If I Were President..

I feel that we, as Epic, do things a little differently when it comes to our leadership and organizational structure. What I mean is that we don't have the traditional positions that you see in most organizations, or even most ministries. We don’t have officers, we don’t have presidents, and we don’t have “inactive” or “inactive” members. We have five committees, led by five people, filled with many student members for the purpose of reaching our campus as thoroughly as we can. Sometimes it can make things unclear not having official “leaders” and “presidents” or “vice presidents”, but more often than not, I am reminded of how great it can be.

The purpose in that is that we’d like to see people in our ministry strive for influential positions of leadership, rather than formal ones. It’s not that we don’t want to see people step up to the plate in a formal sense, but we’d like to see people take initiative in building the community of Christ wherever they are. That is leadership in the truest sense; students showing Christ through their actions and words to the classmates around them...being Christ, rather than just talking about him.

We want to see people in fraternities reaching their brothers, people in VSA, CSA, FSA, and every other “SA” out there striving to advance the kingdom of God in every corner of the earth. We’re not about positions in the ministry, we’re about see people rise to spiritual leadership to influence their community.

That’s not to say that we don’t care about the community within our organization. After all, why would you associate yourself with an organization if the whole point of it were to leave it? Some reasons why I associate myself with Epic is because I believe in the vision of it, and also because I find community that can encourage and build me up as I strive to fulfill the Great Commission.

So here’s why I believe our leadership structure is so great. Everyone has a role; everyone is important, we’re all in this together. Du dud…du dun…and it makes me ask these questions: “If I were the president of this organization, what would I do?” How would you think differently? If you had the whole organization in mind, what would you change? What are you unsatisfied with, and how would you see that changed?

I hope you are able to read that and think about how you can take “ownership.” Gather a couple of your friends together and pray, sing songs, talk about God, share the gospel…don’t just wait for someone else to take initiative, do it yourself.

So GO and make DISCIPLES of ALL nations!!

-s