Leadership is constantly being sought. The issue is neither academic nor boring because leadership is almost always pivotal. For this reason, schools, families, corporations, service clubs, governmental bodies are all perpetually in a search for capable leadership.

So is the church. Every year nominating committees in churches sit down and attempt to identify and enlist potential leaders. And that is a crucial task. The decisions they make can mean dynamic movement or inertia. I have been in churches where inept leadership has meant board meetings that drag on into the night; I have also been in churches where skilled leadership translated into meetings that covered immense ground within reasonable periods of time. If you have ever sat in on a trustee’s meeting where half an hour was spen…