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THEORY OF CHURCH GROWTH (제27강) ✝️✝️✝️ (영문)
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PAUL
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2020-06-27 17:21:14, 조회 : 1,493 |
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THEORY OF CHURCH GROWTH (제27강) ✝️✝️✝️ (영문)
Discipling the Laity for Disciple Making (5)
(49) Edward J. Hales insisted that the giving life has an effect on other areas of our spiritual lives (Hales and Youngren 1981, 51).
(50) The quantitative and qualitative growth of the church must guarantee the financial abundance of the church. Therefore, the financial goal must be set in the ground of quantitative and qualitative growth.
(51) The second stage is involving members. If the church members do not get involved in the church activities, the pastor cannot carry on making disciples for church growth. He cannot even start his disciple making program.
(52) Why, then, do the lay-people not get involved in church activities? The writer thinks that this issue may be considered from two aspects: pastor and lay-people.
1) First of all, surprising to many, is that some pastors do not want extensive numbers of lay-persons involved in ministry (Habecker 1990, 138).
The problem is that many pastors have regarded lay-people as ignorant. Of course, they cannot know as much as the pastor about ministry, but their gifts given by God must not be underestimated.
Another problem is that the pastors do not trust the lay-people to be involved in their ministry, but the pastors must trust the lay-people and make them be involved in the ministry because they are also the royal priesthood of the people belonging to God (1 Peter 2:9), and have different gifts for ministry to the church (1 Cor. 12:28-30).
Marlene Wilson explained a theology of the priesthood of all believers as follows:
Christ has declared that all believers constitute this royal priesthood. From the earliest tradition of the Old Testament, some of the priests have been called out (ordained) to perform certain special functions... but 99 percent of the priesthood is unordained laity. Ministry is the work of the whole priesthood. (Wilson 1983, 15)
In addition, it must be considered that the lay-people may become good leaders through training by the competent pastor or leader.
2) Secondly, from the viewpoint of the lay-people, they also have a tendency to be indifferent as well as underestimate their gifts given by God. Therefore, they do not get involved in the ministry.
This is a crucial problem. They think that the ministry belongs only to the pastor. Pastors also think that the ministry belongs only to them likewise. Such an idee fixe or preconception must be broken as soon as possible. As long as there are these misconceptions, the church cannot grow.
(53) Eugene B. Habecker suggests the following ways for the lay-people involvement:
1) the pastor must be willing to release lay-people for ministry,
2) the pastoral staff must encourage lay involvement,
3) the pastoral staff must present to lay-people the vision of gathering and scattering church,
4) the pastoral staff needs to think about diversified ministry defined, managed, and operated by lay-people, and
5) we ought to be involving lay-persons more extensively (Habecker 1990, 140-143). ⛪️⛪️⛪️
To be continued
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