Developing
others
The essence of ministry is relating to and developing people.
And thus an emerging minister needs to be helped to develop the
ability to develop others. That ability is directly related
to the following.
Essential knowledge
- Understands that leaders are given to the church in order to
equip willing believers for their work of ministry in building
up the body of Christ
- Can explain the process of developing other workers and/or
leaders
- Can explain what empowerment in the church is
- Describes the process of mentoring
Essential skills
- Evidence that there is a cadre within the congregation who
are being invested in and who are growing into effective workers
as a result of the intentional and developmental activities of
the emerging minister
- Evidence that the minister has a clear sense of who is being
groomed to ‘step up’ as a ministry worker, and that
those who are identified by the minister would corroborate the
intentionality of the relationship that is leading to additional
worker opportunities
Equipping toolbox:
Motivating for mission
Workers are equipped as they gain focus
with respect to the church’s call to active participation
in Jesus’ Great Commission coupled with a will to continue to be committed to the commission of the church through
good times and bad. Individual congregations have their
own mission statements that elaborate on their participation in
this commission. Emerging ministers need to be helped to
help others to be focused on this mission. Receiving and then engendering
in others this mission focus involves the following.
Essential knowledge
- Can articulate the following essential components of the congregation’s
mission:
- Knowledge of what the local congregational mission is
- Knowledge of how the local congregational mission is tied to
the Great Commission
- Knowledge of how congregational members can contribute to
the fulfillment of the congregational mission
Essential skills
- Can explain to others the purpose of the local congregation
with respect to mission and how it ties to the Great Commission
- Able to demonstrate that the specific ministry he or she is
involved in is having its intended effect in furthering
the fulfillment of the congregational mission
- Demonstrates, through personal ministry, alignment with the
congregational mission
Equipping toolbox
- Seminar:Disciplemaking Strategy
- Disciplemaking ministry model found outlined in the Ministry Development website
- Online article: Six Functions of the Church www.wcg.org/lit/church/ministry/functions.htm
- Online article: Upward, Inward and Outward in Word and
Deed www.wcg.org/lit/church/ministry/worddeed.htm
- CCBT
study guides:
- Book 3, issue 9: How Can Church Leaders
Develop a Compelling Vision?
- issue
10: How Should Church Leaders Manage the Vision?
- Book 4, issue 1: What is God’s Overall Plan?
- issue
2: What Did Christ Do to Accomplish God’s Plan?
- issue
3: What is the Church’s Role in God’s Plan?
- issue
4: What is the Local Church’s Part in
God’s Overall Plan?
- issue
5: How Did Paul Model What Mission Should Be?
- issue
6: How Can You Develop a Mission Statement for Your Church
or Ministry Team?
- issue
7: What is the Relationship between Prayer and
the Church’s Mission?
- issue
12: How Can We Develop a Biblical and Comprehensive
Strategy of Mission?
- Book: Ministry Nuts and Bolts by Aubrey Malphurs
- Book: The Everyday Commission by Dann Spader and Gary
Mayes
- Online article: 12 Key Strategic Steps for Leading
Your Church by Aubrey Malphurs http://www.sermoncentral.com/article.asp?article=a-Aubrey_Malphurs1_1_07
Building ministry teams
Workers are to be equipped to work together in self-replicating
ministry teams (rather than in mere ‘task forces’ that
tend to be short-term and task, rather then relational and vision
focused). An effective minister is able to facilitate
the transition of a group of individuals into a cohesive team,
galvanized around shared values, mission, vision and strategies. Emerging
ministers are helped to contribute to such team building as they
understand the following.
Essential knowledge
- Can articulate the following essential components of a team-based
ministry:
- Knowledge of the difference between a Spirit-composed and
Spirit-led ministry team and a group of individuals merely
forming a work task-force
- Knowledge of the key factors required to build a team into
a cohesive unit
- Knowledge of the key factors that tend to create disharmony
within ministry teams and what is required to address those
issues to restore team cohesion and unity
Essential skills
- Can explain how good teams function
- Can explain what factors impede team orientation and progress
- Demonstrates, through personal leadership, how to build a cohesive
team
- Is able to demonstrate team building skills in such a way that
a group of individuals migrates, under his or her leadership,
from a focus on personal and individual goal fulfillment to fulfillment
of team related goals
- Understands nature of voluntary service; working with volunteers
Equipping toolbox
Managing time and projects
Workers need to be equipped to manage their time well so that
they maximize their availability (and thus their effectiveness)
in ministry work. Emerging ministers need to be taught time
management skills so that they can then teach others in accordance
with the following.
Essential knowledge
- Can articulate the essential elements of time management, the
enemies of effective time management, and key strategies
that lead to using time in a productive way
Essential skills
- Priorities
- Harmonizing family and ministry in accordance with Christ’s
directives and guidance
- Harmonizing job and ministry in accordance with Christ’s
directives and guidance
- Scheduling-efficiency
- Ability to teach time management and planning principles
Equipping Toolbox
Conducting meetings
Equipped workers understand how to conduct effective ministry meetings.
Emerging ministers need to be taught how to conduct ministry
meetings in accordance with the following.
Essential knowledge
- Building consensus, solving problems and making decisions in
a group setting
Essential skills
- Collaborative process
- Preparing and working from an agenda
Equipping toolbox
- Book: How to Make Meetings Work by Michael Doyle and
David Straus
- Book: How to Make Collaboration Work by David Straus
- Online article: Presentation Skills www.teal.org.uk/vl/vl2bibm.htm
Resolving conflict and dealing with crises
Active participation in Christ’s work inevitably brings
a minister into the realm of conflict and crisis. An equipped
worker understands how to address both with grace and skill. The
equipping of an emerging minister in these important areas
will involve the following.
Essential knowledge
- Understands the biblical model for dealing with conflict in
the church (see, for example, Jesus’ instructions in Matthew
18: 15-20 and chapter 8 in the Church
Administration Manual)
- Can articulate primary causal factors for interpersonal conflict,
and proven methods (including biblical approaches) for resolving
it
- Can articulate the classic cycle of response/recovery in a
crisis situation and understand how to meaningfully assist in
each stage
- Knowledge of what typically causes interpersonal conflict
- Knowledge of key strategies for resolving interpersonal conflict
and mechanisms (including biblical approaches) that lead
to reconciliation
Essential skills
- Demonstrates how to effectively resolve interpersonal conflict
and intervene to provide support in a crisis
- Able to effectively lead a group through a conflict resolution
process
Equipping Toolbox
Engendering accountability
Equipped workers understand the importance of accountability to
Christ, to the church’s disciplemaking mission, to supervisors
and to co-workers. Emerging ministers need to fully embrace
this value for themselves and engender it in coworkers.
Essential knowledge
- Members of the church are ‘individually members one of
another’ (Romans 12:5 NASB) and are thus to be mutually
accountable—submitting to one another in love “out
of reverence for Christ” (Ephesians 5:21)
- The accountability of workers and leaders in the body of Christ
is administered through the congregation’s governance
system—which in the WCG is direct accountability to the
ministry supervisor and to the congregation’s senior pastor
Essential skills
- Able to both yield to and to administer accountability systems
in accordance with GCI polity
- Able to adhere to and to teach required reporting protocols
- Able to administer GCI disciplinary system when needed
Equipping toolbox
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