{"id":780727,"date":"2022-06-29T05:00:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/churchanswers.com\/?p=780727"},"modified":"2022-06-26T06:04:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T11:04:35","slug":"three-leadership-practices-every-young-church-leader-should-do-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/churchanswers.com\/blog\/three-leadership-practices-every-young-church-leader-should-do-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Leadership Practices Every Young Church Leader Should Do Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhat can I do right now?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I had coffee with a young minister. He asked a great question. What can I do right now? The young minister (in his early 20s) wanted to know how he could lead better\u2014starting today. He caught me a bit off guard. After all, leadership is learned and refined over time. Pastors spend years growing. He knew that, but he also wanted to know what could be done immediately.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are a few practices young church leaders can do right now that will help them grow immediately. Here are three leadership practices I shared with him.<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Learn to love people much older than you<\/i><\/b>.<\/b> If you start pastoring in your 20s, you have a couple of decades in front of you in which many of the people you shepherd will be older than you. Not every person 50 years older than you will offer their trust, nor should they. Also, don\u2019t expect to connect with everyone right away. You won\u2019t. That\u2019s reality. You\u2019re young and inexperienced. But you can choose to love people immediately. Your church will know it. The people will feel it. And that\u2019s important.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Say \u201cyes\u201d to almost everything<\/i><\/b>.<\/b> If you\u2019re in your early-20s to mid-20s and single, you have more free time now than ever. Fill much of it with edifying work, not leisure. When your direct ministry supervisor asks you to do additional work, say \u201cyes.\u201d You may not get your \u201cideal\u201d opportunities at first, but you don\u2019t deserve them anyway. If your senior pastor offers to invest in you, then agree. If someone asks you to preach, cancel the weekend outing with your buddies. You are in a season of life where you can do this. Eventually, a spouse and children will have priority (and should) but do as much ministry as you can while you can. Saying \u201cyes\u201d today will help you learn new things for tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Lead evangelistically<\/i><\/b>.<\/b> Every pastor should lead in this way, but not every pastor does. So go ahead today and start creating a pattern in your own life where you constantly share the gospel. You should not only immerse yourself in the culture of your local church, but you should also be in the thick of the culture outside of the church. By the way, those two cultures can be worlds apart. Show your church what a passion for evangelism looks like. You won\u2019t regret it, and your passion might be contagious. Evangelistic churches have evangelistic pastors. An evangelistic congregation without an evangelistic shepherd is quite rare.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m encouraged about the future of the church. I\u2019ve had the opportunity of meeting and mentoring several young church leaders. Will there be enough of them to lead North American Christianity out of its stagnation? There is no way to know right now, but I have high hopes. These three leadership practices are things young church leaders <\/span>can<\/span><\/i> do right now. And we\u2019ll all be better if they do.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat can I do right now?\u201d I had coffee with a young minister. He asked a great question. What can I do right now? The young minister (in his early 20s) wanted to know how he could lead better\u2014starting today. He caught me a bit off guard. 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