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Training Disciple-Making Leaders
Steven A. McKinion, PhDSoutheastern Baptist Theological Seminary
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Training Disciple-Making Leaders
or, why you may not like this class
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Don’t insult…IntelligenceKnowledgeSpirituality
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Medical School?
Law School?
Business School?
Trade School?
Theology school?
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Seminary trains you to lead others in a mission
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Leaders may not know the way, but they know
the objective
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Leaders help others cooperate to achieve
the objective
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Our objective is to “Make Disciples”
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Your mantra should be:
“Make Disciple-Making Disciples”
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I’m here to help train you to do your mantra
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Safe environment to learn to THINK like a
disciple-making leader
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Gospel-Centered Thinking
Box of tools, not a box of blueprints
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New patterns of thinking about a millennia-old
mission
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I want you to THINK like a disciple-making
leader; I don’t care what you can do
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in Church History?
Learn from those who have claimed to be Christian as they
sought to understand and live the Christian
mission
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in Christian Theology?
Learn to reflect on the Gospel of Jesus in
Christian community to articulate that Gospel revealed in the written
text of Scripture
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in Hermeneutics?
Learn to read the Bible and discover its
meaning and significance
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Listen to Lectures and Readings
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Reflect on what you hear and read; THINK about
it
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Inquire of me, other students, yourself
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The right questions are sometimes more important
than the right answers
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Offer answers to those questions
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Test those answers in dialogue with Scripture, the class, your spouse
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Be humbled when you find out your answers
are incomplete (or inaccurate)
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You won’t like the class if you have all the
answers.