Leaders
Making An Impact in a Changing World
March 8th, 2010
Cost for this 9am-12pm event is only $25 and includes lunch ($35 for at the door registrations). Sunday overnight accommodations are available at Aldersgate along with a delicious Breakfast for just $25 more. Take some time to get away, relax, and recharge your spiritual battery. Registration for the event will begin at 8:00 am Monday, and 5 pm Sunday for those choosing to stay overnight.
Leonard Sweet will be sharing on the leadership the Church needs in
the 21st century. He will be drawing from his new book So
Beautiful: Divine Design for Life and the Church. In this seminal work, he shares
the woven strands that form the church: missional, relational, and incarnational.
Recently Sweet wrote a short article on the 24 transitions we need in
the 21st century. There will be opportunity to discuss several of these
during the morning.
1. From Critique & Pick-apart to Celebrate & Pick-up
2. From Pyramid to Pancake; From Ladder to Web
3. From Representation
to Participation
4. From "Here-I-Stand" Churchianity (Maintenance)
to "There-We-Go"
Christianity (Mission)
5. From Eye to Ear
— From Structure to Rhythm — From Seeing to Hearing
6. From Printed
Page to Screen
7. From Control to Out-of-Control — From Program to
Manifestation
8. From Authority Structures to Relational Structures
9. From "Does it Make Sense" to "Was it a Good
Experience?"
10. From Excellence to Authenticity — From Performance
to Realness
11. From Theology of Giving to Theology of Receiving
12. From Hi-Fi Stereo to Surround-Sound Spirituality
13. From Planning
to Preparedness
14. From Politics (Bio-Economics to Culture Clash
15. From
Church Growth to Church Health
16. From Standing Committees to Moving
Teams
17. From Denominations to Tribes
18. From Mass to Demassed Structures
(eg. From Congregational to Cellular)
19. From Illustration to Animation
20. From Think Big and Simple to Think Small and Complex
21. From Boundary-Living
to Frontier/Border Living
22. From Christendom Culture to Pre-Christian
Mission Fields
23. From Pastoral Care to Ministry Development
24. From "Re" words
to "De" words
Who is Leonard Sweet?
"One of the church’s most important and provocative thinkers."
“No church leader understands better how to navigate the seas of the 21st century.”
“A writer of vast imagination, poise, and charm.”
“I can’t imagine a Christian leader in America who hasn’t read one or more of
Leonard Sweet’s books.”
“Some statistician-types will drown you in doom and gloom. Sweet’s message is
uplifting, hopeful, and relevant.”
These are but a sampling
of responses to Len’s three-ring mission: as a historian of American
culture; as a futurist/semiotician who "sees things the rest of
us do not see, and dreams possibilities that are beyond most of our imagining;" and
as a preacher and writer who communicates the gospel powerfully to a
post-modem age by bridging the worlds of academe and popular culture.
In 2006 and 2007, Len was voted by his peers as one of the 50 Most Influential
Christians in America by Church Report Magazine. Currently the E. Stanley
Jones Professor of Evangelism at Drew University, Madison, NJ and a Visiting
Distinguished Professor at George Fox University, Portland, Oregon, Len
has been Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the Theological
School at Drew University for five years.
Previous to Drew, Len served
for eleven years as President and Professor of Church History at United
Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio. Prior to 1985, Len was Provost of
Colgate Rochester/Bexley Hall/Crozer Divinity School in Rochester, New
York. Involved in leadership positions in the United Methodist Church,
Len has been chosen to speak at various Jurisdictional and General Conferences
as well as the 1996 World Methodist Congress in Rio de Janeiro. He also
serves as a consultant to many of America's denominational leaders and
agencies. He is a member of the West Virginia Annual Conference.
For more information about Len,
visit his inspirational website: www.LeonardSweet.com
