Source: Postings, Catalyst Services
Does the Great Commission belong to your whole church or just a select few members?
Congregations large and small often create silos when they divide up the task of making disciples in the body of Christ. Responsibilities are assigned to various departments, then each stewards their own workers, programing, budget, and facilities.
There is a place for specialization in the Kingdom of God. However, in a departmentalized culture, many spiritual disciplines, including the Great Commission, can be outsourced willingly or unwittingly to one department. Instead, Missions Pastor Doug Gamble explains that churches need a new infusion of vision that uses departmental efforts to develop everyone in all the core disciplines.
Doug explains the journey his church took to “un-silo” and how it is creating a climate in which the Great Commission really is becoming every person’s job. (Note that this goes both ways. The author found himself teaching third-graders for the children’s department.)
Read the article.
Catalyst Services also shared a list of some of their Postings most popular with church leaders. Maybe you would find these useful, too.
- A Supporting-Sending-Partnering Continuum: Measuring your church’s missions ownership
- Missions Essentials: Do you have a core missions message for your church?
- Is This the Team for Me? Questions to help you help your missionary candidate find the right field team for them