Cole on Leadership

I have come to believe that the real role of a leader who has died to self is to equip others so that he is no longer necessary... When you exist to help others do the job, you have finally matured to the level of an equipper. The more valuable you are, the less successful you are as an equipper of others. Ironically, the more dispensable you become, the more valuable you are, because there are not that many leaders today who are willing to be dispensable. We have entered the days of recyclable disciples - transformed from garbage to glory - and disposable pastors.