Homegrown Leaders: How to Build a Farm System for Church Leadership

February 23
33 mins

Episode Description

Join us for the 2026 National Disciple Making Forum: https://discipleship.org/2026-national-disciple-making-forum/

Get Jim Putman's new book -- Homegrown Leaders: Creating a Unified Leadership Development Culture for Staff and Elders: 

https://a.co/d/0eg1Z01k

In this episode Jim Putman explains the principles behind his new book, Homegrown Leaders, and shows how churches can raise leaders from within through relational disciple-making, shared training for staff and elders, and a long-term coaching mindset rather than hiring from outside.

Jim contrasts broken systems with a homegrown approach, offers practical first steps leaders can take, and points listeners to resources like the Relational Discipleship Network and discipleship.org for further help.

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