHNOLOGY

REVOLUTION WAVE (Started in mid 50s)

Paradigm: We are connected and

must cooperate

FOUR: THE GLOBAL

STEWARDSHIP REVOLUTION

WAVE (started in the 90s )

Paradigm: We are one and

choose to co-create

Question to plenary: Which of these paradigms is closer to our

Christian Faith?

Hallmarks of a changing world. Seven trends that

underlie the emergence of a new world view. (According to Maynard and Mehrtens The Fourth Wave)

SHIFT IN CONSCIOUSNESS

DECLINE OF MATERIALISM

INNER SOURCES OF AUTHORITY AND

POWER

POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC

DEMOCRATIZATION

DISENCHANTMENTWITH SCIENTISM

BEYOND NATIONALITY

RE-SPIRITUALIZATION

OF SOCIETY

A proposalBuilding a biblical job description for the holistic mission of a

Christian Leader, facing the previously described context) We will do

it with our three teams, responding the question and adding an

example for application in our CLAC context

WHAT IS THE CAUSE WE WORK FOR AND ITS

CHARACTERISTICS?

(Mathew 6:33; 1

Corinhians 4:20; Hebrews

12:28; Romans 14:17

Team 1

WHAT IS A SHARED

VISION OF THE

FUTURE? (2 Pedro 3:13; Efesios 4:13)

Team 2

REQUIRED CONTEXT

FOR CHANGE

PROCESS (Romans 12:2; 2 Corinthians 5:17;

Proverbs 4:18; Hebrews

6:1)

Team 3

ROLE AND MAIN

RESPONSIBILITY (1

Corinthians 3:9;

Galatians 1:10 Micah 6:8;

1 Peter 2:15)

Team 1

SPECIAL CONDITIONS

FOR THE CONTRACT(Romans 11:29; Luke

9:62)

Team 2

MOTIVATION AND CRISIS

MANAGEMENT

(Habakkuk 3:17-19;

Isaiah 40:29-31; )

Team 3

Un resumen de Compromisos de nuestra descripcin de puesto

Trabajamos para la causa del Reino de Dios, la cual no es palabras, sinopoder; es inconmovible; es justicia, paz y gozo en el Espritu Santo.

Nuestro rol, es ser colaboradores de Dios y siervos de Jesucristo; hacerjusticia, amar misericordia y humillarnos delante de El y buscar la voluntad

de Dios, haciendo el bien, callando la boca de los insensatos.

Nuestra visin compartida del futuro: Cielos nuevos y tierra nueva, dondemora la justicia; lderes cristianos que llegan a la unidad de la fe, el

conocimiento del hijo de Dios, a la medida de la estatura de la plenitud de

Jesucristo.

Algunas condiciones especiales de este contrato: El llamamiento y los donesde Dios son irrevocables. Seguimos adelante, sin mirar atrs, pues entonces,

no seramos dignos del Reino de Dios.

El contexto requerido para el cambio: No nos conformamos, nostransformamos, por la renovacin de nuestro entendimiento. Dejamos atrs

las cosas viejas y los rudimentos de doctrina y nos renovamos cada da,

porque estamos en Cristo. Crecemos continuamente, como la luz de un nuevo

da, hasta alcanzar toda nuestra plenitud.

Nuestra motivacin y manejo de crisis, es sobrenatural. Aunque enapariencia, no veamos los frutos, nos alegraremos en El Seor y nos

gozaremos en el Dios de nuestra salvacin, que es nuestra fortaleza.

Esperaremos en el Seor y tendremos nuevas fuerzas para correr sin

cansarnos y caminar, sin desfallecer, en el cumplimiento del ministerio que

El nos ha encomendado.