Equipping Leaders To Multiply
Have you ever considered whether your leadership falls into the category of a “boss” approach versus a “coach” approach? It’s an interesting distinction when you begin to play out the trajectory of the leaders under your supervision as a “boss.” With a God-directed calling, a clear mission, and a vision for fruitful discipleship as a pastor, your ministry simply cannot afford to miss out on the power of developing more leaders who will carry out…Continue Reading
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I’ll never forget the first time I met one-on-one with Dr. Howard Hendricks, one of my leadership heroes. I had waited nearly a month to get on his schedule and finally was slotted for 15 minutes to sit with him in his office. I entered his office a little starstruck. And I started talking. What seemed like five minutes later, he looked at me and said “Mac, do you have a question for me? We…Continue Reading
Mike got into student ministry because he loved Jesus, loved teenagers, and wanted to disciple students to live Christ-centered lives. As he stood before his group of volunteer leaders with a handful of weighty ministry decisions and the people in the room waiting for him to lead, he wondered how he went from his simple vision for serving as a youth pastor to the weight he felt of leading a team. The one thing he…Continue Reading
You haven’t fully made a disciple until your disciple has made a disciple. When we define discipleship as a class one completes or merely an “introduction” to walking with Jesus, we castrate the power of the process Jesus intended us to experience. When you read the gospels and watch Jesus disciple his twelve, the process is powerful, practical, radical, and transformational. So much so that these men were compelled to repeat the process with others.…Continue Reading
I think we’d all agree that words have power. But it’s when you see words change someone in a single moment that you’re reminded of the need to use words more generously and strategically. It doesn’t take many words to change the trajectory of a leader’s life. It just takes the right words spoken in the right moments. Solomon says, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue.”(Proverbs 18:21) I was leading a…Continue Reading