Knowledge of God Holiness Righteousness S tr uc tu re Rule Over the Earth Build the Human Family Fu nc tio n Fill and Subdue the Earth Equips Creation: Our Home Father Son Spirit Creation-based View of Leadership The Glory of God Manifested (Guy Saffold, Theology of Leadership, TEDS, 2007) Knowledge damaged Character perverted Righteousness gone S tr uc tu re Domination of Others Reproduction w/o Family Fu nc tio n Exploitation of creation Equips Creation: Our Home Father Son Spirit Corruption of Leadership The Glory of God Lost in Our World (Guy Saffold, Theology of Leadership, TEDS, 2007) Slide Number 1Slide Number 2 1 Thinking Theologically (“Worldviewishly”) about Leadership (Questions Adapted from Dr. Robert Kurka) Questions to be asked about almost any issue: 1. How is this issue related to God’s original (“good”) creation? 2. How has this issue been affected (corrupted) by the Fall? (What are the dimensions of “fallenness”—morally, ecologically, spiritually, politically, economically, etc?) 3. In what ways has Christ redeemed this issue? In what ways is it yet to be redeemed? 4. How is this issue being redemptively addressed? By the culture? By the church? What are the limitations in such approaches? What are the “worldview presuppositions” governing these approaches? (Research these; Truth and accuracy matters!) 5. How should this issue be addressed redemptively by God’ people? (the prophetic element). Does the Bible give any clear examples and/or analogies for addressing this in a godly manner? 6. How will God eschatalogically redeem this issue? How does this future perspective condition our present responses and strategies? 2 Thinking Theologically (“Worldviewishly”) about Leadership (Adapted from Dr. Guy Saffold, Theology of Leadership, TEDS, 2007) 1. How is leadership related to God’s original (“good”) creation? --Genesis 1:26-28 (His Triune image and His cultural mandate to man) a. Trinitarian Leadership: • Among leaders there ought to be unity yet diversity. • At the human level there should be multiple, not singular, leadership among God’s people. • Leadership is neither hierarchical nor organizational; it is relational. • Power struggles, jealousy, and competition have no place; they destroy relationship. • Relationship, not the tasks of organization, should be the glue that holds human beings together. • The final goal should be to direct people to the Triune God, not to the leader or the organization. (In John 17 each gives glory to another.) • The possibility of “shared authority” flows from the model of the Trinity. • Though we are all brothers and sisters before Him, we have unique roles and contributions to make. • Respect for one another and dependence upon God are the qualities that mark our character as spiritual. • Leaders must be listeners and learners. If the Holy Spirit in ...