Fall 2015/Fuller Online

ML536

Hankins

ML536: VALUE BASED LEADERSHIP IN THE NEW TESTAMENT (4 Units: 160 hours) Frank D. Hankins.

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 particular attention will be given to leadership development or formation, character, styles, patterns, gender issues, and dynamics embedded in Paul’s Letters. Based on exegetical work in one Pauline Letter (shorter letter or section of a longer letter), students will work to integrate discoveries into their leadership practice. Students will also do some contemplative and leadership reflective work in selected portions of the Gospel of John. The course draws from J. Robert Clinton’s insights in Bible Centered Leadership. This includes an informative paradigm with four lenses for engaging Scripture: contemplative/reflective, study of significantly value-shaping portions of Scripture, contextually-driven research, and 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: 1,031 pages of reading required.

Ashcough, Richard S. and Charles A. Cotton. Passionate Visionary: Leadership Lessons from the Apostle Paul. Hendrickson Publishers, 2005. ISBN: 978-1598560176, Pub. Price $16.95 [140 pp. assigned].

Clinton, J. Robert. Having a Ministry That Lasts: Becoming a Bible Centered Leader. Barnabas Publishers, 1998. ISBN: 978-1932814132, Pub. Price $25.00. Order a PDF copy at $12.00 at http://bobbyclinton.com/store/books-manuals/having-a-ministry-that-lasts/ [250 pp. assigned].

_________. The Bible and Leadership Values—A Book By Book Analysis. Altadena, CA: Barnabas Publishers. ISBN: 9780971045453. Pub. Price: $20.00. Order a PDF copy at $10.00 at http://bobbyclinton.com/store/books-manuals/the-bible-and-leadership-values/ [123 pp. assigned].

Fee, Gordon D. and Douglas Stuart. How to Read the Bible for all it’s Worth. 4th Edition. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2014. ISBN: 9780310517825. Pub.Price $12.99. [110 pp. assigned]. If read for another class, read the following: Fee, Gordon D. and Douglas Stuart. How to Read the Bible Book by Book: A Guided Tour. Zondervan, 2014. ISBN: 9780310518082, Pub. Price $15.29. [110 pp. assigned].

Peterson, Eugene. Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading. Eerdmans, 2009. ISBN: 978-0802864901, Pub Price $17.00 [175 pp. assigned].

Tidball, Derek. Ministry by the Book: New Testament Patterns for Pastoral Leadership. IVP Academic, 2009. ISBN: 978-0830838592, Pub. Price $25.00 [233 pp. assigned].

RECOMMENDED READING:

Agosto, Efrain. Servant Leadership: Jesus & Paul. Chalice Press, 2005.ISBN: 978-0827234635, Pub. Price $29.99.

Capes, David B. et al. Rediscovering Paul: An Introduction to His World, Letters and Theology. Intervarsity Press, 2011, ISBN: 978-0830839414, Pub. Price $25.00. [296 pp. assigned].

Bennett, David. Metaphors of Ministry: Biblical Images of Leaders and Followers. Wipf & Stock, 2004. ISBN: 978-1592445042, Pub. Price $23.00.

Clinton, J. Robert. Leadership Perspectives: How to Study the Bible for Leadership. Barnabas Publishers, 1993. ISBN: 978-1932814354, Pub. Price $20.00.

Doohan, Helen. Leadership in Paul. Michael Glazier, 1984. ISBN: 978-0894534355. Pub. Price $11.95. Out of print.

Fee, Gordon D. and Douglas Stuart. How to Read the Bible Book by Book: A Guided Tour. Zondervan, 2002. ISBN: 978-0310211181, Pub. Price $18.99.

Howell, Don H. Servants of the Servant: A Biblical Theology of Leadership. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2003.

Peace, Richard. Contemplative Bible Reading: Experiencing God through Scripture. Navpress, 1998. ISBN: 978-1576831083, Pub. Price $12.99.

ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT:

  1. Weekly lessons [20 hours]. [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #1 and 3].

  2. Completion of 1,031 pages of readings [60 hours]. [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #1 and 3].

  3. Participation in weekly forums (25%): 250-word weekly forum posts [10 hours]; and 250-word weekly forum responses [10 hours]. [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #1 and 3].

  4. Completion of four 250-word contemplative exercises in selected passages of the Gospel of John – 12.5% [10 hours]. [This assignment is related to learning outcome #4].

  5. Completion of four book responses (12.5%): two 500-word responses [7 hours]; one 250-word response [1 hour]; and one book interaction forum with 250-word post and 250-word response [2 hours]. [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #1, 2 and 3].

  6. Completion of four inventories of biblical leadership comprehension and personal biblical practices (12.5%) [10 hours]. [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #3 and 4].

  7. 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 (31.25%) [25 hours]. [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #2 and 3].

  8. A 1,000-word growth plan for continued engagement of Scripture (6.25%) [5 hours]. [This assignment is related to learning outcome #5].

PREREQUISITES: None.

RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: Elective.

FINAL EXAMINATION: None.


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