![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/RWC.PSX_-250x300.png\")
<\/a>I had imagined that all the Christians in our bunch would pile on to Walker\u2019s Chapter 13, where Jesus and the Self-Emptying Strategy (RWC) resided. It would answer the question, \u201cWhat would Jesus do?\u201d We all want to be more like Jesus so I started with this chapter, I figured I would score points if I dove into Self Emptying. Once again, I discovered something revelational. Christ\u2019s leadership purpose (arguably His Spiritual purpose) of sacrifice, caused his disciples to become just like Winston Churchill (PSX), expanding the Kingdom. I had never imagined that I would place Churchill and Paul in the same stream of thought. What surprised me initially, however, was that Walker seemed to be less keen on Christ\u2019s Servant Leadership. \u201cOn the one hand\u2026there\u2019s the idea of the leader as hero, strong, capable, brave, who takes problems on and overcomes them. And then on the other, there\u2019s Greenleaf\u2019s idea of \u201cservant leadership.\u201d They seem to be at two ends of a scale. One is about power, the other about passivity\u2026. Neither quite seems to capture what leadership is all about.\u2019 (Location, 2509).<\/p>\nWalker\u2019s perspective alarmed me at first (APOSTASY!) but this shook me from my \u201cpigeonhole box search for MY Leadership strategy\u201d, to enjoying spectrums of leadership responses imaged by Walker\u2019s, Territorial, Dynamic, Attentive, Responsive Matrix.<\/p>\n
For years I have watched the study of leadership take us into tests like Myers-Briggs that identify your personality type, and then like lambs, young leaders reshape themselves so that they can fit in their newfound personality style.<\/p>\n
Not so, with Walker. Our esteemed Travis and Tim describe Walkers Matrix as a toolbox, they see these leadership strategies as resources where one can pull the proper tool to match the leadership situation. For me this was a revelation. I have a tendency to see all problems as a nail. Thus, I wield my hammer (much like Thor) with force and violence.<\/p>\n
Chapter 13 reinforced what I knew of Christ\u2019s leadership style, and it also hammered home a lesson that I am relearning right now. I guess the bottom line is \u201cLetting Go, Let God\u201d and the Baptist philosophy on Self-supporting, Self-governing, and Self-propagating.<\/p>\n
Or more correctly, Henry Venn, along with American missions leader Rufus Anderson, argued that New-Testament-style churches should have local leaders. In addition, those churches would be financed locally, and they would be doing effective evangelism, discipleship, and church planting on their own with local resources. Venn said these native or indigenous churches would be: Self-supporting, Self-governing, and Self-propagating<\/p>\n
Part 3: Indigenous Church: Self Supporting, Self-Governing, Self-Propagating. GoodSports International.<\/strong>
\nThe RSX strategy of withdrawing is the strategy that has emerged for me in Hungary. My presence must grow lesser so that a new generation of Hungarians can rise to the effort of sharing Christ\u2019s love in their own spectacular ways (PSX). This new generation will face the trials of being self-supporting, self-governing and self-propagating in culturally significate ways, that I as an American (Thor) could never explore.<\/p>\nPart 4: Summary<\/strong>
\nI wander back to Rare Leadership<\/em> and share this last quote by John Trent, \u201cIt\u2019s rare to find a book that links \u201cjoy, modern brain science, and biblical wisdom as a model for leadership.\u201d Had I forgotten Joy?<\/p>\nIn Walker\u2019s focus on hospitality (and perhaps my lack of joy), I began to see that I focused on Hero or Servant. Finding the Joy in using the range of emotions and actions (Leadership strategies) that God has empowered us with is something I look forward to employing as we explore work in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Shalom…y’all<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
[1] Warner, Marcus, and E. James Wilder. Rare Leadership: 4 Uncommon Habits for Increasing Trust, Joy, and Engagement in the People You Lead. Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2016.<\/p>\n
[2] Walker, Simon P. Leading with Nothing to Lose: Training in the Exercise of Power. Carlisle: Piquant, 2007.<\/p>\n
[3] Greenleaf, Robert K. Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness. New York: Paulist Press, 1977.<\/p>\n
[4] \u201cThe Three Selfs of Indigenous Churches.\u201d Accessed September 10, 2023. https:\/\/home.snu.edu\/~hCULBERT\/3selfs.htm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mit tenne J\u00e9zus? (Hungarian) – What would Jesus do? Highlights Part 1 Rare Leadership & More than a menu Part 2 Chapter 13, What would Jesus Do? Part 3 Indigenous Church: Self Supporting, Self-Governing, Self-Propagating. GoodSports International Part 4 Summary Part 1 \u2013 Rare Leadership & More than a Menu Rare Leadership The DLGP study […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2489,1718],"class_list":["post-32989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dlgp02","tag-walker","cohort-dlgp02"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32989"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33002,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32989\/revisions\/33002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/RareLeadership.png\")
<\/a> revealed with each book that we read. Before I move onto Walker\u2019s book, I wanted to share something am reading concurrently, it is called Rare Leadership, Marcus Warner and E. James Wilder. One of the statements struck me (and is impacting my reading of Walker) \u2026He writes \u201cAct Like Yourself\u201d which I initially thought was going to be a chapter on \u201cyou do you,\u201d but instead it called us to ask the question \u201cWhat would the person God made me to be do? He calls us to be our best selves (p.15), as an example he shared something that reflects my life circumstances, \u201cI\u2019ve been in many situations where this inability of a leader to act like \u201chis best self\u201d has led to a downward spiral in morale, resulting in the loss\u2026.\u201d Ouch. This clearly describes my current situation.<\/p>\n