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! Introduction:
Just a few of the practical things.
If you will take out the first page on the top it reads “Philosophy of Ministry” and then Roman Numeral I the Purpose of the Class.
We will go over the requirements.
Now, the purpose of the class is to help us build a biblical foundation for your ministry.
Whatever ministry that may be.
There are principles whether it’s for somewhere  related to a pastor or some sort of calling but still we need to have our ministry based on the scriptures and so we will set out to look at what the Word of God says about ministry.
And then along with that, the reason we have called it the Philosophy of Ministry is basically what Pastor Chuck has laid down for us, as of ministry and the principles.
As you notice in the handout I  put almost all the materials which will be used have been borrowed, and I put okay stolen from other Godly men of the Body of Christ and so.
These aren’t principles that have originated with me, these are the ones that I have been taught and I believe are effective and will be faced with your ministry.
And those are the topics we will be going over, I may add some, basically the way I’m doing this class which is unlike any of the other classes I do, are basically praying and so Lord what is the topic you would want us to go over this week.
What is it that the students need.
So, this isn’t a class that is necessarily duplicated easy where you have the syllabus, a handout it’s not a real technical class, it’s more to speak to your heart and to give you vision and direction for what the Lord has for you in your ministry.
So, that’s a little bit different so those are the topics that I want to hit, but then again, I have the freedom of not going in any order.
As the Lord begins to impress things upon my heart for that week, that’s what we will cover.
And as I sat down and put some things on the computer today, it’s just like there are too many topics to go over, so it’s not a matter of not enough information, but what is it that is of most importance for us for our time.
There are three (3) texts, the small ones, the easy ones.
The first one is the Ministry of an Assisting Pastor.
Now some of the stuff in here applies directly to someone that is on staff as an Assistant Pastor but at the same time I think there is a lot of principles in here that relate to the attitude that anyone should have in any ministry that is assisting in any aspect of the ministry of somebody else.
And this book I think would save a lot of church strife and division, if it was followed and maintained and we will spend a lot of time focusing in on this little book that was written by Larry Taylor.
Just a powerful book.
And especially if you have a calling to be an assistant pastor, you know I think you have your bible obviously and then this is the next thing that is going to give you a practical insight on how it is to be an effective assistant pastor.
So we will spend some time in that and again that goes over broadly just what anyone in the ministry should be doing.
The other two books, the other one is by Larry Taylor “The Things I Learned From My Pastor”, there are 17, basically they are a page long, but these are 17 principles that your life as a Christian as well as ministry should be based on.
I find myself referring just to go back and rereading this from time to time because it’s so easy to read but yet it just grabs your heart each principle that is there is very powerful and so that you are going to have to read through a couple of times and then Pastor Chuck wrote another small pamphlet called the “The Philosophy of Ministry of Calvary Chapel.”
So here’s what I want you to do with these texts, the requirements, (1) is I want you to be here at every class, I think you need to make a commitment to learn all that we are going to be going through and not just bits and pieces; (2) read the text and (3) summarize the text.
So there’s not a lot of homework here.
Again this class is not designed to be technical and detailed, it’s more for your ministry.
In Pastor Chuck’s book, what I want you to do is read through it, and in any place that you see a principle that he states about ministry, I want you to write that down and write a short definition of it.
It may be that he says “the Word of God should have a prominent place over human experience”, so that’s a principle that you would write down and you would explain what that is.
So, I’m not looking for 10, I’m not looking for 3, I’m looking for as many of the important ones you find within the text.
So simply write what that principle is and then give a brief definition in your own words.
And so that’s Pastor Chuck’s book.
And then Larry Taylor’s books I want you to read the text at least twice and you know I put on here “Commit every principle to memory” I obviously I know you’re not going to do that because there are 50 in one book, 17 in another but you should know these.
I mean that’s the bottom line.
These are dynamite principles that are found in here.
Then I want you to write a summary that will be, oh and also, the homework on this book is due the third week of class.
So, again, this small little books you can sit down and read in one sitting.
