Intuitive Leadership (emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)

Tim Keel

Description

As our culture shifts from modern to postmodern, pastors and church leaders are finding that old, rigid church leadership systems and structures no longer seem to work. Church leaders are searching for and discovering new, creative ways of leading--emphasizing intuition, creativity, narrative, and an embrace of the chaos and tension of our time.Tim Keel, pastor of a thriving emergent church and a rising leader in the emergent church movement, offers a thought-provoking yet practical exploration of this new style he calls Intuitive Leadership. His fresh approach will be welcomed by pastors and lay leaders interested in the emergent conversation and how Christian mission should look in our rapidly changing culture.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie

Informations

• Publié par: Baker Publishing Group
• Date de parution: 01 octobre 2007
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781441200211
• Langue: English

Extrait

Tim Keel writes with the eye of an artist, the heart of a pastor, the mind of a philosopher, and the hope of a visionary. His intuitions will inspire your own, and his voice will add so much to the conversation about what is emerging in our lives, churches, and world.
Brian McLaren , author/speaker ( brianmclaren.net )
Tim Keel has written a fascinating and engaging book that will quickly become both a starting point and a standard bearer for thinking about leadership in the emerging church. In addition to reimagining the nature of leadership, it also offers an implicit and enticing portrait of the type of community that will be formed in response to the vision and values described in these pages. In other words, if we follow the direction set forth in this volume, things will start to look different in the church. For many of us, that s a reason to hope that this book is widely read.
John R. Franke , professor of theology, Biblical Seminary
Deeply personal and human in its approach, Intuitive Leadership both charms the mind and informs the heart. The result is a wise and gentle tracing of the contours of postmodernism that is as healing as it is liberating.
Phyllis Tickle , contributing editor in religion, Publishers Weekly
Erudite, eloquent, and engaging, Tim Keel s Intuitive Leadership is a landmark in pastoral ministry, for he brings together the multiple streams of emerging church, postmodernity, media theory, biblical interpretation, church planting, cultural studies, and holistic, missional life. This book is destined to be a church leadership classic.
Tony Jones , national coordinator of Emergent Village; author, The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier
Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
An Emergent Manifesto of Hope edited by Doug Pagitt and Tony Jones
Organic Community Joseph R. Myers
Signs of Emergence Kester Brewin
Justice in the Burbs Will and Lisa Samson
Intuitive Leadership Tim Keel
Losing My Religion Samir Selmanovic (September 2008)
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intuitive LeaDerSHIP
EMBRACING A PARADIGM OF NARRATIVE, METAPHOR, AND CHAOS
TIM KEEL
2007 by Tim Keel
Published by Baker Books a division of Baker Publishing Group P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287 www.bakerbooks.com
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Keel, Tim, 1968- Intuitive leadership : embracing a paradigm of narrative, metaphor, and chaos / Tim Keel. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 10: 0-8010-6813-4 (pbk.) ISBN 978-0-8010-6813-3 (pbk.) 1. Christian leadership. 2. Storytelling-Religious aspects-Christianity. 3. Leadership-Religious aspects-Christianity. I. Title. BV652.1.K425 2007 253-dc22
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Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture is taken from the Holy Bible, Today s New International Version Copyright 2001 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved.
Scripture marked Message is taken from The Message by Eugene H. Peterson, copyright 1993, 1994, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group. All rights reserved.
Extracts quoted on pages 131-32 from A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink, copyright 2005 by Daniel H. Pink. Used by permission of Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
To the two most beautiful brides I know: His, and mine
Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
is a partnership between Baker Books and Emergent Village, a growing, generative friendship among missional Christians seeking to love our world in the Spirit of Jesus Christ. The line is intended for professional and lay leaderslike you who are meeting the challenges of a changing culture with vision and hope for the future. These books will encourage you and your community to live into God s kingdom here and now.
Intuitive Leadership is a unique book in the field of leadership. Tim Keel puts forth a call to leaders that if answered will allow the church of the future to continue with the vibrancy of Christianity s best days. What Tim asks for is just what is needed, that we find the core of our leadership in new places: in our creativity, in our imagination, and most importantly in our story.
