Week 2 : Leadership and Culture: Counter, Cross and Aqua-EPIC

(note: if you are looking for the Nehemiah articles, I moved them to the post for Week 1, click here)...
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 For tonight's discussion on
Leadership and Culture, we'll deal with

• "Counter-Cultural" Leadership,
• Cross-Cultural Leadership, and 
• Leadership in EPIC  Times

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1)Counter-Cultural:

Here are some notes from the Palm Sunday/Lamb of God video..  Implications for leadership?

The "first shall be last" inclusuo/chiasm/parable (Matthew 20):
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 But many who are first will be last, 
 and many who are last will be first.

For the kingdom of heaven
is like:

a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard.
He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.
"About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.
He told them, 'You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.'
So they went. "He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing. About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, 'Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?  'Because no one has hired us,' they answered.   "He said to them, 'You also go and work in my vineyard.' "When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.' "The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius. So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 'These men who were hired last worked only one hour,' they said, 'and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.' "But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?' 

 So the last will be first,
and the first will be last.

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MORE Bible study/"literary world":

 Remembering  what we called:

• -"story shaping story"
• -hyperlinking
• -intertextuality?

Here is the "visualizing the Bible" site.







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"Culture/matrix is with you...even when you go to church":
Click this.
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2)Cross-Cultural:
Here is the Daniel Naina (from "Thou Shalt Laugh") clip:


More info on the "temple tantrum" Bible study:

• Temle tantum/torn curtain
• Breaking Down Walls: Temple Courts
• Cleansing The Temple: How Many Times And What Does It Mean?

See also:

"In England, they drive on the __________ side of the road."

 

 

 

 

 

 

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On the Miracles of Multiplication, see:

• The Other Side-Decapolis 
• Feeding of 5000 and 4000 
• "Box Lunch"

(diagram below by John Stevenson, see 2nd link above)

Feeding of the 5,000	Feeding of the 4,000
Mark 6:34-44	Mark 8:1-9
Took place after the multitude had been with Jesus for one day.	Took place after the multitude had been with Jesus for three days.
The multitude was mostly Jewish.	The multitude would have been mostly Gentile.
Took place near Bethsaida Julias on the northeastern shore of the Sea of Galilee.	Took place in the Decapolis on the southeastern shore of the Sea of Galilee.
Jesus used 5 loaves and 2 fish.	Jesus used 7 loaves and a few small fish.
There were 12 small baskets of leftovers.	There were 7 large baskets of leftovers.

Implications for leadership?

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3)EPIC Culture:

 Short speech recently given by Clay Shirky (author of
"Here Comes Everybody:The Power of Organizing Without Organizations”),
at the Web 2.0 conference.


A transcript is available here;
an outline by Tim Bauer here,
but since media is message/messenger massage
and that is part of the point,
I would recommend watching it first.

Especially for those who think they "don't have the time," 13:00-15:32.









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 Remember from last week that Leonard Sweet, in several books ("Postmodern Pilgrims" and "The Gospel According to Starbucks") spells out the EPIC acrostic to image the culture we live in.
See:

• EPIC Times: are you native or immigrant?
• EPIC  Y2K

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In earlier books ("Aqua Church: Essential Leadership Arts" and "Aqua Church 2.0", Sweet called the same phenomomenon a liquid or aqua culture:

• Free online read of much of Aqua Church 2.0 here
• Summary of Aqua Church and the Leadership Arts here

We watched his first three videos last week, and here are the three for tonight:

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Parables are an amazing way of leading...especially with EPICS...but will all cultures..
Practice writing/telling a parable, using these two items:



Eugene Peterson's classic definition of parable/metaphor is here.

Remember this video, and the list we made from it?  If you missed class tonight, watch it now, and then make a list of comments on the genre of this documentary and  a list of how it made you feel.
Then bring your list to class to join the discussion



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Preparation for next week (in addition to assigned reading):

1)Bring magazines
2)Take the Myers-Briggs online (if time permits)
3)Read the summary of "Dark Side"   HERE  if time.
4)Remember, for your leader interviews, see "Writing Asssignments," remember that a power point or video is accepted as an alternative to the written paper.
A video would be great, as you are interviewing people.

Week 1: Definitions, Orientation, Moses and Leadership

Great class...what an honor to get you meet you all (and re-meet many of you)..
For each week's class session, I'll post some follow-up links, any videos we showed, etc..
Here was the opening clip we showed...Good reminder that as leaders (and people in general), it's good to keep our glasses on:



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 We shared our definitions of leadership, and noticed several patterns and themes we'll return to..
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As a way of triggering our memories back to BIB 300A, the three worlds of the Bible, and "Who is Jesus and Matthew,  we covered the first two (we'll do the others in the weeks to come) of these literary devices (click chart to enlarge) that Matthew uses to address that question.

The first red diagram  is an inclusio, letting the readers know how central to his
message it is that in Jesus, God is with us..

You;'ll remember that inclsuio as a  framing devices often calls attention to a central section with repeats the same theme.

We noted Matthew 18:20, where Jesus says "I am with you"
even when two or three leaders are called to make difficult decisions about disciplining a sinning brother or sister..


Like Ken, in the squeaky shoes, remember him?
As his pastor/leader, how could I NOT confront him? (:
Here he is:




 

The second  red diagram lets us see that Matthew has intentionally organized his
material around five obvious teaching blocks (five on purpose, to
represent The Torah (aka The Pentateuch, the
first five books of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible that Jews saw as foundational, and as the "Five Books of Moses")--the message being Jesus is the new Moses.
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We looked at Jesus as a Leader, and the backstory of Moses as a leader..

