There are some questions I already posted here from a five-part series on the Life Church blog about planting a church. There have already been some phenomenal comments in part I.
Time has passed faster than you imagined. You are now in the last season of your ministry (and life). You are looking forward to handing the ministry off to the next leader.
How do you make the transition? Where do you find the leader? (If you could pick the age of the next leader, how old would the leader be?)
In I Samuel 14, Saul builds this altar to God. But a chapter later he goes up to Carmel and builds a monument to himself. So how does a leader keep it as “thy kingdom come,” and not “my kingdom come?”
Is there any acceptance of nepotism in the New Testament, or is leadership succession and equipping based on something else?
What did Jesus do that prepared a group of only 11 men to do what they did?
In the next, and probably last, part I will try to tie it all together.
Cheers.
Nathan Gann
I’ll never forget reading Matthew Barnett’s comment on what God told him in the early days of the Dream Center in Los Angeles. He said “Never use your people to build your ministry, use your ministry to build your people.”
peace,
greg