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Christian Leadership Development's Contribution to Transforming Zimbabwean Society: A Study of Faith Ministries' First-Generation Leaders and Their Successors (1994 - 2023).

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正題名/作者:	Christian Leadership Development's Contribution to Transforming Zimbabwean Society: A Study of Faith Ministries' First-Generation Leaders and Their Successors (1994 - 2023)./
作者:	Mutonono, Dwight S. M.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2024,
面頁冊數:	244 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-10, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-10B.
標題:	Behavioral sciences. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=31238321
ISBN:	9798382303970

Christian Leadership Development's Contribution to Transforming Zimbabwean Society: A Study of Faith Ministries' First-Generation Leaders and Their Successors (1994 - 2023).
Mutonono, Dwight S. M.

Christian Leadership Development's Contribution to Transforming Zimbabwean Society: A Study of Faith Ministries' First-Generation Leaders and Their Successors (1994 - 2023). - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024 - 244 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-10, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.I.S.)--Asbury Theological Seminary, 2024.

Christianity in Africa has grown in demographic terms. This numerical growth has puzzlingly not resulted in the level of positive societal transformation that should correlate with an increase of Christians in African nations. Since about the year 2000 Zimbabwe has experienced some of its worst years with an increasingly tumultuous political, economic and social environment. In the year 2000 Zimbabwean evangelical churches celebrated the achievement of a target that they set in 1992, to plant ten thousand new churches in the period between that year and the year 2000. Faith Ministries was pivotally involved in that process, forty new churches were planted during that period. The church grew from six to about fifty congregations by the year 2000. Despite achieving the goal of planting ten thousand new churches in an eight-year period, the effects on Zimbabwean society have not been what would ordinarily be expected. If anything, there is a negative correlation. As more churches have been planted the overall national environment has become increasingly worse.This research studies active Faith Ministries national leaders based in or sent from Harare, Zimbabwe, from 1994 to 2023 to understand factors that influenced their Christian leadership development efforts to discover patterns they envision for societal transformation. It grapples with questions around how Christian leaders are developed; how they contribute to spiritual, social and financial change in societies and identifying some of the ultimate allegiances that compete with Christian values that they have been taught and hold.Using Spradley's ethnographic interview process; the developmental research sequence, eighteen leaders at the most senior levels in Faith Ministries were taken through three rounds of interviews that built on each other. The interviews sought to understand how{A0}they developed leaders and what their envisaged leaders would be like. The present realities around the contribution of Faith Ministries leaders to Zimbabwean holistic societal transformation is accessed considering the leadership development aspirations. These interviews were conducted from February to December 2023. The interviews were therefore historical in nature. The main research methodology is the ethnographic interview, however there are components of historical research and participant observation. I have been one of the senior leaders of Faith Ministries from 1994 to 2023, the period under study. My possible biases are stated and mitigated. Archival documents like materials that Faith Ministries uses to develop leaders and items like meeting minutes were accessed. Publicly available material like videos and various forms of online material from newspapers, journals or other types of media were analyzed.This research found that though the methods that Faith Ministries adopted to develop leaders deepened their Christian commitment, the level of worldview transformation in the leaders was not deep enough to meet biblical ideals. The result is that Faith Ministries leaders have made a big positive contribution to holistically transforming Zimbabwean society (spiritually, socially, and economically). This contribution is however not all positive. Some are concerned that there has been an increasing dilution of the movement's original values. The tent-making model of pastoral leadership has brought much benefit and made Faith Ministries distinctive among Pentecostal/Charismatic churches like it in Zimbabwe. It has helped Faith Ministries avoid some of the leadership excesses of like movements and churches. It has also helped to better reach communities. The downside is that some see a dilution in Christian witness due to high level involvement in politics and business.Like most Zimbabweans, Faith Ministries people, have migrated from rural to urban and then global contexts due to global and governance forces. Various theories of cultural{A0}and societal transformation were used to try understanding the influences that shaped Faith Ministries leaders, in Zimbabwe, South Africa and United Kingdom. The lessons from Faith Ministries provide a microcosm of the various factors that develop Christian leaders. Some new perspectives to help better develop Christian leaders to have holistic transformational impact in society emerged.{A0}

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Behavioral sciences.
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