Rethinking Sunday Morning for Faith Formation€¦ · Rethinking Sunday Morning for Faith Formation...
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“Seminaries, like all professional schools, are houses of best
practices. They pass on the best practices for ministry to the next
generation of leaders. The
problem is, we no longer
know what the best
practices are.”
Dan Aleshire, Exec Dir,
Assoc. of Theological Schools
Green
Zone
Pioneering
Organization
Green Zone Characteristics
1. Loose coalitions drawn by pursuit of elusive
dream that seems out of reach.
2. Tight, focused shared vision.
3. High levels of social interaction.
4. Org life informal, ad hoc.
5. People are usually all generalists.
6. New environments.
7. An absence of hierarchies.
8. Excel in ambiguous environments with
multiple challenges.
9. Learn to be continually adaptive.
10.Strategy not linear but emerges.
Blue Zone
Performative
Organization
Blue Zone Characteristics:
1.Structured Corporate Organization
2.Large-scale displaces ‘just-in-time”.
3.Specialization of roles and programs
4.Focus is on ability to perform
5.Org hierarchies displace loose teams.
6.Run by the experts
7.Loss of overall, shared vision
8.Lowering levels of social interaction
9.Rationalized planning replaces
emergent planning
Red Zone
Regulatory
Agency
Red Zone Characteristics
1. Highly anxiety, anger at leaders.
2. Silos.
3. Battles on secondary issues.
4. Constitutions/operations manuals
to assert control.
5. Emotionally/physically opt.
6. Leaders resign.
7.Work harder at the dominant
habits and actions
8. Crisis
“Seminaries, like all professional schools, are houses of best
practices. They pass on the best practices for ministry to the next
generation of leaders. The
problem is, we no longer
know what the best
practices are.”
Dan Aleshire, Exec Dir,
Assoc. of Theological Schools
Elements of Sunday Morning
• Worship
• Music
• Liturgy
• Sacraments
• Preaching
• Education
• Fellowship
• Hospitality/Welcome
Augsburg Article 5
That we may obtain this faith, the Ministry of
Teaching the Gospel and administering the
Sacraments was instituted. For through the Word
and Sacraments, as through instruments, the
Holy Ghost is given, who works faith; where and
when it pleases God, in them that hear the
Gospel, to wit, that God, not for our own merits,
but for Christ's sake, justifies those who believe
that they are received into grace for Christ's
sake.
The Word: The Narrative Lectionary
• Narrativelectionary.org
• Joy Moore: “preachers [do not] convey to listeners the overarching story depicted in Christian Scripture as narrated from Genesis through Revelation."