The Making of a Doyen Leader: An Expository of Leadership & Success

After an examination of the term and the careful consideration of the leadership, I recognized the necessity to pursue such a place in every area of my life, marriage, business, ministry, and parenting. My desire through this expository is to stimulate the mind of the readers to acquiesce to the methodology of achieving a place of prominence in their lives by pursuing a greater knowledge of God through Systematic Theology and not by the obtaining of a title or position of prominence only. Systematic Theology as stated by Elmer L. Townes in his book "Theology for Today" takes the material furnished by Biblical and Historical Theology, and with this material seeks to build up into an organic and consistent whole all our knowledge of God and the relations between God and the universe, whether this knowledge be originally derived from nature or from the scriptures. Ray Bakke's book "A Theology as Big as The City" speaks to us on this wise, "this principle seems clear: the further one goes into the avant-garde frontier of creative ministry, the more important it becomes that we be deeply rooted in the biblical, theological and historical tradition.

This writing will also explore an important observation of relevance within doyen leadership to avoid self-intoxication of one's perception of greatness and prominence. Contemporary Theology analyzes current thinking regarding Christianity. Inasmuch as Christianity must always be expressed in contemporary terms, the validity or non-validity of each person's expression of Christianity must be examined and verified. Within each theological dispensation, a true measurement of doyen and relevance is clearly expressed by an individual's ambition to follow God, by the leading of the Holy Spirit, beyond the scrutiny of its generation, nationality, and ethnicity. If we consider the Apostle Paul to substantiate this argument, he writes in Philippians 3:14, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus, which offers an objective and subjective view of his pursuit in Christ. Objectively, he knows that God has called him, and he steadfastly commits his life to the fulfillment of that calling. However, subjectively it is clear that his desire to fulfill that calling has a deeper contrition and surrender to the Holy Spirit which affords him a revelation his counterparts did not have.

Bishop Tyrone Smith, D.TH is the Pastor & Founder of The Love Center in Baltimore, MD. He was born and raised in Owings Mills, MD and has served actively in church for over 30 years, faithfully in ministry for over 28 years, with 22 of those years as a pastor in the Maryland region. He was educated through the Baltimore Public School System where he graduated and later obtained his bachelor's degree in Theology. He completed his academic studies and holds a Master of Ministry in Leadership and satisfied all his academic requirements and graduated with his Doctoral Degree in Theology July 24, 2021. Consecrated to the sacred office of Bishop in the LORD'S Church in 2012, he serves as the Presiding Bishop of Prophetic Grace Episcopal Ecclesia, an organization he birthed with a specific desire to nurture and foster churches & leaders throughout the country.

He has a great respect for leadership and those he has served throughout the years. He attributes his early years of ministry to his first father in the faith, Dr. Herman Mack of Praise Temple Worship Center. As time has progressed, GOD sent him a man to nurture and father his life & destiny and honors him as his father in the faith now, Bishop Joseph A. McCargo Sr. Senior Pastor of the City of Hope International Worship Centre.

An entrepreneur with an exceptional grace for the 21st century marketplace, Bishop Smith is a Financial Advisor &
Credit Specialist with an Insurance Producer License in Maryland, Washington D.C., Pennsylvania, South Carolina
and Delaware. He's preparing to launch a Farmers Insurance Agency to provide auto, home, RV, and motorcycle insurance to combine his Life Insurance & Credit Agency into one office to provide financial & insurance services. He also owns & operates PGEE Graphic Design, a graphic and web designing company he founded in 2008 to provide an array of graphic, web, and media services across the country. He has served on the Board of Directors for Sanford Brown College as well as an Adjunct Professor for SBC, the Vice-President for the Baltimore Adolescent Treatment Guidance Organization a Treatment Foster Care/Child Placement Agency providing a full range of therapeutic and career development services to the youth (aged 10 and up) admitted into the program. However, the greatest accomplishment Bishop Smith relishes the most is his ardent love toward his wife and children. He is very happily married to Savonna Gooden-Smith, whom he married in November 2004, and they share in sincere & loving responsibility for their 3 sons: Dominic Jeriah, Jalen Takel, and Desten Tyvonne Smith. He is a humble but extremely confident man with a genuine vision for kingdom development.