Fall 2020/Fuller Online

ML536

Hankins

ML536: VALUE BASED LEADERSHIP IN THE NEW TESTAMENT (4 Units: 160 hours) Frank D. Hankins with guest instructor, York Moore.

DESCRIPTION:While the Bible is not a leadership text, it does contain rich insights that can inform and transform our leadership practice. This course explores the New Testament as a vital resource for insights and values that shape a leader’s life, ministry, context, and practice. Students will gain skills for accessing these transformational resources of Scripture and learn to use hermeneutical tools aimed at personal replenishment, a growing ministry, and a more sustainable vocation or calling. In this course attention will be given to leadership formation, character, styles, patterns, gender issues, and dynamics which are embedded in the Pauline corpus. Readings from diverse and global perspective are included in the course. Students will do exegetical work in one shorter Pauline Letter (or section of a longer letter) and extrapolate leadership insights that inform their leadership practice and communities in which they serve. The course will also look beyond the Pauline corpus at Hebrews, 1 Peter, and 3 John for data on leadership. Students will also do contemplative and reflective work in selected portions of the Gospel of John. The course interfaces spiritual formation (contemplative practices), biblical theology, and leadership. It builds upon J. Robert Clinton’s breakthrough insights into Bible Centered Leadership. A key notion of Bible Centered Leadership is a paradigm for engaging Scripture with four lenses: (1) contemplative/reflective engagement, (2) core work (significantly value-shaping portions of Scripture), (3) contextually driven research, and (4) familiarity reading across the Bible.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Upon successful completion of this course, students will have: (1) recognized the importance of Scripture as a source for leadership insights, values and practice; (2) acquired several skills for getting at leadership information in the New Testament; (3) discovered some major leadership lessons, values, and insights from the New Testament for personal transformation as a leader and for the context in which they serve; (4) practiced a paradigm for engaging Scripture as a transformational resource for life, ministry, and leadership; (5) considered an ongoing plan for engaging Scripture for personal replenishment and shaping of leadership practice.

COURSE FORMAT: This course will be conducted online on a ten-week schedule aligned with Fuller’s academic calendar for a total of 40 instructional hours, which is outlined below in the assignment and assessment section. Students are required to interact with the material, with each other, and with the instructor regularly through online discussions, reading, and other assignments that promote active learning.

REQUIRED READING: There are 1,098 pages of required reading. One of these texts (Doohan) is not available in any type of electronic format (eBook in Fuller library, or Kindle, or in eReserves).

Read all of these:

Agosto, Efrain. 2005. Servant Leadership: Jesus & Paul. Chalice Press.ISBN: 978-0827234635, Pub. Price $24.99. [100 pp. assigned]. Available as an eBook in Fuller’s library. Not available in Kindle.

Anderson, Ray S. 1997. “Leaders Who Abuse,” “The Ministry of Servant Leadership,” and “Churches That Abuse,” chapters 21, 22, and 23 in The Soul of Ministry: Forming Leaders for God’s People. Westminster. ISBN: 978-0664257446. Pub. Price $30.00. [24 pp. assigned]. Available as an eBook in Fuller’s library and in Kindle at $13.49.

Bell, Skip, editor. 2014. Servants & Friends: A Biblical Theology of Leadership. Andrews University Press. ISBN: 978-1883925901. Pub. Price $28.99. Not available as an eBook in Fuller Library but available as Kindle $22.99. [142 pp. assigned].

Clinton, J. Robert. 1998. Having a Ministry That Lasts: Becoming a Bible Centered Leader. Barnabas Publishers. ISBN: 978-1932814132, Pub. Price $25.00. Not available as an eBook in Fuller’s library and not available in Kindle. Order a PDF copy at $12.00 at http://bobbyclinton.com/store/books-manuals/having-a-ministry-that-lasts/ [250 pp. assigned].

Doohan, Helen. 2016. Leadership in Paul. Wipf and Stock. ISBN: 978-1498298667. Pub. Price $25.00. Not available as an eBook in Fuller Library nor in Kindle. [137 pp. assigned].

