A Word to the Wise by Mac Lake
Leadership development is not fast, easy, and linear.
Top 3 Challenges (Reasons pastors are not discipling leaders)
You get to choose your pain – the current pain of a lack of leaders, etc., or the pain of a leadership pipeline.
Use a Transformational Approach to Leadership Development
Dumping information doesn’t produce transformation.
Think smaller, not bigger, slower, not faster.
Strategy:
Individual development: Prepare
Team Development: Equip
Organizational Development: Inspire
Triad of Development That Leads to Transformation:
Knowledge, Experience, Coaching
Mac Lake, 1.28.25, Georgia Baptist AMS Retreat
Leadership development is not fast, easy, and linear.
Top 3 Challenges (Reasons pastors are not discipling leaders)
- Fear
- Inexperience
- Pride (an unwillingness to train others because of a desire for control)
You get to choose your pain – the current pain of a lack of leaders, etc., or the pain of a leadership pipeline.
Use a Transformational Approach to Leadership Development
Dumping information doesn’t produce transformation.
Think smaller, not bigger, slower, not faster.
Strategy:
Individual development: Prepare
Team Development: Equip
Organizational Development: Inspire
Triad of Development That Leads to Transformation:
Knowledge, Experience, Coaching
Mac Lake, 1.28.25, Georgia Baptist AMS Retreat
Here are Four Things to Know this Week:
1. A Good Word to Preachers (and Ultimately to Other Church Workers) from H. B. Charles (Chuck Lawless)
2. George Liele: The World’s First Baptist Missionary (Baptist Press)
3. A Missing Piece of Calling Out Potential Pastors (Chuck Lawless; Kentucky Today)
4. Five Reasons Millennial Pastors Are Not Moving to Larger Churches (Thom Rainer)
Thank you for reading my blog. I hope it is helpful to you.
Please share it or certain articles that you believe would bless your Pastors.
To the praise of His glory,
Ray
1. A Good Word to Preachers (and Ultimately to Other Church Workers) from H. B. Charles (Chuck Lawless)
2. George Liele: The World’s First Baptist Missionary (Baptist Press)
3. A Missing Piece of Calling Out Potential Pastors (Chuck Lawless; Kentucky Today)
4. Five Reasons Millennial Pastors Are Not Moving to Larger Churches (Thom Rainer)
Thank you for reading my blog. I hope it is helpful to you.
Please share it or certain articles that you believe would bless your Pastors.
To the praise of His glory,
Ray
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