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The Leader’s Cheat Sheet
1.Leaders are obedient to a call greater than their own lives.
2.Leaders feel passionately about a few core issues, and think paradoxically about most other things.
3.Leaders are keenly aware of their need to be led intuitively by the Holy Spirit.
4.Leaders are constantly innovating “”’’on the fly”.
The Leader’s Cheat Sheet
5. Leaders know how to share Jesus with pagans.
6. Leaders sense that the basic genetic code of the church is to make disciples of Jesus Christ.
7. Leaders function as spiritual directors or guides.
8. Leaders feel and think like cross-cultural witnesses.
9. Leaders are permission-giving.
The Leader’s Cheat Sheet
10.Leaders are team based.11.Leaders serve Jesus
Christ in the midst of a congregation instead of serving the congregation.
12.It’s not what leaders know that is important; its what leaders know is not important.
13.Leaders need a clear sense of what it means to be human.
The Leader’s Cheat Sheet
14.Leaders need to be able to help others distinguish reality from fiction.
15.Leaders are willing to change their Life Metaphors.
The OtherSide Manifesto
1. Jesus is the only truth we can be sure that we can take into and out of the wormhole.
2. Chaos is the beginning of all new creation.
3. To be out of control is normal because the wormhole is always under construction.
4. Our experiences are as important as our thoughts.
The OtherSide Manifesto
5. Imagination is as important as logical thought.
6. Questions outnumber answers.
7. Constant flux is normal.8. Because speed is a basic
in the wormhole, constant innovation provides equilibrium.
9. Most things are upside down and backward.
10.The wormhole is not linear.
Clues to the Other Side
This Side Other Side
Matter only Mind, Spirit, and Matter
Greek Hebrew
West East
Command and Control models Permission Giving
Evangelism Explosion Relational Evangelism
Competence Trustworthiness / Authenticity
Position Influence / Relationship
Committees Teams
Making disciples Disciples who make disciples
Program Mission
Clues to the Other Side
This Side Other Side
Denominational Missions Local Church Missions
Denominational Emphasis Affinity Emphasis
Addition Multiplication
Established Churches New World Churches
USA Church Leadership model Third World Leadership model
Customer service Customer experience
People as targets People as resources
Learn, then do Learn while doing
Education Edutainment
Mostly Anglo Leadership Mostly Ethnic Leadership
Clues to the Other SideThis Side Other Side
Work in the church Work in the community
Pledging is out Strategic Givers are in
Job descriptions Adding value
Budgets Various Missions
Competition Cooperation
Experts Amateurs
Either / Or Both / And
Modern age / Christendom Pre Christian
Baptised before 18 Baptised after 18
Grew up in church Grew up outside the church
Rows and Lines Circles
How do you think and feel about the following?
The What Was Side The What is Emerging Side
Stable Unstable
Predictable Complex
Static Fluid
Order Chaos
Law Permission
Linear Random
Dignity Zaniness
Decency Intoxication
Rational Emotional
Volunteer Servant
How do you think and feel about the following?
The What Was Side The What is Emerging Side
Mainline Deadline
Rigid Adaptive
Structured Bends / Blends
The Brady Bunch Seinfeld
Sesame Street Barney
Customer Service Customer Experience
Explanation Experience
Gunsmoke The Practice
Do you understand Have you experienced it
Books The Net
Permission-Giving LeadersPermission Givers Controllers
Trust People Don’t trust people
Risk Takers Play it safe
Look for vision and excellence
Look for a Resume
Why not? Why do you want to do that?
Future is more important than past
Past is more important than future
Failure is a learning experience
Failure means it was wrong / bad
Intentional Learners Believe they know enough
Both / And Either / Or
People more important than system
System more important than people
Learn from all sources Use our / Denominational resources
Permission-Giving LeadersPermission Givers Controllers
Live without clear maps of the future
Want to follow proven trails
Comfortable with uncertainty
Want guarantees before beginning
Relationships Rules and Regulations
Grace Law
Now Later
Learn from mistakes Don’t make mistakes
Learn from doing More information first
Evaluate Dominate
Collaborate Dictate
Set free Keep hands on
Permission-Giving LeadersPermission Givers Controllers
Confident Fearful
Open to Holy Spirit Locked in on Own Agenda
Don’t know all that is happening
Need to know all the details
Open to surprise Want all predictable
Energize others De-energize others
Mentor others Order others
Welcome Screen
Listen Deaf
Group purpose is guide Self agenda is guide
Macro manage Micro manage
Permission-Giving Leaders
Permission Givers Controllers
Celebrate other’s success
Compete with others
Care about growth of others
Care about getting their way
Team builder Team boss
Gentle Harsh
Worship God Act like God
Humble Presumptuous
How did it go? Did you get approval first?
Whose Church is it anyway?
When Mao Tse-Tung took over, there were two million Christians in China. His regime killed the missionaries, arrested the pastors, shut down the churches and persecuted the Christians.
When he died, there were Fifty million known Christians in China…..
Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for Society
The religious and secular worlds will continue to blur in every way except one – religious beliefs and values, which will be crystal clear due to the resurgence of the prominence of the Scriptures.
Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for Society
The clash between the old and the new will shape most of the first two decades of the 21st century in almost every arena of life.
Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for Society
The internet will continue to grow until it is the primary form of communication, information, commerce and networking throughout the world.
Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for Society
Religion and science will become more like kissing cousins than alienated enemies.
Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for Society
Biogenetics will become the major theological battleground replacing today’s flash points of gay rights, abortion and gender.
Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for Society
If it doesn’t entertain, stimulate or touch all the senses, it won’t educate or be worshipful.
Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for Society
Three-dimensional holographic organizational charts will replace the flat organization of the 1990’s.
Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for Society
Society will continue to become more hostile to local congregations and more open to spirituality.
Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for Society
The primary search is for wholeness, identity, dignity, community and empowerment.
Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for the Local
Church
Religious pluralism will flourish, but ecumenism will fight an increasingly losing battle.
Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for the Local
Church
The sharpest contrast between thriving and dying churches continues to be a commitment to Jesus Christ, indigenous style of worship and lay ministries.
Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for the Local
Church
High commitment churches will have a better chance of reaching non-believers than low commitment churches.
Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for the Local
Church
Worship will continue to become more eastern, ancient and high tech.
Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for the Local
Church
The majority of Protestant pastors could be woman and the majority of Catholic churches could be run by deacons and woman religious.
Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for the Local
Church
Most of the effective pastors will receive their training in a local church.
Welcome to the Other SideMega Clues for the Local
Church
Church planting will be a major mission of thriving, local church and denominational systems.