Even though the Holy Spirit speaks expressly, sometimes it takes us a minute to figure out what He is saying to us. That’s what happened to me when the Holy Spirit started talking with me about creating a leadership culture in our ministry. At that time, all I knew was we didn’t have enough leaders. The few we did have were overworked and on the verge of burn out.

See, up until that time we weren’t focused on training leaders. We were focused on blessing believers. The transition into apostolic ministry began to challenge our perspective and cause us to take a hard look at our ability to equip people and raise up leaders. But the more we examined our capability to train leaders the more dismal the testimony. We were failing miserably.