Networking with some guys today about starting and leading a school of ministry. We've got to start finding new and non-traditional ways to train church leaders. Everyone isn't going to go to seminary or even relocate to pursue an undergraduate degree but yet there is a leadership challenge that churches are facing. There's a lot of rural communities that have had churches for years...they are not exactly on the cutting edge but in their own God intended way they are impacting their little town.
Not many leaders fresh out of seminary are anxious to move to a town of a thousand or two and find a job in the town so they have the privilege of ministering and leading a group of people not quite able to pay them enough to make payments on their student loans.
Leaders are going to have to be trained and raised up from the grassroots and inspired and equipped to do the job.
This thing (the Kingdom of God) started out as a grassroots response to a divine plan. If we are going to hit the ends of the earth we are going to have to think of ministry and ministry leadership in different ways.
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