Tip #24: Multiply
January 13, 2008 – 3:21 pm
The scope of your ministry is only limited by your multiplication of leadership. You cannot possibly hang out with every student, solve every problem, answer every question, plan every event. Fight the prideful belief that no one can do it the way you can. Carefully select key adults in your ministry that you can entrust with ministry and pour into them as disciples and leaders. Teach them to do likewise with students. They can do ministry at times and places, and with kids and families you are not. They can connect with people you don’t. They can be places you can’t. By entrusting the message to equipped and reliable leaders, you have multiplied the ministry to which you are called.
Don’t give in to the fallacy that only you can lead. If you take the time to teach the standards, expectations and impart the vision, yoy can empower leaders who can do it as well as you (and maybe better!). This is not the warm body principle. It is the multiplication principle.
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