At today’s Staff Meeting for West Ridge Church, Tony Morgan interviewed Mac Lake on leadership. Mac is the new Chief Launch Officer for Launch Network. Launch is dedicated to training and starting new churches that will change their community for Christ. He is passionate about developing leaders and helping churches develop a leadership culture. He believes one of the greatest things a new church can do is work to create this culture from the beginning of the planting phase.
Mac came up with 7 principles for how Jesus raised up the leaders around him after reading straight through the gospels looking through a lens of leadership development.
1) Confidence – Jesus saw people for what they could be, not just who they were at the time.
2) Connection – Jesus had a strong relational connection with the people he invested in.
Mac refers to the two things above as the central ingredients of leadership development.
3) Content – He gave them parables and stories to go talk about. They had things to learn and grow with during their time away from Him. Their leadership development was not totally dependent on their time with him.
4) Coaching – When Peter sank in the water Jesus asked him, “Why did you doubt?” while he was still in the water. He didn’t wait to ask him when he got back in the boat. He coached him in the middle of his experience.
5) Challenges – Jesus put the disciples into situations where they had to practice their leadership apart from him.
6) Cluster – Jesus created an environment where the disciples could connect with one another peer to peer.
7) Conference (Large group learning) – Throughout the year Jesus had gatherings where thousands would show up. The gatherings were so compelling that people would not even leave to go eat.
Mac shared that leadership is a messy process that requires discipline. I couldn’t agree more.
For more on Mac’s thoughts on Leadership visit http://maclakeonline.com
Everyone Belongs,
Paul
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