Equipping Your Church

Throughout the five principles (Discover, Gather, Entrust, Equip, and Send), we have woven the key element of connecting your ministry to a larger group of people, like a church or a local FamilyLife team. This is crucial if we hope to see God build true movements of families impacting families around the world. 

One of the ways we can come alongside the body of Christ is by providing practical ministry training. We want to help everyone discover their unique role in God’s kingdom, gather like-minded believers, equip people for service, and send them out to share with others the transferable principles found in this resource. The Family Ministry Guidebook can be used one-on-one or with groups of any size. We have created a basic outline for how you can share what you’ve learned. This training communicates the core concepts of our ministry and provides space to apply them to your specific situation.

Equipping others with these foundational resources gives our ministry focus and direction while making space for the Holy Spirit to move. Our hope is that this gives you the structure you need to include churches and partners in your ministry while contextualizing it for the specific demographic you’re reaching. Hosting a gathering of this nature can mobilize people in your ministry and provide the opportunity to recruit new disciples.

Welcome and set the stage

• Handout the Our Call to BLESS and the Guide Map  found on FamilyLife Equip
• Show the bless video 
• Go over the acronym together and have them fill out their Guide Map
• Break into groups and have them answer the questions in the “Applying What We Learn” section
• Explain why it’s important to keep this in mind wherever we serve

• Introduce the concept of a Micro Testimony
• Share the Micro Testimony video 
• Share an example of a micro testimony
• Train volunteers on how to create a Micro Testimony
• Have them share a micro testimony with another person at the training

• Connect BLESS and the Spirit-filled life, apart from him we can do nothing
• Go over the principles of the Spirit Filled Life

This is where you can add whatever teaching or training is specific to your initiative. Some examples include:

Bringing in a subject matter expert in your area of ministry

As you think about teaching others what you’ve learned, how do you feel? Why do you think it’s important to share what we’re learning with others? What might stop us from doing this? Who would benefit from this?

Is there a group of people in your church with whom you could do the 1 hour evangelism training? Who leads that group? Make it a point to talk with them about this training and ask if they’d be willing to have you come and train their members.