A Word to the Wise: 3 Steps to Strengthen Your Leadership Development Strategy by Mac Lake
Strengthening your leadership development strategy starts with simple, intentional steps you can practice right now.
Here are three simple but powerful steps you can take today:
Be a leader worth following.
People don’t just follow vision, they follow spirit and skill. Psalm 78:72 reminds us that David “shepherded them with integrity of heart and guided them with skillful hands.” Leadership is both character and competency.
Pray about who to invest in.
Jesus spent an entire night in prayer before choosing the Twelve (Luke 6:12–13). Don’t just fill slots—seek God for the right people to pour into, and then give disproportionate time to a few in order to impact many.
Focus on transformation, not just information.
Dumping content into people doesn’t create change. Transformation happens when leaders are developed in both character and competency—when they’re equipped not just to run ministry tasks, but to live and lead like Jesus in every area of life.
Mac Lake, 3 Steps to Strengthen Your Leadership Development Strategy, 9.8.25
Strengthening your leadership development strategy starts with simple, intentional steps you can practice right now.
Here are three simple but powerful steps you can take today:
Be a leader worth following.
People don’t just follow vision, they follow spirit and skill. Psalm 78:72 reminds us that David “shepherded them with integrity of heart and guided them with skillful hands.” Leadership is both character and competency.
Pray about who to invest in.
Jesus spent an entire night in prayer before choosing the Twelve (Luke 6:12–13). Don’t just fill slots—seek God for the right people to pour into, and then give disproportionate time to a few in order to impact many.
Focus on transformation, not just information.
Dumping content into people doesn’t create change. Transformation happens when leaders are developed in both character and competency—when they’re equipped not just to run ministry tasks, but to live and lead like Jesus in every area of life.
Mac Lake, 3 Steps to Strengthen Your Leadership Development Strategy, 9.8.25
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Thank you for reading. Please share it with pastors and other AMSs you believe would benefit.
To the praise of His glory,
Ray
P. S. I also host the “SBCAL Podcast with Ray Gentry” where ever you get your podcasts.
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Thank you for reading. Please share it with pastors and other AMSs you believe would benefit.
To the praise of His glory,
Ray
P. S. I also host the “SBCAL Podcast with Ray Gentry” where ever you get your podcasts.
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