The Importance of a Big Heart in a Pastor

"You have to be investing in people who are not merely your peers, but younger than you," he says. "They'll be initiating and setting up the structures of ministry entirely apart from whether anybody at the church ever officially asked them to be a small group leader or, you know, with our asking brother to preach on a Sunday night" He adds: "I think they're going to naturally be evangelizing and discipling, even if I don't prepare a platform for them for ministry."