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CHAPTER TEN

Leadership

Development

‘‘Praised be the Lord, who has allowed me to see a successor on my throne

today.’’

—KD,1K1:47

‘‘Look at the land with your own eyes, since you are not going to cross

this Jordan. But commission Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him,

for he will lead this people across.’’

—D. 3:27–28

o paraphrase an old parable about a fish: Give me a leader
for a generation and I will perpetuate the organization for a
generation. Help me to develop leaders in every generation,
and I will perpetuate the organization forever.
We consider corporations like IBM, Procter & Gamble, and General
Electric to be long-standing organizations because they have been in
existence for perhaps a century; much of their success has been due to
the continuity of leadership that they have experienced. The ‘‘organiza-
tion’’ called Judeo-Christianity has been around for almost sixty times
as long, and largely for the same reasons—the ability to constantly
renew its mission and find the right leaders to execute the mission.

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