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Workers for the harvest : producing and training the leaders the church needs to fulfil its missionary task
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2009.
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| author2 | Meiring, Piet (Pieter Gerhard Jacobus), 1941- |
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/28180 Workers for the harvest : producing and training the leaders the church needs to fulfil its missionary task Meiring, Piet (Pieter Gerhard Jacobus), 1941- pkriel@lantic.net Kriel, Pieter Frederik Spiritual formation Daystart training model Training in context Theological education by extension Traditional residential academic model Priesthood of all believers Church leadership Leadership training paradigms Leadership training models Leadership selection KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA) South Africa (SA) Contextualization of the church Training in context UCTD Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2009. In order to fulfil its missionary task the church needs good leaders. However, there is a huge shortage of leaders and many of the people who step forward to fill the gap, are not trained. This study looks at what is needed in a training system to produce enough of the right kind of leaders to lead the church in fulfilling its missionary task. However, training people has little value if they are not going to be given the opportunity to take part in the ministry. This leads to the conclusion that the church does not only need the right training system, it also has to break with the Professional Church Model, so that the priesthood of all believers will not continue to be a theological assertion only, but become an experiential reality. In this light the study then evaluates the two major models used by the church to prepare its leaders, namely the Traditional Residential Academic Model and Theological Education by Extension. The evaluation shows that the Traditional Residential Academic Model has serious weaknesses. Theological Education by Extension introduced a new paradigm, namely in-service training. It overcomes many of the weaknesses of the Traditional Residential Academic Model, but it also has its share of problems. The Daystar Training Model is then introduced and evaluated. It takes the in-service paradigm further and overcomes some of the problems that Theological Education by Extension could not solve. The evaluation shows that Daystar has the potential to provide the leaders the church needs to fulfil its missionary task. Science of Religion and Missiology unrestricted 2013-09-07T13:00:54Z 2009-10-02 2013-09-07T13:00:54Z 2009-09-01 2009-10-02 2009-09-25 Thesis Kriel, PF 2009,Workers for the harvest : producing and training the leaders the church needs to fulfill its missionary task, PhD thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28180 > D672/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28180 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09252009-012852/ © 2009, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Spiritual formation Daystart training model Training in context Theological education by extension Traditional residential academic model Priesthood of all believers Church leadership Leadership training paradigms Leadership training models Leadership selection KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA) South Africa (SA) Contextualization of the church Training in context UCTD Workers for the harvest : producing and training the leaders the church needs to fulfil its missionary task |
| title | Workers for the harvest : producing and training the leaders the church needs to fulfil its missionary task |
| title_full | Workers for the harvest : producing and training the leaders the church needs to fulfil its missionary task |
| title_fullStr | Workers for the harvest : producing and training the leaders the church needs to fulfil its missionary task |
| title_full_unstemmed | Workers for the harvest : producing and training the leaders the church needs to fulfil its missionary task |
| title_short | Workers for the harvest : producing and training the leaders the church needs to fulfil its missionary task |
| title_sort | workers for the harvest producing and training the leaders the church needs to fulfil its missionary task |
| topic | Spiritual formation Daystart training model Training in context Theological education by extension Traditional residential academic model Priesthood of all believers Church leadership Leadership training paradigms Leadership training models Leadership selection KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA) South Africa (SA) Contextualization of the church Training in context UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28180 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09252009-012852/ |