I have just finished a four week stretch of teaching in our summer schools. For three weeks, I taught principles of leadership in our new Leadership Training Intensive (LTI), which is a 6-week leadership course and functions as a foundational course in leadership. This will be followed by a 3-week Discipleship Training Intensive (DTI), which is a leadership course in facilitating a discipleship process in the lives of those being lead, particularly in our Discipleship Training School. This intensive will be followed by a 24-week Internship in Disciple Making.
During these leadership courses, we have the leaders in
training come to our home weekly for a time of fellowship, and generally we
watch a movie that depicts good, bad, and ugly leadership and we follow this
with a discussion about what they saw, what Biblical leadership principles were
being violated or applied, what did they learn, and how will it affect their future
leadership. I’d like to think they like coming to our home to hear the wisdom I’ve
learned over the years, but I must admit that Darla’s hospitality and snacks
are a very big draw J.
We have had a sense here at YWAM Orlando, that we need to
strengthen our core here at YWAM Orlando, which is “Transformational
Discipleship” in all its forms. These new leadership courses are a part of
adding strength to our apostolic discipleship community.
