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Leadership School
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This is a three phase course of teaching and personal tutoring after the Recovery phase has been completed. It is based on the model our Lord Jesus gave us, where He had 12 disciples who followed with Him everywhere He went that He might prepare them for Christian life and witness.
Note that if a person has come through Children's Ministry, Junior Youth, and Senior Youth groups (ie. they have had a good strong Christian upbringing), they are able to commence at Phase 3, not Phase 1.
The three phases of teaching have the following basic contents:
Phase 1 - "Discovery & use of gifts"
In the context of seeking advice from other Christians who know you, and whilst being aware of the desires of your heart, your established abilities, your personality and your experience, study Romans 12, Ephesians 4, 1 Corinthians 12, and 1 Peter 4 (here we find lists of spiritual gifts) and ask God to reveal to you what gifts you have;
Studying 1&2 Timothy, Titus, and Philemon, the "Personal letters to leaders", put yourself in the shoes of the recipients of those letters and then discern how one should exercise the gift one has received.
Practical supervised ministry in accordance with your gifts.
Phase 2 - "Faithful in opposition; Future glory"
The practice of your gifts will inevitably bring opposition and persecution. The Christian must be prepared for this. To do so, this year focuses on studying the letters which concern "Surviving attack from within and without" (within: heresy and false doctrine in the church; without: violent persecution from non-believers). This will involve studying John's Gospel as a prelude to studying Hebrews, James, 1&2 Peter, 1&2&3 John, Jude, and Revelation, for an understanding that Jesus alone is the Messiah, and that He really is all sufficient, and that we should never swerve away from Him, and that truly in Him we know what God is like.
Phase 3 - "The Big Picture"
This phase's study aims to tie all the previous phases together so that the Christian has a sound worldview and understanding of God's purposes for him/her and the world. Basically speaking, it can all be summarized into the following statement: 'Becoming a faithful and humble servant is everything!'
To come to this understanding, we will study Matthew's Gospel as a prelude to again studying 1&2 Timothy, Titus, and Philemon, and then followed by the book of Romans. We will put ourselves in the shoes of the writer and the recipients of those letters, so that as witnesses, evangelists, and leaders, we know the right use of the law, what the Christian life is, and how / how not to teach and lead in the above.
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