Leadership Pathway

The Leadership Pathway is organized into four focused teaching sessions that move from theological foundations to personal formation and practical commissioning. The sessions are as follows:

  • The Church & Why Leadership Matters

    This session focuses on understanding the nature, mission, and spiritual significance of the Church, which serves as the foundation for all leadership.

  • Biblical & Servant-Hearted Leadership

    Participants explore what Scripture says about leadership, how Jesus redefined it, and the true meaning of leading as a servant.

  • Calling, Identity & Formation

    This session covers discerning calling from desire and gifting, grounding one's identity in Christ before accepting assignments, and understanding how the four-stage pathway works.

  • Unity, Conflict & Commission

    The final session teaches how to lead faithfully through disagreement, navigate conflict with a Kingdom posture, and defines what healthy commissioning looks like

Session One

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Leadership Pathway Session One
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Summary of Session One

  • Redefining the Church: Shift the focus from buildings or programs to a "people—called, formed, and sent". It is an incarnational community where transformation happens within a "messy, family-like environment".

  • Embodying the Mission: Understand that the primary calling is to make Christ visible through "flesh-and-blood engagement" in everyday life, ensuring our communal practices reveal God’s character.

  • Proclaiming Spiritual Victory: Recognize the Church's cosmic significance; by living in unity, the Church declares God's "manifold wisdom" and Christ’s victory to spiritual authorities and powers.

  • Facing Leadership Realities: Prepare for the "complex mixture" of joy and frustration in leadership. This requires emotional maturity and theological grounding to lead faithfully through the Church's inherent brokenness

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Session Two

“The mission of the church is and always has been to bear witness to something outside of itself by waiting and praying with the world for an encounter with God. We gather to seek God’s presence.”

— Carmen Joy Imes, Becoming God’s Family: Why the Church Still Matters