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Ministry for Dummies

Pastor Erickson preaches from Matthew 25, Colossians 1 and Ephesians 4 that ministry is not only for the man behind the pulpit but for every believer in the body of Christ. He calls the church to join connect groups, disciple people according to how God made them, and become disciple makers who reach the people only they can touch.

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The message in 6 points

  1. Faithful servants and mature believers

    He reads that the faithful servant is given more and enters into the joy of the Lord, and that Paul preached to present every man mature in Christ Jesus. He titles the message Ministry for Dummies.

    1:05:39

  2. A wrong picture of ministry

    Pastor Erickson admits he has been a dummy about what true ministry looks like. Old church traditions split people into the preacher and the saints, but God did not call anybody to just be a saint who sits on a pew.

    1:12:36

  3. One person can only reach so many

    Many churches never grow past one preacher doing all the ministry. Every believer works and goes to school with people the pastoral staff will never meet, and God wants them to see those people as souls with an eternal destiny.

    1:20:48

  4. Apostles, prophets and evangelists in the pews

    Paul wrote Ephesians to the saints, not to a preachers conference. An evangelist can preach the gospel in the break room, an apostle can reach the nations living in their own county, and a prophet shares what God has spoken.

    1:23:14

  5. Disciples who make disciples

    Connect groups are more than food and fellowship: they deliver the Word, disciple people and deploy them to disciple others. Jesus pulled His small group aside to explain what the crowds never understood, and a disciple making movement must grow from the grassroots.

    1:34:59

  6. Every part of the body matters

    The church is a complete body, not all one part, so believers should stop competing for the microphone. He urges leaders to disciple people according to how God made them, as Jesus made fishermen into fishers of men, and to add value to their lives until groups multiply and fill the church.

    1:43:59

In his words

“The very paradigm, very definition of ministry must be changed for the people of God because God didn't call anybody to just be a saint.”

1:20:23

“Wake up and realize we're not saints on a pew. God help us get past that mentality. We're not saints on a pew, we are made to reach, we're made to go.”

1:34:16

“The church is so much more than just an altar where people get the Holy Ghost. That's a start, it's not a graduation, that's just the beginning of it.”

1:52:53

Taken word for word from the video, with punctuation added.

Scripture

He reads

Matthew 25:23

23His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

King James Version.

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Colossians 1:28

28Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:

King James Version.

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Ephesians 4:11

11And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

King James Version.

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Matthew 4:18-19

18And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. 19And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

King James Version.

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