Steve McKinion - My Mantra as a Professor

Training Disciple-Making Leaders
Steven A. McKinion, PhD
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
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Training Disciple-Making Leaders
or, why you may not like this class

Don’t insult…
Intelligence
Knowledge
Spirituality

Medical School?
Law School?
Business School?
Trade School?
Theology school?

Seminary trains you to lead others in a mission

Leaders may not know the way, but they know the objective

Leaders help others cooperate to achieve the objective

Our objective is to “Make Disciples”

Your mantra should be:
“Make Disciple-Making Disciples”

I’m here to help train you to do your mantra

Safe environment to learn to THINK like a disciple-making leader

Gospel-Centered Thinking
Box of tools, not a box of blueprints

New patterns of thinking about a millennia-old mission

I want you to THINK like a disciple-making leader; I don’t care what you can do

in Church History?
Learn from those who have claimed to be Christian as they sought to understand and live the Christian mission

in Christian Theology?
Learn to reflect on the Gospel of Jesus in Christian community to articulate that Gospel revealed in the written text of Scripture

in Hermeneutics?
Learn to read the Bible and discover its meaning and significance

Listen to Lectures and Readings

Reflect on what you hear and read; THINK about it

Inquire of me, other students, yourself

The right questions are sometimes more important than the right answers

Offer answers to those questions

Test those answers in dialogue with Scripture, the class, your spouse

Be humbled when you find out your answers are incomplete (or inaccurate)

You won’t like the class if you have all the answers.

Steve McKinion - My Mantra as a Professor

by Steven McKinion on Aug 16, 2010

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