1. Grace Centered Leadership
Covenant Theological Seminary

2. Outline for Grace Centered Leadership
Personal
Transformation
Corporate
Regular Experience of God’s Grace on a Personal Basis
Results in Grace Centered Leadership of the Church
Results in Community
Transformation through the Gospel

3. Two Aspects of Grace
Salvation and definitive sanctification is from G.R.A.C.E.—
God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense

4. The most significant aspect of our Salvation is that Christ has given His heart to us.
Rom 8:10 “. . . Christ is in you.”
2 Cor 13:5 “. . . Jesus Christ is in you.”
Col 1:27 “. . . the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”

5. The Westminster Confession
“All saints, that are united to Jesus Christ their Head, by His Spirit, and by faith,
have fellowship with Him in His grace, sufferings, death, resurrection, and glory.”
Chapter 26, 1 “Of the Communion of Saints”
Centerpiece of the Christian Life—Union with Christ 222 times in Paul’s 13 letters the prepositions—in Christ, with Christ, by Christ, through Christ are used plus another 40 times those prepositions are used but do not refer to union with Christ.

6. regularly enlightening “the eyes of our heart” (Eph. 1:18)
2. Progressive Sanctification is through the grace (i.e., illuminating power) of the Holy Spirit
regularly enlightening “the eyes of our heart” (Eph. 1:18)
to increasingly see Jesus and all He has accomplished for us.
so that by faith we are enabled to lay hold of the covenant promises that are already ours in union with Christ.

7. The Indicatives Empower the Imperatives
A Key Principle for Grace Centered Leadership:
The Indicatives Empower the Imperatives
Imperatives
empower
Indicatives
Indicatives describe who God is in Christ and all He has accomplished for us as ones in union with Christ. The imperatives answer the question: How then shall we live in light of these great Indicatives.
Power for
the Christian Life

8. Imperatives: The Fruit of Grace
Titus 2:11-12 “For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people,
training us to:
renounce ungodliness and worldly passions,
and to live self-controlled, upright, and
godly lives in the present age.”
The more fully our hearts are impacted through the illumination of the Spirit regarding Who God is in Christ and who He has made us to be as sons and daughters of His, the more we find ourselves bearing the fruit of Titus 2.

9. Case Study of God Developing a Grace Centered Leader
From Childhood through Adulthood

10. Characteristics of God versus Those of my Father and Mother When I was a Child
See attached document in Sakai

11. Partial list of 21 attributes of God paired with the opposite characteristic
Before Christ in my Life

12. Experiences of Abuse Older brother Football coaches
My older brother and football coachers were very abusive, with verbal harassment and intimidation which included physical beatings by my brother.
Older brother
Football coaches

13. Imperative Driven Preaching

14. Surrendered to Christ in a park across from the County Court House in Grand Island, Nebraska—August ‘67

15. Imperative Driven Discipleship
John White
in 1967
John White
in 2006

16. Grace Centered Preaching and Leadership
Richard Halverson
August 4, 1968
Phil. 3:8 “I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.”

17. Grace Centered Theology
Union with Christ: “There is nothing we can do to make God love us more than He does now in Christ; there is nothing we can do to make God love us less than He does now in Christ.”

18. Princeton Seminary
Man Centered Religion

19. Rebecca Raised with Imperative Driven Religion
Engagement Picture
August, 1972

20. Fairlington Presbyterian Church
Assistant Pastor to Graham Smith
Imperative Driven Preaching

21. 1976: We received the forgiveness of all our sins, past, present and future at the cross two thousand years ago.
“There is therefore no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” Rom 8:1

22. 1977

24. Character Qualities of Our Heavenly Father
The Father is Loving
Psalm 107:8 Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for men, for he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.
Psalm 107:43 Whoever is wise, let him heed these things and consider the great love of the LORD. 

25. Psalm 118:29 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.
Isa 40:11 He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young.
Jeremiah 31:3 The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.”

26. Spriggs Road Presbyterian
Gainesville, VA
Spriggs Road
Presbyterian
Manassas, VA
Warrenton, VA

27. 1986: Transition to Covenant Seminary
Paul Kooistra,
President
Edwards Hall

28.
Eureka, MO
Oakville, MO
Wildwood, MO

29. First Significant Ministry Failure in 1988
Sheraton Westport Plaza
Dayspring Presbyterian Church

30. Director: , 2014-