Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory

by Tod Bolsinger

We can and must inspire the next generation to go where we have not. We can create the kinds of communities and organizations that encourage risk, humility, learning and experimentation.6 We can read, study, encourage and embolden emerging leaders by offering them prayers, support and opportunity. We can remind them that maps change, that mental models are always incomplete, that the leaders of the future are the learners, not the experts, of today. We can call them to experiment, and we can create the conditions for a church that is always, always, always focused on continually being transformed into the very likeness of Jesus. And—if nothing else—we can sound the call to the Lewises, Clarks and Sacagaweas of the church, who will be the true adventurers for the mission of God in a rapidly changing world.