Steve McKinion - My Mantra as a Professor

Training Disciple-Making Leaders

Steven A. McKinion, PhDSoutheastern Baptist Theological Seminary

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Training Disciple-Making Leaders

or, why you may not like this class


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Medical School?

Law School?

Business School?

Trade School?

Theology school?


Seminary trains you to lead others in a mission


Leaders may not know the way, but they know

the objective


Leaders help others cooperate to achieve

the objective


Our objective is to “Make Disciples”


Your mantra should be:

“Make Disciple-Making Disciples”


I’m here to help train you to do your mantra


Safe environment to learn to THINK like a

disciple-making leader


Gospel-Centered Thinking

Box of tools, not a box of blueprints


New patterns of thinking about a millennia-old

mission


I want you to THINK like a disciple-making

leader; I don’t care what you can do


in Church History?

Learn from those who have claimed to be Christian as they

sought to understand and live the Christian

mission


in Christian Theology?

Learn to reflect on the Gospel of Jesus in

Christian community to articulate that Gospel revealed in the written

text of Scripture


in Hermeneutics?

Learn to read the Bible and discover its

meaning and significance


Listen to Lectures and Readings


Reflect on what you hear and read; THINK about

it


Inquire of me, other students, yourself


The right questions are sometimes more important

than the right answers


Offer answers to those questions


Test those answers in dialogue with Scripture, the class, your spouse


Be humbled when you find out your answers

are incomplete (or inaccurate)


You won’t like the class if you have all the

answers.

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