Who's Got Next?

Learning to lead. What does that look like? Does it just happen, or does it take some intentionality? What kind of training does it take? What does it mean for the next generation of leaders to move into the role, and begin to allow the next to develop into that role?

Joshua was the next generation of leadership. How did he get there? There we a lot of years of being with Moses, watching, helping, participating, serving, getting excited and feeling frustrated. Was that it? Is that where the mentoring happened? Who else was Joshua along side of as he grew in his own faith and in the responsibilities that came his way?

Ready or not here they come. The transitions will happen. Perhaps the key question is what happens up to that time when the transitions becomes obvious and finally complete. What can we be intentional about? That's what Pastor Genevieve explores with us as she reflects on our interactions as young people or with younger people.

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Deuteronomy 34

(TNIV)

Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And theLord showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan, 2 all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judahas far as the western sea, 3 the Negeb, and the Plain, that is, the Valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.4 And the Lord said to him, “This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.” 5 So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord, 6 and he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor; but no one knows the place of his burial to this day. 7 Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigour unabated. 8 And the people of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab for thirty days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.

9 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. So the people of Israel obeyed him and did as the Lord had commanded Moses. 10 And there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses,whom the Lord knew face to face, 11 none like him for all the signs and the wonders that the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land, 12 and for all the mighty power and all the great deeds of terror that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.

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