Are you (or someone you know) considering leading a group this fall? If you're feeling a little hesitant, it might help to know what a small group leader's job is not:
The number one barrier to someone stepping up to lead a small group is the wordTake five seconds right now and think about what you imagine when you hear that word. Go ahead, I’ll wait. What came to mind? A CEO of a large company? A head of state? The senior pastor of your church?
Adam, the first human being, couldn’t lead his own family. His firstborn ended up killing his brother.Noah, the last righteous man on Earth at the time, got drunk and slept in the nude .Sarah, the wife of Abraham, let her husband sleep with another woman and then hated her for it.David, the friend of God, concealed his adultery with a murder.
A leader who has all the answers is not a leader anyone should follow. First, it’s impossible, but most of all, we want to follow someone humble enough to admit they don’t know it all.There are some with the gift of teaching, but a small group experience is not about one person teaching and the rest learning. It’s a shared discussion where we are all growing together.3. Someone who is everyone’s best friend.
Isn’t that freeing? God chose me and you, sinners and flawed human beings, because He wants all our faith to be in Him, not in our own abilities. When your group members look at you, they are not putting their faith in you as the leader, but in the Spirit’s power working through your weakness.Peter gave us this definition of leadership as he exhorted the elders of the first-century church:
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