Sifted: Refined for Multiplication
This is a guest post by Dave Ferguson. Dave co-founded Community Christian Church and New Thing Network. He also serves as President of the Exponential Conference and on the leadership team of Exponential. Dave is a huge champion of healthy reproducing churches and leaders.
Who wants to be Sifted? I know it doesn’t sound like much fun, does it? When we first picked the Sifted theme for the Exponential 2012 Conference, I wasn’t a big fan. I’m more of a big picture and positive sort of guy so thinking about being sifted made me cringe a little. As we continued to develop this theme, I began to realize this is exactly what we need to be talking about. God allows us to be ‘sifted’ (Luke 22:31-32) through trials and temptations to grow us as followers and leaders. How we respond as church leaders not only shapes who we become, but also those who we lead because we reproduce who we are.