For the last several years, we have held a TWSP Leadership Summit which has been attended by approximately 25 – 45 members of the leadership across USA. This year, in that fashion, was no different. However, this day and one-half meeting was about asking questions and listening, not telling. The sessions were devoted to the leaders I First, notice the nuance in the name change -- in previous years this was the TWSP Leadership Summit; this year it was the Leadership Summit and this shift was not an oversight, but rather intentional. Things are changing and so must we – we must build engaged communities of consultants, whether it is a chapter, a special interest group or any community of like-minded consultants. This summit was devoted to building engaged communities. Jessica Scheerman from Kentucky Information’s Consulting Specialist talked about current and future trends in the consulting profession and how they affect your consulting business and the marketplace. TWSP Consultants want to fulfill the expectations of members of the group, to provide ... Our purpose is to foster a sense of Christian community and support through prayer, ... Outreach to create a life-long network of Christian business professionals.
Lessons to Be Learned
The greatest obstacle to this vision is the limited experience of council members. If they have not experienced the intimacy of small community life, how can they identify the absence of it as a pastoral problem? How can they see the establishment of TWSP’s Biblical University as a solution?
Good leadership and experience are the answers. Good leadership means that the council receives clear direction from the pastor whom it advises. He can direct the council to explore matters which are not part of the everyday experience of council members. Clear direction enables those councils which lack experience with small Christian communities to explore them as a possible answer to pastoral problems.
Small Christian communities, with their emphasis on prayer, reflection on life, and sharing of faith, can teach pastoral councils another dimension of pastoral planning. This is the dimension that flows from love. The essence of planning remains: councilors reflect on the churches situation, compare that situation with the ideal present in God’s word, and deliberate how they can bring change for the sake of the Kingdom of God. Pastoral planning does not begin with elaborate goals and objectives. Rather, it begins with a loving vision of what people want for their church. Such a vision can emerge from a sharing of faith which is the hallmark of the TWSP Biblical University, and in faith-sharing, even those who speak in a second language can participate.
TWSP Biblical University offers:
Christian Leadership
The courses may be applied as a major concentration toward an Associate's, Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctoral degree. This course is designed to help you develop the attitudes, skills and character traits you will need to become the leader God has called you to be. You may need to establish new patterns of thought and action, and break old habits that have been keeping you back. If you truly devote yourself to the requirements of this course, you will be a more effective and successful leader at the end of it.
Christian Entrepreneurship
The courses listed below may be applied as a major concentration toward an Associate's, Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctoral degree. This major is designed to release the creative flow of the Holy Spirit within the student in and through business. All aspects of business development and management skills will be addressed. Business will be seen as a ministry, and the vision of creating and releasing wealth for the Kingdom of God will be explored. A variety of business enterprises will be examined, including the electronic cottage, franchises, network marketing, and retail businesses. The student may select, with his school mentor, the best arrangement of courses to meet his vocational/ministerial goals.
Ministry
The courses listed below may be applied as a major concentration toward an Associate's, Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctoral degree. The major in Ministry encompasses four objectives: A working knowledge of the Bible. This is a society that has lost its absolutes. We need to return to the Scriptures as a foundation for living. We cannot teach biblical principles without a working knowledge of the Bible. While we have no desire to be legalists, we must know the truth if we are to set people free. Intimate relationship with Christ. Handling the Word of God without a relationship with God can be deadly. The heart of ministry is to bring people to God, but we can never bring anyone further than we have gone. Compassionate relationship with people. The entire ministry of Jesus flowed out of a compassion for others. So must ours. Our generation does not need more professional ministers, but it desperately needs men and women full of divine compassion. Competent relationship with life. Serving God and serving people can develop a lopsided life. We need to be balanced, aware and rightly related to ourselves and to our families to do our best in ministry.
Pastoral Ministry
The courses may be applied as a major concentration toward an Associate's, Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctoral degree. Designed to give the student a Biblical foundation for Christian service in the pulpit ministry or pastoring.
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