Matt McCullough asks what churches should look for in a leader
When I was first assessed as a church planter I was often asked if I thought of myself as the entrepreneurial type.
I believe it was a fair question, in part because of my background. Imagine the question asked with eyebrows raised: ‘You think you’re an entrepreneur?’ At that point I’d never started anything in my life besides a long sequence of degree programmes. My full-time work had been as a small cog in a large university wheel that didn’t need me to keep rolling. Like most grad students, I was all too happy to keep reading and writing and teaching in the narrow lane of my chosen field, talking only to the few people who were already interested, or to the slightly larger crowd who were assigned to pay attention. Whatever a typical church planter may be, I didn’t fit the mould.
