The Trellis and the Vine by Tony Payne & Colin Marshall

Author:Tony Payne & Colin Marshall [Payne, Tony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ministry training, church
Publisher: Matthias Media
Published: 2012-04-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9.

Multiplying gospel growth through training co-workers

Let’s return to our inspired but overwhelmed pastor. He wants his church to become a training centre, and he wants to equip his people as ‘vine-workers’, but at the same time he is swamped with work—preaching, committees, pastoral crises, and all the rest. He has 130 people to take care of—regular attenders and various contacts and people on the fringe—and he goes through the exercise of listing them all down and assessing where they are up to in the ‘gospel growth’ process.

The problem is, he barely has time to spend with ten of them, let alone 130. How is he going to start ministering personally to this sort of number? How is he going to make progress in training them to be vine-workers?

Let’s break the problem down by considering our seven imaginary people from the ‘gospel growth’ table in chapter 7.

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