GUEST POST BY BOB WILSON For much of its history, the church has largely disregarded Jesus’ teaching in Luke 22:24-30 to lead differently from the Gentiles. Instead, it has “established and embraced the leadership models of ‘the Gentiles’”, leading to church history being “replete with examples of leaders actively accumulating, protecting, and abusing power, frequently […]
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Recommendations for Mission Practice
GUEST POST BY COALA2 This year a group of Majority World Mission leaders gathered to discuss and make recommendations for better practices in mission for the future. Their encouragement of polycentric mission to empower local initiative and leadership is inspiring!
What is Polycentric Mission?
Summary: The term polycentric mission has become popular. While the term has a more recent origin, the concept can be traced to the inception of the church. In its earliest days, no one place held authority. The West became a Christian center for a millennia, but now we see a return to polycentric Christianity that […]
Church Formation through the Gospel
#12 『Gospel and Leadership (11)』 GUEST POST BY KOHEI TAKEDA The Worldwide Body of Christ “Domo, domo, Takeda Sensei!” About 10 years ago, it was less than a week after we moved to Boston, America from Tokyo, Japan, there was an American who helped our family. This was my wife’s first time living abroad and […]
3-Generation Senior Pastor Model
Here are two articles that represent one church’s polycentric leadership model. Heart of God Church in Singapore is employing this creative approach. GUEST POST BY HEART OF GOD CHURCH – SINGAPORE 5 Senior Pastors at the Same Time Heart of God Church (HOGC-Singapore) is introducing and pioneering a model of senior leadership. Pastor Lia has […]
Thoughts on Charisma
How important is ‘charisma’ to leadership? I posed this particular question to two national leaders from different countries in South Asia recently. I want to share some of their reflections here. The first leader responded… Joe, before I answer the question I thought it would be good to look at the dictionary definition of the term Charisma. […]
