Abstract
A compass in the storms of adaptive change - outlines on missional leadership.The article describes outlines of and elaborates on missional leadership in the challenging times of adaptive change. The insights of Roxburg & Romanuk (2006) and Van Gelder (2007), especially in terms of their contributions on Spirit-led missional leadership, serves as partners for the discussion. This is enriched by other publications and highlighted by the influence of prof Piet Meiring’s life as missional leader. The article describes missional leadership as:• a journey directed by spiritual discernment,• Biblical imagination to discern God’s preferred future,• the art of listening,• the cultivation of an environment that discerns God’s activities among the congregation and in its context,• communally orientated and network-leadership,• cultural transformation,• storytelling, and• taking risks.
Highlights
The article describes outlines of and elaborates on missional leadership in the challenging times of adaptive change
Die kerk se roeping is nie in die eerste plek om te stuur nie, maar om opgeneem te word in en deelhebber te wees van God se sending na die wêreld
We are moving through a period of volatile, discontinuous change (Roxburg & Romanuk 2006:5)
Summary
Hy het bydraes gelewer aan die Fakulteit Teologie van die Universiteit van Pretoria, binne die. Sy lewe en werk het vorm aan die ontwikkelende kontoere van missionêre leierskap gegee wat verder in die artikel ontwikkel word. Hoewel Meiring se lewe en leierskap nie letterlik in elke faset van die artikel ingelees kan word nie, verteenwoordig die artikel ‘n gesprek met Meiring en hoe hy in sy lewe en werk vorm gegee het aan transformasieleierskap in SuidAfrika en veral in die NG Kerk. Direkteur van die Sentrum vir Teologie en Gemeenskap aan die Universiteit van Pretoria (1999-2007);. Hy speel ‘n belangrike rol in die NG Kerk se nadenke oor missionêre gemeentes en in die formulering van die ISSN 1609-9982 = VERBUM ET ECCLESIA JRG 29(3) 2008 verslag wat voor die Algemene Sinode dien. Betrokke by versoeningsprosesse in Indonesië, Israel, Palestina, Ierland, Fiji, Rwanda, Indië en Sri Lanka
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