For some reason I have never paid a whole a lot of attention to Ephesians 4: 11-12. It was never covered in any depth in college or any ministry I’ve been in but I have no excuses for why it has just been glanced over.
“It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up.”
Over the last few weeks these verses have been coming back to me more than likely because of a Children’s Ministry Volunteer Meeting but it seems deeper than that. So started to look for equipping and training material. No real avail a first. But then it I finally did and man did I find a treasure trove.
From Cadre Ministries I found:
Dialogue #1- Training Makes All the Difference
Dialogue #2–The Training Genius of Jesus
And from Community Christian Church’s Small Groups I found:
A Coach’s Guide Book
Over the next few days I’ll break down what I see as unaligned focuses of church leaders, training and equipping lapses and what we can do about it.
So Buckle Up and Stay Tuned.
FusionLife is the personal blog of Ben Boles, who's passion is to help people find their way back to God. And one way I do that is by sharing my life, ideas, and experiences as a Christ-follower.
February 7th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
[...] So last time we talked about equipping we talked about Ephesians 4: 11-13 and what many see as the churches lack of time, energy and resources put into actually equipping Christians for the work God has prepared for the them to do Eph. 2:10. [...]
March 4th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
[...] have looked at the over arching issue in part 1 and in part 2 we talked about the misaligned focus of leaders and today I want to look at training [...]
March 18th, 2008 at 11:15 am
[...] Whole Series Part 1 - Equipping? Part 2 - The Misaligned Focus of Church Leaders Part 3 - Training and Equipping Lapses Part 4 - [...]