Ethics in Leadership
Student 2025
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John has used several keywords in his gospel that have helped us reflect on important attributes of ethical leaders. We’ve considered trust, truth, obedience, love, inner guide, and peace (among other terms) as important elements. John’s work this week uses a vine-branch metaphor.
This devotional assignment gives you the opportunity to reflect on the importance of relationships and consideration for others to ethical leadership.
Upon successful completion of this assignment, you will be able to:
· Recognize strong ethical leadership attributes by studying leaders in the Bible.
Background Information
Read John 15:1-8(new tab) (or listen to the chapter(new tab) ) John introduces the word remain (or abide in some translations) as he also engages a vine and branch metaphor. The picture he creates with his words is about relationships, which is a fundamental aspect of a Christian worldview. That is, relationship with Christ is foundational and precedes any issues related to rules or rituals. To say it another way, someone could exercise rituals and follow rules but not really have a relationship with Christ. John also uses the vine-branch metaphor to refer to failure to bear fruit, which can result in being pruned and even destroyed.
After reading the passage, consider the following prompts:
1. How does relationship (or remaining) with Christ apply to ethics and decision-making as a leader, from a Christian worldview perspective? If you hold a different worldview, how does a relationship with something larger than you fit your perspective?
2. If we expand beyond just the relationship between a person and Christ to a more general sense (relationships with others), in what ways might relationships or others be central to issues of ethics and decision-making?
3. What might failure to bear fruit means within the specific context that Jesus has in mind? What might failure to bear fruit mean if applied to ethical (or non-ethical) leadership? Personally? Professionally? Individually? Organizationally?
4. What might be pruned, thrown away, withering, or destroyed mean within the specific context that Jesus has in mind? What might those themes mean if applied to ethical (or non-ethical) leadership? Personally? Professionally? Individually? Organizationally?
Instructions
1. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.
2. Review the Bible text and prompts provided in the Getting Started section.
3. Compose a 200 – 250 word reflection or journal (Word document) on the prompts included in the background information section.
Note: Your reflection does not need to answer each of the provided prompts. Rather, use those prompts to help stimulate your reflection. Your 200 – 250-word "journal" should simply be your personal and professional thinking that emerges from the reading and reflection.
4. Be sure to apply APA formatting guidelines where appropriate.
Getting Started
John has used several keywords in his gospel that have helped us
reflect on important attributes of ethical leaders. We’ve considered
trust, truth, obedience, love, inner guide, and peace (among other
t
erms) as important elements. John’s work this week uses a vine
-
branch metaphor.
This devotional assignment gives you the opportunity to reflect on
the importance of relationships and consideration for others to
ethical leadership.
Upon successful completio
n of this assignment, you will be
able to:
·
Recognize strong ethical leadership attributes by studying
leaders in the Bible.
Background Information
Read
John
15:1
-
8
(new tab)
(or
listen to the chapter
(new tab)
)
John introduces the word remain (or abide in some translations) as
he also engages a vine and branch metaphor. The picture he
creates with his words is about relationships, which is a
fundamental aspect of a Christian worldview. That is, relationship
wit
h Christ is foundational and precedes any issues related to rules
or rituals. To say it another way, someone could exercise rituals
and follow rules but not really have a relationship with Christ. John
also uses the vine
-
branch metaphor to refer to failure
to bear fruit,
which can result in being pruned and even destroyed.
After reading the passage, consider the following prompts:
1.
How does relationship (or remaining) with Christ apply to
ethics and decision
-
making as a leader, from a Christian
worldview per
spective? If you hold a different worldview,
how does a relationship with something larger than you fit
your perspective?
2.
If we expand beyond just the relationship between a person
and Christ to a more general sense (relationships with
others), in what ways might relationships or others be
central to issues of ethics and decision
-
making?
Getting Started
John has used several keywords in his gospel that have helped us
reflect on important attributes of ethical leaders. We’ve considered
trust, truth, obedience, love, inner guide, and peace (among other
terms) as important elements. John’s work this week uses a vine-
branch metaphor.
This devotional assignment gives you the opportunity to reflect on
the importance of relationships and consideration for others to
ethical leadership.
Upon successful completion of this assignment, you will be
able to:
Recognize strong ethical leadership attributes by studying
leaders in the Bible.
Background Information
Read John 15:1-8(new tab) (or listen to the chapter(new tab))
John introduces the word remain (or abide in some translations) as
he also engages a vine and branch metaphor. The picture he
creates with his words is about relationships, which is a
fundamental aspect of a Christian worldview. That is, relationship
with Christ is foundational and precedes any issues related to rules
or rituals. To say it another way, someone could exercise rituals
and follow rules but not really have a relationship with Christ. John
also uses the vine-branch metaphor to refer to failure to bear fruit,
which can result in being pruned and even destroyed.
After reading the passage, consider the following prompts:
1. How does relationship (or remaining) with Christ apply to
ethics and decision-making as a leader, from a Christian
worldview perspective? If you hold a different worldview,
how does a relationship with something larger than you fit
your perspective?
2. If we expand beyond just the relationship between a person
and Christ to a more general sense (relationships with
others), in what ways might relationships or others be
central to issues of ethics and decision-making?
