Make a difference wherever you are Leading Culture

Make a difference wherever you are

Leading Culture Change

Until laity and clergy are convinced, based on their baptismal mutuality, that they are equal in worth and status, complementary in gifting and vocation, mutually accountable in discipleship, and equal partners in mission, we will never form Christian communities that can evangelise the nation.

Until, together, ordained and lay, we form and equip lay people to follow Jesus confidently in every sphere of life in ways that demonstrate the Gospel we will never set God’s people free to evangelise the nation.

Culture is the way we do things round here. Archbishop Derek Worlock

Culture is the concrete manifestation of our beliefs.

Systems Heroes Behaviour Structures Ethos Priorities Stories

Systems Heroes Structures Christos Behaviour Priorities Stories

Systems Heroes Structures Whole-Life Behaviour Priorities Stories

Church meetings Teaching Preaching Social events General prayer WLD Leader lifestyle Worship services Small groups Special events Décor Bulletins Mission priorities

• Affirms Monday to Saturday life • Creates new conversations

Creating a whole-life culture 1. To do the same things in a whole-life way 2. To do new things that carry the whole-life gene

Key Ingredients for Culture Shift: • Cast a whole-life vision • Focus on the frontline • Expand the pastor/people contract • Grow a core team • Make one-degree shifts • Share real-life stories

D VF R × Dissatisfaction × Vision > First Steps Resistance (The Beckhard-Harris Change Model)

Disciple: someone learning the way of Jesus in their context at this time

One-degree shifts

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart; Naught be all else to me, Save that thou art.

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart; Naught be all else to me, Save that thou art.

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart; Naught be all else to me, Save that thou art.

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart; Naught be all else to me, Save that thou art.

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart; Naught be all else to me, Save that thou art.

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart; Naught be all else to me, Save that thou art.

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Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart; Naught be all else to me, Save that thou art.

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart; Naught be all else to me, Save that thou art.

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart; Naught be all else to me, Save that thou art.

One-degree shifts

Cultures are self-reinforcing systems

Whole-Life Culture New eyes and aims Not necessarily new things

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Key Ingredients for Culture Shift: • Cast a whole-life vision • Focus on the frontline • Expand the pastor/people contract • Grow a core team • Make one-degree shifts • Share real-life stories

One generation commends your works to another. Psalm 145: 4

Storytelling: • A discipline of praise • A discipline of encouragement

No one has ever mentioned this boy’s name to me before.

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• • • Where will you be? What do you do there? What are the challenges? What are the opportunities? How can we pray?

• • Makes the ordinary Christian the hero Makes their story valuable to us Affirms other Christians Triggers new conversations

What is celebrated is replicated

Confidence + - Employee

Confidence + Disciple + - - Employee

The ability to read our own lives, and other people’s, through biblical lenses

How might I… M 1 Model godly character M 2 Make good work M 3 Minister grace & love M 4 Mould culture M 5 Be a Mouthpiece for truth & justice M 6 Be a Messenger of the gospel 6 Ms

People see how they have already been fruitful People see how they might be in the future 6 Ms

Drivers of change • Sunday gathering • Preaching • Small groups • Whole-life personal prayer

Make a difference wherever you are