When our former President passed away in 2017, I remembered thinking that the second generation of leaders in our Church would begin to cede leadership to the third or even fourth generation of believers. Today I attended the wake of a church leader who passed away last night and with the eulogies given, I was reminded that he was active in ministry in the 1970s in his teenage years. 50 years of Christian service and today he is no more with us.
I thought that in a matter of five or at most ten years from now, all second generation leaders would have passed on and if they are still alive, they would be in their 80 or 90s. Regrettably if I look around for the 3rd generation leaders in their forties or fifties, I find only one or two that stands out but the rest do not excel like the first and second generation leaders. There is a huge gap and unless the vacuum is filled, the church will be found wanting in 5 or 10 years’ time. The political climate in the land and the spiritual climate of the church calls for a dynamic leader, a Spirit-anointed leader like one spoken in Micah as a breaker or one who breaks out and breaks forth and lead his people from the front to victory.
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