I could go on and on! The point I want to make is this: the average church isn't producing leaders. We think that there is a never-ending stream of talent to buy in from outside, but there isn't. The stream is drying up. We have reached a tipping point of monumental proportions. Either we will produce leaders or we will die.
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Contrary to this meekness, is each party stigmatizing one another with odious names, as has been done in many parts of New England; which tends greatly to widen and perpetuate the breach
Edwards, "Thoughts on Revival”
Read moreSpiritually Fresh Leaders #2
Whenever I see a worn-out, burnt-out Christian leader, I will give odds of 10 to 1 that their church rarely thinks about honouring them, submitting to them, following them or obeying them. It's more likely that they will have been resisted, criticised or poorly paid. It's likely that they will have had their godly dreams for the church expunged by committees or church-meetings that think that democratic caution, rather than following leaders, is the way to go in church.
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if you were to list what we might call ‘freshness busters’ (things which typically trip Christian leaders up) what would be included?
Read moreLeadership Succession
The development of godly leadership is the single greatest question facing us over the next generation. Your church you can put money, manpower and resources into a host of other important things, but if in 20 years time you have no leaders, all those other ministries will eventually die. Not to take decisions right now to develop leaders in your church is a fatal false economy. We need to start lighting leadership fires in as many people as we possibly can.
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