Communion Fellowship, located on 3rd Street in downtown Goshen is a Mennonite cell church. Cell churches are structured so that most of the congregation's ministry happens in groups of 10 to 12 people. At least once a week all the cell groups meet together for congregational worship. Because of their need for many lay pastoral leaders, cell churches have traditional focused a lot more energy on developing lay leaders and good followers than many more traditional churches. Aaron reminds us to begin with that life in Christ begins in following, not leading.
Followers carry a load.
Like Jonathan's armor bearer faith followers carry part of the leader's load. They don't come along for the ride, but are ready for mule labor when needed. Faithful followers have spunk. A grouch in the rear is more dangerous to success than enemies in the front. Many church leaders have failed because their followers acted from like enemies than supporters.