Quotes of Note: Mobilizing Ministers
The following “Quotes of Note” are from Chapter Six of Equipping Counselors for Your Church. This chapter focuses on relational enlisting. For quotes from Chapter One, read God’s Grand Vision for His Church. For quotes from Chapter Two, read Knowing and Loving Those We Serve and Equip. For quotes from Chapters Three and Four read Christ’s Compelling Calling. For quotes from Chapter Five read My First Priority in Ministry.
• Enlisting is about mobilizing ministers: nurturing a family and building a team.
• The first responsibility of pastors, teachers, and church leaders is to create a synchronized passion for speaking and living God’s truth in love.
• Communicate to your people that one-another ministry is just as vital as preaching from the pulpit.
• Structure your church so that doing life together and speaking the truth in love is church.
• Jesus always called people to Himself—to be with Him to become like Him.
• Learn Christ’s transformational, relational process: come and see Me, come and follow Me, come and be with Me, come and remain in Me, come and be like Me.
• Connect (enlist) people to your purpose (envision).
• Nothing is more intimidating to me as an equipper than the realization that my first responsibility is to be like Christ.
• We birth a family and build a team not by asking, “How can we recruit more volunteers?” Our question is, “How can we connect committed people with our disciple-making vision?”
• God not only sovereignly gifts His people; He sovereignly calls and directs His people into specific fields of service.
• Without a daring confidence in the Lord of the harvest, it is impossible to match the right people to the right ministry.
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