Pentecostal leadership disputes in Zimbabwe: A pastoral challenge

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies

 
 
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Title Pentecostal leadership disputes in Zimbabwe: A pastoral challenge
 
Creator Mundhluri, Zephania Masango, Maake J.
 
Subject — pastors; trauma; internalisation; wounded; AFM; senior leaders; leadership; conflict
Description Conflicts in the Pentecostal church leadership have been growing since time immemorial. However, leadership disputes have become traumatic and tragic in Zimbabwe to the extent that junior pastors are committing suicide and killing each other because of these conflicts. The article uses the practical theological framework to explore the complex intersections of conflict within the Pentecostal church, analysing the various factors and dynamics contributing to these conflicts. This work examines and addresses the ramifications of a leadership conflict within the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM). The junior pastors, who have been impacted by the leadership dispute, have endured trauma stemming from the ongoing conflict among the church’s prominent leaders, which is the central focus of this study. To better understand the lived experience of trauma among these pastors, a qualitative research design was employed. Through purposeful sampling and face-to-face interviews, participants were given the opportunity to share their narratives of leadership trauma. The result is that junior pastors are internalising the trauma, which is affecting them spiritually, emotionally and physically in ministry. This article proposes a healing methodology utilising the Gerkin and Positive Deconstruction approach.Contribution: This study leverages a practical theological framework to examine the challenges of providing pastoral care for junior ministers who were impacted by leadership disputes within AFM thereby contributing to Pentecostal approaches to care.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor Department of Theology, Faculty of Practical Theology at University of Pretoria
Date 2024-08-29
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/hts.v80i1.9940
 
Source HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 80, No 1 (2024); 6 pages 2072-8050 0259-9422
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2024 Zephania Mundhluri, Maake J. Masango https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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