Love for God
Commitment to Specific Community
Transparency
Leadership Qualities
The Heart of Campus Ministry blog shared these four characteristics as their filter for selecting student leaders.
I remember a quote from one of my trainers at a CCC conference that impacted how I think about selection and most other leadership situations:
"The problems you are trying to solve are rarely specific enough"
I discuss alignment or the lack thereof often in various CCC cirlces. Those conversations do not become productive until we start talking specifically about what is broken in relation to alignment.
Here are my top four characteristics in selecting students for leadership:
1. Willing to share or be apart of an intentional Gospel conversation with a non-believing student once a week.
2. Has clearly and specifically demonstrated an ability to respond positively to teaching and correction from staff members.
3. Demonstrable social capacity to be able to influence and lead others.
4. Committed to eternal perspective as practiced through participation in spiritual multiplication outlined in 2 Timothy 2:2.
The four shared by The Heart of Campus Ministry blog are great general characteristics, but it sounds like categories for a generally good Christian, not a leader of a specific ministry.
I believe that selection characteristics have to be specific enough to be INAPPLICABLE to any other ministry or movement. It seems that fear of excluding others even if they are clearly not leaders can reach almost phobic levels in ministry.
What would be your four characteristics, or even number one?
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