INTRODUCTION

This course allows us to focus on statesmanship—it’s definition, attributes, and application in the political arena. Before doing so, we needto understand the extent to which statesmanshipand leadership overlap. Afterall, to be a statesman is to be a leader, but does that mean that all leaders are statesman? Before that question can be answered, we willlook at a basic (and Biblical) overview of the key ideasof leadership which may be relevant to our understanding of statesmanship. In doing so, it is hoped that the reader will look for points of personal application from the principles being discussed. Not all of us will be called to be statesman, but we are called to influence those around usand society as whole,for the betterand for God’s glory, which is at the foundation of statesmanship, and which, moreover,is what leadership is all about.