Leaders by Design: Preparing Your Church for Its Highest Priority

Think of the leaders in your community. Where did they learn their skills? Summer internships? The military? Wall Street? The latest Harvard online course?

Eric Geiger and Kevin Peck claim that the most successful producer of leaders should be your local church.

Surprised? Who is called to be a leader might surprise you too. It’s everybody.

Whether male or female, young or old, you are designed by God to be a leader, and the local church is called to be your training ground.

“The church is designed by God to create leaders for all spheres of life,” Geiger and Peck write in their book, Designed to Lead: The Church and Leadership Development (B&H, 2016). Christians are not called to simply follow Christ, but to invest in others and draw them to Christ. And that takes leadership skills. Read More