My brothers and my sisters
this time we're getting tired with this speech. But I don't feel that everyone
is really understanding the way of being Church while Methodists in the last 25
years. In 1985 was implemented the program of gifts and ministries. We were
coming out of a church of elective office for a church service and this service
would be provided through the gifts of its members without elections and
without charges. Each one should choose the Ministry that he felt called by God
to serve him. It was very difficult to teach that the Church used to an older
model. Many people resisted because we didn't know and we was afraid of the
new. But after the years the things were getting clearer. The Methodist people
understood that we weren't proposing a church without order, but a democratic
Church where each person could produce according to his gifts. It Worked.
However worked in churches that really assimilated the idea and put into
practice.
The gifts and ministries
program is to promote a church to work like this: The ministerial and societal
groups work each within their area. One should not invade the area on the
other. But at the same time must add up. As: a Ministry has a project that
falls within the competence of another Ministry. So this Ministry leads the
project for such a Ministry. Engineers should always be in tune to be working
together, and at the same time, without hitting each other. We are different
from each other and have different gifts. N though belong to the same body, the
Church of Christ and that there needs to be in unity. See with certain
constancy a coordinator entering the area from another and causing
embarrassment and inconveniences in the work of God. Well, that to me is the
lack of full design that is a church of the gifts and ministries. But we can't
go like this, some understanding and some don't. A working one way and others
insisting on the old-fashioned way. We have to move towards the same direction.
Now we have the Church working
its growth through Discipleship. What is Discipleship? Nothing more than
evangelization through the "make disciples" of Jesus. Making disciples
is deeper than just preach. Making disciples is to form the character, help in
the spiritual development of a person. Is to follow a person in all his or her
steps in the life of faith. Teach. But what about cells? Well. That's name.
Only name which is not the most important in this process. We are using the
name of cells. These cells should not be large groups. In large groups the
masters are lost and the disciples also. Someone said that a pastor starts to
have difficulties to guide a group with more than one hundred people. So the
ideal rather than a community of 200 people is to have two communities of one
hundred each. In cells that is the point. The Group of disciples growing cell
divides and forms another and so on. The disciples are always urged to watch
for the cults in the temple where there will be a celebration. Those cults
become celebrations and evangelization takes place in the cells where people
will be much more close to each other and the master much in communion with the
disciples. But when cells divide who are the disciples? The idea is create
always people to become also disciples. And this: as we we're discipleship
forming people ship, empowering people to make the other disciple. When a cell
divides and another is formed this new cell will also have a new disciple ship. But our course has already
started. You should ask those who are doing what felt and obviously get to the
training class. Look at our first class on Face Book. That God help us in this
new venture, this new challenge to make the Church grow healthy in every way.
Amen.
Rev.
Jesué Francisco da Silva.
Nenhum comentário:
Postar um comentário