They understand that long-term goals are best served by taking the time to develop other people for the ministry. They can accomplish this by delegating responsibilities to capable coworkers, freeing themselves for the thinking and planning necessary to expand the ministry and anticipate its future needs. In church-related schools, pastors often find it difficult to surrender the administrative responsibilities of the school to the school administrator. Most pastors find that when they fail to do this, their primary role as pastor of the church suffers. Even if this is not the case, most pastors have not been trained for the role of school administrator and are not well suited for this position.
Good leaders anticipate and plan for the needs of the future.
At the same time they are dealing with the problems of today, they are making preparations to meet the challenges of tomorrow. While they are wise enough to recognize that much can be learned from the past, they do not dwell on the mistakes of the past or allow past mistakes to deny them a bright future. A Christian school's only reason to exist is to provide an academic education framed by the Word of God. No student should be required to receive a second-rate academic education in order to have a Christian education. But no student should have his faith undermined in the process of receiving a quality academic education.