The Development Of Church Leaders In South Africa An Analysis Of Christian Leadership

Author : Thabo S. Putu
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783346278272

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The Development of Church Leaders in South Africa. An Analysis of Christian Leadership by Thabo S. Putu Pdf

Academic Paper from the year 2020 in the subject Theology - Practical Theology, , language: English, abstract: In this analysis, the development of church leaders in South Africa is examined, with a particular focus on the dynamics of Christian leadership. The aim is to develop an in-depth understanding of the various facets of church leadership, from the definition and meaning of leadership to the specific challenges and strategies that are relevant in this context. Beginning with an introduction to the concept of leadership, the text explores the call to leadership, the personality traits of effective leaders and the importance of charismatic leadership. A key focus is on leadership development, examining different roles such as servant, shepherd, steward and overseer. Particular attention is given to the development of other leaders and the importance of vision bearers, emphasising the role of leadership in the context of church growth and shared leadership. The conclusion rounds off the analysis and provides a comprehensive overview of the key aspects of church leadership in South Africa.

Author : Robert Priest,Kirimi Barine
Publisher : Langham Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781783687510

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African Christian Leadership by Robert Priest,Kirimi Barine Pdf

Do you wish you had a better understanding of the issues and questions African Christians face as they seek to live out their faith in their cultural context? Do you wonder how Africans themselves frame these questions and their answers? Would you like access to actual research that can confirm your own experience or bring new information to your attention that would deepen and broaden your understanding? This unique book, the product of a multiyear study and survey sponsored by the Tyndale House Foundation, offers insights into all these questions and more. Featuring input from over 8,000 African survey participants and 57 in-depth interviews, it provides invaluable insight and concise analysis of the dynamics of the development of African Christian leaders today. For more information about the study project visit www.africaleadershipstudy.org.

Author : Samuel Deressa
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725290402

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Leadership Formation in the African Context by Samuel Deressa Pdf

The teachings of Christian leadership have been dominated by a focus on the influence of a leader on its followers. Samuel Deressa’s new book, Leadership Formation in the African Context, highlights how an African concept of community and holistic approach to ministry provides a biblically sound approach to understanding leadership formation and practice in this new age. This book links the issue of missional leadership with the life of the congregation. It provides theological and practical insights into how we can understand leadership formation in contexts where churches are engaged in the Missio Dei as a community of believers.

Author : Farida Saïdi
Publisher : Langham Monographs
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781907713804

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A Study of Current Leadership Styles in the North African Church by Farida Saïdi Pdf

Indigenous church leadership is a new phenomenon in North Africa. Until recently, non-Muslim background believers were the only leaders of churches in this region. With the current growth of national churches there are increasingly more leaders from a Muslim background leading to a diverse range of leadership styles. This publication, a first of its kind to specifically explore church leadership in North Africa, investigates common values, beliefs and cultures among church leaders. Using four identified leadership styles the author further expands by looking at the impact they have on congregations, society and the future development of church leaders in the region.

Author : Emmanuel Ngara
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015060636852

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Christian Leadership by Emmanuel Ngara Pdf

Author : Marcus K. Kilian
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532634185

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Formational Leadership by Marcus K. Kilian Pdf

This book addresses the problem of toxic leadership in Christian contexts. Toxic leadership behaviors of narcissistic and obsessive-compulsive leaders will be emphasized. To counteract toxic Christian leadership, this book proposes a leadership development model, called formational leadership, which is based mostly on Wesleyan spirituality, but also includes monastic and Pentecostal spiritualities. Formational leadership is an eclectic leadership development model that includes components of transformational, authentic, and primal leadership approaches. Formational leadership emphasizes the spiritual, emotional, and ethical development processes in the leader and includes an analysis of orthokardia, orthodynamis, and orthopraxis. These components have a circular relationship with one another. Orthokardia includes the concepts of spiritual and emotional maturity that a Christian leader needs to develop in order to become an ethical and effective leader. Orthodynamis includes right power and influence motives based on Christian affections that should inform formational leadership. Orthopraxis refers to “right” and “just” leadership behaviors informed by Wesley’s social holiness and justice values that need to be adopted as organizational core values. The implications of these components for leadership development are outlined in chapters 4–6 that include practical steps for helping toxic leaders change their dysfunctional and harmful intentions and behaviors.

Author : Brown Ikenye
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789966040039

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Modeling Servant-Leaders for Africa by Brown Ikenye Pdf

This book seeks to help African Christian leaders to follow the notions of biblical leadership as servanthood and to train men and women with biblical and academic knowledge, which will be critical, practical, pastoral and applicable in the Kenyan context and participate in the discovery, transmission and preservation of knowledge and stimulate the intellectual life and cultural development of Kenya.

Author : Titre Ande
Publisher : SPCK
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780281065349

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ISG 43: A Guide to Leadership by Titre Ande Pdf

An introduction to missiological Christian leadership. The book's focus is on the need to empower and equip the people of God to carry out God's mission in the world. Exploring principles of leadership, it suggests practical skills and stimulates further discussion. The emphasis of the book is on theological engagement with practical issues, and each chapter gives concrete, applied illustrations of the theological approach.

