FULLER curated 77.5 - Darrell Guder on Missional Leadership
Dec 15, 2020
Darrell Guder, Henry Winters Luce Professor of Missional and Ecumenical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, dives deep into the essence of missional leadership. He discusses the historical evolution of church structures and their relevance today. The conversation emphasizes a collaborative approach where diverse ministers equip the community for its mission. Guder also highlights the dual role of church life—gathering for worship and scattering into the world—while encouraging leaders to embrace their transformative mission amid contemporary challenges.
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General Vocation Shapes Leadership
- The church's general vocation precedes and shapes its special leaders through baptism as a general ordination.
- Special ordination only makes sense within the community's primary missional calling.
Early Leadership Was Functional Not Ontological
- New Testament communities had diverse leadership forms essential for mission, not uniform hierarchical offices.
- Their authority came from function and the Spirit, not fixed credentials or status.
Christendom Recast Leaders As Priests
- Christendom transformed missional leaders into sacerdotal priests who administered salvation through hierarchical offices.
- Ordination became sacramental and clergy-laity separation hardened, obscuring missional vocation.
