Editorial: Christian Leadership

The nine articles of this issue of Jnanadeepa focus on Christian leadership. The various dimensions of a Christian leader would necessarily be different from those trained with purely secular understandings. Some dimensions include acts of stewardship (leadership) servant leadership roles, the importance of values or character strengths, kingdom-oriented action and discipleship. These dimensions of a Christian leader arise at points of interaction between faith and secularism. Leaders have different personalities and styles of functioning and therefore operationalize their decisions in different ways. They develop their organizations or institutions according to their perspectives. Therefore, for a Christian leader, models and theories need to be developed that address leadership in Christian ways to influence the functioning of all leaders in today’s world. Christian leadership draws from secular leadership theories and their interaction with understandings of leadership drawn from scripture and theology