Where Do Leaders Come From?
As a community, we believe that leaders must come from leaders. It is never optional to be committed to reproducing leaders, but critical. Or to put it another way, that is, "The fruit of a leader is another leader".
Developing Leaders Like Jesus Did
|
|
|
Here are some guiding statements on leadership development that grow out of the pattern of Jesus working with the first apprentices:
- I am modeling growth as a (7Fold Way) Follower of Jesus.
- I am responding to the Spirit's leading for my Disciple-Making context (Where? Who?).
- I am exercising spiritual discernment in identifying potential leaders. (note the shift from "I" to "We"...)
- We are developing others using the 7Fold pattern.
- We are mentoring to the Fourth Generation.
- We are training, refining & releasing leaders according to their gifts.
- We are participating in community on mission together.
|
Online Resources
|
|
|
Here are some links to explore more about apprenticeship:
Discerning Emerging Leaders article by Lyle Shrag
Explore Leadership articles from the Missional Church Network
Apprenticeship with Jesus, book excerpt by Gary Moon
Raising Leaders For The Harvest, by Neil Cole and Bob Logan (in our Kitchener On-loan Library)
|
Conversation
|
|
|
Questions? Please email them.
|