Delegate Responsibility and Authority

 

This is Multiply, a podcast to encourage Village Church Planters, Pastors and Christian leaders and I am Daneille Snowden. 

 “The things which you have heard me teach in the presence of many witnesses, entrust [as a treasure] to reliable and faithful men who will also be capable and qualified to teach others.”

2 Timothy 2:2 These are the words of the Apostle Paul to his disciple (his student) Timothy. 

To delegate means to assign responsibility or authority to another trusted person or persons. Majority of the time we delegate responsibility to others we personally have trained. We feel confident enough to relinquish a job or a position to them, knowing they are fully capable. 

We have over 35 years’ experience in leadership, one mistake we have done, and I have seen others do, is we did all the work and did not delegate to others. It crippled our future Timothy’s (our disciples), and it crippled the church. In Village Church Planting, the vision is Multiplication. As we read at the end of 2 Timothy 2:2; it says, “…who will also be capable and qualified to teach others.”  We will be able to do more when we delegate to others, and they will be qualified to continue with the work and vision God has called us all to do. 

When we were young pastors in our twenty’s, we found ourselves what we call in America ‘burnt-out’ (that is we had no more left in us to give), we were preparing the messages, the Sunday school class lessons, leading the worship, administrating the church and the list goes on. Until, we had a wake-up call when we saw no one was wanting to learn or participate in the work of God. God is so patient, by His grace He sent others to disciple us on the importance of discipleship and delegating. 

Take time now to stop and reflect on how you do ministry. Ask yourself the question; “Am I leaving room in the work God has called me to do, to bring along disciples and teach them?” And ask God how to transfer over to delegating authority to your well taught and trained disciples for them to ‘GO’ into all the world and preach the Gospel and teach others. 

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