Burnout or Building: Raising Up Leaders

When I think about this, I cannot help but to think about there's an Old Testament, we were talking about it right before we started the episode, before the record button was hit, there's an Old Testament principle of this.

Introduce us to it.

Sure.

So let's look into the life of Moses.

Moses tried to do it all.

Sure.

And, uh, of course he had a massive responsibility.

You know, if it was a couple million Jews coming out, that's a lot of people to lead.

For sure.

And to try to-

Bellyaching Jews.

Absolutely.

Constantly complaining.

Complaining.

Always murmuring

... griping, whining.

And so to attend to all of that, all the issues that would come from working with that many people, that's a recipe for burnout if you're trying to do it all by yourself.

Yeah.

And so I guess it's probably been...

How long have you been on staff here?

here?Uh-

Officially on staff

... full-time since last December, so a little over a year and a half full-time.

Okay.

I guess it was two years ago, could have been three years ago, I can't remember, I sat down with our staff.