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Book of 1 Timothy:
Click here to go to the web page of
NEW Sermon-or-Lesson Outlines for 1
Timothy, which replace and upgrade the discontinued corresponding
Bible Lesson Notes for the Book of 1 Timothy that were previously listed on this web page.
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- - Is your church significantly deficient?
If your church does not have an element that is actively and frequently engaging in presenting the gospel with an invitation to receive Christ, then your church is
significantly deficient of fulfilling a main activity that God has designed and instructed all of His churches to do
(Colossians 1:6).
God intends that evangelism is to be conducted on all levels: personally by true believers in the church; corporately within the preaching, teaching, programs, and events of the church; locally in the community; nationally in the country; and internationally within other countries
(Colossians 1:6-7).
Therefore, minimally, small churches should have at least one person who is encouraged, supported, and requested to do evangelism throughout the church's programs and events. Medium-size churches should minimally have a group of persons who fulfill these evangelism functions. And large churches should minimally have an entire ministry devoted to fulfilling these evangelism functions.
Even if the pastor(s), elders, and leaders in your church are not inclined to do evangelism, your church nevertheless should have an
endorsed element which or who is actively doing evangelism as suggested herein (e.g. Romans15:15-16).
Those persons who do evangelism need to be trained to do it properly, otherwise the results will be people erroneously thinking they got saved when in fact technically God has not saved them because their evangelism was not conducted in accordance with what God designates in the Scriptures
(Galatians 1:6-8,11).
A good document for this training to do evangelism is available on the "Counseling" page of this website, entitled
"Session
02 - Presenting The Gospel"
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Train your elders:
A church is a ministry. Churches should not be run as a business. Even though there are similarities between being run as a ministry or run as a business, churches are to be guided spiritually by appropriately and faithfully following the principles contained in the Scriptures, whereas businesses are guided financially by aggressively following the principles that produce a profit. Therefore, elders who direct the affairs of the church need to be trained in how to run a church as a ministry. Failing to adequately train every elder is to allow the running of the church to default to being run as a business. In the same way that people need to be trained in how to do ministry, so too elders need to be trained in how to run the church as a ministry. Head pastors, you should have as a very high priority and thereby be consistently implementing the ongoing training and refining of every one of your elders on how to run the church as a
ministry
(see 2 Timothy 3:17). To assist in this training, the "Elder Training Series" is located
near the top of the "Home Page - Ministry" web-page.
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