A biblical theological paper
This semester has being full of insight and mind stretching when it comes to leadership and administration, something I personally have little of. If I remember correctly, one of the first subjects shared in class was the “call/vocation." I learned from Burns et al, who writes, that there are at least two types of calling, a primarily and a secondary. Yes, the call may be to serve others and that would be the secondary call. Nevertheless, the primarily kind of call is to be a disciple of Jesus Christ. Discerning one’s own primarily calling is a must, for the secondary may be defined by other people, whereas the primarily may be identified by one’s own spiritual gifts, passions, skills, purpose and convictions. …show more content…
vision. It is imperative to first define these two. First Mission, which identifies the present state and purpose of any organization, in this case that of the church. And it answers the following, what is the church, to whom it does what it does and how it does what it does. First, what is the church’s mission? On a biblical perspective church’s mission can be identified in many different contexts. Consider the following, Col. 1:15-20; Mat. 28:18-20; Jn. 17:20-23; 1 Pt. 2:9-11; Eph. 4:11-13. It’s helpful to see these different declarations of the church’s mission as different facets of a single diamond, each enriching one another. Second, whose mission is it? God’s, not ours. The church does not come up with its own mission. The Bible sets forth God’s mission for the church to the world in which the church is established. Perhaps God’s worldview mission can be summarized this way: God’s purpose in Christ is to reconcile all things to himself. To fulfill the mission of God to reconcile humankind to Himself, God equipped the church with true leadership to go into the world and spread the gospel, to evangelize, to announce the good news of the kingdom of God, and to represent in its corporate life the message of reconciliation. Vision on the other hand, may be identify as the optimal desired of the overall outcome, a mental overview of what the organization wants to achieve in the …show more content…
It is always good to know that this is not a contemporary problem but an old problem. Perhaps, problems that seems to originate with people and their emotions, and poor mentality. Bacher and Cooper suggests to move beyond piety to a theological overview when it comes to conflicts. The nice talk may not always be the way to fix the issues, “When church groups find themselves in destructive conflicts, some theological reflection can become the starting point of a reconciliation” The book by Barbara Brown Taylor “An altar in the world” was one of the assignments for the Leadership class, book that I personally enjoyed. It may me come to a conclusion of self-awareness. In it, Taylor tells different stories; personals and biblical stories in which she comes to the conclusion that God can be anywhere, not only in church but also in places that to one’s perspective may seem horrendous and desolate. She tells the story of Jacob and a dream he had in which he too came to a conclusion that, even though that place was not a beautiful place, God had chosen to showed Himself to him in that desolate place. It made me see ministry and what I do differently, even when I get lost like Taylor writes, “I have found things while I was lost that I might never have discovered if I had stayed on the path. ” She states that sometimes people within the
This semester has being full of insight and mind stretching when it comes to leadership and administration, something I personally have little of. If I remember correctly, one of the first subjects shared in class was the “call/vocation." I learned from Burns et al, who writes, that there are at least two types of calling, a primarily and a secondary. Yes, the call may be to serve others and that would be the secondary call. Nevertheless, the primarily kind of call is to be a disciple of Jesus Christ. Discerning one’s own primarily calling is a must, for the secondary may be defined by other people, whereas the primarily may be identified by one’s own spiritual gifts, passions, skills, purpose and convictions. …show more content…
vision. It is imperative to first define these two. First Mission, which identifies the present state and purpose of any organization, in this case that of the church. And it answers the following, what is the church, to whom it does what it does and how it does what it does. First, what is the church’s mission? On a biblical perspective church’s mission can be identified in many different contexts. Consider the following, Col. 1:15-20; Mat. 28:18-20; Jn. 17:20-23; 1 Pt. 2:9-11; Eph. 4:11-13. It’s helpful to see these different declarations of the church’s mission as different facets of a single diamond, each enriching one another. Second, whose mission is it? God’s, not ours. The church does not come up with its own mission. The Bible sets forth God’s mission for the church to the world in which the church is established. Perhaps God’s worldview mission can be summarized this way: God’s purpose in Christ is to reconcile all things to himself. To fulfill the mission of God to reconcile humankind to Himself, God equipped the church with true leadership to go into the world and spread the gospel, to evangelize, to announce the good news of the kingdom of God, and to represent in its corporate life the message of reconciliation. Vision on the other hand, may be identify as the optimal desired of the overall outcome, a mental overview of what the organization wants to achieve in the …show more content…
It is always good to know that this is not a contemporary problem but an old problem. Perhaps, problems that seems to originate with people and their emotions, and poor mentality. Bacher and Cooper suggests to move beyond piety to a theological overview when it comes to conflicts. The nice talk may not always be the way to fix the issues, “When church groups find themselves in destructive conflicts, some theological reflection can become the starting point of a reconciliation” The book by Barbara Brown Taylor “An altar in the world” was one of the assignments for the Leadership class, book that I personally enjoyed. It may me come to a conclusion of self-awareness. In it, Taylor tells different stories; personals and biblical stories in which she comes to the conclusion that God can be anywhere, not only in church but also in places that to one’s perspective may seem horrendous and desolate. She tells the story of Jacob and a dream he had in which he too came to a conclusion that, even though that place was not a beautiful place, God had chosen to showed Himself to him in that desolate place. It made me see ministry and what I do differently, even when I get lost like Taylor writes, “I have found things while I was lost that I might never have discovered if I had stayed on the path. ” She states that sometimes people within the