Questions for Reflection and Discussion
1. How would you define a follower? How important are your followers to your leadership?
2. Do your followers have the ability to follow your leadership? Are they willing to follow your leadership? If yes, why? If no, why not?
3. Which stage of follower readiness best describes your followers as a whole? Do you have any late or never followers? How do you know? What, if anything, are you doing about them?
4. How much opposition are you experiencing in your church? How are you handling it? Have you exercised any church discipline of those who should be disciplined? If yes, what have you done? If no, why not?
5. How important is it to you that people like you? To what extremes, if any, will you go to get people to like you? What effect does this have on your ministry?
What is your desire for the people who look to you for leadership?
More specifically, what do you want to be able to do for frustrated individuals who do not have the competence or commitment to accomplish an assigned task?
And what do you want to do for those people who not only are able to do the task on their own but also can teach others?
How can your organization most benefit from people who not only are good at doing their jobs but who also are willing and able to teach others?
