Fit to Represent, Vision for Discipleship Seminar

110 Fit to Represent: Vision for Discipleship Seminar ▪

Nurturing Authentic Christian Leadership

Rev. Dr. Don L. Davis

Cliff On-One-Side

Cliff On-the-Other-Side

Laying on hands too quickly

Always postponing delegation to indigenous

Ignoring culture in leadership training

Elevating culture above truth

Demoting doctrine and theology

Supposing doctrine and theology as only criteria

Highlighting skills and gifts above availability and character

Substituting availability and character for genuine giftedness

Emphasizing administrative abilities above spiritual dynamism

Ignoring administration’s role in spiritual vitality and power

Equating readiness with Christian perfection

Ignoring the importance of biblical standards

Limiting candidacy for leadership based on gender and ethnicity

Setting quotas of leadership based on gender and ethnicity

Seeing everyone as a leader

Seeing virtually no one as worthy to lead