Assignment Title: Leadership Ministry: Types of Leaders
Course: CHMN 699 - Internship
Student: Kristine Sage
2022
Professor: Dr. Mary Smith
Liberty University
Leadership Ministry: Types of Leaders
A degree in Christian Leadership will help you impact a faith community and do amazing works for God!
Churches, congregations, Bible study groups, and mission-related organizations all need people of
passion who can help to accompany others on their faith journeys. Train in biblical studies to enable
your own spiritual growth, share your entrepreneurial spirit and inspire discipleship. Your education will
provide you with the tools to lead with confidence and a willing spirit.
What's the difference?
Celebrate DWU’s United Methodist heritage
Build relationships in a diverse and inclusive atmosphere
Practice dialogue to grow your own mind and soul
Find an internship to provide real-life training locally or through our relationship with the
Denver Urban semester
Learn from Christian leaders/teachers who will focus on your spiritual strengths
Allow God to guide you to your new career: pastor; youth pastor; children’s ministry
coordinator; chaplain; worship leader; humanitarian/emergency relief agent; church
administrator; church counselor or many others.
What can you do with a Christian leadership degree?
Join a faith ministry in various areas with this degree. With this major, you can find a career as a:
Church pastor and/or church planter
Children’s ministry coordinator
Youth pastor
Missions mobilizer
Chaplain
Worship leader
Church camp director
Director of humanitarian emergency relief
Church administrator
Church-based counselor
God has provided three different types of church leaders, based on spiritual gifting, to bring health,
balance, and growth to the Body of Christ.
visionary leaders who have the spiritual gift of leadership
administrative leaders who have the spiritual gift of administration
shepherding leaders who have the spiritual gift of pastor
Leadership Ministry Includes Different Types of Leaders Who Help the Church in Different Ways
1) Visionary leaders
They are more goal-oriented.
They help us see the potential God has for us.
They help us "press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold" of us and not get
stuck where we are or to think that we "have already obtained all this" (Phil. 3:12).
2) Administrative leaders
They are more task-oriented.
They help us "do it all for the glory of God" (1 Cor. 10:31).
They help us by designing procedures and coordinating programs that enable us to do those
good works.
3) Shepherding leaders
They are more people-oriented.
They help us by feeding us, protecting us, comforting us, encouraging us, warning us, and
guiding us.
They help us by their example to remember that we must do all we do willingly in and because
of love. (1 Pet. 5:2-3; Jn. 21:15-17)
Balance, health, and growth
comes into a ministry when
all three of these types of
leadership are valued
and exercised in unity.
