North Point Community Church Senior Pastor Andy Stanley stressed the need for pastors to move the spotlight off of themselves and make leaders of the rising generation.
“If you live for yourself, if you lead for yourself, in the end, you will have nothing to show for yourself but yourself,” Stanley told church leaders and other attendees at the Exponential Conference in Orlando, Florida, on Tuesday.
“You have to decide to do this or you won’t do it. It is not intuitive to give your life away, it’s not intuitive to give your leadership away, it’s not intuitive to give your opportunities away, it’s not intuitive to say ‘let’s move the spotlight off of me.'”
The influential megachurch pastor said that church leaders who do not seek to make new leaders will limit their impact and limit church growth, with Stanley saying they are “not multipliers.”
“If you’re not a multiplier, you’re like a blockage in the bowel system. Everything backs up behind you. And your organization gets sick. And it’s your fault,” he said.
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