1 / 41

Elements Essential To Revitalization Bruce Raley Director Church Education Ministry

Elements Essential To Revitalization Bruce Raley Director Church Education Ministry. Our Lord’s Final Command

astin
Download Presentation

Elements Essential To Revitalization Bruce Raley Director Church Education Ministry

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Elements Essential To Revitalization Bruce Raley Director Church Education Ministry

  2. Our Lord’s Final Command And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. Matthew 28:18-20

  3. BASIC ASSUMPTION All churches can be more effective in carrying out their Kingdom work…improving a Kingdom focus.

  4. QUESTION ? What do you think God wants to do in every church?

  5. People Reached For Christ People Matured In Christ Commonalities…and Distinct Differences

  6. NUMERICAL GROWTH: The lost being saved SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION: The saved becoming more like Christ MINISTRY EXPANSION: The saved being involved in ministry KINGDOM ADVANCE: The saved being involved in missions

  7. What prevents your church from doing what it should and experiencing what God wants to do? What we should do What God wants to do

  8. An effective disciple-making process ALWAYS begins with the leadership.

  9. Paul’s Example 1 Corinthians 4:16 1 Corinthians 11:1 Ephesians 5:1 1 Thessalonians 1:6-7

  10. Disciple-making guides people to be transformed into Christlikeness so they think and act like Christ.

  11. God’s Plumb Line Amos 7:8 A B

  12. TRENDS Impacting the Disciple-making Ministry of the Church

  13. Moving from a scorecard of simply bodies, budgets and buildings to also including intangible measurements. Society has moved past a “post-Christian” culture to a “pre-Christian” culture. Transition of paradigms: Believe – Behave – Belongto Belong – Believe – Behave

  14. Society is no longer a melting pot, but now mosaic. Growing demand for processin discipleship. Church leaders are trying to define “familyministry”. There is a shift from ministry at church to ministry at home. Shift in moving from grouptraining to individual or within small groups of people.

  15. How many apples?

  16. Offensive vs Defensive Discipleship

  17. What is discipleship? Discipleship is not information. Discipleship is not behavior modification. Discipleship is transformation.

  18. True discipleship always goes after the heart – not behavior.

  19. Realities Discipleship takes places best in the context of relationships. Relationships develop within smaller groups. A group is composed of two or more individuals.

  20. Bruce Raley Lost & Me Other Christians & Me My Family & Me Worship God & Me Daily in the Word Open Group Closed Group Marriage Parenting On-going Group Short-term Group One-on-One (Mentoring, Coaching Church Group Ministry Discipleship

  21. 8 Attributes of Discipleship • Bible Engagement • Obeying God and Denying Self • Serving God and Others • Sharing Christ • Exercising Faith • Seeking God • Building Relationships • Unashamed

  22. Transformational Sweet Spot Truth • Gospel • Identity • Discipline

  23. Transformational Sweet Spot Posture • Weakness • Interdependence • Outward Focus

  24. Transformational Sweet Spot Leaders • Indispensible quality • Godly leaders applying truth

  25. Start New Groups

  26. Form a circle

  27. Realities The Word of God is the focal point of life transformational groups

  28. Realities Barriers must be overcome Time and location no longer define groups Need for Sunday and weekday groups

  29. Realities Catalysts are essential for the creation of new groups New groups are created proactively

  30. Realities Organization attendance will increase approximately 10 for every new adult groups properly started.

  31. New groups are offensive! HOPE!

  32. What are the possibilities of uniting in a vision to Grow through Groups? • More people accepting Christ and being baptized • More people maturing in Christ • More people engaged in ministry • More people giving to kingdom causes

  33. A dream fulfilled… Every church begins at least one new Sunday School class each year … one group for every hundred people in attendance.

  34. Watch For The Breaks in the Sandbar

  35. Necessity of Leadership And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, commit to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. - 2 Timothy 2:2 (HCSB)

More Related