PC040-812 - Gospel Spirituality for Leadership
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2,976 Standard Tuition Fee
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12Credit Points
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0.125 EFT
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8AQF level
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Category advanced unitC
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pastoral churchUnit Discipline
Exclusions
Prior to 2020, this unit content was delivered under the unit code PC740-4. Unit exclusions: PC065-812, PC065-912, PC067-812, PC067-912
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, students willA. Know and understand
1. Demonstrate an Advanced knowledge and understanding of, and the research underlying, the traditions and practices of gospel spirituality for leadership
B. Be able to
1. Critically Analyse recent scholarship on the traditions and practices of gospel spirituality for leadership
2. Demonstrate Advanced skills in utilising diverse scholarship to devise approaches to spiritual disciplines and practices in gospel spirituality for leadership in ministry
3. Critically Evaluate evidence-based perspectives to Assess the practices of gospel spirituality for leadership for personal life and the Christian community
C. Be in a position to
1. Apply Advanced knowledge, skills and perspectives from ‘Gospel Spirituality for Leadership’ to ministry practice and Christian living as a reflective practitioner
Content
- Gospel Theology
- This topic focuses on understanding how the work of Jesus Christ changes everything we are and do, as individuals, as a community, and as ministers of God’s grace. The topic explores how students can apply to their life and ministry context the life-giving message of redemption that they always preach and teach. This also encompasses helping students understand the dynamic that causes on-going redemption in our lives and communities.
- Personal Life of the Gospel-Centred Leader
- The effective leader knows how to do self-leadership and self-care before he or she leads others. This topic focuses on the character of the leader as well as understanding their unique leadership style so that they can manage their selves and others in order to more effectively engage in the work of the kingdom of Christ.
- Personal Grace Renewal Dynamics
- It is not enough just to understand the gospel; Christians need to be constantly experiencing the renewing work of Jesus Christ, making us new and sending us as people in his redemptive mission. This topic explores what it means to experience gospel renewal based in the basic truths of our adoption and the reality of indwelling sin, understood through the lens of idolatry.
- Kingdom-Centred Prayer
- The heart of the ministry of Christ’s kingdom is expressed in prayer. Since the Holy Spirit is the indispensable agent of any true ministry, the church is called to express its life, and do its work, through the agency of prayer. Through prayer the gospel renews Christians, we learn more deeply of God’s priorities and we receive new empowerment for what he is sending us to do. These kingdom concerns are reflected in the model prayer of Jesus. This topic explores the practice of kingdom-centred prayer.
Set Readings
This unit's indicative bibliography is currently being revised. Students should contact their home college for further details at the time of taking this unit.
Classics:
Berkouwer, G.C., Faith and Sanctification, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1952.
Edwards, J., Religious Affections: How Man’s Will Affects His Character Before God, Portland, OR.: Multnomah Press, 1984.
Watson, T., The Doctrine of Repentance, Carlisle: Banner of Truth, 1988.
Recommended:
Allen, D., Getting Things Done, New York: Viking, 2001.
Bill, J. B., Sacred Compass: the Way of Spiritual Discernment, Brewster, MA.: Paraclete, 2008.
DeYoung, R. K., Glittering Vices: A New look at the Seven Deadly Sins and their Remedies, Grand Rapids, MI.: Brazos, 2009.
Friedman, E.H., Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue, New York: Guilford, 2011.
Green, C., God’s Power to Save: One Gospel for a Complex World? Leicester: IVP, 2006.
Keller, T., Centre Church, Grand Rapids, MI.: Zondervan, 2012.
Keller, T., Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God (New York: Dutton, 2014)
Lovelace, R.F., Dynamics of Spiritual Life: an evangelical theology of renewal, Downers Grove, IL.: IVP, 1979.
Lovelace, R.F., Renewal as a way of Life: a guidebook for spiritual growth, Downers Grove, IL.: IVP, 1985.
Perman, M., What’s Best Next, Grand Rapids, MI.: Zondervan, 2014.
Richardson, R.W., Becoming a Healthier Pastor: family systems theory and the pastor’s own family, Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005.
Strobel, K., Formed for the Glory of God: Learning from the Spiritual Practices of Jonathan Edwards, Downers Grove: IL.: IVP, 2013.
Taylor, J. and S. Storms, For the Fame of God’s Name: Essays in Honour of John Piper, Wheaton: Crossway, 2010.
Willard, D., The Divine Conspiracy Continued: Fulfilling God’s Kingdom on Earth: San Francisco: HarperOne, 2014.
Wright, T., Virtue Reborn, London: SPCK, 2010.