As a Leader
The great joy of being a professor to me is the opportunity to plant trees I will not sit under, to equip leaders who will impact the culture. A leader helps those he leads become what they never dreamed they could be. Geothe said: “Treat a man as he appears to be and you make him worse. But treat him as if he were already what he could be, and you will make him what he should be.”Or as Bill Bright put it: “Great men lead others, but greater men equip leaders:
With my friend the much thinner Ed Stetzer
With Johnny Hunt, Ed Stetzer, Matt Chandler, and Tim Dowdy in a meeting about faith and culture
With leaders of Gallery Church in Manhattan talking about Church Planting
Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church, me, J.D. Greear of Summit Church
Danny Akin, me, Bailey Smith
Everything in life—business, sports, the home, the church—rises or falls on leadership. I consider my calling in ministry to be fundamentally a call to raise up leaders who will change the world.
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