10 Truths of Churches that Do a Great Job with Leadership Development (Part 2)
by Brent Dolfo
Ever wonder why some churches ministries grow and multiply rapidly and others don’t? While there are many factors, one of the key accelerants to planting more churches, starting more campuses, or deploying more people to impact a city is how diligent a church is in leadership development.
In the past few years, Leadership Network has run seven different large-church cohorts in leadership development. Each cohort has had a dozen large churches learning from one another’s models. To learn more about our latest group starting in April 2016, HUB: Leadership Development, click here.
I’ve had a chance to have a ringside seat learning from the best models that have reproduced leaders for kingdom expansion. In my first short blog, I laid out the first five factors that contribute to “fruitfulness” in leadership development. This week, we’ll look at the next five. Taken together, these ten principles form some of the best thinking in the church today on leadership development…
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If you say the word megachurch, most people think of a gigantic sanctuary like the 16,000-seat former stadium of the Houston Rockets, that hosts Lakewood Church, led by Joel Osteen.
On the one hand, every year sees an increase in the number of large-attendance churches. And the average total worship attendance at all campuses is also on the increase.
However, at the same time, the clear trend in large North American churches is that they’re also getting smaller in two ways…