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  • Does Your Church Cultivate all Leaders, or Just Church Leaders?

    May 18th 2010

    Two close friends of mine don’t attend church. Actually, more than two, but the two I am thinking of are interesting because, quite frankly, they are the two most influential people I know. I won’t get into what they are doing with their lives, but they are literally positively affecting thousands. And when I say positively affecting, I mean feeding them, getting them water, setting them free from slavery and so forth. And I seem to meet these guys all the time, people who love Jesus, love other people and are visionary leaders with no shortage of passion. And they don’t go to church.
    It got me wondering, and I am hoping you can share your opinion. A recent survey we did on this site showed that the majority of readers attend church, and many people who read this blog actually work at churches. So I am guessing you’ll have an opinion.
    Forgive me if I step on toes, also. I don’t know how to ask these questions without offending some of you. But to me, the landscape of church in America feels like this:
    1. Leadership in church has to do with teaching and administrating mostly centered around education. Sunday morning is [...] read original post

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    Donald Miller grew up in Houston, Texas, where he left at the age of twenty-one to cross the country with a friend in a Volkswagen van. The stuff of that trip would later become his first book, Through Painted Deserts. A couple years after releasing Through Painted Deserts, Don released Blue Like Jazz, a spiritual memoir about finding Christian faith in a post-Christian culture. Blue would slowly become a bestseller, and spend more than forty-weeks on the New York Times Bestsellers List. Don’s next book was Searching for God Knows What, followed by To Own a Dragon, a book he wrote about growing up without a father. To Own a Dragon also served as the motivation to start The Belmont Foundation, a not-for-profit equipping local churches to start mentoring programs.

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