Leadership: the spirit and the structure: missiological perspective for designing church and mission bodies

Arto Sakari Hämäläinen

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Leadership: the spirit and the structure: missiological perspective for designing church and mission bodies

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MLA citation style (9th ed.)

Arto Sakari Hämäläinen. Leadership: the Spirit and the Structure: Missiological Perspective for Designing Church and Mission Bodies. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/c8570dd4-ad04-4a15-902b-d9d01d030e44?q=2005.

APA citation style (7th ed.)

A. S. Hämäläinen. Leadership: the spirit and the structure: missiological perspective for designing church and mission bodies. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/c8570dd4-ad04-4a15-902b-d9d01d030e44?q=2005

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Arto Sakari Hämäläinen. Leadership: the Spirit and the Structure: Missiological Perspective for Designing Church and Mission Bodies. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/c8570dd4-ad04-4a15-902b-d9d01d030e44?q=2005.

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Arto Sakari Hämäläinen

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Abstract

The thesis of the author is that the New Testament's leadership models are still very valid for today. The New Testament provides not only some principles for establishing and maintaining healthy churches and structures for the missionary work, but it also offers models for collective leadership, empowering leadership and culturally sensitive leadership. At the same time balance could be maintained between the Spirit's leadership and the structures. The author uses the evaluative method. His aim is to identify the factors which are crucial in creating a balance between the Spirit's leadership, and the structures necessary for healthy churches and missions. He applies also phenomenological method. As a conclusion the author asserts that mission organizations and national churches should be more concerned with structures that can affirm and support the unity of different local churches. Lack of such structures brings independent and isolated local congregations that can only contribute to world missions in a limited way. Churches must find a balance between visionary leaders and assisting managers. The main purpose of leadership is to empower people to build up the body of Christ. Because mission work is now understood as being from everywhere to everywhere, culturally intelligent coaching is needed. New sending countries are especially in need of relevant structures, but at the same time, old mission countries have become stagnated without having an attitude of life-long learning. This dissertation demonstrates that it is possible to build clear structures while maintaining the leadership of the Holy Spirit.

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