I want to start a regular communication with you to remind you of who we are and what we are about. From time to time I will send articles and links to articles that are worth reading. In time this will become part of a blog on our new website that is currently being developed for the church. For those that have no idea what a blog is check out Wikipedia's page. I will from time to time send out similar mails with other information to other specific leadership teams in the church. And heads of other ministries will do the same for their teams too.
Why am I doing this? There are a number of reasons:
· I'd like to use these emails to pass on to you worthwhile information that will help you grow as a leader and grow the ministry under your care
· I'd like to encourage you and bless you for the hard work that you put in
· I see these mails as a process by which I can flavour your thinking so that we are all on the same page – to pass on to you the churches vision. There are a lot of ways to do a lot of things and we as a church must strategically ensure that we are doing things together in the way that God is leading us
· I'd like to point you to resources for download/purchase that are worth looking at
· When this is in a blog form, I see this as an opportunity to engage in comment and discussion around these communications that we can all be part of this process as a team
Let me start in this first comm. by reminding you that every local church on this planet has a Jesus given mandate:
Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age." – Matthew 28
This is your aim in whatever ministry you lead and the questions we need to ask ourselves every day are:
· are we bringing people to Jesus by creating a community that is Jesus centred, Spirit filled and Bible based?
· are we helping people to repent of sin and be saved by Jesus?
· are we showing the relevance of the Bible to modern issues?
· are we actually answering the questions people outside the church are asking?
· are we teaching the full council of God or just the 'nice' parts?
And perhaps the most important question of all:
are we creating disciples of Jesus who are helping others to become disciples too?
My aim is to get you to ask yourself these questions personally and as a leader in this church, that you'd grow in faith and effectiveness. My prayer is that you'd become intentional about the ministry that you are part of, that you'd do things with a specific goal in mind so that Jesus might be glorified. You might be helping in the crèche, you might be an elder or part of a worship team – your role is to help meet this Jesus given mandate to the local church.
In the next comm. I'll remind you of our church's vision as to how we want to do this – go read Acts 1 & 2 and we'll talk more soon!
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