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Your church should be a leadership locus.
the core of where action happens. The locus is a strong concentration, the anchor, or the center of gravity.
The Church is uniquely set apart to develop and deploy leaders for the glory of God and the advancement of the gospel.
Leadership, apart from the work of
God, cannot produce true flourishing or eternal results.
then human leadership must be understood as God-initiated.
humanity to steward and cultivate (Gen. 1—2);
God has chosen to make His multifaceted wisdom known through the Church (Eph. 3:10),
leaders developed in the Church and by the Church are leaders who are developed for the world.
The world is impacted
and improved by the leaders the Church develo...
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essential role of the Church in maturing people in Christ.
The full extent of discipleship is the development of disciples who are able to lead and develop others, not merely people who gather together for worship once a week.
Notice we are not saying that the locus of the Church is leadership development, but that the locus of leadership development is the Church.
The center of the Church is the gospel, but the center of leadership development must
be the Church—meaning, that the leaders who will ultimately transform communities and change the world come from the Church.
True leaders are servants who die to themselves so others may flourish. True leaders go forth, not for themselves, but for others.
His dying words capture the essence of the Christian faith: “It is finished!” (John 19:30). His sacrifice is final, the work is complete, and our salvation is secure.
His service to us is the example He has instructed us
to emulate.
In His Kingdom, the hungry are full, the poor are rich, the last are first, and “whoever wants to be great among you must become your servant” (Matt. 20:26).
As Christ-followers everything we lead can be used for His glory.
to make much of Jesus through our lives and to make disciples of all nations.
No one should outpace the Church in developing leaders because no one else has the assurance that their contribution will last, that t...
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The cost is great, but the reward is greater. We get Jesus. He is our great joy.
everything is loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. —Wolfgang von Goethe
Quitter Community Church (QCC):
The word leader at this church means volunteer with the job of doing whatever everyone else doesn’t remember or want to do.
“the two worlds don’t need to intersect.”
a place for duty and faithfulness.
Church of the Flywheel:
major problem . . . no one cares.
The plans are met with blank stares. The “pipelines” are empty. The slogans and nudges from the platform to “own your development” fall on deaf ears.
Talk Louder Community Church:
Still, strangely enough, every time there is a staff opening the leaders at Talk Louder have to look outside the body.
“Come to our church, get plugged in, and volunteer to help us do church even better.”
no more likely to be effective leaders at home or in the marketplace than they were before joining the church.
For leaders to be developed consistently and intentionally, churches must possess conviction, culture, and constructs.
Churches that consistently produce leaders have a strong conviction to develop leaders, a healthy culture for leadership development, and helpful constructs to systematically and intentionally build leaders.
Conviction is at the center of the framework because without conviction to develop others, leadership development will not occur.
share this conviction,
must become part of the very culture of the church itself.
Culture is the shared beliefs and values that driv...
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a group of ...
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Wise leaders implement constructs to help unlock the full potential of a church that seeks to be a center for developing leaders.
systems, processes, and programs developed to help develop leaders.
Conviction and culture must be the starting point; but if constructs are not provided, then intentional and ongoing leadership development is merely wishful thinking.
