Your Responsibility = Their Opportunity
I think one role of leadership is creating opportunities for others. If you do everything yourself, your potential is limited to your abilities. I know that sounds obvious, but the obvious eludes us! If you're doing things that others can do 80% as well as you can, then you are not just wasting your time. You are wasting other's gifts! Think of it this way: your responsibility = someone else's opportunity!
If you learn to unleash others and create opportunities for them to step into their gifts, then your potential for impact multiplies exponentially. That's one reason I love multi-site. It forces us to raise us six times as many people to use their gifts.
I think today was such a great example of that principle. Mike Whitford, our new campus pastor at Ebenezers, preached for the first time. Kurtis Parks, our new campus pastor at our Potomac Yard location, preached for the first time. And Travis Mason, a new NCC protege, led worship for the first time. So proud of them. Few things are as emotionally rewarding to me as seeing people step into their gifts with holy confidence and letting God use them!
