Leadership theory over the past 150 years has evolved through five major paradigmatic eras. The present era, the Complexity Era, has a strong focus toward value-based leadership. Early eras concentrated on the "what" of leadership and the "how" of leadership. The Complexity Era continues these, but adds the "why" of leadership. This course utilizes many of these leadership perspectives, most of which are cross-cultural, to test and explore these findings in the New Testament. What does the New Testament say about these various leadership perspectives (such as leadership elements, leadership styles, philosophical models, leadership emergence theory, mentoring, change dynamics, etc.) as the framework for studying leadership? Two of the six leadership eras in the Bible, the two New Testament eras, are studied: V. The Pre-Church Leadership Era and the , VI. The Church Leadership Era. Seven types of studies are done: (1) biographical, (2) historical leadership acts, (3) actual leadership contexts, (4) parabolic leadership literature, (5) indirect passages dealing with Christian character or behavior, (6) Bible books studied as a whole placing them in their context hermeneutically and in terms of leadership eras, (7) studies across books for common themes and lessons on leadership (called macro-lessons). One Bible character, Paul, will be studied using lifelong development concepts. Several N.T. books—1,2 Timothy, Titus, and Philemon--will be studied for leadership insights. Students will learn how to do biographical studies, contextual studies for leadership lessons, and how to analyze leadership acts. Several macro-lessons will be studied in-depth. The New Testament is one of the best leadership resources and least used for that purpose.

• Analyze any of the 7 leadership genre in the Old Testament for leadership findings.
• Recognize the importance of the Bible as a source of leadership information
• Learn skills for studying leadership in the Bible and major leadership lessons from the Bible.
• Evaluate themselves on their present Bible knowledge.
• Commit themselves to an on-going program of personal Bible study so as to improve their Bible knowledge in general and Biblical leadership knowledge in particular with a view toward becoming Bible centered leaders.

The class meets twice a week for two hours. See syllabus for details of scheduling. The 1^st session on Monday will be a SF time. The 2^nd session will be input on some leadership concept from the Old Testament. The first session on Wednesday will be input on some leadership concept from the Old Testament. The 2^nd session on Wednesday will be small groups doing exercises on Old Testament leadership concepts.

ML536 syllabus and ML536 reader.
Clinton, J. Rober
_______. Leadership Perspectives—How To Study the Bible for Leadership (formerly Handbook I). Altadena, CA: Barnabas Publishers, 1993.
_______. The Bible and Leadership Values—A Book By Book Analysis. Altadena, CA: Barnabas Publishers, 1993.
_______. Equipped By the Word. Altadena, CA: Barnabas Publishers, 1994. (or Having Ministry That Lasts).
_______. Clinton’s Biblical Leadership Commentary. Altadena, CA: Barnabas Publishers, 1999.
_______. Having A Ministry That Lasts. Altadena, CA: Barnabas Publishers, 1998.
_______. Titus—Apostolic Leadership. Altadena, Ca.: Barnabas Publishers, 2001.
Raab, Laura and Clinton, J. Robert, Barnabas: Encouraging Exhorter--A Study in Mentoring. Altadena, Ca.: Barnabas Publishers, 1985.
See syllabus for actual listing of other required technical works available on the reserve shelf in the library.

Clinton, J. Robert. A Short History of Leadership Theory. Altadena, CA: Barnabas Publishers, 1986.
_______. Conclusions on Leadership Styles. Altadena, CA: Barnabas Publishers, 1986.

Satisfactory completion of test on leadership perspectives from Leadership Perspectives.
Evaluation of Bible background using the BMPI given in Having A Ministry That Lasts.
1500 pages of reading of required materials.
Core Book Project--Philemon
One communication event.