Redemptive Leadership

Informing

In a time when the gap between people's private and public lives is growing ever wider, the Church needs leaders who endeavor to close that gap by being authentic and who maintain integrity. Our Redemptive and Organizational Leadership track is designed for those who want more than another workshop or seminar; it provides a fresh look into the ways you develop yourself and those you work with and lead. You discover how to release, empower and encourage those to whom you minister.

 "Redemptive Leaders not only unleash men and women to fulfill their calling - they reclaim them and show that even failure is never wasted. Redemptive Leaders model that God doesn't use you IN SPITE of who you are - He uses you BECAUSE OF WHO YOU ARE." -Rodney L. Cooper, mentor

Forming

Year One: The Leader as a Person and a Professional

The first residency focuses on the leader as a person and a professional. You discover why you never lead in a vacuum, and how to understand and develop the culture in which you lead. In addition, you begin to understand failure and its redemptive power (in yourself and in those you are leading) in a constructive way. You also come to understand that in order to be a redemptive leader, you must first understand yourself as redeemed.

Year Two: Leadership Models and Management Techniques

You look at various leadership models and management techniques, gleaning from what various experts have discovered to be true. This provides you with a solid base for developing your own organizational model for leadership. In addition, you examine issues common to all leaders, such as how to deal with change, how to build a team, and how to deal with doubt.

Year Three: See It In Action

The first week of the third residency takes place in Minnesota, where you interact and examine a church that has a successful model of leadership. The second week of the residency takes place in Colorado Springs. This week allows you to interact with parachurch and other organizations in an effort to enhance your understandings and practice of ministry in various settings.

Transforming

Here is how your studies will transform you and your ministry by seeking to fulfill our general Doctor of Ministry goals in some track-specific ways:

• To resource students through a biblically-grounded educational program taught by faculty who are committed to God’s Word and the application of principles of Scripture to the issues of contemporary culture.
• To form in students a sound foundation of theological and biblical inquiry in their professional doctoral program’s specialized track that they are able to integrate into the life of Christian ministry.
• To provide students with the skill set and understandings in a specialized area of ministry to such an extent that they can impact their congregation or community more powerfully for God.
• To create through the cohort model of the program a dimension of Christian community and spiritual nurturing so that students form strong friendships with one another and enter long-term relationships with the scholars who guide the learning experience.
• To develop in students a deeper understanding of Christ’s lordship in all areas of life for the common good of the contemporary world.
• To cultivate within students through critical reflection and careful research through the residencies and projects an enriched Christian witness in the places of society they are called to serve.
• To instill in students a refreshed view of their ministry as it relates to the proclamation of the Gospel among all people.