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MINISTRY: IT'S ABOUT PROCLAMATION, PRAYER AND PEOPLE |
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At Matthias Media's 2007 Conference, several hundred pastors, church workers and other ministry-minded Christians gathered at Washington's Capitol Hill Baptist Church to think about 'Gospel Growth vs. Church Growth'. We explored what the Bible says about gospel growth, and how it basically proceeds through three foundational Ps: Proclamation, Prayer and People.
At our 2009 conference, we're going to zero in on the third and often neglected 'P': people. Because gospel growth happens in people and through people.
It happens in people. You can have growth in numbers, in budgets, in programs, in activities, in staff, in baptisms, in buildings, in reputation, and even growth in the quality of preaching, but unless individual people are growing in knowledge, in faith, in godliness, and in love as disciples of Christ, it's all a noisy clanging gong. Are your people really growing? How would you know whether they are or not? Who is discipling each person in your congregation?
Gospel growth also happens through people. Jesus commissioned every disciple for disciple-making, and a pastor-teacher's job is not only to Proclaim and to Pray but also also to equip, train and mobilize People for the task. Gospel growth multiplies as Christians get involved in the three P's: in prayerfully speaking God's word to other people, in whatever way they can, large or small, at home or at work, in small groups or one-to-one. Is this happening where you are? Or is the ministry basically done by the staff? How many people in your congregation, for example, would be willing and able to do the foundational personal discipling work of following up a new believer and establishing them in the basics of the faith?
The 2009 Matthias Media Conference will explore the paradigm shifts that need to occur in our thinking if we are going to build ministry around people not programs.
Who is this conference for?
We welcome anyone - men and women - to come to our conference. We strongly encourage pastors to bring along any person in leadership. This will be an excellent conference for pastors and other ministry leaders to attend together because of the subject matter. Further, we also encourage college and seminary students to attend (there is a discounted registration price).
If you have any further questions regarding who should attend or the content of the conference, please call 866.407.4530
Download a Promotional Card (PDF, 253kb).
Learn more about our Speakers.
Register for the Conference.
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