Course Outline

Unit 1: Self-Leadership

• A Panorama of Self-Leadership

• The Five Levels of Leadership

• The Process of Spiritual Transformation: In Community

• The Process of Spiritual Transformation: In Authenticity

• The Process of Spiritual Transformation: In the Presence of the Lord

• The Process of Spiritual Transformation: In Process

• The Process of Spiritual Transformation: In the Spirit of the Lord

• The Personal Formation of the Leader

• The Dark Side of Leadership

• Knowing Your Story in the Master Story

• The Leader and the Inner Life

• Essential Features of Self-Leadership: Part 1

• Essential Features of Self-Leadership: Part 2

Unit 2: Personal Formation

• Leadership Emergence Theory

• The Value of Leadership Emergence Theory

• Leadership Antecedents and Resilience

• The Relationship between Leader Self-Differentiation and Leader Resiliency

• Self-Differentiation and the “Twice Born” Leader

• Life Story

  • Important Dimensions of a Life Story

  • Stones of Remembrance, Transformative Events, and Crucible Moments

• Life Calling

  • Purpose and Meaning

  • Life Story and Life Calling

• Life Values

  • Values Examples

  • Identifying, Defining, and Embracing Our Life Values

  • Setting Life Goals

  • Guidelines for Setting Life Goals

• Life Motivation

• Life Gifts

  • Personality Types

  • Personality Type Descriptors

• Spiritual Gifts

  • The Nature of Spiritual Gifts and Assessment

  • Every Member a Minister

  • Appreciating Spiritual Gifts in Others and Ourselves

  • The Relationship of Spiritual Gifts to Life Goals and Life Passion

• Emotional Maturity

  • Emotional Intelligence and Awareness

  • Capacity for Emotional Intelligence

  • Understanding Personality Style: MBTI

  • Assessing Personality Style

  • Strengths in Leadership: StrengthsFinder 1

  • Strengths in Leadership: StrengthsFinder 2

Unit 3: Spiritual Formation

• Introduction to Spiritual Disciplines

• Holistic Perspective

  • An Illustration

  • The Illustration Applied to Four Christians

  • Appreciating Holism

  • Engaging the Whole

• Eternal Perspective

  • Heavenly Minded and Earthly Good

  • A Vision for Eternal Things

• Divine Perspective

  • For What Purpose?

  • The End and the Means

• Joyful Perspective

  • The Pain of Limited Pleasure and the Pursuit of Lasting Pleasure

  • Joy and the Pathway of Grace-Filled Discipline

• Reflecting on God’s Works

  • Grace and Condescension: Part 1

  • Grace and Condescension: Part 2

Unit 4: A Model for Holistic Discipleship

• Pursuing God through the Disciplines of the Mind (Intellectual)

  • An Introduction to a Model for Holistic Discipleship

  • Spiritual Disciplines of the Mind

  • Mindfulness of the Dangers in Christian Learning

  • Christian Learning from History

  • Worship in Research and the Life of the Mind

  • The Dimensions of the Doxological Researcher

  • Five Defining Priorities for Doxological Researchers: Spiritual Grounding 1

  • Five Defining Priorities for Doxological Researchers: Spiritual Grounding 2

  • Five Defining Priorities for Doxological Researchers: Godward Curiosity

  • Five Defining Priorities for Doxological Researchers: Humble Self-Efficacy

  • Five Defining Priorities for Doxological Researchers: Excellence in Inquiry and Investigation

  • Five Defining Priorities for Doxological Researchers: Kingdom Impact

  • The Fuel and Goal of Doxological Research

  • Research as Worship

• Pursuing God through the Disciplines of the Heart (Emotional)

  • Spiritual Disciplines of the Heart

  • Prayer and the Heart

  • The Lord’s Prayer: Part 1

  • The Lord’s Prayer: Part 2

  • Asking Great Things from a Great God

  • On Contemplative Prayer

  • Worship and Offering

  • Fasting

  • Christian Hedonism

• Pursuing God through the Disciplines of Action (Missional)

  • Spiritual Disciplines of Action

  • Missional Christianity: A Tale of Three Christians

  • Adopting the Mission of Jesus

• Pursuing God through the Disciplines of Community (Relational)

