The Church Needs Leaders

These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also (Acts 17:6).

Harry Reeder, in a seminar I attended on leadership in the church, says that these men are the apostles and their disciples who were sent out empowered by the Holy Spirit preaching the gospel. Therefore it was the Holy Spirit who was turning the world upside down by glorifying Christ in the preaching and living of the gospel of grace. These men were connected to the culture without accommodating to it they were in the world but not of it.

The church is often a place for consumers. People come into churches the way they go into a store expecting to get a product in exchange for sliding their card. But the church in Scripture is a building that is being built through a diverse unity, a family that needs fathers and mothers, and an army that is in the midst of warfare headed to a certain victory. Therefore those who come into the church must be equipped for leadership. These leaders in the church must be growing and being equipped in personal formation or character, theological formation or content, and skill formation or competencies. Are you putting yourself in the way of God’s grace and relationships to be formed and shaped into spiritual leaders in his kingdom?

We need to be thinking about how God is moving us toward leadership in his church that we may be used of him in turning the world upside down for his own glory to fill the earth as the waters cover the sea.