Leadership on the Other Side: No Rules, Just Clues"
By: Bill Easum

1. Leaders are obedient to a call greater than their own lives.

2. Leaders on the other side feel passionately about a few core issues and think paradoxically about most other things.

3. Leaders are keenly aware of their need to be led intuitively by the Holy Spirit.

4. Leaders are constantly innovating "on the fly."

"Five things are necessary for leaders to be able to innovate on the fly--imagination, a child-like curiosity, a willingness to repeatedly retool, an awareness what wild cards will come, and the ability to use symbols, metaphors, and art."

5. Leaders know how to share Jesus with pagans.

6. Leaders sense that the basic genetic code of the church is to make disciples of Jesus Christ.

7. Leaders function as spiritual directors or guides.

"The leadership of spiritual directors includes four primary responses: join another on her or his journey and help them interpret his or her experience of God, help the fellow traveler identify a right path for life, embrace the supernatural, and have more questions than answers."

8. Leaders feel and think like cross-cultural witnesses.

"Cross-cultural witness leaders have three primary traits that separate them from most of the leaders during Modernity: they focus more on reaching an area than on building an institutional church, they are not tied to any denomination or culture, and they are theologians with a clear message."

9. Leaders are permission giving.

"Two key traits characterize a permission-giving leader who can function well in team-based ministries: this leader sees in others what God sees in them, helps them discover it and then gets out of the way, and insures that each person is discipled before being placed into leadership."

10. Leaders are team-based.

"Team based leadership knows that: ministry occurs best in teams; building community is essential; integrity, competency, and consistency are the basic characteristics of good team players; triad leadership is often better than one heroic leader; leaders choose their successors; many of these leaders will be women."

11. Leaders serve Jesus Christ in the midst of the congregation instead of serving the congregation.

"In order for leaders to be able to serve Christ instead of the congregation, leaders must: represent Christ by modeling the faith, be real people who are not concerned with being nice, and have the soul of both poet and prophet."

12. Its not what leaders know that is important; it's what leaders know is not important.

13. Leaders need a clear sense of what it means to be human.

14. Leaders need to be able to help others distinguish reality from fiction. (Go watch the Matrix to discover what this means.)

15. Leaders are willing to change their Life Metaphors.

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