Taking Responsibility (3) What Changes are Needed

1. Different Leadership Model
   

   Plurality of leaders

   • With all ascension gifts amongst them
   • Complementing each other
   • Submitted to each other.
   • No senior leader
   • Balanced ministries

   Get evangelists going
   
   • Healing the sick and casting out demons in streets and market places.
   • Work in pairs
   • Replicating their ministries in new evangelists.

   Get pastors growing the new disciples.
   
   • Teaching them to listen and obey the Holy Spirit
   • Helping them get rid of their junk.
   • Watching over them and praying
   • (Modern pastors spend most of their time with the most mature people)

   Release prophets to encourage, challenge and confront,
   

   • Strong relationships with people who can test their words.

2. Serious discipling of new Christians
   Stop preaching as it is a redundant method for discipling
   – challenging messages miss most people and hurt the vulnerable

   Teach disciples to listen and obey the Holy Spirit
   

   • Encourage them to move in the gifts of the Spirit.
   • Watch over them from a distance and pray for them
   • So they grow quickly into fulness of the Spirit and peace.

3. Leaders replicate their ministry
   

   In the people they are discipling
   

   • Pastors produce pastors
   • Prophets produce prophets
   • Evangelists produce evangelists

   The leaders will be able to go out and start new churches
   because there are people ready to step into their place as leaders.

4. Focus on Territory
   

   Live together in houses close to each other.
   

   • Close to a person of peace.
   • Love one another as Jesus loved us.
   • Serve each other and their neighbours.
   • Heal the sick.

5. Send out Apostles
   

   Send out the best.
   

   • Others will step up into their place.
   • Send a team with balanced giftings, ie pastor-teacher, prophet, evangelist.
   • A couple of Timothys, who are being discipled, might go with them.

   Take a fully-functioning church (with half a dozen members) to a new place
   
   • Carry on loving and serving each other
   • Doing the stuff that Jesus did.
   • People see the gospel from the get go.
   • People will see how discipling works.
   • Keep listening and obeying the Holy Spirit
   • He keep will keep doing his stuff.