Leadership Topic

How many remember when churches only had wooden pews with no padding? Do you remember when cars, houses, and churches had no air conditioning? I remember as a boy that if we lost the key to our back door, we went down to the five and ten cent store and bought another one—you simply had to tell the clerk if your key had one, two, or three prongs on it.

In Developing the Leaders Around You, we see that the test of leadership is not how many followers do I have, but how many leaders am I developing. If we as ministers are able to effectively take those who are following us and develop them to become leaders in the church, we have effectively multiplied our ministry.

Summer is one of the best times for making memories and becoming more productive. The longer evening hours make for great family and ministry time, and the changes in our routines that happen around this time of year, are the perfect opportunity to take a fresh look at our goals and plan our priorities.

I remember when people began to call me pastor for the very first time. It was a title that I had to adjust to; I wasn’t accustomed to being called anything other than my name. It didn’t, however, take me long to realize that there was a great difference between the mere title of pastor and the fulfillment of the position.