Intuitive Leadership | Tim Keel

I’m in Kansas City this week attending the Intuitive Leadership conference with Tim Keel and the Everything Must Change Tour with Brian McLaren.

Tim’s conference ended this morning. It was a small conference but a really great discussion about what leadership looks like in a post-modern world. My notes were very sporadic so I’m just posting a few highlights that jumped out at me. They may or may not make sense without the context they were in.

• We have a fundamental assumption that when we are engaged with God things are stable.
  God allows the Israelites to be defeated because he’s more concerned with them being engaged in reality than in their assumptions. (1 Samuel 4:1-11)
• Sometimes our assumptions about God keep us from engaging from God in reality.
  God has a profound commitment to reality- not sentimentalism.
• Being lost is not a location- it’s a transformation. It can happen in the woods, but it can happen in our churches.
• “When the forms of an old culture are dying, the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure.” (a quote from someone)
• We are facing a profound crisis of imagination in the church
• “contemporary service” doesn’t mean what’s happening right now- it’s what was happening in the late 80’s (ha!)
• Emerging church is the next thing in a long list of tricks in order to try and re-orient
• We live in a culture that is all about duplication. When something is successful it is duplicated and immediately deprived of it’s wildness.
• In the western church the greatest sin is heresy. In the eastern church it’s schism- the breaking of fellowship
• The most acceptable form of idolatry in the church is ministry.
  We celebrate ministry more than the organic community that Jesus describes.
• Fruit is the byproduct of an organism deeply connected with it’s environment.
  Trees don’t make fruit happen and they can’t stop it from happening.
• Context and culture are lenses through which we look at Gospel and theology.
• The Gospel is an alternate narrative about what the reality of life is.
• The Gospel in Modernity:
  The acceptance of right content that secures your status positionally after you die.
• The Gospel in emerging:
  scope: Creation (how do we work with God in His process of renewal and the salvation of all things?)
  The Location: community of God’s people
  Position: instead of “in and out” we’re more concerned with “near and far”
  we look for signs of life and where God is at work in everyone
• The post-modern means of engaging the Gospel is hospitality.

~ by Dave on April 25, 2008.