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Transformational Leadership Approach Towards Youth Involvement in Missional Ministry of the Church

Olakanmi Caleb Akinsola

Abstract

Youths are indispensable in the missional ministry of the church, which is the propagation of the Gospel. However, the church faces the challenge of involving the youth in its missional ministry. The factors linked to this challenge include generational gaps, resistance to change, sustaining engagement, and the inability to balance discipline and tolerance. The main question with which this paper is concerned is how to get more youths involved in the missional ministry of the church through the instrumentality of transformational leadership as exemplified in Jesus’ leadership style. This paper explores the transformational leadership approach towards youth involvement in the missional ministry of the church. It achieves this by examining Jesus as a model for transformational leadership. It also discusses transformational leadership approaches for empowering the youth and the strategies for youth involvement in the missional ministry of the church.

Keywords

Transformational leadershipYouthMissional Ministry.

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