HELP! I Need More Leaders!
Why you already have everything you need in the people around you. Learn to see the Simons in your midst.
Set the scene. It’s Sunday morning. Two volunteers have already dropped out this week and it’s just you and the front-row nose picker against the world.
You’ve been talking to Darren’s long-lost cousins that are visiting just for the weekend, while also topping up the third refill because the pastor’s kid keeps drinking all the squash. You can’t help thinking to yourself, “HELP! I need more leaders.”
We’ve all been there- and we’ll likely be there again. But there are practices and principles we CAN put in place to raise leaders proactively, so a team thrives rather than merely survives. This is ultimately how we function as the Ephesians 4 ‘Equip the Saint’ Church God designed.
We look to Jesus for a lot of things. But one area we might look to Him less in- is leader raising.
Over the years I’ve seen a power shift happen when the leader stops exasperating the problem and instead re-engineers their posture from complain and strain to invest and train.
Matthew 4:18-20
While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Immediately they left their nets and followed him.
In the verses preceding this moments (verses 12-17) Jesus begins His ministry- but he has no one else building with Him. It’s just Him. Preaching to the crowds by the sea. He’s doing the home visits.
It’s small beginnings but as He ministers to the people, He has no apprentice. No one to run ProPresenter. No one to hit into the bridge at the end of His three points. No one (yet) to collect the offering plate. He’s operating without kingdom accomplices.
Here are three things that Jesus did when He had no one to build with…