Movement Leadership

Leading a movement is world's apart from leading a congregation. As a pastor of a congregation, it would be my duty to anticipate people's needs, provide programs and methods to meet those needs, to come up with ministries and delegate people to run those ministries.

But what I am finding is that leading a movement is less command and control and more of ensuring the DNA of the thing and then letting everyone loose. My role is less of turing chaos into order and more of leading our people to the edge of chaos. This means that once the DNA is imprinted on people, my job then is to lead them into places that are in disequilibrium, exposing them to need and then allowing them to rise up and meet that need through the unique expression of the movement's DNA through them.

In this way, ministry and mission emerge from the people rather than handed down from the top leadership.

Movement leadership then becomes concerned with the quality of discipleship and how people are living out the mission of Jesus.