What Does Leadership Development Mean to You?
What difference should being Christ-followers make to how we develop leaders? What measuring sticks are we using to determine if it is being done well?
Join the discussion about the development and encouragement of local church leaders.
What difference should being Christ-followers make to how we develop leaders? What measuring sticks are we using to determine if it is being done well?
Dr. Bruce E. Winston currently serves as a professor, teaching in the Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership and Doctor of Strategic Leadership programs at Regent University. His paper "The Four Cs of Christian Leadership" creates a beautifully biblical framework for leadership development.
A simple square can serve as a profound reminder of the foundational pattern Jesus used for developing leadership in His disciples. It is a model that is easily applied to any relationship, setting, circumstance or demographic, and is infinitely flexible and scalable.
Do we leave enough space for imperfect people to feel 'called' to be leaders? Do the lists of character traits we seek in our pastors, elders, deacons, and ministry leaders get presented with hefty doses of grace?