{"id":37303,"date":"2024-04-09T03:01:51","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T10:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=37303"},"modified":"2024-04-09T03:02:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T10:02:47","slug":"pale-kaua-no-ko-lakou-mau-%ca%bbuhane-armor-for-their-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/pale-kaua-no-ko-lakou-mau-%ca%bbuhane-armor-for-their-souls\/","title":{"rendered":"Pale kaua no ko l\u0101kou mau \u02bbuhane – Armor for their Souls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pale kaua no ko l\u0101kou mau \u02bbuhane – Armor for their Souls, in Hawaiian<\/strong><\/p>\n

Introduction<\/p>\n

Part 1 \u2013 What others are saying<\/p>\n

Part 2 \u2013 What I learned from the U.S. Army and Woodward<\/p>\n

Epilogue \u2013 Armor for the Soul<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

By unmasking the Powers of domination (Satan and his principalities), J. R. Woodward, David Fitch, and Amos Yong,\u00a0The Scandal of Leadership: Unmasking the Powers of Domination in the Church<\/em>[1]<\/a> seek to provide pastors armor<\/strong> for their souls<\/strong>, to prevent their fall from their effective roles as shepherds of congregational flocks.<\/p>\n

Part 1 \u2013 What others are saying<\/strong><\/p>\n

Synoptically, we are asked to connect Woodward with other readings.\u00a0 As exhibit \u201cA\u201d I would suggest Eve Poole. Leadersmithing: Revealing the Trade Secrets of Leadership<\/em>.[2]<\/a> Poole highlights \u2018apprenticeship\u2019 where young leaders are in relationship with a mentor who guides them in the ways of leadership power.<\/p>\n

The term ‘Powers’ is taken by Woodward and he creates a darker meaning. Powers\/Satan represent the BAD apprenticeship mentor that pastors need to be worried about.\u00a0 Choosing to be in the world and of the World lures Christian leaders to the dark side (think Trump\u2019s reality show \u2013 the Apprentice 2004 \u2013 2017).<\/p>\n

Woodward\u2019s goal is to remind the reader that Jesus Christ is the example, the mentor who teaches us the attributes of leadership that we want to imitate. \u00a0Woodward quotes, Rohadi Nagassar, author of When we Belong,<\/em> \u201cImitate me, just as I imitate Christ\u201d (1Corinthians 11:1).\u00a0 Leaders are imitators, but there is a subtle competition for their souls.[3]<\/a><\/p>\n

Perhaps Seminary\u2019s need to highlight this \u2018subtle\u2019 competition as a quagmire that will trap pastors souls into domineering leadership.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My cohort peers raise questions that augment Woodward\u2019s impact, DLGP02 Jennifer Vernam asks the question, \u201cWhat about everyone else?\u00a0<\/strong>I wonder if Woodward is unnecessarily fixated on leaders. I think that the premise (not withstanding my concerns mentioned above) would be true for any believer. Is there danger in emphasizing this level of spiritual health for leaders and NOT the followers?<\/p>\n

I wholeheartedly concur.\u00a0 What is good for the goose has got to be good for the \u00a0gander. <\/strong><\/p>\n

DLGP 01- David Beavis provides a warning\/advice to young pastors who seek to get into the inner circle, \u201cWhen we as followers of Jesus find our identities in being a part of the family of God (instead of pre-modernism\u2019s finding identity in one\u2019s biological family or modernism\u2019s finding identity in one\u2019s status climbing), and imitate Jesus who gave the example of self-emptying, we are able to be the kind of leaders we are meant to be. Not selfishly ambitious and anxious leaders who imitate the wrong examples and thus imitate the Powers. Rather, we live out the example of Christ non-anxiously in this world with Kingdom ambition as opposed to selfish ambition.<\/p>\n

AMEN David!\u00a0 David provides something we know in our hearts but are wooed by the ambitious culture that pervades our society<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Part 2 \u2013 What I learned from the U.S. Army and Woodward<\/strong><\/p>\n

My identity as an Asian Male (which means I have slanted eyes and external genitalia?) was transformed by\u00a0 23 years, 6 months and 11 days in the U.S. Army.\u00a0 In short, my identity became ‘Army green’.\u00a0 So my muscle memory of leadership is slanted toward that leadership tradition.<\/p>\n

