The Equipping System controls the ministry in the church

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The Equipping System controls the ministry in the
church

• How much is done
• Who does it
• How they are found, trained, released, and
  celebrated

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Symptoms of equipping barrier

• Pastor is burning out at the limit of his time
  energy
• Pastor is considered the hired gun
• Regular exodus of your most talented people
• Most ideas for ministry come from the pastor
• The same people do everything
• People feel everything must be cleared by pastor
• Pastor loves ministry and wont let go
• Pastor needs to be needed

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Solutions

• The second reformation
• Getting the ministry out of the hands of the
  Clergy and into the hands of the laity
• You have to give it away
• Releasing the talent in the pews
• Each person is an unwrapped gift from God to be
  used in the furthering of His kingdom
• 50 of people in church said they wouldnt serve
• 10 are already serving
• 40 would serve if they were specifically asked

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Ministry Progression
Lay People
Ministry ceiling 500-750 people
Doing ministry with others doing ministry
Doing ministry with helpers
Doing ministry
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Solutions

• Trust is a critical component
• Can you trust the Holy Spirit that trained and
  uses you?
• If they can do it 80 as well give it away
• Develop a want to ministry style
• Declare every member a minister
• Give them a reasonable box to minister within

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No doctrinal heresy
No financial heresy
No moral heresy
No social heresy
No philosophical heresy
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Make it clear what ministry is

• WDEFC/Love
• Assign people to a life development line
• Develop demand an Eph. 4 church
• If they produce leaders and ministers they are
  clergy
• If they do ministry primarily they are laity
• 10 leaders in 2 years or your fired

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Finding ministers in 4 ways

• Announcements
• Anyone want to help?
• Recruitment
• List jobs
• Pray for guidance about who
• Go through the directory or contacts
• Call the person
• Asking them to pray about doing it
• Call back in 2 days to a week later

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Finding ministers in 4 ways (cont.)

• Automatic sign-ups
• 2 hours/month 10 hours/week
• Test, classes, and interviews
• SHAPE class
• Training for ministry
• Show them, have them try, give rewards praises
• Instructions
• 5 things, 7 keys, 4 actions, 8 steps
• Job descriptions
• Placement
• Foster a positive attitude toward movement to
  another ministry

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Pastor, Elder, Ministerial staff

• Jesus Christ wants to know how many people have
  you released into ministry?

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Ministry System

• We must clearly describe the results
• We must state the essential actions
• We have to create a reliable way of delegating
  ministry to others
• We must include the crucial components of a task
  in order to allow others to have success
• Many hands make light work
• Most of us are over worked because we have not
  reduced a job to its essentials and passed it on