I hear the mantra of “one leader” very often in the church. I think too often, though it’s easy to get carried away with this line of thinking where the “one leader” is like Muhammed coming down from the mountain top with a message from God. I have seen failed plants where no one else really bought into vision because they had no ownership. It all belonged to the leader.

Of course I can make other extreme points about leadership by committee. Actually, I could make much more scary points, LoL.

My friend @RandySchoof is the full-time pastor of the Warehouse church (warehousechurch.org). I think they’ve married multiple leaders and vision very well. It’s elder led with Pastor Randy and 4 other elders. Randy had the vision to start the church, and he is probably one of the most visible parts of the church (being the only one on staff). However, each elder takes a lead role in some aspect of the church structure and each leader has an equal amount of teaching time on Sunday.

He could share a lot more than I could of why this works for them.

@bobcrane