As the workload increases, the wise leader doesn’t get busier, he gets smarter. He asks for help. This is hard to do when you grow up with a ministry. When you start with a group of six or eight families, and it grows to one hundred, then three hundred, five hundred, then ultimately, fifteen hundred, the one who nurtured the original dream tends to want to keep the ministry small in philosophy. That control tendency is often reinforced by members who remember “the early days.” Yet a growing metropolitan ministry must learn to think in a metropolitan way with metropolitan dreams—not foolish,
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