Dave Gibbons Session 1: Ancient Future: Old School Truth, New School Tools
Condo church...
Recently seeing the big church as often failing the mission of Christ...people moving in from the world to serve in the church. Instead, find out who they are by knowing them, affirming their essence, blessing them with our inheritance, and releasing them back to their environment for Jesus. How to help people grow? Four steps:
Assessment
What is the Father doing in that person? Jesus said I do what I see my Father doing. Strength Finders is inadequate. It fails to recognize the pain of the person and their weaknesses and addictions. A persons pain can often shape their destiny. We often confess and then bury our pain. Our pain can become a gift...Gods strength is made perfect in our weakness.
Art form called kintsugi: dropped pottery fixed with gold seams..is more valuable broken than it was before. Our pain becomes a source of my authority. Embrace the Pain.
Know their story...what energies and deenergises them. Draw a picture of their house when they were 9 years old and out their people in the house or outside. Gets them to tell their story...what is God doing...their essence. Don't focus on their career...those change. But who they are.
His three tools for assessment...the timeline, the energy matrix and the house. To help him discern their essence...positives and challenges...and then design their journey with them. In three areas...work, relationships and inner life.
Holistic Process: Three concentric circles. Moutside circle is who they are in terms of work. next circle in who they are in terms of relationships, inner circle is for their inner life.
Jesus was a liquid leader...adapted and flowed. He became human...how about that for adaptation? So develop liquid leaders...third culture leaders...like Paul...Jew to gentile to Samaritan to Roman...a peaceful joyful servant.
The Four Platforms for shaping someone
A residency intern model...from a Rabbinical models...as Rob Bell says they would be so close to the Rabbibthat they caught the dust from their feet. this is expensive ... Have people live with you and learn from you. The American dream is to be independent...end alone in a nursing home yearning for meaningful relationships. See documentary in Netflix called Happy. Think about widows and orphans and love them in the city...single moms and divorced men. Justice is the hard work of love. It's not normal to ask people to live with you. Invite them into your neighborhood. I can have true love today as we rub shoulders through the hard stuff. Healthy.
Tribes model...commit to do as much life together as possible...kinda second best to the residency program. Do this with as diverse a group of people as possible. Richness has often been lost in the church when we organize by ethnic group. Unify is not association..it has to be deeper than that. Collaboration is equal gifts different sacrifice. It's famiy. Shane Claibourne in Philadelphia. Live like a family, each throwing their money into a pot to share. Be prepared to give away stuff.
Customized Experiences
Creative resources products or tools. People don't need your prepackaged answers but you good questions to lead them to the truth. Self-discovery is the best teacher.
Pick 'the one' person and equip them. These four platforms can enable it to do it.
Recommends book Jack Deere...The Beginners Guide To Prophesy....helps evangelicals move into the area of gifts...go through the book and practice with each other...did this over 7 years with his church. His church is now alive with the Holy Spirits power.
Dave@xealots.org is his email address.
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