To pick up where we left off yesterday’s Instruction, I would like to say this first.
Critiques do not have to be critical.
We are in covenant relationship and we need to speak truth in love. Lead with love and the truth of a moment will be easier to accept.
First find a positive thing to express. Then ask a question. Expressing the need for further explanation puts the hearer in a place of learning better how to express their thoughts and leads to growth in their presentation.
Do not critique style. Style changes as we mature. We adapt to what works if we do not feel like we are being attacked.
Acts 15:37-39 English Standard Version
37 Now Barnabas wanted to take with them John called Mark. 38 But Paul thought best not to take with them one who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work. 39 And there arose a sharp disagreement, so that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus,
Sometimes a future leader just needs a new tutor.
There have been leaders that are only interested in results as they try to establish a new church. They are impatient and unwilling to train up replacements. Leaders are grown in this Kingdom and it takes time for each gift to be fully developed in order to be functional. That does not mean that the inexperienced need to be replaced, they need the experience and right kind of feedback.
In business I was asked to accept a new and higher position. My first task was to find and train a replacement. That is a difficult task to accomplish without recognizing the talent in others. This is how churches flourish and find lasting success in a community. Otherwise the church average age will increase until that body of believers dies of old age.