Kester Brewin

Tag: Complexity

  • Leadership and Ethics […] 2

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    To summarize the previous post: It’s my theological contention that the Church needs to become a ‘self organizing’ system if it is to properly model the holy freedom God has given us post-Incarnation. In Griffin’s ‘The Emergence of Leadership – Linking Self-Organization and Ethics’ – he posits that there is an apparent paradox in much…

  • Leadership and Ethics in the Self-Organizing Emergent Church 1

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    This is a long post I know; hope you persevere with it. The issues of leadership, in particular whether people ought to work full time for the church has provoked some wide debate on this blog before. [ see posts and comments here and here ] It’s something that I’ve been thinking over for a…

  • What Do You Want to Change Today?

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    The Japanese principle of Kaizen proposes that the best way to change an organization is in tiny incremental steps. The permission-giving starts with the management of course, but the key is that each individual worker performing their little task within the company is given the power to change their environment or working practices so that…

  • Accountability and Responsibility – how can they work in EC’s?

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    Following on from the discussion around the previous post, I thought I’d outline some thoughts on how Emerging Churches could build accountability structures within distributed leadership models. It seems to me that the question behind this one is “who can I trust, and why?”

  • Sustainability | Full-time Church Work | Distributed Leadership

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    Just noted from another blog (see entry for 3rd August) that some thoughts on whether or not people should work full time for churches have stirred some opposition… and a request for further debate. Let me set out my concerns.

  • The Sleepy Countryside…

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    Just been away to the deepest Yorkshire moors for a few days [a lo-tech place, hence the quietness around here] and it set me thinking again about the importance of sleep. It was some time ago now that I got interested in why sleep was vital, and what actually happened when we slept. Strangely, I…