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Growing enabling pioneers
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What is a Pioneer ?
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Need to identify, select and train pioneer
church planters for lay and ordained
ministries..

Recommendation 11
It is important that they are not pressed into
becoming ministers of existing churches but are
deployed in pioneering contexts
MSC p134
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2006 Guidelines candidates who have the
necessary vision and gifts to be missionary
entrepreneurs, to lead fresh expressions of
church and forms of church for an appropriate
culture.
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Archegosis
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Archegosis
looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfector of
our faith Hebrews 122
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Archegosis
looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfector of
our faith Hebrews 122
How was Jesus a pioneer?
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Spectrum of pioneering
Pioneer Starter
Pioneer Sustainer
Sustainer Pioneer
Sustainer Developer
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Four enduring features?

• Dissatisfied
• Not grumbler but wanting change for the better
• Visionary
• Looks beyond what is to what could be
• Hopeful
• Change is possible and this inspires others
• Risk takers
• Acts on convictions and out of comfort zones

Stuart Murray Ch 7 Planting Churches who?
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If pioneering is a highly elastic concept that
requires different capabilities in different
settings, is there a risk of not discovering
potential pioneers if the notion is
stereotyped. Mike Moynagh

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Pioneering gifts are widely distributed in the
team and beyond , and the pioneer leader is to
help create a context where these gifts can be
exercised. Mike Moynagh
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Some possible clues
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Ephesians 4 11-12.
the gifts he gave were that some would be
apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some
evangelists and some pastors and teachers, to
equip the saints for the work of ministry, for
building up the body of Christ.
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Ephesians 4 11-12.
apostles entrepreneur prophet
questioner evangelist communicator pastor
humaniser teacher systematizer
Frost and Hirsch, The Shaping of Things to
come.p175
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Missionary Entrepreneur
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Releasing the entrepreneurial talent among Gods
people is the greatest task facing the church
today.
p4
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• they are people
• habitual
• creative and innovative
• builders
• build something of value
• build using opportunities

A person who habitually creates and innovates to
build something of recognised value around
perceived opportunities. p12
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• How would you identify a pioneer ?

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The qualities of a pioneer ?
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People who are
first
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People who are
on the edge
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People who are
moving out
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People who
take risks
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People who are
loving change
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People who know
when to stay or go
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People who know
when to bring order or chaos
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People who are
sure of where they are and who they are.
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People who are
dissenters
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There can be no constructive change at all,
even in church, unless there is some form of
dissent. By dissent I mean simply the proposing
of alternatives. and a system that is not
continuously examining alternatives is not
likely to evolve creatively. Gerald Arbuckle,
Refounding the Church
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People who
reflect, connect and dont know
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2. What other qualities might you add?
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Enabling pioneers
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1. Environment
2. Identify
3. Invest in.
4. Invest with.

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Identify What a pioneer is ? Who is a pioneer ?
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• Invest in
• support
• training
• resources

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• Invest with
• vocational purpose
• focus for missional
• engagement
• authority to pioneer

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• Pioneers want guidance
• Pioneers want to collaborate
• Pioneer is not the same as maverick
• Pioneers do not believe that they have all the
  answers

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• Risk and a spirit of exploration
• Support but not constraint
• The avoidance of domestication
• Loving dissatisfaction
• The possibility of failure

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3. What are the challenges of working with
people like this?
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The icebergs
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The danger of expectations
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The problem of measurement
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Beware of the default position
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Staying the course
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Losing the focus
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Isolation
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Taking the tough decisions
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The danger of domestication
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Disturb us Lord, when we are too well pleased
with ourselves, when our dreams have come
true because we have dreamed too little, when we
arrived safely because we sailed too close to the
shore.
Sir Francis Drake
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