With the heavy emphasis on leadership in the church today, best-selling author Leonard Sweet urges believers to opt for counterculture and focus on following. In I Am a Follower: The Way, Truth, and Life of Following Jesus, Sweet says that following is “the most underrated form of leadership in existence.” He challenges church leaders to invite people into a fellowship of followers rather than to come under their leadership.
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