Authentic Credible Leadership

This is a study of authentic credibility as demonstrated through John’s description Jesus’ words and actions in the Farewell Discourses (John 13-17). Identifying need for further research on relationship between leadership (Williams et al., 2018) building from Kouzes Posner’s (2011) six disciplines leader credibility—discover yourself, appreciate constituents, affirm shared values, develop capacity, serve purpose, sustain hope—and Hemby’s (2007) credibility, we espouse that moral foundations promote while not dimensioning competence. After thorough literature review leadership, explored how Jesus modeled John 13 – 17. Reconfiguring disciples biblical narrative, identified themes by Jesus: prioritizing Kingdom identity, balancing criticism optimism, valuing truth, intentional follower development, purposeful posture, sustainable, spiritual hope. The applied systematic approach to so each five chapters discourses were thoroughly reviewed provide specific instances where credibility. provides fresh perspective viewing concept biblical, Christian worldview.