ABSTRACT
Friendship-leadership praxis is a tensive reality in light of the church’s current location in a creation not yet all that it will be. This concluding chapter turns these potential tensions into an opportunity to grapple with the articulation of rules of art, offering constructive guidance for practitioners in the task of implementing friendship-leadership praxis within a groaning creation. The chapter then closes by celebrating the other reality: friendship-leadership praxis as prophetic hope. For we are, in Ray S. Anderson’s words, on ‘the threshold of the … eschaton’ and, as previous chapters have established, the responsibility of ecclesial leadership is to direct the church towards that eschatological end. Friendship-leadership, by forming the imagination of leaders regarding that end in the context of a praxis which is itself ever-deepening participation in that end, thus constitutes the active prophetic hope of a world to come.
