Evoking Ministry Everyday Everywhere in Everyone

Robert K Martin

A Tale of Two Types…..

……of Leadership

• Self

• Others

• Community

3 parts of the Story

• Self – Desire / Vision

• Others – Desire / Vision

• Community – Desire / Vision

3 parts of the Story

• Self – Desire / Vision• Others – Desire / Vision• Community – Desire / Vision

3 parts of the Story

SelfDesire/Vision

• Self – Desire / Vision• Others – Desire / Vision• Community – Desire / Vision

3 parts of the Story

SelfDesire/Vision

OtherCommunity

• Self – Desire / Vision• Others – Desire / Vision• Community – Desire / Vision

3 parts of the Story

SelfDesire/Vision

Other

GOD

in GOD

Your spiritual desire

What most renews/fulfills you spiritually?

How might someone lead you into a richer and deeper engagementwith your truest desire in God?

Evoking Ministry – E3

Two Kinds of Leadership:

1. Directive

2. Evocative

Evoking Ministry – E3

Two Kinds of Leadership:

1. Directive• Getting others to implement your Vision

a. Leader’s calling and visionb. Leader’s passion and energyc. People: Buy in and align to

Calling and Vision feel EXTERNAL

Evoking Ministry – E3

Two Kinds of Leadership:

2. Evocative: e (out) vocare (to call)Calling out the Christ Within

Calling and Vision feel INTERNAL

Evoking Ministry – E3

Evocative Leadership Helping others • explore true desire • discern and live out their divine calling

a. visionb. passionc. ministryd. Leader?

Why Evoke?

Fosters personal passion and energy Increases corporate vitalityIncreases capacity for self-directionChange is not imposed; change occurs organically, from within.Decreases ConflictFrees leadership for greater reach and depthInherently missional: calls persons out of comfort zone and into greater spiritual practice.

Evoking Ministry – E3

1. The Incarnational Drive of Your Ministerial Leadership

2. Evocative Leadership 3. Evoking Communities of Greater

Ministerial Practice

Evocative Leadership:Theological GroundColossians 1:24-2924 I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church. 25 I became its servant according to God’s commission that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, 26 the mystery that has been hidden throughout the ages and generations but has now been revealed to his saints.

Colossians 1:24-2927 To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. 28 It is he whom we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone in all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ. 29 For this I toil and struggle with all the energy that he powerfully inspires within me.

Evocative Leadership:Theological Ground

Colossians 1:24-2924 I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church. 25 I became its servant according to God’s commission that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, 26 the mystery that has been hidden throughout the ages and generations but has now been revealed to his saints.

Evocative Leadership:Theological Ground

Colossians 1:24-2927 To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. 28 It is he whom we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone in all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ. 29 For this I toil and struggle with all the energy that he powerfully inspires within me.

Evocative Leadership:Theological Ground

Colossians 1:24-2924 I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church. 25 I became its servant according to God’s commission that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, 26 the mystery that has been hidden throughout the ages and generations but has now been revealed to his saints.

Evocative Leadership:Theological Ground

Theological Conviction:Omnipresence of God

God everywhere, all the time

Immanence: God in all things

Transcendence: All things in God

Ruler in allRuler over allAlpha andOmega

Christ Pantocrator

ChristBeyondall things

Christ

Withinall

things

Christ Among

May Christ dwell in your heartsMay you comprehend the breadth and length and height and depthTo be filled with the fullness of God Ephesians 3:14-19

Christ

within

ChristBeyon

dChrist in you You in Christ

Discipleship: Living Out the Christ Within toward the Christ Beyond

Christ Beyond Beyond all understanding Beyond all traditions Beyond this place

Implications: a. Walk humbly with God beyond, into the

unknownb. Everything human needs redemption, should

move toward transcendence

Christ within Within all things, everywhere, all the

time.Implication: We need to look for God, especially where we “least” (Matt 25) expect. Within ourselves, among others, especially in our engagement with the ‘least of these’.

Christ withinOur purpose as Christ-followers is to live out the Christ within toward the Christ beyond.

Implication: We need disciplines that align our selves to and live out – to incarnate - the Truth, the Way, the Life.

Centering in Christ Within

Personally

Expanding into Christ Beyond

Communally

Centering

Expanding

Evocative Leadership fostersAwareness: Who am I in God? What is God doing here/now?

To what are we being called?

Intention: To what will we commit? Participation: How will we respond?

The Incarnational Drive of Your Ministerial Leadership

Christian Life and Ministry as Incarnational

Generic definition of Incarnation: Embodying the immaterial; enacting the invisible.• Emotions• Ideas• Meaning

INVISIBLE

visible

Christian Life and Ministry as Incarnational

John MacKay: "To evangelize is so to present Christ Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit, that [all people] shall come to put their trust in God through [Jesus Christ], to accept Him as their Saviour, and serve Him as their King in the fellowship of His Church." "The evangelical word must become indigenous flesh."

Mackay: Ecumenics, 1964

Christian Life and Ministry as Incarnational

Goal: Union with Christ in the Spirit Because of pervasive sin/alienation,

Christian Life and Ministry as Incarnational and Baptismal

Awareness of unity and alienation

Raised to new life: “not I but Christ who lives within”

Dying to sin, conforming to Christ

Leading to Live Out the Christ WithinInto the Christ Beyond

Evocative Leadership:

Christian Leaders - Authentic Disciples

Christian Ministry is always Christ-like, Spirit-filled

Grounded in, sustained by spiritual disciplines

Living out the Way of Jesus Christ

Christian Leaders ARE the change they seek

One Obstacle to Authentic Leadership

ProfessionalismDoing to others what you

wouldn’t want done to you.Leading others in ways that are

not authentic to you.Treating others as objects,

instruments, for another end

Do YOU love me?

John 21:Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?”“Yes, Lord,” he said, “you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.”

Love Ministry

Loving God: personally in communion

Disciplines:Awareness: Mindfulness

Intention: Focus of Mind/Heart

Participation: Responding personally in communion for effective Christian living.

Evocative Leadership: fostering greater awareness, intention,

and participation in the Divine Life

Evocative Discipleship: living out our call together