lieve will be condemned. (NKJ)

  • 1. Coca Cola is so well known, that you can go into some of the most remote places in the world and there you will find bottles of Coke
  • 2. Their motto: Think globally but act locally! They want to be everywhere, but to do it they know they take care of each location
  • 3. The church needs to learn this lesson.
  • 4. I was once with a large church with 7 missionaries on the field
  • a. each mission point had a 3, a 5 and a 10 year plan
  • b. each mission point was well financed
  • c. each mission point used a variety of media to reach people
  • d. yet this church had no local plan of work, no budget for local evangelism, and used no media outreach in the community
  • 5. Something is wrong with this kind of thinking


III. ACCEPTING THE CHALLENGE OF LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

  • A. Have you thought about who will lead the church in 10, 20, 30 years?
  • 1. 2 Tim 2:2 And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. (NKJ)
  • 2. Paul invested himself in the training of Timothy. Timothy was to do the same with other faithful men, who would in turn invest themselves in yet others
  • 3. Christian leaders must develop future leaders

  • B. Just as there is a responsibility of leaders to train, there is a responsibility of followers to become trained
  • 1. The best leaders have always had good followers
  • 2. Good leaders, most often, first learned how to be good follower

  • C. I might add that currently the challenge is to develop male leadership
  • 1. 1 Cor 11:3 But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. (NKJ)
  • 2. Eph 5:23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. (NKJ)
  • 3. God has a chain of authority that we must respect and develop if we are going to succeed in accomplishing his will


IV. THE CHALLENGE OF FOLLOWING GOD'S WORD

  • A. The effort to move the church forward into the future must not abandon the foundation of Scripture as our authority for what we do
  • 1. In recent years, there have been decisions made that threaten to change our worship and our work with unbiblical reasoning