Choosing the Ministry Servant Leader Team

Working with Men in Ministry will be challenging and rewarding.  Leadership in this context is similar to leadership in the business world. A major difference is the men in ministry are from different economic, national origin and educational backgrounds, and they are volunteers. The most dedicated participants are the most desirable because of their heart for the ministry. All the men will personally believe that Prayer is Powerful.

In the ministry like the business world the leader, will want to be able to knit the group together by recruiting the members most likely to be dedicated and most likely to contribute to the ministry’s successful outcomes.  Train each person to perform in his role, in the ministry. Motivate each leader to participate and do what is required away from admiring eyes and recognition. Sounds a lot like business leadership where successful leaders hire well, train effectively and motivate in the group and individually.

The most important element, which is not listed in the business books but is necessary in ministry, is people who are an example of Christian Living. Each man is a Servant Leader. Men striving to serve as Jesus would serve. This is not easy we fail, but the honest striving to achieve this goal is the key indicator.

Normally the participants in the ministry cannot be chosen they volunteer. The leaders can be chosen. These men should be hand picked, prayed in and confirmed by your Pastor or Church Leadership. Look for men who are family oriented, they have volunteered for other ministries or jobs in the church they are active in a large group activities, church dinners, greeters, picnics and outings.

Develop a relationship with each leader through conversations with them over a coke or coffee to understand their interests. Do they have a passionate desire to make a difference?

Finally, when building Men in Ministry be sure and select leaders in the ministry that are respected in the church for how they act and what they “humbly” do. Leaders will need skill in communicating and organizing. The leaders will have a passion to win men to Christ, One Man at a Time.

Select 2 or 4 leaders plus yourself.  This creates odd number for decisions and enough people to spread the work and the responsibility. Keep in mind your leaders more than likely have a family and full time employment outside of the ministry, which will take most of their time. The family always comes before the ministry.

So spread the work around and do not keep giving the same tasks to the same people. In addition, each leader should be able to fill any role when it comes to an activity or project.

The key to a successful ministry to men is the leadership. The leadership team that is selected and approved to work to build and lead the ministry.

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Men in Ministry, How to Win a City for Jesus

The work to reach an entire city for Jesus will produce great results. The unifying nature of the pursuit the real prayer, fasting and Bible Study will change men’s lives. The Men in Ministry will be overcome by the Power of Prayer, which will result in a powerful move of God.

Below is a tactical outline for taking a city for Jesus Christ.

• Establish God’s Perimeter
• Profile the faithful Men in Ministry
• Men dependent on the leadership of the Holy Spirit and prayer not their own abilities
• Called to the city not just to a congregation
• Gifted along the lines of Ephesians 4 (the whole chapter)
• Eph: 4:22-24 “to be made new in the attitude of your minds and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.”
• Men committed to daily prayer, daily study of the Bible and fasting as the Holy Spirit leads.
• Secure the Perimeter
• Satan with his weapons infiltrates the church. We must secure it by identifying and using God’s counter weapons.
• Pray for the leadership of the church
• Pray for the Men in Ministry
• Sin – God’s Grace
• Anxiety- God’s Mighty Hand (Power)
• Strongholds – renewal of our minds through the Word of God
• Disunity, apathy, gossip
• Spiritual and Social Mapping of the City
• Take down, through prayer, any demonic strongholds
• Pray for the neighborhoods every day.
• Expand the Perimeter
• Establish the core group then gradually bring Spirit led men, with hearts for God, into the core group.
• Infiltrate Satan’s Perimeter
• Prayer Groups
• 1 Timothy 2:12 “I urge, then, first of all that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— 2 for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.”
• Ephesians 6:18 18 “And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.”
• Ephesians 6:12 “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”
  
• List the neighborhoods and streets
• Pray for each neighborhood and each street. The core group will grow so that daily prayer for each home will be the norm.
• Pray for the leaders of the city to come to Christ
• Establish permanent prayer groups
• Increase the quality of the small groups
• Bible study
• The prior weeks sermon deep dives
• Prayer commitments
• Prayer lists
• Continue to expand the core of Disciples
• Reach into the city with Business Men’s Prayer Groups
• Outreach into the city with Teen Challenge

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Men in Ministry Be Spirit Led!

Let us begin by blowing up any false teaching that God stopped speaking to His people somewhere in Acts 28 or before. Not true! God speaks to His people. The question: Are God’s People seeking His voice, listening to Him and obeying.

Men in Ministry You are Never Alone

The Holy Spirit is anxious to give Men in Ministry guidance, warnings, encouragement and correction. The Holy Spirit is anxiously waiting to talk to us. How do I know the Holy Spirit is anxious to speak to us? The Bible tells me so! 

The Holy Spirit is a person. He is the third person in the trinity. The Holy Spirit is God. You are never alone!

Romans 8:14: “For those that are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.”

Galatians 5:18 “But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.”

Ephesians 5:18 “Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit,

1 Corinthians 6:19 “ Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

Ephesians 3:16 “I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Holy Spirit in your inner being,”

Have the Victory in Your Life Everyday

The Holy Spirit does speak to us in many ways. Are we listening and obeying? The preparation to receive the voice of the Holy Spirit is Prayer and Bible Study.

1 Peter 1:23 ‘For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.”

John 14:26 “But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, who the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.”

Just as sheep need to learn to understand and listen to the voice of the shepherd so to we must to learn to be led by the Holy Spirit. We have an inner witness, which we must faithfully nurture. The nurturing of the Holy Spirit is through prayer, Bible Study and obeying the Holy Spirit. The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God.

The apostle Paul urges, Galatians 5:25 “ Sine we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit” We receive the Holy Spirit we also must walk in the Spirit. When putting on the Armor of God, our feet are fitted with the readiness that comes from the Gospel of Peace. The only way for that to happen is for us to know the Gospel of Peace.

You are never alone!

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