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C u l t i v a t i n g M i s s i o n - S h a p e d
L e a d e r s
Training and Resourcing Leaders www.allelon.org
REASONS WHY CHURCH WORKED
• MANAGEMENT/PERFORMANCE• SEX• LOYALTY• 40/40
RELATIVELY SIMPLE, MANAGEABLE, ORDERED
WORLD
We knew: Location Maps Navigation
Change is changing
Change…is…changing
•Nation states•Managed economies•Corporate hierarchy•Experts•Managers
•Top down•Alignment•Control•Linear•Predictable
STABLE/PREDICTABLEPRESENT LOCATION
DISCONTINUOUS CHANGETRANSITION/LIMINALITY
EMERGENT FUTUREFOR CHURCH &
CULTURE
TECHNICAL/SURFACE
CHANGEADAPTIVE/CORE TRAITS CHANGE
Roxburgh Missional Network
Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Roxburgh Missional Network
Characteristics of Black Swan
1. Unpredictable2. Massive Impact3. After fact - ‘concoct’
Roxburgh Missional Network
Hardwired to believe...
1.Way we’ve structured and organized the world is the way it really is.
2. With right information there’s clear strategy to fixes unpredictable & put everything back into place
Define problem Solutions
Christendom church Emergent, Simple, multi-site
Institutional, organized, hierarchical church
Organic, flat,
Clericalism liberate laity
Congregations irrelevant connecting/missional/etc
Failure to understand Biblical image of ...
NT church
Failure to understand some point in church history...
Pick your time and group, apply to now
The Counter Imagination of the Bible
Luke/Actsas
Counter Imagination
What’s gone wrong?