Browsing Dissertations, Theses, and Projects by Subject "Church polity"

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    • Church Organizational Culture: Construct Definition and Instrument Development 

      Ward, Angela Joan (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2011-12-14)
      The purpose of this research was to operationalize the construct, church organizational culture (COC), and to develop an instrument to measure the construct. In order to accomplish this goal, the researcher undertook a ...

    • Church Transition to Plurality of Elders: A Case Study 

      Remy, Joshua (Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Church Ministries, 2019-12-06)
      A desire among evangelical churches in denominations such as the Southern Baptist Convention to return to biblical forms of leadership have led a number of churches to examine what seems to many to be the biblical model ...

    • Implementing a Training Ministry for Developing Healthy Church Leadership at New Haven Baptist Church, Flint, Michigan 

      Rednower, Larry Edward (Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2021-03-10)
      Chapter 1 provides the context, rationale, purpose, goals, and research methodology, as well as the definitions, limitations, and delimitations of the project. Chapter 2 examines the particular texts of the Old and New ...

    • The Role of the Unpaid Elder in Southern Baptist Churches: A Mixed Methods Study 

      Mehaffey, Thomas A. (Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2020-11-24)
      Scripture teaches that leadership was created by God, a concept illustrated by the creation mandate to man to subdue the earth (Gen 1:28-29). As Michael Wilder and Timothy Paul Jones point out, leadership was not something ...

    • The Role of Unpaid Elders in Southern Baptist Churches: A Mixed Methods Study 

      Rhodes, Scott Alan (Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2020-11-27)
      The purpose of this study was to discover the roles fulfilled by unpaid elders in Southern Baptist churches. This project involved two phases. Phase 1 utilized a forty-five question survey which asked about duties of unpaid ...