Scaling Your Calling: Earl Seals on Building Leaders Who Multiply

By Larry Lundstrom

Every pastor knows the weight. The emails, the meetings, the Sunday prep, the constant pull between ministry and family—it’s the grind that too often leaves leaders running on empty. For many, the question isn’t passion or calling. It’s scale.

Earl Seals, President of N2 Publishing turned leader at TheChurchHub.org, is tackling this head-on with the BUILD Leader Development Framework Cohort. His conviction is simple but piercing: if Jesus multiplied His ministry through others, why should modern leaders think they can do it alone?

“The real measure of a leader is not how many followers they gather, but how many leaders they raise up.” — Dave Ferguson & Warren Bird

The Wall Every Leader Hits

At some point, every leader collides with the wall: too many responsibilities, too few systems, and the haunting sense that their calling is bigger than their current capacity. Seals argues this isn’t a flaw—it’s an invitation. Survival can’t be the destination; it’s the doorway.

The BUILD Framework maps out the path forward in three progressive stages:

Survival — clarity, focus, and working on the ministry instead of drowning in it.
Acceleration — shaping culture, clarifying vision, and putting empowering systems in place.
Duplication & Maturation — the true test of leadership: multiplying leaders and sustaining momentum.

Scaling Like Jesus Did

Jesus’ strategy wasn’t mass marketing—it was multiplication. He invested deeply in a few, built a culture of servant leadership, and trusted that Spirit-filled disciples would carry the mission farther than He could in His earthly ministry.

Seals’ framework takes that same principle and translates it into rhythms pastors can actually apply: building ministry playbooks, empowering teams, and creating leadership pipelines that outlast any one leader’s tenure.

For pastors stuck in survival mode, the focus shifts from doing everything yourself to raising up others who can own the mission with you.

What Pastors Will Learn

The cohort isn’t theory. It’s pragmatic, biblical, and designed to be lived out in real churches with real challenges. Topics include:

Building healthy rhythms and systems that keep leaders grounded.
Clarifying and casting vision so the team knows the “why” behind every task.
Creating organizational cadence with meetings that empower instead of drain.
Multiplying leadership by raising up a strong bench and creating what Seals calls a “leadership vacuum” that naturally draws new leaders forward.

The payoff? Churches that move beyond mere survival and into lasting impact—disciples making disciples, leaders raising leaders, and ministries that sustain growth over decades.

Why This Matters Now

The Western church is full of talented communicators and exhausted leaders. The need isn’t another sermon series on leadership—it’s a framework that marries biblical conviction with practical systems. That’s what makes this cohort timely.

If churches are going to thrive in the next decade, pastors can’t afford to remain stuck in survival mode. They need to scale their calling, not just their calendar.

The Invitation

Earl Seals’ BUILD Leader Development Framework Cohort meets Tuesdays from 12:00–1:00 PM EST and offers pastors and ministry leaders a community of peers walking the same path.

For leaders ready to move from survival to multiplication, this isn’t just another program—it’s a lifeline.

Don’t settle for survival. Build the systems, culture, and leaders your ministry needs for lasting multiplication.

Learn more and register at TheChurchHub.org.