Leadership Development in Grace Church: Adding Replication Culture Elements to Its Family Culture

Timothy N. Thomassian

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Leadership Development in Grace Church: Adding Replication Culture Elements to Its Family Culture

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Timothy N. Thomassian. Leadership Development In Grace Church: Adding Replication Culture Elements to Its Family Culture. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/1927ea8c-d8af-4e3f-89f0-57746bedf614.

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T. N. Thomassian. Leadership Development in Grace Church: Adding Replication Culture Elements to Its Family Culture. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/1927ea8c-d8af-4e3f-89f0-57746bedf614

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Timothy N. Thomassian. Leadership Development In Grace Church: Adding Replication Culture Elements to Its Family Culture. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/1927ea8c-d8af-4e3f-89f0-57746bedf614.

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Abstract

This project addressed the problem of the lack of a systemic approach to developing potential leaders at Grace Church as it seeks to add replication-culture elements to its existing family culture. The problem was addressed in four steps: (1) exploring biblical leadership development principles using the examples of Moses and Joshua, Jesus and Peter, and Paul’s instruction to the church leaders to “equip the saints for the work of ministry,” (Eph. 4:11-12), (2) reviewing relevant books, articles, and other sources to discover leadership development principles as they relate to replication culture, (3) conducting face-to-face interviews with three leadership development pastors at three churches with replication cultures and established leadership development systems and separate face-to-face interviews with three focus groups consisting of leaders who had been developed in the leadership development system overseen by the same leadership development pastors; and (4) proposing considerations, based on the research, that apply to Grace Church but could apply to any organization with a similar culture seeking to add replication culture elements. The researcher concluded that the replication culture element of leadership development could be effectively adopted by the family-culture church if three steps were addressed by the church elders: (1) creating a vision for leadership development, 2) committing to the systemic implementation of a leadership development strategy, and 3) modifying or eliminating areas of the family culture that hinder leadership development.

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