I had the honor to meet Pastors Paul and John from St. Thomas Philidelphia in Sheffield UK a couple of weeks ago and hear their story.

They are reaching people in Sheffield in an amazing and unique way that is worth of an entire blog series, but that is not what this post is about.  This post is about one statement that they made that has rocked me for two weeks now and God continues to roll over in my soul.

Low control. High accountability.

Paul said it like this.  With our leaders we have a value of Low control and high accountability.  In other words we do not tell you what God wants you to do with your life and we don’t dictate what your passion and calling is.  That is for God to work out with you.  But what we do is as our leaders what that calling is and then we say, “look out cause I am going to hold you accountable to what you just said”.

This was a Wasabi moment for me.  A seemingly small statement that has major firepower implications.

If I am honest with myselef, I don’t (or at least have not) really believed this.   I have seen my role as a leader to control people. (I would have called it management) but I have not done a very good job at keeping them accountable for what God has called THEM to do.

This was a game changer for me.  It is affecting me greatly.

So how about you?  Do you have high control and low accountability for those you lead? Do you know what God has called those you lead to do?  What are you doing to make sure they do it?