A Practical Christology for Pastoral Supervision - A Practical Christology for Pastoral Supervision -

Pastoral supervision in the Australian context The travesty and tragedy of unsafe churches: how did we get here?Settler stories: the making of an unsafe Australia and Anglican Church Larrikin stories: the merrymaking of unsafe practices in Australia Royal Commission stories: the unmasking of the unsafe church Recommendations: criteria and compliance for a safer church Reaction and responses: culture change for a safer church Pastoral supervision as the biblical and Anglican practice of oversight A practical Christology for safe clergy and church workers Acknowledgements Notes What is ‘pastoral’ about supervision?Professional supervision: a brief history of the discipline Pastoral supervision: a brief survey of definitions Pastoral supervision in 2020: a preliminary theological assessment What is pastoral about supervision?From competence (or compliance) to faith From goals to hope From empathic understanding to reconciling love Acknowledgements Notes Pastoral supervision in a digital age The COVID-19 crisis of early 2020 Surveying the promises and pitfalls of the digital age From principles of education to practical transformation From educative conversations to enabled communities From transforming practices to teleological promises ‘Restorative conversations’: conversation (John 21:4-19)‘We make the road by walking’: walking (Luke 24:13-34) ’9 Notes The revealing Jesus What Scripture brings into the room Revealing Jesus: Luke 24:13-34 (on the road, Emmaus)The revealing Jesus (Luke 24:13-48)Crucible of disappointment (Luke 24:13-14)Contemplation on roads of retreat (Luke 24:15-17)Conversation with compassion (Luke 24:18-24)Cruciformity (Luke 24:26-27)Conversation with challenge (Luke 24:27)Contemplation on roads of revelation (Luke 24:28-29)Crucible of celebration (Luke 24:30-35)Walking: the first Christological framework for pastoral supervision Notes The revealing Jesus What theology and practice bring into the room Contemplating Critiquing Converting Notes The remembering Jesus What Scripture brings into the room Remembering Jesus: Luke 22:39-53 (in the garden)Re-membering: the second Christological framework for pastoral supervision Postscript: un-remembered by Jesus from the cross—the first wrongdoer (Luke 23:39-43)Notes The remembering Jesus What theology and practice bring into the room Expecting Encountering Notes The restoring Jesus What Scripture brings into the room Restoring Jesus: John 21:4-19 (and Luke 5:1-11)The restoring Jesus reveals failings and failure, relationally The restoring Jesus remembers failings and failure, rightly The restoring Jesus interrogates failings and failure, rigorously The restoring Jesus resurrects fidelity and following, reparatively Coda: the call of the reconciling Jesus (Luke 5:27-32)Restorative conversation: the third Christological framework for pastoral supervision24 Notes The restoring Jesus What theology and practice bring into the room Calling Convicting Contending Notes Five challenges for pastoral supervisors in the twenty-first century Supervising people with Incurvâtes In Se: the spirit of Christ—for others Supervising pastors who are insecure: the call of Christ for renewing vocation Supervising workers whose theology is invisible:the praxis of Christ for integrated ministry Supervising the church that injures and is injured:the community in, of, and for Christ Supervising the world via the internet: the crucible of Christ—sacrificing and serving Conclusion Notes