Unfortunately, the Ray Vander Laan video we showed on Moses and leadership is not available online, but it is episode 3 on this DVD, and some of the study notes are here.  Van Der Laan's website is followtherabbi.com, and is loaded with great stuff.
And below is a brief excerpt on the same theme from a different episode:

  You'll remember he called attention to Moses who was trained as a shepherd, who was to lead like God (who in turn leads like a shepherd):
gentle, defending and protecting the flock, and not with a stick like Pharoah.  Remember the word 'shepherd' is related to the word  "word."  Shepherds/leaders lead by relationship and by word.
Here's the video clip (see 1:30 and following) the little Peruvian shepherd I met, who effectively led hundreds of alpacas from behind, and by gentle word:



(I mentioned there was quite a story behind this video..it's here)
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We then began looking at Leonard Sweet's 12  (okay 11 1/2) "Leadership Arts" for navigating our current "aqua" culture and church...We'll watch three each night of class...Here below are the threes we watched.  I love how in the discussion you related these to everything else we talked about (Moses, Nehemiah, etc),
All the episodes are found by clicking the tab on the top of the page..

• Free online read of much of Aqua Church 2.0 here
• Summary of Aqua Church and the Leadership Arts here

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We had a lively discussion on Sweet's other image for the world we are called to live and lead in: the acrostic EPIC.

Here is a recent article I wrote summarizing Leonard Sweet's EPIC acrostic.  We'll pick up this theme next week, so the article may be a good review.


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We read through the first chapter of Nehemiah, gleaning leadership principles,
to get us primed for the paper due next week (see student guide).  Remember, you have an extra week if you need it, as the student guide mistakenly left off the reading of Nehemiah for homework.

As promised, here is some help:



1)Read through and listen to the whole book on audio (click here and click 'Listen", or click chapter title, here):


2)This would be helpful to read as you start your paper:

Cultural Background on the Book of Nehemiah




3)These links below may be helpful to read, but please ONLY AFTER most of your own paper with your own insights is almost done.  You can incorporate some of these insights if you like:

• Lessons in leadership and management from Nehemiah |
• What Nehemiah Shows Us About Christian Leadership
• Weekly Briefing - Nehemiah: A Case Study on Leadership
• THIRTY FIVE LESSONS ON GODLYLEADERSHIP FROM NEHEMIAH
• Nehemiah leadership video

EXCELLENT chapter on Nehemiah and Leadership from Tom Marshall below..click a page to enlarge, then click again to enlarge again:

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>>Here are  some helpful material on the literary devices of inclusio and chiasm that we reviewed:

• Chiasm and inclusio: an intro
• Chiasm led me to Christ

>>Here is some material on the concepts of "set theory," especially "bounded sets" and "centered sets"::

• Is Church B.S. or C.S.?
• Centered Set Video
• Looking for a way in

Welcome and revised schedule/student guide

Greetings class!
I really look forward to seeing some of you again, and meeting those of you that will be new to me.
I think you will be surprised how much you enjoy this class; I sure enjoy teaching it.

I will use this website to post links and videos that we watch in class; there will be a new post after each class session with a summary of the session, and any follow-up information.

By now you have all gotten the news that the first class session is Sept 27, not Sept 20.
 Class Schedule:

Week 1: Sept 27

Week 2: Oct 4

Week 3 Oct 11

Week4  Oct 18

As promised, here are the changes to your syllabus (revised homework/assignment schedule  etc), below.

The best way to prepare right away is   is to do the homework/reading listed on your syllabus for Week 1  as if it were due the original first session of class (Sept 20), even though it is now due on our first class session, Sept 27.

MAKE THE FOLLOWING CHANGES TO YOUR STUDENT GUIDE/SYLLABUS (everything else is as printed):


Page 1:  

1)Cross out ":recommended texts"  and the texts listed there.

Page 2:

1)Under  "Course Polices: Written assignments,"  I will NOT require  MLA format.  For me, APA, or another format is fine (just be consistent)

2)Under "Grading," cross out "Ford Chapter Paper" and "Dark Side Paper".  You do NOT have to do these assignments (though you are still to read the "Dark Side" book).  Make a note that instead of these papers, you will receive up to the same amount of points for in-class projects we will be doing.

Page   3:

1)Under "Week 1", make a note that this is now Sept 27 (not Sept 20)

2)Under "Week 2,"   make a note that this is now Oct 4.

3)Under "Week 2," delete all reading assignments EXCEPT "How to Read the Bible for all its Worth – chapter 12"  That includes the Strengths Assessment survey (delete, we will do a version of this IN CLASS)

Page 5:

1)Delete altogether everything under where it currently says "Week 4: Determining Direction"
(Since we are cutting a week off class.  We will incorporate the topics from that night elsewhere.
But you will NOT have to do the paper or reading assignments listed there)

2)  Under "Week 3: The Person of the Leader, note that the date is October 11,  under "Writing Asssignments," add that a power point or video is accepted as an alternative to the written paper.
A video would be great, as you are interviewing people.

Page 6:

1)Where it says, "Week 5" change it to say "Week 4 (Final Week)", and note that the date is Oct 18.

2)Then, under where you have written "Week 4-Final Week" (changed from Week 5),
delete the Written Assignment (you will NOT have to do that paper) .
From   "Reading Assignments," delete the Robert Clinton article.

Page 7-27:

1)As you read above (under page 6), you will NOT have to do the assignment on this article, though it would be helpful to read it.

Please feel free to be in touch: you can comment here on the website,email me, or call 559.974.2508

Dave