He has such a heart for living out what God has planned for him and the ministries he's in. I love how the way they are teaching their students is by living out the book of Acts and in the way they teach personal discipline is by using the Matthew 18 principle. I love that they call their prayer time Warfare Prayer. It has such a ring to it!
I really feel that as he was talking to us, I was picturing/thinking how are ministry school is as well as others I've heard about. Everything he said was just so good! I love that in about every class period, every speaker has talked about the verse to "go out and make disciples..." It is part of The Great Commission and we need to be getting others to follow Christ in our ministries. His quote of reproducing a person, a student, a leader was such a refresher for me. I feel that I haven't really thought that much of reproducing myself, teaching others how I've learned so that was such an eye opener for me! Those points were the ones that stuck out to me the most! Here are some other notes I took through the class...
- Their underlying philosophy or basis for their training is: Raising up spiritual warriors for the kingdom of God to teach them how to live out the book of Acts in signs, wonders, and miracles.
- 9 month training ministry school
Training in life, spiritual, and academic skills
Hands on ministry training, real life work
Personal discipline
Timeliness and being on time: Prayer School (Warfare Prayer) 40 min.
-using the Matthew 18 principle
- A recent success story: about students who had bad pasts and are not redeemed and in full time ministry.
- There needs to be flexibility and necessary pieces in each one.
- Students come in from a church background or who have a past. They define a win to the student that they cease on some of the self destructive habits they have in their life or maybe just need to pray out loud. Maybe there’s looking internal, or speaking in front of others for the first time. Understanding who they are in Christ.
- Creating students to be what God called them to be.
- Discipleship is important to him because it was important to Jesus. “Go out and make disciples…” It’s part of the Great Commission. Reproducing a person, a student, a leader!
- He needs help with the program. He needs leaders that will invest back into the students. Teachers, leaders, administrative, counseling, prayer leaders, disciplers.
- Discipleship is the hardest thing to do but totally worth it. That is a difficult aspect as well as confrontation.
- Follow through and discipline.
-How he balances family and ministry. He constantly has to work at it. Be engaged and updating your family, spending time with them. Constant process of tweaking. Continual and constantly working on it.
- He’s had high level of discipline and requirements. You must always have consequences with the standards and discipline and requirements. That’s what makes it effective.
- Maybe a great thing to do is to teach them the core values, core principles. You make that commitment and covenant at the beginning, so keep it.
- How do you build your ministry team? You build them from the school of people who stand out, who model what they are doing.
- Who are the heroes in your ministry? People you look up to you in your ministry, church, family, friends.
Force yourself to confront as soon as possible. Tone, approach, etc. How can I please God in this moment? How can I keep this person’s best interest at heart? How can they benefit?
The only way you won’t mess up is if you don’t ry. You are growing in it. Leave earlier. Go through a series of coaching questions. Help them to overcome excuses change the behavior patterns. Our requirements are only as good as consequences allowed them.
Really enjoyed this post, Caitlyn! Their discipline structure through Matthew 18 was so practical and really cool.. loved that :)
ReplyDelete