Jeff Vanderstelt is pastor at Soma Church in Tacoma, WA and was willing to lead a breakout session at the Reformission Conference in 2004. In this audio portion which is broken into two parts Jeff will discuss building teams and the development of leaders. Jeff is a former leader at Willow Creek in Illinois and has drawn some insight into what it takes to build teams and leaders. Leadership is not about us but about glorifying God as the goal. The fundamental flaw is being afraid of leadership development that might replace oneself. We need to see that the incarnate word will make a difference as we develop leaders. Likewise leaders need to be the ones that embody the word in all of life. Jeff gives biblical advice and helpful illustrations on understanding how we may develop leaders that live the word in their life and community. May this mp3 further develop your view of leadership development.
Scott Bartchy is a radical. He believes in a subversive system that embraces those on the fringes of our society and seeks to establish a new way of life that goes against the status quo.
Kind of like Jesus.
Bartchy, currently the Director of the Center for the Study of Religions at UCLA, notes a great gap between the original, early form of church in the first three hundred years of Christianity, and the modern concept of doing church today.