BiVo 032: How to increase your level of Leadership as a BiVo Pastor.

Pastoring is leadership! In pastoring, your goal is to encourage people to be all that God created them to be. You are called to encourage them, inspire them and influence them to accept the gift of salvation and become salt and light of the earth. As BiVo Pastors, we must learn to increase our level of influence with the people we serve. In this episode of the BiVo podcast, I share a few tips on how to do just that. The entire discussion is based on John Maxwell’s 5 Levels of Leadership that I introduced in episode 31 of the podcast. Here is a summary of the tips. Please share your thoughts in the comment section at the end of the post. If you are a pastor, you are at different levels of leadership with all the different people you are serving. Run through a few of the key people in your church family and try to determine what the level of your leadership with them is. Then use some of the tips below to begin the process of increasing your level of leadership. Take note that you can get the definition of the levels of leadership from the previous podcast episode here. Level 2 – Permission – Genuinely love the people you are leading and show it to them. I find that listening and empathy is very important here.Level 3 – Production– Get some result! As a pastor this will be inviting your neighbors to church, embodying the messages you preach, lead a successful Lifegroup, etc! Building the kingdom of GodLevel 4 – Personal Development – You expose the people you are serving to resources and opportunities that will make it possible for them to replace you! You consciously work at raising leaders and experts! Be observant so that you can discover the natural, spiritual and ministry gifts of the people around you, then do whatever is within your power to develop these giftsLevel 5 – Pinnacle – This level is given to you after years of consistent delivery of results as well as years of developing new leaders!