Certificate in Pastoral

Theology
Lecture 25 26
Leadership, Planning,
Meetings

1 Timothy 4:6 5:3

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As the Lord wills, not as we desire.

Prayer goals prayer time daily.
Study goals teaching objectives.
Visitation goals teams trained
Evangelistic goals focused preaching
Area of OSN weakness covered by applied study
and prayer
Family goals time with own children
Marital goals time out with spouse
Exercise goals fitness to perform work
Recharge goals spirit, soul, body fired up

Church Goals

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Prioritize changes to be made

Establish prayer warrior group
Prayer to be central in all meetings
Meeting protocols in place
Teaching program for spiritual growth
and empowered service
6. Feeding the people Gods Word
7. Holiness sin dealt with
8. Holy Spirit led organization wait upon
the Lord, without hasty decisions.

Implementation of Faith

Leadership must always buy in to

all plans with the same passion as
their leader. Take Leadership
retreatschurch camps..weekend
teach ins (especially @ Easter)
Fellowship stressed people must be
at the place where they find it easy
to come to church and hard to leave.

Right Exercise of Gifts builds the Local

Church, and empowers the People

Acts 15:1-21 A model meeting, where robust

disagreement is managed by spiritual leadership.
1. Everyone is well briefed and informed of the
issues before hand.
2. The Elders clarify all doctrinal points as they
are raised; those who have done work are
asked for reports.
3. The senior elder chairs the meeting.
4. The problem people have their say first and
are fully heard.
5. When everyone has been heard the senior
elder sums up biblically; the doctrines of the
Word are then spelled out for application.

Administration of Meetings

Solid reporting of facts of each ministry work.

Meeting covenants on good manners well
understood.
Solid chairmanship; teach 1 Jn 3:11-24, 4:4-19,
4:20 - 5:5. Also, Rom 1:19-32, Prov 6:16-19, Gal
5, Matt 7:13-23.
What saith the scriptures?
Fasting and prayer if trouble isolate evil and
disruptive people (Church Discipline well
understood).
Be ready for the attack of malicious evil if the
church is doing powerful spiritual work!

Communication in the Body

Truthful, timely, appropriate,

targeted to immediate need to
preserve unity, or surgically remove
evil.
Speaking the truth in love.
Action your Disciplinary process.
Communicate regularly written,
notice board, email, announcements.