The servant's companion: learn the gesture, understand the charge, serve at the right moment
The motto
“Administration is the servant of the spiritual, never its master.”
dixit Ps Hughes AH KIUNE
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I am:
A situation now: A bereavement, I am going to the hospital, I don't know what to say, An emergency
Find your space: Pastor, Elder, Deacon and Deaconess, Local leader
Three verbs, one ministry: Form, Understand, Serve
The modules: Listening, Visiting, Funerals, Discern, Be the mission
Practice: Listening simulator, Are you in the truth, Behind the words, The steps of mission
✦ Are you going through a trial in ministry?
Drained, discouraged, wounded by the Church, tempted to quit · a step-by-step path on Elijah's model. → Walking through the wound
For your day: Isaiah 50:4 · form, listen, serve. Equip, Feel, Respond

Your path

Filled before you're sent; then serve, witness, pass it on.

This journey unfolds step by step: each stage is born of the one before, unhurried, carried by it.

1 · FIRST OF ALLAt the altarReturn to the source 2 · EQUIPPEDServeTrain, understand, serve 3 · SENTWitnessToward those outside 4 · YOUR TURNPass it onMake disciples
Take stock, as a board

Diagnose your church

Two self-assessment tools, to run as a team: the health of the community, and its missional drive.

Is our church healthy?The 8 qualities of a living church · quick check-up then assessment, with a committee average.Open the diagnostic → Is our church missional?8 markers: the outside, every-member witness, the neighbourhood, sending, hope.Open the diagnostic →
Why ETSB

The knowledge to serve well exists, yet it sleeps, scattered through thick manuals and reserved for a few. ETSB gathers that knowledge and places it back in the hands of those who serve.

Rules and procedures are means in service of the spiritual life, never an end that smothers it.
Ephesians 4:12 · equipping the saints for the work of service
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