In my previous post, I introduced a key aspect of discipleship that comes from Paul’s N.T. letter to the Ephesians.
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I recently read a great book on discipleship titled Hero Maker. It’s by a pastor named Dave Ferguson. The book's premise is that the pastor's role is not to be the “hero” in his church – it’s to be a “hero maker.”
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A piece I read from pastor and author Mark Batterson grabbed my attention last week and it has yet to let me go. It has to do with vision.
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Vision is a key component of leadership. However, as author Ray Pritchard once said, “Good leaders have a vision; better leaders share a vision; the best leaders invite others to join them in spreading this vision.”
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Let’s be honest. Most of us don’t love staff meetings. They are often boring, too long, and sometimes even irrelevant. And yet, we all know that staff meetings are a must if our teams are going to have any chance of staying on the same page.
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The thought comes to every pastor sooner or later. Should I stay in my current role in my current church or is it time for me to go?
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In an interview conducted by The Christian Standard, college president Bryce Jessup said that the key to his stellar run as a leader boiled down to one line: “Dream a dream and build a team.”
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It’s one thing to dream of changing a culture – it’s another thing to see it happen.
We’ve all seen how even the most noble of ideas can fail to launch successfully. (Believe me, I can testify to literally scores of “great strategies” that I launched from the Cape Canaveral of my imagination over the years – all too many of which ended up sputtering into the Atlantic Ocean of failure.)
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