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    Babij, Joseph M

    01/2014
    Dissertation

    This Doctor of Ministry Project was designed to condition men in spiritual warfare and prepare them for battle ready leadership. The project also sought to incorporate the valid topic of spiritual warfare into a local church's leadership curriculum. The project was administered over a period of six weeks in one local Bible church among a group of thirty men, ages eighteen through sixty, of different backgrounds and levels of spiritual growth. The plan for this project was to set forth one overarching goal with four objectives. The goal was to build knowledge of the basic biblical principles of spiritual warfare in order to raise awareness of the spiritual battle, dispel ignorance, and prepare men to submit biblically designed personal battle strategies. The project report begins with an overview of the four spiritual warfare models, identifying the classical model as the one most aligned with this project. Following the overview, the report presents some cultural and philosophical encumbrances to spiritual warfare as well as the importance of thinking Christianly and of trusting in the sufficiency of Scripture to secure a strong theological foundation for spiritual conflict. After this foundational information, the actual project consists of two sections. The first section relates the implementation of steps in the pedagogical process: lecturing, questioning, reading, journaling, and partnering. The second part of the project introduces the main measuring instrument used in evaluation: Journaling on the Run. These daily journaling exercises were designed to expand the understanding of each student and probe the heart. The journaling booklets provided the majority of affective data to determine goal accomplishment. The key conclusion of this project is that when the men were given the basic principles of spiritual warfare as delineated from Scripture, they were more able to identify temptations and Satanic lies. The men were also more confident to identify the specific Scriptures to use in resistance of the devil. The project results reveal that twenty-seven men submitted their own uniquely designed personal battle strategies against the world, the flesh, and Satan, thus satisfactorily fulfilling this project's overarching goal. Consequently, after collecting and synthesizing the raw data against the goal and objectives of this project, it became evident that this study did raise awareness, dispel ignorance, and begin to prepare men for battle ready leadership.