ACTS 1:8 Growth Workshop

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ACTS 18Growth Workshop

• UNIT 5
• Six Critical Issues for
• Healthy, Reproducing Churches

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Leadership Development
The work of the gifted ones is 11 He is the one
who gave these gifts to the church the apostles,
the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors
and teachers. 12 Their responsibility is to equip
God's people to do his work and build up the
church, the body of Christ, Eph
411-12 NLT

• For the perfecting of the saints
• for the work of the ministry
• for the edifying of the body of Christ

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Leadership Development The work of the gifted
ones is

• to prepare Gods people
• to do the works of service
• that the body of Christ might be built up.

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Leadership Development (cont.)

• Many pastors fail to train new workers.
• Is my leadership style reproducible?
• Leaders of growing churches concentrate on
  empowering Christians for ministry.
• (write in) MAWL Model, Assist, Watch, Leave
• Assist members
• Invest time in equipping not doing the work.
• Multiplying workers
• Questions in your book .

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Worship

• Worship is defined as meeting God.
• Worship is critical to the life and vitality of a
  church.
• Corporate worship is often first point of contact
  for new people.
• Ideally it is highest experience of worship.
• Leaders help members understand and experience
  personal and family worship.
• Questions

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Evangelism

• 87 of the people who come to Christ in the world
  are under the age of 18 (Mark Anderson President
  of GPN)
• Last year our 1798 BGCO churches had in Vacation
  Bible School (VBS)
• 669 congregations
• 2,805 saved
• 10,322 prospects discovered

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Evangelism

• The seven elements of an evangelism process
• The first element is prayer.
• The pastor leaders must model evangelism.
• The church needs a process to identify, cultivate
  and track prospects.
• The church must have a plan to mobilize members
  for the task of evangelism.

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Evangelism (cont.)

• An ongoing plan to train members in evangelism is
  critical.
• Any effective evangelism strategy has a plan to
  deploy the trained members into the field.
  (visitation night)
• The church needs an effective plan to follow-up
  and disciple those who accept Jesus as Savior and
  Lord.
• questions

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Relationships

• The church is a social, relational organization.
• Church needs structures to assist in developing
  and strengthening relationships
• Church is creating community.
• Churches that fail to start new groups have
  decided to die.
• The byproduct of healthy group life is the
  multiplication of leadership.
• Questions

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Relevant Structures

• The Bible does not give specific structure.
• Structures exist to impact not to impair
  ministry.
• Effective congregations conserve members time by
  developing minimal and streamlined organizations.
• questions

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Stewardship Financial

• Two mistakes stewardship is ignored or dealt
  with only in terms of money.
• Whatever you want at the end, built in at the
  beginning.
• Stewardship defined as managing all the resources
  entrusted by God.
• Churchs budgeting and accounting needs to
  inspire confidence.
• questions