Description
This course is designed to help students discern and develop the intimate connection between preaching and leadership, a connection that is vital to sustainable, transformational ministry within the local church context. Students will be exposed to prominent practitioners of preaching and leadership with specific attention given to disciplines and strategies geared toward sermonic preparation and presentation, along with the preacher's self-understanding in their ministry context. Students will engage in contextual case studies, develop and deliver sermons that aptly provide a platform for leaders and congregations to hear and discern God's call to be and become witnesses to God's transformative work in the world. This course can be used as an elective in the Homiletics/Preaching Specialization or as an elective in the Leadership Ministry Specialization.