10/16/2022
Organizations and churches say they want growth, but they want it the way they’ve always known it. They want it the safe way. The way that sticks to their customs and traditions of how things have always been. Jesus didn’t do that and we shouldn’t do that today as leaders either.
“Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John, although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples.” John 4:1-2
More disciples were getting baptized and it wasn’t Jesus who was doing the work. It was his disciples. The ministry was growing without the leader. The leader had empowered his team to do the work. The Pharisees didn’t like that.
Anytime you’re doing something significant for God there will be “Pharisees” just like the ones in Jesus’s day who will try and stop the momentum and want you to do it their way.
They don’t want growth, they want control.
Jesus’s ministry grew because the leader empowered others to do the ministry.
Secure leaders give their power away to others.