Nathan Moore
To Lead you Must Follow
Date:
September 30, 2025
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Checking the Heart
To teach, guide, provide direction, and lead, you must be following and learning yourself (Luke 6:40). This has never been more evident for me personally than right now. I’m in a season of life where I have been blessed with many opportunities to serve people, build Godly things, and help lead others in their own journey. I touched on this a bit in my previous writing, “Reinstated – Just the Beginning”.
It’s a privilege and an honor to build Godspeed, lead a men’s grow group, lead a run club, serve in my church, build out new processes at my job, grow my relationship, and be in my first year of Bible College, but it all comes with great responsibility. Responsibility and leadership are a blessing, but they require us to be led even more (1 Corinthians 11:1).
I can’t do right by any of these things if I pretend to know it all. Now, more than ever, there is an urgency and conviction to be a great student. I’m not jumping to make decisions or tell people what they should be doing. I’m watching those farther along than me more closely than ever, I’m seeking God through the Word, prayer, church, and His creation daily, I’m asking questions, and I’m not as quick to speak as I once was. To be able to lead the things and people I’m responsible for well, I need to be led 10x more (Proverbs 3:5–6).
Things fall apart when we think we have them figured out, because we fail to acknowledge God was the only thing holding them together. Stepping into leadership looks more like becoming a great student than becoming a know-it-all (Matthew 20:26–28).
I definitely don’t want to be led by anyone who isn’t following someone else, and especially if they aren’t following Jesus.
This forces us to ask ourselves important questions. Who is my leader’s leader? What are the things in my life I may not think hold leadership but I follow them? Do the things I’m pursuing require me to be a leader? What does leadership actually look like? Are you in a position of leadership to gain platform and status, or simply because you’ve become someone God can use to serve others?
The greatest leader the world will ever know—Jesus—lived and led purely out of obedience to His Father in Heaven.
