Growing Leaders
Leadership in the Church spans a number of different aspects and is different from simply ‘what the world calls leadership’: Christian leadership and character start with the idea of Jesus as a servant and us as his followers, which is the opposite of a view where ‘leadership’ means ‘power’. But many Christians also learn and exercise powerful leadership skills in their professional lives, and of course the Church and the Christian community needs leadership of the right sort to take us into the future. Growing Leaders is a Christian course from the Church Pastoral Aid Society (CPAS) which spans all these aspects.
There’s a huge amount of material for the course, and our Cathedral group struggled a bit to find the right way to use it. Happily after a couple of sessions we figured we’d do best if we mainly just spent time together and shared our experiences - and at that point things got a lot better, But along the way we also boiled the material down to a tidy set of documents:
Session 2: Establishing Identity
Session 4: Developing Character
Part 2: Key Skills in Christian Leadership
Session 5: Discerning Direction (in a group)
Additional Sessions
Session 11: Spiritual Dynamics
Session 12: Strategic Planning
Session 14: Growing Well
Session 15: Shaping Culture