Challenges of Ministry....Calling all Leaders

The Lord has blessed us with an incredible place to minister at Cal Poly SLO. Even more so, the Lord has given us wonderful men and women over the years to work with, raise up, and send out. It is a blessing for us to be called to such people. Over the years, we have had incredible leaders to be able to grow alongside of. When I speak of leadership, I suppose I must qualify that by saying that leadership is not simply a positional thing. We can lead others around us, and it does not have to be from a place of position, but really a posture of humble servanthood, sacrifice, and as a person of influence. Jesus teaches specifically about this in Matthew 20, and of course models it throughout his ministry. Over the years hear, SLO Crusade has been a movement that was overwhelmed with solid leadership, especially from men. Men leading the way we are called to lead is a beautiful thing. It is not leading by lording over, submitting others to one's own will, and being demanding others. Although we are not seeing those negative attributes in our leadership overtly, I believe we are in some ways missing a deep internalization of Christ's portrait of leadership.

Sadly, that begins with me and my Staff Team. We need to be asking the Lord for his help and power, through the Holy Spirit to live and lead as Christ would have us do so. We are in desperate need of seeing men in our movement obediently walk and lead in the ways that God calls us to. The lack of men leading in the church is not just a local one, but a problem plaguing the church worldwide. Join me and my guys that I lead in praying for change. As men, we need to reject the sins of passivism, laziness, selfishness, and choosing to create and follow our own paths. We need the Lord to work in us to walk by faith and to lead obediently. We need change in our own very lives through the Holy Spirit so that we will demonstrate to men in the church around us and be catalysts for this tragic and horrible culture of men who do not lead. For God's glory and not ours.....