re:create - Annual Thinktank For Arts & Worship Leaders From Around The World

cre:ate '09: Dr. Steve Guthrie To Address Theology, Imagination And The Arts

Steve Guthrie is Assistant Professor of Theology at Belmont University in Nashville. From 2000 to 2005 Dr. Guthrie was a faculty member of the University of St Andrews in St Andrews, Scotland, teaching at the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts. He came to Belmont in 2005 to help launch a new major in Religion and the Arts.

Dr. Guthrie earned an undergraduate degree in Music Theory from the University of Michigan, and for several years played professionally and worked as a minister of music. One night he became disoriented on the way to a gig and stumbled into the world of academic theology. In his spare time, he enjoys weightlifting, watching the NFL Network and eating pizza (thereby vitiating any possible benefit arising from the weightlifting). Above all, he enjoys writing breezy, faintly humorous autobiographical paragraphs; always written in the third person, so that the casual reader will believe that they have been penned by some devoted chronicler of his life and work. 

Dr. Guthrie is married to Julie and has four extraordinarily clever and impossibly good looking children. Recent and upcoming publications include:

·         Breath and Dust: The Holy Spirit and Human Artistry. Baker Academic, 2008.

·         Resonant Witness: Essays in Musical Theology, ed. with Jeremy Begbie, Eerdmans, 2008.

·         “Theology and Music” in the Eerdmans-Brill Encyclopedia of Christianity, Vol. 5. Eerdmans, 2007.

·         Faithful Performances: Artistry, embodiment and the enactment of Christian Identity, (ed., with Trevor Hart), Ashgate, 2007.

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Scan Focus Act 1

Kids/Family

- Allow your children to use their gifts in ministry and don't "shield" them. 

- Create intentional no agenda hangout time with your kids.

- Keep communication open. Involve them in important discussions.

- Release your plans and dreams for your kids to God's plans and dreams for them.

- Love your kid's mom!

Loving Your Spouse

- Be intentional about our horizontal relationships.

- Choose something that important to you in your work and cancel it for her/ him.

- Create a daily "crossing" with your spouse. (could be texting, lunch, etc.)

- identify and enforce relational boundaries.

- choose wisely what work issues you disclose with your spouse.

Leading the Team

LEADING THE TEAM [brain dump]
together is better - unity
it’s all about relationship - build trust - care about each other
    time together - retreat / staff connection
    weekly staff meetings that aren’t all business - laugh / live / learn
servant-leadership (not leading from above) - Christ-like leadership
the team embracing it all - living out your calling and goals together
    the leader doesn’t have to do everything with everyone but people need to experience him in tangible ways
    all along the way
just show up (willow)
Books
    Organizing Chaos (Warren Bennis / Patricia Ward Biederman)
    Leading with a Limp (Dan Allender)
    The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Patrick Lencioni)


[action items] - what can i do not to stay awake about this issue?

1. NURTURE RELATIONSHIPS ... honesty - tell the truth - trust
2. TOGETHERNESS ... find intentional times to be together w/no real agenda - laugh / live / learn
3. SERVANT-LEADERSHIP ... don’t lead from above - painting the set - get your hands dirty

Finances

- Develop a plan (tools could be Financial Peace by Dave Ramsey, Crown Financial)

- Live below your means

- Create a debt retirement plan

- Know your credit report

- Create secondary income

- Invest and be proactive!

Creativity/ Time Management

- Use tools that are available like planningcenter.com.

- Have a "closed door" policy. Set the expectation that when your door is closed, it's your personal time to get things done. (no peeking in the window!)

- schedule creative time.

- Schedule time with the Creator.

- JUST SAY NO!!

Personal Spiritual Growth/ Quiet time

-Identify the problem "why don't I do it?"

- Embrace discipline (obedience leads to discipline, discipline leads to desire.)

- Journal. Get it out of your head.

- Plan your quiet time and make it creative!

- Don't discount the Holy Spirit.

- Get some quiet time accountability to keep you on track.

Self Esteem/ Authenticity

- Live in the reality that ultimately we are no the ones who change people. God does. Let Christ live through us.

- Give ourselves room to learn. Learn aggressively.

- Live in the reality that we are justified by Christ, no by Christ and man.

Leading the Team

Leadership Summit

Scan Focus Act - cre:ate 2008

SPIRITUAL:   
Authenticity/Self-doubt:
Dallas Willard
Sustaining Pastoral Excellence

Daily Walk:
Dallas Willard

Quiet Time:
Fenelon

PERSONAL:
Balance/Time Management:
Choosing to Cheat by Andy Stanley
43folders.com

Finances:
Edward Jones Financial Planner
getrichslowly.com
The Best Question Ever by Andy Stanley

Family Members:
Turn off your cell phone/computer
Make sure and include your children in what you're doing/let them have the good parts if they earn them!
Be the same person at home that you are at the church in front of everyone
Raise your kids enjoying the things you enjoy
Also try to embrace the things your kids enjoy; they will come back and embrace what you enjoy
Talk with your kids/PRAY with them (novel idea!)
Date your children
What we want at the end of the day is not children who hold our values, but children who love God
Schedule sex nights! You wake up SO EXCITED about that day!
Light a candle - you know the one!

MINISTRY:
Creativity/Service Planning:
The Spark: Cirque du Soleil
The Creative Call
Caffeine for the Creative Mind
Ken Robinson:  Out of our Minds
Five Disfunctions of a Team:  Patrick Lencioni
Fast Company
Tom Peters

Leadership

Mark Cuban
Blog

Leadership

Me To We
www.metowe.org

Ministry/ Creativity Resources

The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life - book by Twyla Tharp

Finding Common Ground: How to Communicate With Those Outside the Christian Community...While We Still Can- Tim Downs

A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age- Daniel Pink

ted.com

Read Fiction!

Field Trips!