Last night at our Leadership PITstop meeting I shared the following teaching. Here’s the outline if you weren’t there:
The MOST Challenging Person to Lead
Who is it? YOURSELF, of course!
Without question the MOST challenging person to lead is ourselves, and yet self-leadership is absolutely essential if we are going to be used by God.
Most Christian leaders can identify with the common experience of trying at times to “minister from a dry well”. Those times when you are required to instruct or inspire others, but you’re scratching around to find something, because your own soul is so lean. You’re spiritually dry. Inevitably, this is the result of a failure in self-leadership. (You’ve stopped growing, stopped Bible study and meditation, stopped communing with God in prayer.)
Recently our Deacon Board spent time discussing this maxim: “Grow the Leaders … Grow the Church!” If we want to see the church grow (in health, strength, quality, and resources – as well as numerically) then it has to begin first with the growth of the leaders.
