Workers for the harvest : producing and training the leaders the church needs to fulfil its missionary task

dc.contributor.advisorMeiring, Piet (Pieter Gerhard Jacobus), 1941-en
dc.contributor.emailpkriel@lantic.neten
dc.contributor.postgraduateKriel, Pieter Frederiken
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-07T13:00:54Z
dc.date.available2009-10-02en
dc.date.available2013-09-07T13:00:54Z
dc.date.created2009-09-01en
dc.date.issued2009-10-02en
dc.date.submitted2009-09-25en
dc.descriptionThesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2009.en
dc.description.abstractIn order to fulfil its missionary task the church needs good leaders. However, there is a huge shortage of leaders and many of the people who step forward to fill the gap, are not trained. This study looks at what is needed in a training system to produce enough of the right kind of leaders to lead the church in fulfilling its missionary task. However, training people has little value if they are not going to be given the opportunity to take part in the ministry. This leads to the conclusion that the church does not only need the right training system, it also has to break with the Professional Church Model, so that the priesthood of all believers will not continue to be a theological assertion only, but become an experiential reality. In this light the study then evaluates the two major models used by the church to prepare its leaders, namely the Traditional Residential Academic Model and Theological Education by Extension. The evaluation shows that the Traditional Residential Academic Model has serious weaknesses. Theological Education by Extension introduced a new paradigm, namely in-service training. It overcomes many of the weaknesses of the Traditional Residential Academic Model, but it also has its share of problems. The Daystar Training Model is then introduced and evaluated. It takes the in-service paradigm further and overcomes some of the problems that Theological Education by Extension could not solve. The evaluation shows that Daystar has the potential to provide the leaders the church needs to fulfil its missionary task.en
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dc.description.departmentScience of Religion and Missiologyen
dc.identifier.citationKriel, PF 2009,Workers for the harvest : producing and training the leaders the church needs to fulfill its missionary task, PhD thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28180 >en
dc.identifier.otherD672/agen
dc.identifier.upetdurlhttp://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09252009-012852/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/28180
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoriaen_ZA
dc.rights© 2009, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.en
dc.subjectSpiritual formationen
dc.subjectDaystart training modelen
dc.subjectTraining in contexten
dc.subjectTheological education by extensionen
dc.subjectTraditional residential academic modelen
dc.subjectPriesthood of all believersen
dc.subjectChurch leadershipen
dc.subjectLeadership training paradigmsen
dc.subjectLeadership training modelsen
dc.subjectLeadership selectionen
dc.subjectKwaZulu-Natal (KZN)en
dc.subjectUniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA)en
dc.subjectSouth Africa (SA)en
dc.subjectContextualization of the churchen
dc.subjectTraining in contexten
dc.subjectUCTDen_US
dc.titleWorkers for the harvest : producing and training the leaders the church needs to fulfil its missionary tasken
dc.typeThesisen

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