Author : Lawrence O. Richards,Clyde Hoeldtke
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310520916

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Church Leadership by Lawrence O. Richards,Clyde Hoeldtke Pdf

As the body of Christ, the church is basically an organism, not an organization. This fact is full of implications for the way the church organizes itself and the way leadership functions in the church. No book on church leadership has become as controversial as this one. Nor is there a book that spells out so clearly the scriptural implications of the present rule of Christ in the church and the calling of church leaders to be, first of all, servants. This is must reading for pastors, elders, church staff members, and students preparing for ministry in the church.

Author : Aiah Dorkuh Foday-Khabenje
Publisher : Langham Publishing
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781783682119

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Competencies for Leading in Diversity by Aiah Dorkuh Foday-Khabenje Pdf

The patriarchal approach to leadership in the African context is indeed an enigma, judging from the unpredictable outcomes and the quest for effective leadership. In many ways, the secularized big-man in the public square is no different from the sacralised great-man of God in the church. The Lord Jesus Christ calls his followers to servant leadership. The secular world has also established the efficacy of the servant leadership approach for cutting-edge leadership. This book looks at the nature of evangelical associations in their diversity and what it takes for leaders to build unity and harmony for effectiveness, especially in the African context.

Author : Aubrey Malphurs,Will Mancini
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781585582143

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Building Leaders by Aubrey Malphurs,Will Mancini Pdf

Training the next generation of leaders is crucial to spreading the gospel, yet most churches have no formal way of doing this. Why? Tight budgets, small staffs, and a lack of know-how are just a few reasons suggested by church consultants Aubrey Malphurs and William Mancini in this groundbreaking book. Building Leaders provides real-life examples of ways churches can unleash their true ministry potential by training staff members and laypeople to lead. With step-by-step instructions that can be applied to any church or parachurch ministry, Building Leaders shows readers how to: - empower, not just train, leaders - overcome obstacles to developing leaders - identify emerging leaders - use biblical models for training leaders - form a leadership training program to fit any size or budget Packed with surveys, discussion questions, and a leadership development guide, Building Leaders will encourage leaders to "duplicate themselves" in order to see their ministry grow. It is a perfect resource for ministry students, church leaders, and pastors.

Author : David W. Bennett
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781592445042

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Metaphors of Ministry by David W. Bennett Pdf

Down through the centuries church leaders have studied the Gospels to discover patterns of leadership development that can be applied to their own context. Yet the word leader does not appear in the Gospels...Could it be that leadership has more to do with learning to follow than learning to command, supervise, or mange? On right attitudes than on mastery of certain skills?...Many of the insights we need are embedded in the images which Jesus used to describe his followers. So David W. Bennett introduces his stimulating and scholarly study previously published under the title 'Biblical Images for Leaders and Followers.' He examines the many images and metaphors in the Gospels relating to how disciples follow Jesus, and in turn influence others. Then he moves on to survey much of the evidence to be found in the images of the rest of the New Testament. Finally, he draws some judicious conclusions for an understanding of Christian leadership in our own day. The author has considerable cross-cultural experience, having taught church leaders in Japan, India, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, India, Nepal, Tanzania, and Kenya, in addition to pastoring churches in California, Oregon and Massachusetts. He has also traveled and done research among church leaders in Malawi, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Korea, Thailand, Russia and the Czech Republic. His aim is to stimulate thought on these questions in churches all over the world, not just in the west.

Author : Dr. Khandicia N. Randolph
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798887311012

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The Black American Church by Dr. Khandicia N. Randolph Pdf

The purpose of this book seeks to examine the leadership of the Black church through a critical and theoretical lens utilizing historical and anthropological foci to better identify and understand some of the challenges within the paramount institution and its attrition to the Black American community at large and provide appropriate suggestions and generating frameworks for addressing the challenges. The church has always played a pivotal role in Black American culture's identity, development, and progression. Leadership and organizational challenges within the church pervasively matriculate to other Black spaces, historically Black organizations, and a broader societal context. Due to the church's historical and ethnographic context for Blacks in America, many of the challenges faced in the church go unrecognized, unspoken, thus unattended. This manuscript endeavors to identify the challenges, and flaws through research and data, to provide solutions through practical and theoretical implementations to some shortcomings for the betterment of the church and culture. The interconnectedness of culture and religion for Blacks in America established a gargantuan impact factor on the church and its leaders. This manuscript examines the pervading effects of the influence through leadership dispensation. It also explores the understanding of leadership through the lens of Black Christianity, deriving that the foundation of leadership in the Black community was primarily circumscribed by the influence of the church as conglomerate collectivism of almost five hundred years of the history and culture of Africans, African descendants, and members of the African diaspora in what is now America who contributed to the ideal of the Black church. The critical analysis provided is not one of condemnation but likened to a vital performance review through member experiences barred against applicable leadership and organizational development barometers.

Author : Richard J. Gehman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Christian leadership
ISBN : 1594520909

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Learning to Lead by Richard J. Gehman Pdf

This book was written from the living experience of African leaders, and it has been shaped by 36 years of training church leaders in Kenya. Effective Christian leadership depends on godly character and on finely tuned skills. With its discussion questions and practical applications, this book will guide you to obtaining that character and those skills and help you become an effective Christian leader.

Author : Paul Cannings
Publisher : Kregel Publications
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780825442735

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African American Church Leadership by Paul Cannings Pdf

How can African American church leaders maximize their leadership potential? What are current models for effective leadership in the African American Christian community? This book answers those questions and more with up-to-date research and current best practices regarding leadership principles and strategies. African American church communities and those who interact with and work with these communities will find this book particularly useful. ParkerBooks are written to equip and encourage African American ministry leaders.