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

A Movement of Missional Leaders www.allelon.org

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?