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Discipleship involves teaching people, through information and demonstration, to love and lead like Jesus. Paul said, “Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ” (I Cor. 11:1). Just dumping information does not produce transformation. The root of the problem is a lack of discipleship, and the fruit it produces is a lack of multiplying disciples and leaders. Think of shifting your focus from doing to developing, with your eyes fixed on the truth that leadership development is an ...
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...