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Common Ways Pastors See TheirRole in Leading the Local Church
1. Preaching/teaching2. Evangelism3. Care giving4. Administration5. Missions6. CommunityMostly depends on the pastor’sprimary gifts and interests
Eight Organizing Principles for Leading Your Local Church
The controlling principle:the Bible and the Bible alone determines the way we lead
Not culture
Not what we learned in seminary
Not the sheep
Eight Organizing Principles for Leading Your Local Church
Not our preferences
Not our drive for power or recognition or success
The Bible and the Bible alone
Everything must change to conform to the Bible—gradual but inevitable through teaching, modeling, and
training
Eight Organizing Principles for Leading Your Local Church
1. Your church is NOT your church, but Christ’s church, and He alone can lead the
church through us Mt. 16:18
Eight Organizing Principles for Leading Your Local Church
2. The Great Commission properly understood is THE organizing principle of
all local churches because it includes all that the church does
Eight Organizing Principles for Leading Your Local Church
3. All church actions must be built around making disciples, not maintaining the
church
Eight Organizing Principles for Leading Your Local Church
4. All disciple making must result in high level character that lives and acts
biblically, meaning that we disciple for competence through godly character at the
heart level
Eight Organizing Principles for Leading Your Local Church
5. The core of all leadership must be compassionate care for the sheep that--feeds them spiritually and physically
--enables such feeding to happen --holds them accountable for life and
ministry--trains them to enter the world for Christ
Eight Organizing Principles for Leading Your Local Church
6. All must be taught the truth of God’s word as knowledge in action through
spiritual power; knowledge alone is not adequate
Eight Organizing Principles for Leading Your Local Church
7. All must be equipped at their maturity level to use their gifts to serve Christ and to
equip others to do the same
Eight Organizing Principles for Leading Your Local Church
8. All who are not yet mature enough to serve must be brought to a basic level of
maturity so they can be equipped to serve and eventually to equip others to serve
Model(John 13:12-17;
I Cor. 11:1)
Equip(Eph. 4:11-12)
Teach(I Tim. 4:13)
Shepherd(I Peter 5:1-4)
Elder(I Tim. 3:1-
7)
Overseer(I Tim. 3:1; I Peter
5:2; Acts 20:28)
Make Disciple-Makers(Matt. 28: 18-20)
THE PASTOR’S JOB DESCRIPTION
Six Decisions the Romanian Church Must Make to be Difference Makers
in the World
1. The Romanian church must decide to renew its mind to think biblically rather
than culturally (Rom. 12:1-2)
The mind is renewed through an understanding of the fullness of God’s grace that brings deliverance from the
flesh (Rom 12:1; Gal. 5:16; 19-21)
Six Decisions the Romanian Church Must Make to be Difference Makers
in the World
2. The Romanian church must decide to renew its mind to enter its culture rather
than defend itself from its culture
Age and economic emigration is shrinking the church with fewer
coming in than exiting
Six Decisions the Romanian Church Must Make to be Difference Makers
in the World
3. The Romanian church must decide to renew its mind to become a church focused
on penetrating its culture while maintaining a lifestyle of purity
It must treat unbelievers for what they are, unbelievers, and not expect them
to live like believers until they become believers: Jonah
Six Decisions the Romanian Church Must Make to be Difference Makers
in the World
4. The Romanian church must decide to renew its mind from an inward driven vision to an outward focused vision to
relate the Gospel to the needs of society
It must work to understand where its culture is going and seek to meet it with trust and truth, not fear, a steponly the Romanian church can take
Six Decisions the Romanian Church Must Make to be Difference Makers
in the World
5. The Romanian church must decide to renew its mind from being a fleshly driven
church to a Spirit empowered church
It must work to recognize the flesh within it, to accept this reality, and to
turn from it.
Six Decisions the Romanian Church Must Make to be Difference Makers
in the World
6. The Romanian church must decide to renew its mind concerning the honor and respect it gives to its pastors to attract the
best men it can for this role
To get the best the church must treat its pastors—and their wives—with
loving accountability
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