Yesterday I shared Jeff Vanderstelt’s 6 questions to assess your disciple-making culture, one of which was whether in your church everyone sees themselves as a gospel minister?

Here are Jeff’s 5 Ways To Equip Disciples as Gospel Ministers

He begins with this challenge

If you are a leader in the church, do you see your job is not to do the ministry for the church, but to equip the church for ministry in the everyday stuff of life (Eph. 4:11-12)?

1. Leaders need to reconsider their calling
2. Help people see they are designed uniquely by God and put in the place they live on purpose by God
3. Publicly affirm and commission people in your gatherings for mission outside of the building or weekly event
4. Consider how your language affirms your convictions
5. Make sure you regularly reaffirm God’s people as the priesthood

I often find that number 3 gets forgotten or squeezed out but it’s not that hard to do when you stop to think about it. What do you think to these five points?

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