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What do Missional Leaders Think About the Future of Theological Education?

January 18, 2010

While I really enjoyed writing out my own thoughts on a missional vision of theological education at the end of last year, I was really wanting to get around a bunch of missional leaders to get their opinions on some key questions.  Being at the Missional Learning Commons two weekends ago was a great opportunity to do just that.

Here were the questions we wresteled with…

1) What are the skills necessary for missional leadership which differ from those needed for  pastoral roles within Christendom?

2) Currently, what are the most important resources that seminaries have to offer for the equipping of missional leaders/communities?

3) What resources for the formation of missional leaders/communities are offered through other avenues?

4) To whatever extent I feel prepared to live or lead missionally, the thing which has equipped me most in that regard is…

You can see how people responded to those questions here.

I also invited everyone who attended to do a brief online survey answering some different questions on the same topic.  If you’d like to participate, you can find the survey here.

And of course, for the sake of discussion, feel free to offer any responses here in the comment section.

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