Because the world has changed and the outcomes needed in ministry have changed, so must our leadership. What is suggested in this book will prove to be a seminal contribution not only to the field of leadership but to the lives of leaders everywhere.
Intuitive Leadership is a most important contribution not only to the line but also to the lives of those who are called to lead in any situation.
Contents
Foreword by Alan J. Roxburgh
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section 1: Entering Story
1. In the Beginning: Rediscovering the Power of Story
A Storied Life
A Storied Faith
A Bible Story?
Our Missing Stories
An Unfolding Story
2. A Way in the Wilderness: Journeying toward a New Story
The Cost of New Life
Meeting Jesus in His People
Living an Organic Way of Life
Losing What I Didn t Know I Had
Finding a New Path
A Kairos Moment
Back to a Beginning
3. Making Sense of My Story: Interpretation and Experimentation
Listening to My Life
Faith as a Way of Life in Community
Losing Community, Losing Faith
The Sins of Reductionism
Three Kinds of Experimentation
Telling the First Part of Our Story
Dreaming Up a Name for Ourselves
4. A Cautionary Leadership Parable: Recognizing an Alternate Temptation
Resisting Change, Relying on Tradition
Israel in Transition
Of Arks and Totems
The Philistine Way
Success, Power, and Presumption
Moving toward Engagement
Section 2: Engaging Context
5. Being There: Grappling with the Context of a Post World
Defining Post
Postmodernity
Modernity s Narrative of Progress
Counting the Cost of Modernity
Postmodern Realities
A Fragmented World
A Remixed World
A World of Suspicion, a World of Possibility
Listening, Embodiment, and Authenticity
Post-Enlightenment
The Technology of Modern Knowledge
Marshall McLuhan, the Eastern Mind, and the End of Textual Hegemony
The Revenge of the Right Brain
The Reemergence of Celtic Christianity
A Rekindled Imagination, a Community from the Margins
Post-Christendom
Christendom s Twilight and the American Experience
Twentieth-Century American Church History in the Context of Christendom
Church Growth, the Seeker-Targeted Church Movement, and Generational Ministry
The Missional Context of a Post-Christendom World
6. Being Here and There: Discovering a Wholly Present, Wholly Other God
Functional Gnosticism
Conceptual Idolatry
A Communal Imagination Shaped by Incarnational Theology
A New Testament Church?
Language beyond Control
The Wholly Other God
The Idea of the Holy
Hunger for Transcendence
Linguistic Opportunities and Necessities
7. Being Here, There, and Everywhere: Waking Up to the World of the Twenty-First Century
Translating Theology into Structures
Systems Thinking
Social and Economic Structures through Time
The Age of Agriculture
The Age of Trade and Specialization
The Age of Industrial Capitalism
The Organizational Age
Emerging Organizational Realities of the Fifth Age
Tension, Paradox, and Chaos
Swarm Logic
Practical Creativity
Metaphors for Creativity
Section 3: Embracing Possibility
8. A Modest Proposal: What We Need Is Sometimes Not What We Want
Moving Beyond Caricatures
Exegeting the Experiences of Observers
Learning from the Cistercians
Ministry as Idolatry
My Expert Answer: I Don t Know
9. Opening Up and Leaning Forward: Postures of Engagement and Possibility
The Language of Postures
A Posture of Learning: From Answers to Questions
A Posture of Vulnerability: From the Head to the Heart
A Posture of Availability: From Spoken Words to Living Words
A Posture of Stillness: From Preparation to Meditation
A Posture of Surrender: From Control to Chaos
A Posture of Cultivation: From Programmer to Environmentalist
A Posture of Trust: From Defensiveness to Creativity
A Posture of Joy: From Work to Play
A Posture of Dependence: From Resolution to Tension-and Back Again
Struggle and Opportunity
10. Reckoning with Intuition: Learning to Trust Your Gut
Listen to Your Life, Redux
Naming My Frustration
Intuitive Knowing
Emerging Leaders, Emerging Communities
Benediction
Notes
Foreword
Intuitive Leadership is a wonderful book written for all those travelers in God s kingdom trying to make sense of a mixed-up world and a crazy time for the church.
A few days ago, on a warm, sunny west coast afternoon I sat outside a coffee shop with a young pastor listening to his story and the underlying frustrations shaping his life just now. Each week I get emails from leaders just like this friend. He has a strong sense of vocation. God has called him into leadership. He s doing this within a particular kind of congregation but feels stuck and frustrated. His sense is that something is not right about the congregation or his leadership, but he doesn t have the language to give words to his experience. Like many other church leaders he s been to conferences and listened to leaders from the other side of the world talk about church and change. But deep inside he s frustrated! He s bright enough to know that a lot of what he hears at these events doesn t land in the social reality of his context. He wants to discover friends and mentors with whom he can partner in this confusing time of transition. This young leader was making the same kinds of comments and asking the same kinds of questions I hear from many other leaders: Peo