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Equipping Leaders To Multiply

Category: Discipleship

How to Lead Authentically

A Pastor’s Guide to Healthy Transparency Leadership is often associated with strength, confidence, and authority. However, vulnerability is a trait that should not be overlooked in leadership. Vulnerability can help leaders build stronger relationships with their team members, foster trust and authenticity, and create a more positive and supportive work environment. This is particularly important in the context of the church, if leaders desire to cultivate leaders who multiply with impact.  In this blog, we…Continue Reading

Four Keys To Building a Strong Foundation for Leadership Development

If you want to unlock the full potential of your organization and build a strong foundation for growth, then you must prioritize leadership development. But where do you start? Here are four thoughts and a free resource you can take advantage of today! First, you have to do the work of creating a culture of leadership development. Reshaping the culture requires changing the way you talk about development. Leadership development is less about a program…Continue Reading

Is Leadership Development Biblical?

I get asked this question more than any other: is leadership development biblical?  Leadership development is a topic that is widely discussed in the business world, but what about in the church? Can we say that Jesus was developing leaders, or was He making disciples?  My answer may surprise you – it’s both. You see, leadership development is simply the discipling of leaders. It’s impossible to separate the two. I’ve often run into this issue…Continue Reading

Leadership Development for Your Staff

Mike got into student ministry because he loved Jesus, loved teenagers, and wanted to disciple students to live Christ-centered lives. As he stood before his group of volunteer leaders with a handful of weighty ministry decisions and the people in the room waiting for him to lead, he wondered how he went from his simple vision for serving as a youth pastor to the weight he felt of leading a team. The one thing he…Continue Reading

Powerless Discipleship

You haven’t fully made a disciple until your disciple has made a disciple. When we define discipleship as a class one completes or merely an “introduction” to walking with Jesus, we castrate the power of the process Jesus intended us to experience. When you read the gospels and watch Jesus disciple his twelve, the process is powerful, practical, radical, and transformational. So much so that these men were compelled to repeat the process with others.…Continue Reading