  • Spiritual Disciplines of Community

  • Spiritual Disciplines within the Context of Christian Community: Part 1

  • Spiritual Disciplines within the Context of Christian Community: Part 2

Unit 5: Leadership and the Centered Life

• Planning for a Life of Spiritual Discipline

• Understanding the Nature of Margins

• Evaluating Margins and Balance in Our Lives

• Introduction

  • Introducing the Speaker and the Course

• Unit 1: Introduction to Leadership

  • The Leader’s Inner Life

  • Levels of Leadership

  • Self-Leadership

  • Spiritual Formation in Community

  • Spiritual Formation in Authenticity

  • Spiritual Formation in God’s Presence

  • Spiritual Formation in Process

  • Spiritual Formation in the Spirit

  • Emotional Intelligence

  • Increasing Emotional Intelligence

  • The Dark Side of Leadership

  • Finding Context for Your Story

• Unit 2: Personal Formation: Self-Leadership Essentials

  • Integrity and the Prevention of Moral Failure

  • Foundations of Leadership

  • Self-Attention

  • Overview of Leadership Emergence Theory

  • Applying Leadership Emergence Theory

  • Resiliency and Effective Leadership

  • Self-Differentiation and Effective Leadership

  • Self-Identity and Effective Leadership

• Unit 3: Personal Formation: Life Story

  • The Importance of Life Story

  • Understanding Your Life Story

  • Investing in Your Life Story

  • Life Callings

  • Calling and Purpose

  • Life Story and Life Calling

  • Life Values

  • Actualizing Life Values

  • Life Goals

  • Guidelines for Setting Goals

  • Life Motivation

  • Personality Types

  • Personality Types and Life Gifts

  • Spiritual Gifts

  • Spiritual Gifts for All Christians

  • Appreciating Spiritual Gifts

  • Gifts and Life Passion

• Unit 4: Personal Formation: Emotions and Strengths

  • Emotional Maturity

  • Responding to Emotions

  • Understanding Myers-Briggs Personality Types

  • Assessing Myers-Briggs Personality Types

  • Strengths-Based Leadership

  • Appreciating Diversity of Strengths

• Unit 5: Spiritual Formation: Perspectives

  • Introduction to Holistic and Eternal Perspectives

  • Introduction to Divine and Joyful Perspectives

  • Holistic Perspective: An Illustration

  • Holistic Perspective: Four Dimensions

  • Holistic Perspective: Celebrating Differences

  • Holistic Perspective: Engaging the Whole

  • Eternal Perspective: Suffering

  • Eternal Perspective: Spiritual Vision

  • Divine Perspective: Godliness

  • Divine Perspective: Means and Goal

  • Joyful Perspective: Unlimited Pleasure

  • Joyful Perspective: God’s Grace

  • Dependence on God’s Grace

  • God’s Condescension

• Unit 6: Spiritual Formation: The Mind

  • Introduction to a Holistic Model of Discipleship

  • Intellectual Disciplines

  • Knowing God Himself

  • Learning from the Past

  • Introduction to Doxological Research

  • Dimensions of Doxological Researchers

  • Priorities of Doxological Researchers: Spiritual Grounding, Part 1

  • Priorities of Doxological Researchers: Spiritual Grounding, Part 2

  • Priorities of Doxological Researchers: Godward Curiosity

  • Priorities of Doxological Researchers: Humble Self-Efficacy

  • Priorities of Doxological Researchers: Excellence in Inquiry

  • Priorities of Doxological Researchers: Kingdom Impact

  • Motivations and Goals of Doxological Research

  • Ultimate and Subordinate Motivations and Goals of Doxological Research

• Unit 7: Spiritual Formation: The Heart

  • Emotional Disciplines

  • Private Prayer and Public Prayer

  • Lord’s Prayer, Part 1

  • Lord’s Prayer, Part 2

  • Possibilities in Prayer

  • Daily Examination in Prayer

  • Worship

  • Fasting

  • Delighting in God

• Unit 8: Spiritual Formation: Actions

  • Missional Disciplines

  • Foundations of Missional Christianity, Part 1

  • Foundations of Missional Christianity, Part 2

• Unit 9: Spiritual Formation: Community

  • Relational Disciplines

  • Unity and Fellowship

  • Living in Community

• Unit 10: A Life of Spiritual Discipline

  • Addressing Busyness

  • Living with Margin

  • Progress and Productivity

• Conclusion

  • Course Summary and Challenge

Details

• Title: LD102 The Ministry Leader and the Inner Life

• Instructor: Justin Irving

• Publisher: Lexham Press

• Publication Date: 2015

• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education

• Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources

• Courses: 1

• Video Hours: 11