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Equipping Leaders.
Within the burgeoning population of the world, the Kingdom of God is
being established around the world at a speed that makes our minds
spin. According to the best research available, Christianity is
expanding at the rate of 6.9% per year. There are an estimated 178,000
new followers of Christ every day!
This
awesome growth of the church has produced a difficult shortage of
pastors and church leaders. It is estimated that the growth of the
church around the world is creating a demand for 7,000 new
pastors/leaders each day to care for the needs of the new believers!
If every Christian training institute in the world were operating at
120% of capacity it would not touch 10% of the need for leadership
development. Further, the majority of the new leaders cannot be
released from their ministry roles for the length of time necessary to
receive traditional seminary training.
As the
Global Outreach Ministry of ***** prepares for and enters
the 21st century, these are two challenges we are facing:
1. Evangelization of the 4.2 billion people of the world.
2. Training pastors, elders and church leaders. Of these two, what is
Perimeter most qualified, competent and equipped to do? And is there a
way Perimeter can enable the other task to be accomplished more
effectively than "doing" it ourselves?
One of the
strengths of ***** is its commitment to equip leaders. This covers the
spectrum from the elders and deacons, Neighborhood Congregation
Pastors, and Discipleship Team Leaders to the people "in the pew" who
are exposed to solid Biblical teaching, equipping seminars, events,
and discipleship who have not exercised formal leadership in the
church.
***** can
effectively equip, enable and facilitate the expansion of the Kingdom
by strengthening existing church leaders in other countries, and
mobilize them so that evangelistic gifts of national brothers and
sisters are used for planting new churches in unreached areas of the
world.
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1 Cor. 12:24-25 but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it, 25 that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.
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