{"id":715,"date":"2007-03-07T18:24:49","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T01:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/2007-03\/07\/developing-leaders-to-lead-part-2\/"},"modified":"2007-03-07T18:24:49","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T01:24:49","slug":"developing-leaders-to-lead-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/church\/developing-leaders-to-lead-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing Leaders to Lead (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/2007-02\/18\/developing-leaders-to-lead\/\" title=\"Permanent Link to &quot;Developing Leaders to lead&quot;\" rel=\"bookmark\">Developing Leaders to lead<\/a>  from Harbor.&nbsp; How do you develop leaders at your church?&nbsp; This is a common challenge for churches, who must utilize the volunteer pool to lead important ministries in their church.&nbsp; Harbor Presbyterian, Kaleo Church and a group of other church planters meet monthly to discuss these types of challenges.&nbsp; Here are a few thoughts from this meeting:<\/p>\n<p><strong>3 Questions to ask prior to selecting leaders<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Can they do the job?&nbsp; Do they have the capability, giftedness, track record, competency, and theological training.&nbsp; NORMATIVE<\/p>\n<p>2. Will they do the job? Character\/Motivation EXISTENTIAL<\/p>\n<p>3. Do they fit?&nbsp; Compatibility to co-workers, fit in context\/culture SITUATIONAL &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Systemic &amp; Personal Leadership Development<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How are you developing leaders personally and does your church have a systemic leadership development component built into its design? Your church should be developing leaders through the whole church and ministry process.&nbsp; Jesus did this both and created twelve disciples who had a group of 120 when the church waited for the Holy Spirit.&nbsp; There also was a 1 to 10 leader to person ratio.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moving from Pragmatism to Prayer in Recruiting Leaders<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pray prior to meeting with a potential ministry volunteer who you have identified through some personal connection. Avoid the pragmatism of seeking to just &#039;delegate a task&#039;.&nbsp; Tell them based on your knowledge of them why you believe this ministry is a good fit for them, their personal growth and use of gifts.&nbsp; Ask them to pray if they will respond to this call.&nbsp; Be motivated to do this because of love for them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is based on the Developing Leaders to lead from Harbor.&nbsp; How do you develop leaders at your church?&nbsp; This is a common challenge for churches, who must utilize the volunteer pool to lead important ministries in their church.&nbsp; Harbor Presbyterian, Kaleo Church and a group of other church planters meet monthly to discuss these types of challenges.&nbsp; Here are a few thoughts from this meeting: 3 Questions to ask prior to selecting leaders 1. Can they do the job?&nbsp; Do they have the capability, giftedness, track record, competency, and theological training.&nbsp; NORMATIVE 2. Will they do the job? Character\/Motivation EXISTENTIAL 3. Do they fit?&nbsp; Compatibility to co-workers, fit in context\/culture SITUATIONAL &nbsp; Systemic &amp; Personal Leadership Development How are you developing leaders personally and does your church have a systemic leadership development component built into its design? Your church should be developing leaders through the whole church and ministry process.&nbsp; Jesus did this both and created twelve disciples who had a group of 120 when the church waited for the Holy Spirit.&nbsp; There also was a 1 to 10 leader to person ratio. Moving from Pragmatism to Prayer in Recruiting Leaders Pray prior to meeting with a potential ministry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}