{"id":8592,"date":"2012-06-19T01:05:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T01:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/2012\/06\/19\/q7-4\/"},"modified":"2012-06-19T01:05:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T01:05:24","slug":"q7-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/content\/q7-4\/","title":{"rendered":"How can leaders identify those with leadership potential and help them move into leadership roles of their own?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church is not giving rise to many leaders. In fact, we aren&#8217;t finding enough younger leaders to replace retiring Boomers. Again this week, I got a call from a good friend, a great pastor (age 59) who asked if I knew any young leaders to recommend as his eventual successor. As he put it, &#8220;We&#8217;ve talked for years about getting someone to follow me; oops!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>I do NOT believe the current lack of <em>leaders-on-the-horizon<\/em> is a generational phenomenon. It&#8217;s not as though pastors have been generating a surplus of leaders over the last 30 years. Instead, they&#8217;ve been praying for God to send ready-made leaders to them. As a pastor whose modest-size church daughtered 37 congregations over 22 years, may I share my perspectives about finding and releasing leaders?<\/p>\n\n<p>First of all, I never understood church as a place where believers go primarily to worship and be fed. Those are vital components, but church is a training venue to prepare believers for practical and spiritual ministry to people of world (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Acts+10%3A38\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"view Scripture passage at BibleGateway.com\" rel=\"noopener\">Acts 10:38<\/a>). Church is for cooking lessons, not great meals.<\/p>\n\n<p>Secondly, God seems to entrust His work to unlikely, inadequate candidates like Moses, Mary, and Paul. I doubt they ever thought of themselves as leadership-material. That&#8217;s why I didn&#8217;t classify people as either those with or without leadership potential. The least in the kingdom of God is (potentially) more of a spiritual powerhouse than the prophets of old (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew+11%3A11\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"view Scripture passage at BibleGateway.com\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew 11:11<\/a>). If we define a spiritual leader as someone with a Hollywood personality and a commanding stage presence, then I will concede that we are not all leaders. But if spiritual leadership is more akin to being a parent than a performer, I rest my case in saying that every believer is capable of becoming a capable spiritual leader.<\/p>\n\n<p>Third, I do not believe leaders are sent from heaven; I think they are made on earth. It&#8217;s a &#8220;good thing&#8221; for anyone to aspire to spiritual leadership (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1%20Timothy+3%3A1-%3A\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"view Scripture passage at BibleGateway.com\" rel=\"noopener\">1 Timothy 3:1<\/a>). Anyone who is faithful in little things can become &#8220;master of more&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew+25%3A21\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"view Scripture passage at BibleGateway.com\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew 25:21<\/a>). Leadership is developmental, not innate. Intended to grow into &#8220;oaks of righteousness,&#8221; disciples should eventually gain a reputation as &#8220;priests&#8221; and &#8220;ministers&#8221; because God uses them to restore others (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Isaiah+61%3A1-61%3A6\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"view Scripture passage at BibleGateway.com\" rel=\"noopener\">Isaiah 61:1-6<\/a>). My assignment was simply to put more ministry into the hands of an increasing number of more spiritually-capacitated people. That led to our surplus of leaders at every level of our church.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church is not giving rise to many leaders. In fact, we aren&#8217;t finding enough younger leaders to replace retiring Boomers. Again this week, I got a call from a good friend, a great pastor (age 59) who asked if I knew any young leaders to recommend as his eventual successor. 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