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Just wondering...: April 2010
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Thursday, April 22, 2010. Do you ever speak to the Women in your Church? We have just begun a new preaching series from the book of Exodus called, Follow ME. The focus of the series is on God and His leadership/ character. I then spoke directly to the women in our church and encouraged them to be fear God and be courageous. What has been interesting is that a number of women have spoken about how moving it was to be spoken to directly as women. What your experience has been? Thursday, April 08, 2010.
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Just wondering...: Collaboration Does Not Equal Consensus
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Thursday, June 30, 2011. Collaboration Does Not Equal Consensus. The most recent HBR. Is all about collaboration. Morten Hansen has some great insights. Collaborative leadership is the capacity to engage people and groups outside one’s formal control and inspire them to work toward common goals—despite differences in convictions, cultural values, and operating norms. Below are some helpful distinctions between the three leadership styles. Just wondering what you think? COMPARING THREE STYLES OF LEADERSHIP.
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Just wondering...: March 2010
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Monday, March 08, 2010. Still thinking about cross cultural ministry. I know it's been a while since I have posted but there have been some significant things to consider before our AGM-I will tell you about them in the next post. I have not given up on thinking about cross cultural ministry. In fact I am planning to attend the Biennial Missions Conference. 4-6 May at the Sydney Missionary and Bible College. As part of the Masters program I am undertaking there. Keep you posted as I learn more.
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Just wondering...: Humilitas
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011. Over the past few weeks I have been reading John Dickson’s book Humilitas. It’s a great read. John has a way of writing that I greatly appreciate. He is consistently able to take complex ideas and make them assessable to everyone. The definition of humility that John proposes is:. Humility is the noble choice to forgo your status, deploy your resources or use your influence for the good of others before yourself.". Or it is a "willingness to hold power in service of others.".
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Just wondering...: Believing and Belonging – Muddy Waters
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Thursday, December 16, 2010. Believing and Belonging – Muddy Waters. The site is here. But this is what we have said:. Welcome to Macquarie Anglican. Our aim is to help you love God and others, and we think this is best done in community. So come and get involved! Perhaps you have not had much to do with a Christian community previously and you would like to investigate how they work. Why not try ours? Just wondering what you think? Ive been thinking this one thru too, becasue people drift into being a c...
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Just wondering...: What Leaders Really Do
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008. What Leaders Really Do. Management is about coping with complexity. Leadership is about coping with change. Good management brings a degree of order and consistency to key dimensions like the quality and profitability of products. Leadership, by contrast, is about coping with change. These two different functions-coping with complexity and coping with change-shape the characteristic activities of management and leadership. By John P. Kotter December 2001 HBR.
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Just wondering...: Saturated Networks
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Friday, February 25, 2011. For a while now I have been noticing that the networks of relationships that people have, seem to be saturated. The result is that many of us do not seem to have room in our lives to develop new in-depth relationships. Sure its easy to add new/old Facebook. What are the implications for a Church? Just wondering what you think? May also be the musings of an over-worked pastor and his circle/network of busy, over-committed staff and volunteers. What you observe at the school is w...
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Just wondering...: February 2011
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Friday, February 25, 2011. For a while now I have been noticing that the networks of relationships that people have, seem to be saturated. The result is that many of us do not seem to have room in our lives to develop new in-depth relationships. Sure its easy to add new/old Facebook. What are the implications for a Church? Just wondering what you think? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I am a Minister at Macquarie Anglican in Sydney, Australia. View my complete profile. From his fullness - an advent sermon.
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Just wondering...: May 2010
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Thursday, May 13, 2010. I have been studying cross cultural ministry over the last few months and one of the obvious issues is the misunderstandings that develop because people come from very different cultural mindsets. Research has been conducted to understand these differences, for example Geert Hofstede. In studying over 50 countries, examined 5 five cultural dimensions (see here. Hofstede's 5 cultural dimensions include:. Power Distance Index (PDI). Long Term Orientation (LTO). This individuality is...
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Just wondering...: September 2010
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Monday, September 13, 2010. Book Review- Total Church. Tim Chester and Steve Timmis in their book Total. A radical reshaping around gospel and community,. Are passionate about the gospel and the future of the church. The book raises significant questions about the way churches operate and provides a challenging alternative (2007:15). Even if they fail to have any explicit connection to the gospel (2007:103). Chester and Timmis also suggest that many churches of an evangelical commitment are not engaging ...
