by Ralph Enlow | Feb 28, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership, Edification |
Leadership as servanthood In my last post, I cited Oswald Sanders’ classic Spiritual Leadership in which he observes that common Hebrew and Greek language leadership terms are rarely used to describe leaders among God’s people. Instead, a biblical conception of...
by Ralph Enlow | Feb 21, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership, Edification |
A different vocabulary marks a different way I wrote previously that the Bible goes out of its way to distinguish the sort of leaders God has in mind for His people from conventional pagan terms and notions. Scripture typically avoids employing terminology ordinarily...
by Ralph Enlow | Feb 7, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership, Edification |
Should we be disillusioned about leadership? In a recent conversation with several respected Latin American theological educators I innocently stated that leadership development is a central aspect of theological education. While they conceded this assertion must be...
by Ralph Enlow | Nov 29, 2015 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership, Biblical Higher Ed |
Landing the plane … This is the 10th and final post in a series than began with “Anchoring Against Mission Drift.” I have been observing that mission drift is a peculiar vulnerability of biblical higher education institutions. Mission drift can and...
by Ralph Enlow | Nov 22, 2015 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership, Biblical Higher Ed |
From threats to opportunities In my previous post, I reviewed four categories of threats to our biblical higher education institutions and educational values: commodification, consumerism, conscience, and cost-less Christianity. Although biblical higher education is...
by Ralph Enlow | Nov 15, 2015 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership, Biblical Higher Ed |
Challenges that demand confrontation In my previous post, I summarized the narrative that has dominated higher education’s intellectual and policy landscape over the past five years or more. In short, this narrative maintains that North America’s higher...