There are lots of seminars on leadership today that are available for anybody who wants to go to them

But when's the last time you attended a conference or a seminar on followership?

In fact, I think frequently in our culture we view followers as people who are just unable

to be leaders.

But does the Bible say something different about that?

We got our guest today, our colleague Dr. Rick Langer.

His new book that he co-authored with Joanne Jung called The Call to Follow is about

Followership.

Now Rick, you've admitted to us that if you were looking to write a book that was going to put food on your table,

this is probably not the one you would write.

That is absolutely correct.

Why did you and Joanne write this?

Well, I know it sounds like I'm sucking up but this is the

think biblically podcast and sincerely I just felt like we are not thinking

biblically about followership. We don't think about what it really means to be a follower. about follow-up

we don't think about what it really means to be a follower we often just don't think about it at all

Especially since we are all sort of called to be followers first and foremost as one of the points you're making.

I mean that was one of the things that seemed transparently obvious as Joanne and I were

talking about this is our first call you read to the Gospels you just look at what Jesus called people do.

He's relentless in saying, come and follow me.

And the term discipleship, ideas of servant, all these things that are just ubiquitous in the new testament are all things that attach much more clearly to following than they do to leading

So those are some things that got us going on this

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