In the last decade or so, there has been an increasing realization in the church around the world – especially in areas of fast church growth – of the need to build leaders. In response, there has been a steady growth of “leader development ministries.” But, what exactly does a “leader development ministry” do?
Malcolm Webber
Paradigm Shifts Our last several Letters presented significant paradigm changes regarding leader development that are necessary to deal with the crises of quantity and quality of church leaders around the world. It is clear that these all require significant changes of thinking – or, “paradigm shifts.”
Malcolm Webber
A New Paradigm Our last two Letters set forth several significant paradigm changes regarding leader development that are necessary to deal with the crises of quantity and quality of church leaders around the world.
Malcolm Webber
As we have seen, we need a new paradigm of leader development. We cannot keep building leaders the same way while merely trying to do it faster and on a larger scale. More of the same will not do! We need to transform the way leaders are built. We need a new paradigm.
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
For the last 20-30 years, there has been a great deal of focus around the world on evangelism and church planting. Some of the contributing reasons for this have been:
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
The 5C Goal of Leader Development According to Robert Clinton, over 70 percent of leaders who successfully climb the ladder of leadership influence do not finish well. Some dramatically fail, precipitating public scandal, while the majority of leaders who lose their influence just fade quietly into obscurity. They fall short because in [...]
Malcolm Webber
It takes a long time to build a truly qualified leader. So, what should be our goal for the participants in “leadership training” of some kind?
Malcolm Webber
There was once a young man who was exceptionally bright. When he was ready, his father went to enroll him in a fine university and said to the President of that school, “Since my son is so gifted, would it be possible for him to finish the courses in less than the normal time?” “It all depends on what you want your son [...]
Malcolm Webber