Woodward\u2019s, \u201cDomineering leadership\u201d is a phrase (and a sin?) that caught my attention.\u00a0 When I think about type \u201cA\u201d U.S. Army behavior, domineering leadership would not be far off target in describing the mentor behaviors that young 2LT\u2019s seek to emulate. \u201cLead, Follow or Get out of the way\u201d is a phrase the percolates to the surface of my mind as part of Eve Poole\u2019s \u2018muscle memory.\u2019\u00a0 In training our reactive Fast 1 thinking to respond to the \u2018Fog and Friction of war\u2019 (thanks Kahneman), decisive and domineering behavior is the method of choice.<\/strong> \u00a0On the battlefield, in the chaos of war, our men need leaders who are technically and tactically proficient. Domineering leadership is more of an accolade rather than a negative.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

But I am seemingly incorrect.<\/p>\n

According to the Army\u2019s leadership doctrinal manual, Field Manual (FM) 6-22, Army leadership is \u201cthe process of influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation while operating to accomplish the mission and improve the organization.\u201d[4]<\/a><\/p>\n

Lieutenant Colonel Gerald F. Sewell, U.S. Army, writes in his article, Emotional Intelligence and the Army Leadership Requirements Model[5]<\/strong><\/a><\/em> highlighting the need for U.S. Army officers to develop \u2018emotional intelligence\u2019.<\/p>\n

In his Relationship Management, Sewell lists attributes =<\/p>\n

Inspirational Leadership<\/strong> \u2013 Leads by Example<\/p>\n

Influence<\/strong> \u2013 Extends influence \u2013 Leads Others \u2013 Communicates<\/p>\n

Developing Others<\/strong> \u2013 Develops Leaders<\/p>\n

Catalyst for Change<\/strong> \u2013 Creates a Positive Environment<\/p>\n

Conflict Management<\/strong> \u2013 Interpersonal Tact \u2013 Sound Judgment<\/p>\n

Teamwork-collaboration<\/strong> \u2013 Gets Results.<\/p>\n

No domineer leadership is listed here.\u00a0 Alas, perhaps I have \u2018imitated\u2019 the wrong leaders.<\/p>\n

Epilogue <\/strong>\u2013<\/p>\n

Pale kaua no ko l\u0101kou mau <\/em>\u02bbuhane \u2013 <\/em>Armor for their souls, was a term coined by DLGP02 Jenny Dooley in her blogpost concerning Dr. Marc LiVecche\u2019s book, The Good Kill: Just War and Moral Injury.<\/em>[6]<\/a> The armor is meant for our young sons and daughters who enter military service.<\/p>\n

Interesting enough my Hungarian son\u2019s middle name is Kekoa, \u201cThe Warrior.\u201d\u00a0 He is an E5, Sergeant in Grafenwoehr, Germany.\u00a0 Arriving just last December his unit will join with Finnish forces to assist them on defending the Finnish\/Russian Border. A young man and a young Christian, I pray that he has both physical armor to protect him from the projectiles of war, and spiritual armor to protect him the flaming arrows of the evil one.\u00a0 As Jennifer Vernam highlights, the members of the Body of Christ (especially those of the warrior class) have a need for \u201cArmor for the Soul\u201d as much as the Shepherds who lead them.<\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> J. R. Woodward, David Fitch, and Amos Yong,\u00a0The Scandal of Leadership: Unmasking the Powers of Domination in the Church<\/em>\u00a0(100 Movements Publishing, 2023).<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Poole, Eve. Leadersmithing: Revealing the Trade Secrets of Leadership<\/em>. Bloomsbury Business, 2017.<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> J. R. Woodward, David Fitch, and Amos Yong,\u00a0The Scandal of Leadership: Unmasking the Powers of Domination in the Church<\/em>\u00a0(100 Movements Publishing, 2023), 3.<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> U.S. Army Field Manual (FM) 6-22, Army Leadership (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office [GPO], October 2006.), 1-2<\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> Sewell, Gerald F. “Emotional Intelligence in Leadership.” U.S. Army Combined Arms Center<\/em>, November-December 2009. https:\/\/usacac.army.mil\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/cace\/DCL\/DCL_SewellEngNovDec09.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[6]<\/a> LiVecche, Marc. The Good Kill: Just War and Moral Injury<\/em>. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021.<\/p>\n

, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pale kaua no ko l\u0101kou mau \u02bbuhane – Armor for their Souls, in Hawaiian Introduction Part 1 \u2013 What others are saying Part 2 \u2013 What I learned from the U.S. Army and Woodward Epilogue \u2013 Armor for the Soul \u00a0 Introduction By unmasking the Powers of domination (Satan and his principalities), J. R. Woodward, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2489,2846,809],"class_list":["post-37303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dlgp02","tag-woodward","tag-scandal","cohort-dlgp02"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37305,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37303\/revisions\/37305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}