Learning Resources:
Required Text:
**This
book is required for all courses in M.Min.
program.
Holy Bible
(please note what translation you use on
your assignments)
BibleGateway.com (www.biblegateway.com)
is a free service for reading and
researching Scripture online--all in the
language or translation of your choice
(which includes the Bible in 50 different
versions as well as in 35 different
languages). It provides advanced tools you
can use to search the Bible by keywords or
verse, as well as other tools to enhance
your study of the Bible.
Collateral Reading:
Choose and carefully read any
FOUR of the following books:
Biblical Eldership:
Strauch, Alexander. Lewis and
Roth Publishers, P. O. Box 569, Littleton,
CO 80160, 1988, 288 pages. About an
eldership form of government rather than a
one-man pastor.
Church Leadership:
Richards, Lawrence O. and
Hoeldtke, Clyde. Zondervan, Grand Rapids, MI
40506,1980. Restructuring the church to
provide for Jesus’ leadership, the
functioning of the Body, and servant
leaders.
Spiritual Leadership:
Sanders, J. Oswald. Moody
Press, Chicago, IL. 1980. Character
qualifications for spiritual leaders.
The Church Comes Home:
Banks, Robert & Julia.
Hendrickson
Publishers, Peabody, MA
01961, 1998. Very good on servant leaders in
a house church setting.
The Leadership Paradox:
Gunderson, Denny. YWAM
Publishing, Seattle, WA. About servant
leadership.
The New Testament Deacon:
Strauch, Alexander. Lewis and
Roth Publishers,
P. O. Box 569, Littleton, CO
80160, 1992, 191 pages. A thorough study of
the office of deacon.
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Upside Down: The Paradox of Servant
Leadership
Author: Stacy T. Rinehart; |
The Paradox of Servant
Leadership:
Rinehart, Stacy. NavPress,
Colorado Springs, CO 80934
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Woman
Author: Joanne Krupp, Treena Kerr;
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WOMAN: God’s Plan, Not Man’s
Tradition:
Krupp, Joanne. Preparing the
Way Publishers, 2121 Barnes Avenue SE,
Salem, OR 97306, 163 pages. Excellent on
God’s plan for women.
Strategies for Success:
How to take this Course
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Course Description:
This course will take a look
at God’s plan for leadership in His
Church. Every major passage of Scripture
dealing with the subject will be
carefully studied. You will also study
various materials on the subject.
Course Goals and Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, students
will:
• Know what the New Testament
teaches on this subject.
• Know what several others
are saying about this subject
Attitudinal:
As a result of your
application of the truths you learn in this
course, you may recognize certain changes
taking place in your attitudes, adjusting
them to the following:
• You will begin to
understand that God’s idea of “leadership”
is servanthood.
• You will begin to
understand that God’s idea of leadership is
coaching and
releasing others into their
“ministry” rather than doing all of the
ministry yourself.
• You will begin to look at
Church government from the teachings of the
New
Testament rather than all of
the various, present-day traditions of men.
• You will be more open to
the idea of there being apostles today.
• You may begin to wonder
where you fit in God’s scheme of leadership-
servanthood in His Church.
Behavioral:
If you allow the Holy Spirit
to apply the teaching of this course to your
life, you will be changed. Some of these
changes will be as follows:
• You will no longer have to
be “up front.” You will be anxious to serve
God’s people
“behind the scenes.”
• You will no longer have to
do everything yourself. You will instead be
compelled to
coach and release others in
ministry.
• You will be more committed
to a shared, team leadership rather than a
one-man,
do-it-all approach. |
