My early years of ministry were among the loneliest years of my life. Rick and I had been unceremoniously thrown into pastoring a church with no previous experience or training, and no idea of what we were doing. Our tiny church of 12 people had been birthed less than two years previously, we were its third set of leaders and it suffered a split the year before we arrived. Although we had been involved in pastoral care ministry in our previous church, our platform experience

People grow in leadership – none of us are born capable of leading what we become capable of leading. What we lead grows according to our capacity to lead it. You will grow your church or department grows to the limits of what you are able to work with. Your team is the size you can manage and effectively engage with. If a leader doesn’t grow personally, what they lead will always hover around the same numbers and they will always get the same types of people. Many years ago