Spirituality in MissionWebinar in two parts

with Bill Taylor 1. Stages of spiritual

development 2. Organizational

spiritualities

♦Global voices address global issues ♦Gestation of 13 years, mulling over ♦Crafting a critical (yet neglected)

theme and approach ♦Building the team, editors and

writers (41 from 18 nations) ♦Selecting the right title for the

book

Spirituality in Mission: Embracing the Lifelong Journey

The reflective practitioners in action

♦Not research, nor strategy, nor numbers, nor structures, nor outcomes, nor accelerating transformation, nor better outcomes, nor CPM’s, nor networks, nor synergy, nor “finishing the task”, nor the “decadal mission flavor”

♦But rather: “What does it mean to seek, know and follow the Triune God in the communal context of cross-cultural mission?”

♦This was our bottom line definition of spirituality.

Three major stages-phases of spirituality in mission

♦The spirituality that “gets you out there”

♦The spirituality that emerges when stuff hits the fan and the older paradigms don’t work—the longest phase

♦The spirituality that carries you to the end in the latter laps of life

Spirituality in Mission—the book♦From setting the stage, to theological

issues, identifying critical issues, organizational spiritualities, preparing and engaging, caring for our companions, finishing well and strong.

♦Annotated bibliography at end ♦Some unique and rich chapters

Stages of Spiritual Development (Chapters 21-22, SiM, Bill Taylor)

♦The spirituality that “gets you out there” ♦The spirituality that emerges when stuff

hits the fan and the older paradigms don’t work—the longest phase

♦The spirituality that carries you to the end in the latter laps of life

♦Question: can we study this in a kind of stages? Yes but carefully.

Model 1: Fowler’s Stages of Faith♦0. Primal Faith ♦1: Intuitive-Protective Faith ♦2: Mythic-Literal Faith ♦3: Synthetic-Conventional Faith ♦4: Individuative-Reflective Faith ♦5: Conjunctive Faith ♦6: Universalizing Faith

Model 2: Hick’s Six Stages of Manhood

♦1: Creational Male, adam, noble savage ♦2: Sexual Male, zakar, taskmaster ♦3: Warrior, gibbor, glorious hero ♦4: Wounded, enosh, painful incongruency ♦The Wall….brokenness, deconstruction ♦5: Mature, ish (as adult), reborn ruler ♦6: Sage, zaqen, the fulfilled man

Model 3: The Critical Journey Hagberg and Guelich

♦ 1: Recognition of God ♦ 2: Life of discipleship ♦ 3: Productive life ♦ 4: Journey inward ♦The Wall ♦ 5: Journey outward ♦ 6: Life of love

Drawing this segment to a close; integrating varieties of “stages”

♦The spirituality that “gets you out there” ♦The spirituality that emerges when stuff

hits the fan and the older paradigms don’t work—the longest phase; the Wall; the tough invitation to brokenness and deconstruction

♦The spirituality that carries you to the end in the latter laps of life

Discerning Organizational Spiritualities: issues, case studies

Paul Bendor-Samuel, ch. 23♦The growing new awareness of mission

structures and their ethos, values, even their spirituality.

♦Questioning the secular values that have shaped many mission structures.

♦The value/trap of research, numbers, systems, outcomes, networks, funding, and so much more.

What shapes mission organizational spirituality?

♦Founders, leaders, followers, donors

♦Prevailing Christian culture (and its reflection of secular culture)

♦Missional context

Growing Healthy Organizational Spirituality

♦Caveat: no silver bullet! ♦1: Renewed focus of Christ at center ♦2: Commitment to spiritual community ♦3: Embracing servanthood and

suffering ♦4: Ruthless practice of Kingdom-first

mindset

Drawing to a close—take-homes

♦This webinar has had a challenging double focus ♦The interior spiritual journey as

seen through stages models ♦An organizational study because

mission structures have their own ethos, values, history, spirituality.

Take homes from the stages theme

♦How true are these models in your own life?

♦How have you seen them worked out in family and colleagues?

♦What chapters in the book do you want to visit personally? A few suggestions from me?

Take homes from the organizational spirituality theme♦Have you evaluated your own mission

structure? When? What happened? What are your conclusions? What needs to change?

♦How have founders and leaders particularly set the ethos?

♦How has the secular culture mis-shaped your structure?

♦How are you growing correctives?

It’s your time now for questions

Resources

♦Kindle, $9.99 amazon.com

♦Print, $29.99 From Bill Taylor $21.00 + postage

Contact information

♦btaylorgc@gmail.com ♦www.theglobalpilgrim.com

♦I’m willing to come and do this seminar with your people.