KEY 5 OF 5
Who trains the next ones to go?
Conviction without training stalls out.
Even convinced, well-directed people stall without practical equipping — and without a team willing to send, support, and multiply them. Missions begins in the local church, and the local church is also its objective.
Equipping is not only for the ones getting on a plane. It is for everyone with a part to play:
Leaders
Cast vision, disciple toward maturity, build a sending culture
Committees
Evaluate wisely, cast vision, plan short-term trips that build toward sending
Families
Model a heart for the unreached at home, early
Children
Never too early to grasp that some people have never heard
Everyone
Advocates, pray-ers, senders — the whole body has a role
Questions worth asking your church
- ✓ Is your congregation aware that one third of the world’s people have never heard of Jesus — and that no messenger is currently on the way to many of them?
- ✓ When someone says “missions,” do they mean reaching people who have never had another opportunity to hear — or something else?
- ✓ Who in your congregation could be sent, four years from now, if you started preparing them today?
- ✓ Does your church have a plan for missionary training, or just a line item in the budget?
“The Body of Christ will be much more effective at mobilizing the church toward completing the Great Commission if we empower the whole Body rather than a small contingent of mobilizers.”