Long Westfall, Cynthia. 2016. Paul and Gender: Reclaiming the Apostle’s Vision for Men and Women in Ministry. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic. ISBN: 978-0801097942. Pub. Price $25.69. [108 pp. assigned]. Available as an eBook in Fuller’s library. Available in Kindle at $18.14.

Peterson, Eugene. 2009. Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading. Eerdmans. ISBN: 978-0802864901, Pub Price $18.00. Not available as an eBook in Fuller’s library. Available in Kindle. [117 pp. assigned].

Tidball, Derek. Ministry by the Book: New Testament Patterns for Pastoral Leadership. IVP Academic, 2009. ISBN: 978-0830838592. Pub. Price $30.00. [70 pp. assigned]. Not available as an eBook in Fuller Library nor in Kindle. Available in eReserves.

Choose one of these five (a total of 150 pp. in any of the five):

Adeyemo, Tokunbo. 2010. African Bible Commentary: A One-Volume Commentary Written by 70 African Scholars. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic. ISBN: 978-0310291879. Pub. Price $36.33. Available as an eBook in Fuller Library and in Kindle $26.99. Available as free download https://www.pdfdrive.com/africa-bible-commentary-a-one-volume-commentary-written-by-70-african-scholars-d194626524.html [150 pp. assigned].

Kohn, Natalia, Noemí Vega Quiñones and Kristy Garza Robinson. 2019. Hermanas: Deepening Our Identity and Growing Our Influence. Downers Grove: IVP Academic. ISBN: 978-0830845613. Pub. Price $15.71. Available as an eBook in Fuller Library and in Kindle $9.99. [150 pp. assigned].

McCaulley, Esau. 2020. Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope. Downers Grove: IVP Academic. ISBN: 978-0830854868. Pub. Price $18.00. Will be released on 9/1/20. Unsure if it will be available as eBook in Fuller Library but will be available in Kindle $9.99. [150 pp. assigned].

Newsome, Carol, Sharon H. Ringe and Jacqueline E. Lapsley, eds. 2012. Women’s Bible Commentary. Revised and updated. Louisville: John Knox Press. ISBN: 978-0664237073. Pub. Price $34.86. Available as an eBook in Fuller Library and in Kindle $25.99. [150 pp. assigned].

Patte, Donald and Teresa Okure. 2004. Global Bible Commentary. Nashville: Abindon Press. ISBN: 978-0687064038. Pub. Price $32.79. Not available as an eBook in Fuller Library but available in Kindle $24.99. [150 pp. assigned].

ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT:

Weekly lessons [10 hours]. [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #1 and 3].
Completion of 1,098 pages of readings [60 hours]. [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #1 and 3].
Ten weekly asynchronous discussions on video lectures and readings (30%) [30 hours]. In four of the ten discussions there will be two discussion threads, one based on video/MP4 lectures and a second interaction on one of the texts. Weeks without second threads on book require 250-word weekly posts and 250-word weekly replies. Weeks which include a book interaction require a total of 500-word posts and 500-word interactions with others. [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #1 and 3].
Completion of three written book responses (10%): three 500-word responses [9 hours]. [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #1, 2 and 3].
Completion of four 250-word contemplative exercises in selected passages of the Gospel of John – (10%) [8 hours]. [This assignment is related to learning outcome #4].
Completion of four inventories of biblical leadership comprehension and personal biblical practices (10%) [14 hours]. [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #3 and 4].
Completion of 2,500-word biblical leadership study of a shorter Pauline Letter or section of a Pauline letter. Students will choose from one of the following: 1 Corinthians 1-4; 2 Corinthians 1-4 or 10-13; 1 Timothy 1-4; 2 Timothy; Philemon or Titus (30%) [25 hours]. [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #2 and 3].
A 750-to-1,000-word growth plan for continued engagement of Scripture (10%) [4 hours]. [This assignment is related to learning outcome #5].

PREREQUISITES: None.

RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: Elective.

FINAL EXAMINATION: None.