Thanks to Gary’s post, I found Tally’s blog and in particular, this post on leadership, titled Who are you leading? Here’s a taste of it:
One of my personal leadership challenges for 2005 has been to begin duplicating myself in other lay-leaders within our church. In our first ministry year I didn’t ‘do everything’ but I didn’t reproduce myself either. I set up leaders over ministry areas and let them go. That’s fine to get the ball moving when you have no money and ‘need’ the basics (music, nursery, children) but it is most definately NOT the way to grow a healthy ministry for the long-haul. As we approached our second year (we’re now in our 15th month), I knew that I needed to spend this year INTENTIONALLY reproducing myself as a leader (think Mitosis).
It didn’t take much with this blog to realize that it is one that I need to add to my blogroll. Tally has a lot of good insight to share on leadership and the challenges of leading and growing a young church. Check him out!