mts
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Paul, the Areopagus & the Why of evangelism
We all find evangelism hard. Admitting that is the first step to dealing with it. But what’s the second step? What gets in the way of people taking the next step with their acquaintances, friends and family? Our Mission Pastor,… Continue reading
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Why most people get the ‘T’ in MTS wrong…
The Ministry Training Strategy (www.mts.com.au) is an awesome and much needed part of the Australian Christian landscape. But… most people think the ‘T’ in MTS is about being a Trainee… they think it’s the Ministry Trainee Strategy… and they’re wrong.… Continue reading
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Learn by preaching small passages or massive passages… but not medium
A common trap for young preachers is the medium length passage… its like 15-30 verses. See, you can get your head around it. You can spend 10hrs preparing it and exegeting it and know what it says. But you’ll want… Continue reading
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When they say, “Church needs some people to NOT do full-time ministry”…
It seems like a sound argument… If 100% of Christians tried to do paid-ministry, there’d be no-one to pay them. Therefore the church needs people who will faithfully decide to not do paid-ministry. Right? Even though the statement is “true”… Continue reading
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The similarity between Ministry and Magic…
…it’s only cool until you know how its done. Every kid who’s seen a magic trick starts imagining themselves as a magician. That’s why toy stores sell those starter-magic kits. But if they sold so many, wouldn’t there me so… Continue reading
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Reblog: What MTS experience is worth having before college?
After catching up with some Moore College students who just finished first year, I was reminded how the type of MTS experience you get is so important. College doesn’t teach you how to “do ministry”; it doesn’t teach methods, principles… Continue reading
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Things you can’t really understand until you’ve been in full-time ministry…
There’s nothing super-godly about being in “paid FT ministry”, but there are some things that you just couldn’t know without experiencing them first-hand… (This is why MTS is so important!!! No matter how much ministry you’ve been doing, or how… Continue reading
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If leadership means making decisions, raising up new leaders means…
If leadership means making decisions, raising up new leaders means… delegating decisions. If you want more people involved, you need more teams/groups for them to join. If you want more teams/groups, you need new team/group leaders. If you want to… Continue reading
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The difference between giving someone a brief and giving someone a job…
A job is… “I want a coffee table with four legs, 1200x900x500, in wood.” A brief is… “I have a coffee every morning and I want to out it down in something…” A brief is a problem, a need, something… Continue reading
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What are they afraid of?
If you can help Christians answer this question for themselves, for their own lives and their own ministry involvement, you help them take a big step towards maturity as they face fear with the god who provides and promises to… Continue reading
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The best way to help MTSers develop self-assessment habits
Just one question, asked again and again… “Why?” “When you did that lesson, why did you do it that way?”, “Why did you talk to him rather than her?”, “Why did you sit there?”, “Why did you change your plans?”,… Continue reading
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If you get devastated when your ministry fails, was it your idol?
Don’t think so highly of your ministry that you get wiped out when it doesn’t work. So… the kids didn’t come along. So… the person didn’t think it was valuable to meet with you. So… they decided to go to… Continue reading
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MTS training is all about #2… Developees not Employees
There are two very different categories of thinking when it comes to taking on MTS Trainees. First, you and your staff team, and your elders, and your key leaders, and everyone in your church needs to be convinced that your… Continue reading
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MTS training is all about… #1 Character
Everything we do as Christians has something to do with character, right? But MTS training shouldn’t just have something to do with character… Character needs to be the primary goal. In other words, the character of the trainee needs to… Continue reading
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Ask people to clarify what they no longer believe
We love to see God change people; by his word, because of his grace, thru his spirit, using weak and frail “us”. We rejoice in that change. So help people to articulate their change. Ask them what’s gone on, what… Continue reading
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MTS, the doctrine of election and the gold rush
Have you ever considered the similarity between the line, “There’s gold in them tha’ hills” and Jesus saying to Paul, “I have many people in this city” (Acts 19:10). During the Australian gold rush periods, thousands of people left their… Continue reading
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Model self criticism
As we train and equip young leaders, we want them to grow in the skill of self-criticism. That’s a pretty tough skill to learn – cause you have to have a go, make mistakes, grow the “eyes” to see the… Continue reading
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