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CHAPTER 10:
TRAINING LEADERS AND FOLLOWERS;
Leaders must have followers and followers must have leaders. In an average church, no one is
designated to develop leaders and followers, yet the future of the Church depends on them. The
training of leaders and followers should begin in childhood preparing youngsters to take their
part in the body of Christ. Training should immediately follow conversion at any age.
You have learned that God gives to some believers special gifts of leadership. Others are born
with natural abilities to lead. Some people seem to be natural followers. Everyone is called to be
both a leader and a follower.
Whether naturally talented or gifted by God, leaders and followers need training. “Each one
teach one to reach one” is God’s answer to the leadership shortage:
And the things that thou has heard of me among many witnesses, the same
commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
(II Timothy 2:2)

NOTE: Each believer should be trained to be a good follower. Many of us do not want to be followers.
We would rather be leaders. But a good leader is first a good follower. A leader is always
responsible to someone else, so he is also a follower. We lead successfully by following
successfully.
THANK YOU