I met with the the new director of Camberley YFC yesterday, a guy named Bernie Bernie Comissiong who I know a number of yu will know.

It was cool to catch up and hear his vision for the place. He has a great plan with one adamant aim. That is that he sees himself very much as an enabler, an encourager, a strategist and not the person who will do everything. It was fantastic chatting over coffee and I came away thinking I had spent some quality time with a like minded person.

There has been a lot of talk on leadership on a few blogs over the past few weeks. Some people have been hurt by leaders who have abused their position of trust, others have been hurt by attitudes and some leaders themselves are fearful of what is coming tomorrow.

It strikes me that some seem to be losing sight of what leadership is. When we look to Jesus we see a great servant. He just wanted his disciples to learn. He was desperate for them to try things themselves. On occasions he got frustrated with them, but still he encouraged them to go out and have another try.

Leadership is all about serving and enabling, about being more permissive and less prescriptive (yes I nicked the quote from the Archbish!). When leaders in all capacity come to grips with that, we will surely see more people released to serve God, and maybe a lot less leaders burning out because of over-work.