Essay
1 page essay for each NT book (Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians) leadership principle with supportive scripture in Turabain style, provide one scholar reference footnote.
Galatians
Principle: A good leader must determine what to reveal in public and what to reveal in private, as in regards to both their congregation and inner core members.
Key Verse: Galatians 2:2 says, “And I went up by revelation, and communicated to them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who were reputation, lest by any means I might run, or had run, in vain.”
Explanation/Illustration of the Principle
Ephesians
Principle: Effective Christian leaders are responsible for the equipping, edify, empower, energizing and evangelizing of the saints.
Key Verse: Ephesians 4:12-13 says, “For the equipping of the saints for work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.”
Explanation/Illustration of the Principle: The well-equipped saints do the work of ministry with a sense of enthusiasm; the final goal is maturity, truth and love.
Philippians
Principle: Gifted Christian leaders refuse to allow their past to hinder their progress towards the hard fought and won goals.
Key Verse: Philippians 3:12-14 says, “Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me; Brethren I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind me and reaching forward to those things which are ahead; I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
Explanation/Illustration of the Principle: Paul says to you and I: “Quit Stressing and start pressing.”
Colossians
Principle: Effective Christian leaders are willing to pay the price for perfection in their ministry.
Key Verse: Colossians 1:24 says, “I now rejoice in my suffering for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His Body, which is the church.”
Explanation/Illustration of the Principle: