To read more and source citations please see CHAPTER 4: PERSPECTIVES ON PASTORAL LEADERSHIP IN THE EARLY CHURCH, THE PATRISTICS, AND THE CONTEMPORARY CHURCH of my dissertation Engaging Gen Z: Toward A Paracletic Leadership Framework.

Acknowledging these concerns need not discourage pastors and other church leaders from gleaning viable insights from the nontheological domains of business leadership studies or other social sciences. 

 As Anglican theologian, the Right Reverend Martyn Percy, says of contextual theology, “[It] is inherently receptive to contemporary culture, science and the arts. It is concerned with freedom, is first and foremost concerned with pursuing wisdom and the truth wherever it is to be found. So there is therefore no fundamental or absolute discontinuity between the truth that is out there and the truth of Christianity.” 

Pastoral leaders can benefit from the integration of other disciplines into a theologically based leadership framework. The key for Christian leaders is to understand that the prism of truth begins with God as “he himself is the highest and first truth.”