Pass the Torch BEFORE It Goes Out

June 24, 2010
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Everything has a season. A season of planting, of watering, harvesting & storing. Then comes the time when you have to begin to teach others around you to do what you do. When you intentionally impart ALL the wisdom gleaned through failures & victories for the sole reason of replacing yourself.

Honestly, this is the highest honor a leader can achieve.To pour your life into others, not with the goal… of them just filling your spot, but going farther and exceeding you in every way! That should be our goal. For some this idea brings thoughts of  “nobody can do this like I do it”, or “this has always been my_____.”

Great leaders have the mind set of Jesus, “when a student is fully trained, he will be just like his teacher”, and “greater things than I did will you do.”

The time of passing the torch comes MUCH faster than you can ever imagine. So start soon, very soon, and pour yourself out like there is no tomorrow. Because just when you think you will a tomorrow, you won’t! Don’t spoil your legacy and your opportunity to effect the future because of your pride, or lack of giving now!

Pass the Torch, BEFORE it goes out!

About artie: I'm the lead Pastor at Cornerstone, a Multi-Ethnic church in the heart of Orangeburg, South Carolina. Also the founder of the Comb Network.com, a movement to plant Multi-Ethnic, culturally relevant churches in smaller cities. I direct a gathering of small city leader called "The Sticks."

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