“You need some sort of mentor here. You need someone to walk with this [new leader].”
“I think there really does need to be some deliberate cultivation of leaders.”
“Maybe they’ve been in a particular role for a few years and they’ve clearly mastered it. And there’s a sense in which it’s prospering. Can I now think of something else where it would be an opportunity for them to grow and to be a blessing to others?”
“The whole idea of delegation—a number of people think, ‘You know what, it will be quicker to do it myself.’ Well, it probably would, but in the long run, if you’re going to be doing anything of any sort of scale, you can’t do it all yourself.”
“There is a surprising degree of value in writing [a vision statement] down, and it is ideally one sentence.”
“If you can say, here is our vision statement, you can use that multiple times in terms of communication to newcomers, communication in the life of the church, communication in your board meetings. It’s a way of saying, ‘Here’s where we think God’s taking us.’”
“Having that [vision] statement—here’s who we are and here’s where we’re going—having those two side by side, that really helped us, because we don’t actually want to see everyone become an evangelical in the Anglican tradition, wonderful as that is. That’s not the vision.”
“A stage is something that you start and finish before you get to the next stage. A phase might continue.”
“Cultivating leaders, you are always doing that. That never stops. But the vision/discernment piece, that probably isn’t happening all the time.”
“Remember it from the start: You are not in this role for a lifetime. And when you’re going in, you’re going in because you’re called in, we believe, and you’re called in to do a task, and there will be a time when the task is done and it’s time to move on.”
“You’ve got to actually do the everyday stuff. It’s not just, constantly communicate the vision and it’s just going to happen.”
“It’s in the implementation of plans that you see the most marvelous interventions of God.”
“I do think the key question is, ‘Is my work done?’ You believe you’re called into that role by God. You’ve been praying. You’ve been discerning. Others have been discerning it with you. You’re called into that job. You’ve got to kind of think, ‘Ok, yes. Have I done the job?’”
“You need to have people around you whose insights you trust who can help you think, ‘Am I the right person to do this job? Have I done what God’s called me to do, or is it time to move somewhere else?’”
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Wycliffe Hall
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“Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think” by Dr. Arthur Brooks in The Atlantic
