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Tag: Leadership

  • LEAD! Underlying Assumptions

    The LEAD! Bible Study is supposed to focus specifically on the training of leaders, as opposed to merely general-purpose discipleship. To accomplish that, I’m planning on observing several fairly strong constraints — listed below — as I develop this material.

  • LEAD! A Transformational Small Group Bible Study

    The format I’m proposing for LEAD! is what I’m calling a “Transformational Small Group Bible Study”. This builds on my many years in InterVarsity Small Groups during eleven years of college, as well as numerous “home groups” in churches since then. The key aspects are: • Bible Study History and…

  • LEAD! Leadership Enrichment and Development

    [Or maybe: Leadership Equipping And Development] Good news! My pastor bought off on my proposal breaking next year’s Leadership Training into three 12-week semesters, structured as a focused bible study. We are using “LEAD!” as the working title. The initial draft syllabus is below. The catch is that I am…

  • Requirements for Transforming Leadership

    As part of my journey to rethink leadership training, I wanted to summarize the goals and constraints of such a process. Here’s a first cut…

  • CTE Light: Imago Christi

    In my Rules of War, I assert that the most important challenge is to “Know your Objective” — i.e., understand where you are going. Earlier, I stated that The Purpose of Comprehensive Theological Education was: to equip leaders for a lifelong journey of bringing their “whole selves” (heart, soul, mind…

  • ESS is More: Essential Skills for Serving

    For the third part of my trilogy on leadership development, I want to focus on practical skills. Here’s my short list (twelve, again) of the key abilities I believe leaders need to cultivate. Anything you would add or subtract?

  • TELL: Theological Essentials for Lay Leaders

    As a counterpart (or even prequel) to my previous article about “safety skills“, I wanted to identify those theological topics essential for lay leaders to understand. In particular, I believe lay leaders need a more concise and practical “boot camp”, in contrast to the multi-year “officer’s training school” provided in…

  • Twelve Steps to Arrow-Proof Your Ministry

    Apologies for the pretentious title, but I wanted to challenge myself to identify and reorganize the lessons we covered in last year’s leadership class into a coherent prescription for facing down “Ministry Killers”.

  • Keys to the CTE

    Even though I haven’t posted for a while, I’ve been thinking a lot about Comprehensive Theological Education. In particular, I’ve been trying to identify the key “success factors” necessary to improve upon traditional methods. Here’s my current list. Any thing you’d like to add, Gentle Reader? [Updated March 9th to…