Trinitarian Leadership

The recent trends in organizational studies of spirituality, relationality, complexity, authenticity, and servanthood echo key themes in Christian theology, especially the doctrine of the Trinity. I’ve become convinced that looking at leadership through a distinctly Christian Trinitarian lens will provide a robust, holistic, and powerful construct for leadership theory and practice.
While my own particular calling and concern lies in ecclesial leadership, the notion of natural theology works in reverse. If we can understand something about the nature of God by looking at the natural order, we surely can expect to understand much about the natural world by looking at the nature of God.
The doctrine of the imago Dei (man made in the image of God) suggests as much. Christian doctrines of the Trinity, the imago Dei, sin, salvation, creation, redemption, eschatology, and ecclesiology really can tell us something about what it means to be humans in organizational life and leadership.

Further reading

DNA of Biblical Leadership

Some thoughts on church leadership dynamics concerning the roles of preacher and pastor. Ephesians 4 names five “offices” or roles that...