The Difficulty of Releasing
Over the past couple of years the life lesson on the mission field is the need to train up new leaders and trust them. We have learned that for this to be truly effective it must start early on in the process. Now this may not be the norm everywhere but in our context allowing ourselves to shrink back into the background and see God pour Himself into the new leaders is the best way to go. We don’t practice a sink or swim type leadership but we will always give the new leaders a place to begin to exercise their leadership. Now all of us who have trained up new people into new positions know that mistakes will be made and especially in ministry. We are aware that how we do things and how they will do certain things will look different. We must be okay with it as long as it is morally pure and is glorifying to God. Of course we all have learned best practices so in many situations it is a good idea to teach, train and live by those. ...