The Reflections upon the Desecularization of Missional Leadership for Missional Church

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 9-40
Author(s):  
Kwang Kun Kim ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Missional Church ◽  
Missional Leadership

scholarly journals Transformative Spirituality and Missional Leadership

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelius Johannes Petrus Niemandt
Keyword(s):  
Social Intelligence ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Missional Church ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
Social Competencies ◽  
Missional Leadership ◽  
God's Mission ◽  
World Council ◽  
Personal Leadership ◽  
The Church

The importance of transformative spirituality for missional leadership is explored. Missional leadership is defined as the transformation of people and institutions to participate, through meaningful relations and in the power of the Spirit, in God’s mission. Missional spirituality is discussed in the context of the missional church, focusing on what the churchis, does, how the churchorganizeswhat it does, theappropriate leadership, andmissional spirituality. This article brings together ideas from the missional church movement and the World Council of Churches (Together Towards Life: Mission and Evangelism in Changing Landscapes), with its emphasis on a ‘transformative spirituality’ an approach that states that ‘mission spirituality is always transformative’. These ideas are applied to missional leadership.The research applies the following dimensions of personal leadership virtues to transformative missional spirituality and missional leadership: transcendence (which includes appreciation of beauty, gratitude, hope, humor, and religiousness), humanity (which includes the social competencies of kindness, love, and social intelligence), wisdom and knowledge (which include the cognitive competencies of creativity, curiosity, open-mindedness, and love of learning), justice (associated with fairness, leadership, and teamwork), courage (including the personal and emotional competencies of bravery, persistence, and zest), and finally temperance (which includes the competencies of forgiveness, modesty, prudence, and self-regulation).

scholarly journals The missional church structure and the priesthood of all believers (Ephesians 4:7�16) in the light of the inward and outward function of the church

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy A. Van Aarde
Keyword(s):  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Missional Church ◽  
Priesthood Of All Believers ◽  
The West ◽  
Church Structure ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Institutional Church ◽  
Church Structures ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Church

The missional church is a new consciousness which has been raised for the missionary sending of the church in the West to be a witness for the Kingdom of God in its own context. The missional church has returned mission to the centre of ecclesiology. A structural functioning of the missional church and its relation to existing church structures are essential to rescue the missional church from simply becoming the latest fad. The present missional church conversation in advocating for an organic church structure undermines existing institutional church structures. A dynamic functioning church structure in which the inward and outward dimensions of the church�s single ecclesiological structure are able to function in a cohesive unity is set out in Ephesians. The function of the gifted persons in the task of equipping of the believers to fulfil their missional calling, vocation and function is paramount to the healthy integration of the missional church model in existing mission and church paradigms and for it to function within the framework of existing church structures.Interdisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: The article suggests that a dynamic unity exists between the ecclesiology of the church and missional structure and function of the church. The article explores interdisciplinary implications from the fields of the New Testament and missiology.

scholarly journals Leadership in Acts through a social capital lens

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian A. Nell
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
South African ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Missional Church ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
African Context ◽  
Third Dimension ◽  
Distribution Of Income

Social capital can be defined in various ways. In most of these definitions at least three dimensions can be distinguished. First there is �bonding� (the horizontal relationships between people operating within different social networks and with specific norms and values). The second dimension is �bridging� (bonds that transcend differences in religion, ethnicity, culture and socio-economic status). This dimension prevents horizontal ties from becoming the basis for narrow and even sectarian interests. Normally, a third dimension called �linking� also forms part of social capital, and ideological aspects come into focus here. This dimension includes aspects such as justice, political power and the equitable distribution of income and property. When leadership in Acts is analysed through the lenses of these multi-focal spectacles, interesting perspectives are discovered that can enrich theories on leadership. These discoveries can also open up new perspectives on aspects of being a missional church in our South African context from within the context of Acts.�

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