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Leadership development is the natural outflow of your discipleship pathway. It has been referred to as a leadership pipeline, but we must be careful to make sure this is a mobilizing of leaders to the mission of Jesus first and foremost. It is more than raising up workers for the Sunday experience and the ministry teams in your church. The goal is not completion or reaching a goal, but living missionally by multiplying disciples, multiplying leaders and multiplying churches. Lead yourself, ...
“The elders who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor, especially those whose work is preaching and teaching” (I Tim. 5:17 NIV).
I was just thinking about a man who has had a tremendous impact on the churches of the BMA of America — Jerry Kidd.
A south Arkansas couple, working a cottonfield near Hope, was expecting a child. As they worked, some strange and...