TEN LEVELS OF MINISTRY
TEN LEVELS OF MINISTRY
At what level of ministry are you stuck?
“They went...they preached the gospel and taught many disciples, ...that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom. They ordained elders in every church, and prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord...and gathered the church, they reported all that God had done with them...Paul said to Barnabas let us go back and visit... ” (Acts 14:20-23;27; 15:36)
Level 1. Go: Paul and Barnabas went. Going does not mean far away but going with the gospel wherever God has placed you. Ripples from your neighborhood/workplace can reach the ends of the earth. (Matt. 28:19; Rom. 10:14-17)
Level 2. Preach the gospel where Christ has not been named, not just with words but with healing and deliverance. (Mark 16:15-18; Acts 26:18; Rom. 15:19,20; 1Cor. 9:16)
Level 3. Make disciples: Being a believer is not enough,they must be trained into next levels of disciplers, baptizers, equippers and senders. Being a follower of Christ is not enough, make them fishers of men and birth generational multipliers. (Matt. 4:19; 28:18-20; 2Tim. 2:2)
Level 4. “Teach them to Obey all that I have commanded you.” Teaching obedience is an explicit command. The onus is on the teachers to oversee that all that they teach must be immediately implemented. Any delay will render all teaching useless. (Matt. 28:19,20; Heb. 5:12)
Level 5. Persecution Proofing: Do not promise new believers that Christianity is a cake walk but “remind them that we must suffer many hardships to enter the Kingdom.” Yeshua said, “If they have hated me, they will hate you also...” (John 15:18; Mark 13:13)
Level 6. Appoint Elders (Plural): Appoint elders (not on how much they know but on their fruitfulness); not in every congregation but in every city church. Their role is to set right everything that is wrong and be accountable for every soul in the city. (Titus 1:5-9; Heb. 13:17)
Level 7. Prayer/fasting: Do not organize prayer events and build prayer towers and stay there but go weeping (liquid prayer) and come back rejoicing with sheaves of harvest. Your prayers to the Lord of the harvest must send laborers into the harvest field. (Ps126:5,6; Luke 10:1,2)
Level 8. Leave: Do not hang on and become a pastor but pass on the baton to the local elders and “Turn them over to the care of the Lord.” (Acts 14:23; 20:32)
Level 9. Reporting is Biblical: Paul and Barnabas “Gathered the church (that sent them) and they rehearsed all that God had done with them...” (Vs 27)
Level 10. Revisit: Later, Paul said to Barnabas, "Let's go back and visit the brethren in every town where we preached the word of God and see how they're doing." Your ministry is incomplete until you are reproducing effective and productive fishers of men. (Acts 15:36)
Sadly most Christians are stuck at ground zero.
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