Ambidextrous Leadership

Abstract

Abstract:  The teaching of Dr. Martin Luther’s Two Kingdoms Theory is resurging with greater clarity and relevance at a crucial time in the life of a church experiencing decline and disconnection from its surrounding communities. A historical misunderstanding has been to think of these two kingdoms as basis for the separation of church and state. Dr. Nessan asserts that this teaching refers to the struggle between the forces of God’s Kingdom and the kingdom of evil. And God uses God’s right and left hands as two divine strategies to overcome evil and bring in the Kingdom. God works in and through the church and God works in and through civic society. God is ambidextrous.

Dr. Duran illustrates this teaching through the life and ministry of two dear colleagues, Dr. José David Rodríguez, and Dr. Jay Alanis. And, with gratitude for their ambidextrous leadership, he calls on all church leaders to experience greater vitality and capacity for ministry by participating in the actions of the right and left hands of an ambidextrous God.