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Faithful Leadership: Facing Today’s Toughest Issues with Biblical Balance
~16 Hours
In Faithful Leadership: Facing Today’s Toughest Issues with Biblical Balance, you will use a biblically balanced framework to develop practical strategies to bridge political and societal divides—including case studies of real-world examples—and live out God’s kingdom in your daily life and ministry.
Dan Meyer
About This Course
In an age flooded with information and overwhelmed by noise surrounding politics, social issues, and a fast-paced culture, what we need most is not more knowledge, but wisdom. Knowledge can tell us how things work. Wisdom helps us see how to live well. In the pressures and polarizations of our time, wisdom is the compass we desperately need.
In Faithful Leadership: Facing Today’s Toughest Issues with Biblical Balance, you will learn to effectively position yourself as an agent of transformational change, and learn to live out the call to influence your context with the vision and values of the kingdom of God. You will understand how to maintain your first allegiance to God’s kingdom, reflect the heart of Jesus, discern the Spirit’s leading, and speak with language shaped by the kingdom. Through exploring real-world case study examples—like a pastor facing the community impact of a school shooting, addressing police brutality and injustices against minorities, discussing abortion—you will learn how to bring your faith into dialogue with today’s toughest issues. Using a biblically balanced framework, you will develop practical strategies to begin to bridge the political and cultural divides American Christians currently face.
What You Will Learn:
- Articulate how the kingdom of God shapes relationships, leadership, communication, and everyday life.
- Engage in thoughtful and compassionate conversations with diverse communities that foster understanding and unity by applying kingdom principles.
- Develop practical strategies to bridge divides and restore relationships through biblical principles of reconciliation.
A FULLER Equip course
- Leadership
- Politics & Social Issues
Introduction
1. Getting Started
Kingdom Living
2. Wisdom for Kingdom Living
3. A Kingdom Response
4. Speaking and Leading with Wisdom
Core Values of Kingdom Living
5. Lordship & Mature Love
6. Justice & Humility
7. Finger Pointing (Micah 6:8)
8. Restoring Redemptive Relationships
Restoring Connection
9. Conflict Resolution
10. Kingdom Impact
Conclusion
11. Final Activity: Kingdom Engagement in Your Community
12. Next Steps
Your Instructor
Dan Meyer
Reverend, Author, Media Host
Rev. Dr. Dan Meyer is Ocean Reef’s newly installed Chaplain-in-Residence. Educated at Yale University (BA) and both Princeton (MDiv) and Fuller Seminaries (DMin), Dan has worked on an offshore oil rig, in a prison, in IBM’s world corporate headquarters, and for churches in Northern Ireland, New York, California, and Illinois. For 28 years, Dan led Christ Church of Oak Brook, a 6,000-member multisite congregation west of Chicago. There, his messages were broadcast on mainstream TV and radio, and featured multiple times in Preaching Today’s Top Ten lists. Dan is also an author and holds four regional Emmy Awards as host of a national television newsmagazine. Since 1988, Dan has been married to Amy, a contract interior designer, with whom he shares three adult sons and a new grandson.
