Effective church leaders are not born, they are made.
Its that simple. Many people talk about being a ‘natural born leader’ or that someone was a ‘born leader.’ Neither of these statements are true. Certainly, leadership can come easier or more natural to some, and there are leaders who can learn leadership more easily or quickly. Leadership is something that you learn and the lessons come from education, experience, and every possible are of life if one is looking. The good news is that we can always become better leaders. Not only can we become better leaders, but we can learn to lead in different cultures and in different places. The bad news is that leadership is work and we never really ‘arrive.” True leaders are learners. To be a disciple means to be one who learns. To be a disciple means to have discipline. Leaders must be willing to be learners and be disciples. If you want to be a leader, know that you will never arrive and will always be challenged. No complacency allowed, no settling in, because if you stop learning, changing, and adjusting, you have effectively stopped leading. Leadership is hard. Leadership is hard for many reasons, but the biggest is that we have to continue to learn how to lead if we are to truly be leaders.