Leadership

Hebrews 13:17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with grief, for this would be unprofitable for you.

Being successful in discipling the bride of Christ is a great and awesome responsibility. There is no higher calling and there is nothing more important that you can do with your life. The verse above reminds us of how serious this calling truly is. You, as a leader in God's church, are held accountable for the people you lead and teach. This is a sobering, and in many ways terrifying responsibility. Yet God, through His great providence, has gifted some with this great privilege. You are here because you want to be faithful in your mission and you want to be pleasing to the God you serve. The burden can be great, but our God is greater and has allowed us to work for Him, though we often feel unqualified to do so. I like to think that God looks to us like a child holding a wrench in his dad's garage, just longing to get involved in changing the oil on the car. We love our Father and we long to use the wrench that we have picked up and are powerless to use on our own. God knows and understands that we don't know what we are doing, but He smiles, like we would smile at our child standing next to us with a wrench in hand just longing to get involved. But God has given us instruction: He has not left us on our own. With wrench in hand we crawl under the car and go to work, following His carful instruction and our willingness to do so is pleasing to Him.