LEADERSHIP ASSESSMENT

Leadership Assessment

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Leadership Assessment

Introduction

Faith in God of the Christians must go through the discovery and acceptance of Jesus as a preacher of God, as a model for believers, as living and permanent support of all human existence in this last dimension of life is to live humanly in communication with faith in God. This faith is, or gift of God that makes all men, simple men, all men of goodwill. God is accessible to all who seek it. This mysterious communication with God to all men is their just and final word in the life of Jesus, in his testimony. The invitation is the word of God and offering that God intended for all men from within the story. However, this gift has to be taken personally by each man, each in the bottom of your heart has to accept that God, as a strict value of all values. Believe matter a real change of mind, a conversion, a rectification of spontaneous life. Universal goodness is the new way of life that the believer finds in God.

The word evangelical comes right from a Greek word for “good news” or “good message.” Gospel comes from an old English word for “God's story” or “the message of God.” Thus, “evangelicals” are people of the gospel- of the good news of God's story or message. Proclaiming the gospel is a hallmark of evangelicals; Evangelicalism is a movement to recover and promote the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this paper I have chosen Billy Graham for the assessment of his leadership qualities under the framework outlined by Harold Myra, Marshall Shelley and Kenneth D. Boa in their books.

Discussion

William Franklin “Billy” Graham became a symbol of the best in evangelical Christianity, eclipsing others who were tainted by scandal. A Southern Baptist minister, Graham maintained a heavy schedule of “crusades,” television appearances, and meetings with leading political figures of all parties. Graham's popularity with the public exhibited the manner in which many revivals of religion eventually become part of the mainstream. Graham became an institution who made his message as broadly appealing as possible. Graham offered his brand of gospel from tent meetings to televised crusades at outdoor coliseums across the United States and throughout the world. Beginning with a ministry in the 1940s and spanning the next six decades, he preached to more than 210 million people worldwide. Graham's participation in the American culture wars involved an early split from fundamentalism, Cold War preaching that warned of the threat of atheistic communism, a close association with presidents from Harry S. Truman to the Bushes, and opposition to the Religious Right.

Theological and Human Development Model

Personality Development

William Franklin “Billy” Graham, Jr., was born on November 7, 1918, in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 1936, he enrolled at Bob Jones College, a fundamentalist school in Cleveland, Tennessee, but left after one term because “I disliked being told what to think without being given the opportunity to reason issues through on my own or to look at ...