Writings on Christian leadership and leader development by Malcolm Webber
In our last Letter, we saw that over the last 20-30 years, there has been considerable focus around the world on evangelism and church planting, producing an extraordinary number of people coming to Christ and new churches being planted. Of course, this is great cause for rejoicing. However, there has not been corresponding attention [...]
Malcolm Webber
In our previous Letter, we presented a summary of the “5C Goal” and the “4D Process” of healthy leader development. As we saw, Jesus did not simply sit his emerging leaders down in a classroom for months on end and lecture them. Instead He designed an extraordinary collage of learning experiences for them:
Malcolm Webber
In most Western organizations today, we love specialization and compartmentalization. Consequently, as we have already mentioned, it is common for us to entirely delegate the task of leadership development to some “specialist” person or group – whether inside or outside the organization itself. We identify the emerging leader who needs [...]
Malcolm Webber
An ancient African proverb says, “It takes a village to raise a child.” Similarly, it takes a spiritual community or family to build a leader.
Malcolm Webber
The leader needs to be connected with four kinds of community: his family, his local church, the various ministry teams of which he is a part, and the world.
Malcolm Webber
Community serves a twofold place in the life of the leader: The healthy leader is built in community. The healthy leader leads in community.
Malcolm Webber
This series of Letters examines Jesus’ method of building leaders.
Malcolm Webber
This Letter continues to examine how Jesus built His leaders.
Malcolm Webber