Date
12-19-2023
Department
Rawlings School of Divinity
Degree
Doctor of Education in Christian Leadership (EdD)
Chair
Deidra K. Jackson
Keywords
Servant Leadership, Spiritual Formation, Transformational Leadership
Disciplines
Educational Leadership | Leadership Studies
Recommended Citation
Gabriel, Chesnel, "A Phenomenological Qualitative Study of the Seventh Day Adventist Leadership Role in Spiritual Formation for NY, NJ, AND PA" (2023). Doctoral Dissertations and Projects. 5103.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/5103
Abstract
The purpose of the qualitative phenomenological research study is to assess and understand the impacts of the church leadership role in the spiritual formation of the Seventh-day Adventist churches in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. At this stage in the study, the local church leadership role in spiritual formation is generally described as a spiritual transformation to encourage spiritual formation in the Seventh-day Adventists (Creswell, 2018). The concepts guiding this study are Spiritual Formation: Benefits of Spiritual Formation Training, Disadvantages of the Existing Training Processes, and Perceived Outcome of Leadership Development (Bush et al., 2020). It sought to show the correlation between spiritual formation and the benefits of spiritual formation training, the disadvantages of the existing training processes and shared practices, and the perceived outcome of leadership development. This qualitative phenomenological research method collected qualitative data through face-to-face interviews and focus groups (Onwuegbuzie & Leech, 2006). Therefore, this qualitative method design sought to determine answers from the feedback of the local church leaders and members toward spiritual development and how leaders impact the spiritual formation of their communities.
