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Growing Your Church through Training and Motivation: 30 Strategies to Transform Your Ministry is unavailable, but you can change that!

Ministry done by one is an overwhelming burden. No go-it-alone pastor or small set of laypeople can lead a church. And without unleashing the ministry skill of a whole congregation, your people miss the chance to find their place in the priesthood of all believers and attain the maturity God intends. Growing Your Church through Training and Motivation brings insight from highly effective pastors...

to say, “Want a paper clip? Have a whole box.” So I’d suggest pulling together the gifted leaders in your church and letting them recruit and develop potential leaders. That requires tremendous security within the pastor, but we’ll have that security when we understand what fosters loyalty from the congregation’s leaders. Loyalty is the result of respect. You won’t be loyal to a person you don’t respect. In my dad’s day, the pastor got loyalty because he was the pastor. These days, people will
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