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Teach and Admonish One Another

• Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly
  •   Leaders set the example of this “among you” lifestyle by sharing their lives, and life experiences, with others.
  • Teach One Another Perhaps you have heard this idiom or something like it.  “More is caught than taught.”  The meaning here is that those who follow us “catch” our beliefs and values by observing how we live out our faith.
  • We are also to Admonish one another – to admonish is to rebuke, correct or scold.  While this may not carry with it a pleasant implication, nonetheless Paul saw the need for church leaders to “admonish one another”.    The key is that, when necessary, we admonish “with all wisdom” and with the goal of restoration

Help Youth Obey the 7 Basic Commands of Christ

If we teach our young people and consistently model these 7 basic commands of Christ, the Church will be a different place. The village and the world would definitely be a different place to live. God has given so much to us and I pray that each one of us use what God has given us for a fruitful life in Christ Jesus.

Identifying Needs and Meetings Them

Today’s podcast encourages church planters to appoint deacons to meet practical needs in the church and in the community.  Sometimes deacons meet needs directly, sometimes they organize others to respond.  Either way, God is glorified and people are blessed.

Serve One Another

• Firstly, we are to serve one another. That means that servant leaders place others’ needs higher than their own.
• We are to serve humbly. Among other things, this means that we serve in such a way that does not draw attention to ourselves.
• Finally, we serve in love. Love is our motivation for service to others.  We spoke about this Love for one another in the previous podcast. 

Who are Deacons

Today’s podcast asks the question, “Are deacons’ leaders?  One of the most important tasks and biggest challenges a church planter faces is the appointment of the first leaders in a new congregation.

The Role of Deacons

The word deacon means servant, this is what they are doing in this passage of scripture! By serving others, it shall speak to the heart of men, women, and children. Are they hungry? Feed them! How? By teaching them how to farm, walking along side them as you do? Another question may be asked; how to serve the widows, the orphans, the sick and the list is long and continuous.

Problem Solving

Today’s podcast is about problem solving in the church. If you have been working to plant a church for more than 10 days, I am sure you have already confronted a challenge that you were not expecting!  Today we look at the example of the 12 Apostles as they faced head on a problem that could have divided the first church.

Love One Another

Here is Jesus’s command in John 13:34; “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”

I would like to pose two questions as we consider this command.

• Why is it new?
• What does “love one another” have to do with spiritual leadership?

Directive and Corrective Discipline

Today’s podcast is about church discipline.  We usually think that church discipline means correcting the mistakes and sinful behaviours of others.  But strong churches don’t just practice corrective discipline, they practice directive discipline.

Balance in the Church

The word balance is defined as; “stability produced by even distribution of weight on each side, and to bring into harmony or proportion.”

This is needed both in our personal lives and in the church, a balance of evangelizing the world and building-up in the Word of God.