Breaking Leadership Barriers

In chapter one of Leadership Explosion I talk about the barriers to preparing leaders for the battle. One of those barriers is “Christian Education.” The following three paragraphs come from Leadership Explosion (pp. 24-25). The Christian education in many...

Passing the Baton

by Steve Cordle “Passing the baton” is often  used as a metaphor for developing leaders. While the image might have limitations, it does communicate two ideas which are vital to development of new leaders: proximity and hand-off. So here are a few...

Leadership Eyes

I appreciated the responses to Monday’s post about leadership development. Adrian Barker commented that he has yet to be in a church/cell setting that effectively developed leaders. In the third paragraph below I mention the example of Peter, who had a similar...

Scan the Ditches

Yesterday, Joel wrote about how the future leadership of your cell/church is in the harvest.  He quoted Matthew 9:36:  “He [Christ] felt great pity for the crowds that came, because their problems were so great and they didn’t know where to go for...

Harvest Workers

In the next few blogs I’d like to take selected quotes from my book Leadership Explosion. The following four paragraphs comes from the introduction: So often we see the multitude but don’t contemplate their awful state. Jesus did more than analyze the...