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What is the overall purpose of the Ministry Department?
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The overall purpose of the Ministry Department is “Blessed to Be a Blessings”. The charge of the Ministry Department is to demonstrate God’s Love by Loving Our Neighbor as Ourselves (Mt 22:39). We see ourselves as the “last step” in the 3-1-5 process – by doing the followings:
- Seeking to serve other humbly (Phil 2:3-11)
- Using our spiritual gifts freely and joyfully (1 Pet 4:10)
- Offering our prayer, resources, and time generously (Eph. 6:18, 2 Cor. 8:1-5)
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What can we do to discover how we are blessed?
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Help CBCM members to discover how they have been blessed by using written tools and other resources to identify their kingdom calling and purpose.
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In what way can we identify how we can be a blessing?
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Help CBCM members in fulfilling their calling by referring them to existing in-church ministries and/or outside-church ministries or to be further equipped so that they can be a blessing to others in the church, workplace, community and world.
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What are Ministry Department 2009 Plans?
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Part I: Use Saddleback Church’s S.H.A.P.E. (Spiritual Gifts, Heart, Abilities, Personality, Experiences) assessment to help CBCM members discover their calling in life. This can be in the form of a special six (6) sessions of Sunday School class, Cell Group/Small Group study, small group weekend training and/or large group conference. Broader than spiritual gifts inventory; this is assessment of our kingdom purpose, of which spiritual gifts are one part.
Part II: Release people to service who have identified their kingdom calling. Refer, support, encouraging them – for both those who are going in full-time Christian ministry and for lay people who serve God where they are.
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What is the core function of Ministry Department? |
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Ministry Department is looking for people to do/lead ministry, rather than taking on ministry and finding people to carry it out. In other words, Ministry Department focus is “People-centered” more than “Ministry-centered”.
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