Then, Larry Taylor’s book, “The Ministry of an Assisting Pastor”, I want you to read through that twice as well, throughout the next quarter.
And then I want you to write a summary on the principles and I’ve listed them here for you.
I want you to write a little summary of those and for example, Principle No. 1 - Is Have a Servant’s Heart, basically you cannot be in ministry unless you understand that principle.
And then I like Principle No. 2 as well, Look for Things That Need Doing and Do Them.
It doesn’t take much to summarize that, does it?
It’s almost like repeat what it says, but make sure you’ve read through it and you communicate it in your own words.
So rather than being asked to do something, look around and look what the obvious things that need to be done in the ministry to have the things run peaceful and quiet and efficiently.
That’s the type of assistants that anyone in leadership needs.
You know you always want to be going to them and saying “Please do this” it’s like you should figure it out that say, as a Pastor that I’m teaching and some kids running around the sanctuary that someone should say “Hey let’s take care of this situation.”
And you obviously don’t want the Pastor to say “Get that kid and stop him,” someone that’s in the ministry should take care of it or in the usher ministry or simple things.
You come here and you look and there is trash over on the ground or the trash can is spilling over, you could walk right by or you know you could look to things that need to be done and do them so their from serious things to somebody that needs ministry after the service to the very practical things.
One of the things that I will say, because obviously not all of you go to Calvary Chapel La Mirada.
You say, well how do I know what the pastor wants?
Well, I think that if you listen to what he teaches, you eventually find out what is important to him.
And you’ll be able to anticipate the way he likes things, and what’s important to him.
Because you are being discipled by him directly as he is teaching you the scriptures.
And you’ll know what his heart is when he says something, maybe he has to complain about something or praise something you know the things that he basically wants and that’s because you are there in the services hearing the Word of God.
I believe that’s how you link up your heart with the pastor’s heart, not because he has to necessarily sit down with everybody and explain everything that is important to him, but you are hearing the Word of God, and your heart is right along to help complete that vision.
But again, this is an excellent little book.
I like No. 7 - Never Gossip, now how do you summarize that?
Never Gossip.
But read through it and let the Lord speak to your heart and so, I think you get the point.
And then on the last week of class, the little book, again by Larry Taylor “The Things I learned From My Pastor” I want you to write a summary on the 17 Principles that are found here.
And again these are all just foundational truths in the way in which we should be ministering.
The first one is “NOT BY MIGHT, you know that ‘s one of Pastor Chuck’s main thrust of his philosophy of ministry that it is not in the programs, not into our own strength but it’s the power of the Holy Spirit bringing things about and then you go through here and I think they are just meat to chew on.
Second one is the “The Servant of the Lord Must Not Strive.”
And you are trying to accomplish the work in your ministry in your own strength, your frustrated, your burned out and that’s just not the spirit of God working so, these are just jewels.
Like I said, I sat down and I read through this, I probably read through this ten or fifteen times already in my life.
Each time I go back to it, it’s refreshing, it’s like cool water just being splashed on your spirit to encourage you and to get your heart focused.
Now, tonight what I want to look at is, how the Lord has to break us of our own strength and our own dependence.
In our own might and our own power and we will be looking at this short handout which says on the top - Study No.
One - The Breaking of a Man Of God and the quotes there I think show you the truth of what we are going to be looking at tonight.
Tozer spoke about any man that the Lord is going to use in a great way must first wound him deeply and I remember reading that as I started ministry and I thought, What in the world does that mean?
But you find out.
And I’m not going to go into too many details, but basically through things I’ve experienced, I have like a deep wound on just, all I know how to describe it is that my soul has been marred and what looked like a defeat, and what looked like what in the world is God doing with the life and the ministry that’s come out of that is, since that point has been incredible.
I think the Lord has done more in this last year through our ministry than 10 years combined.
And that’s because I think the Lord brought us as a church, Calvary La Mirada through some difficult, you know, the valley experience, and out of that, after that when the Lord stripped away and took away from our ministry, where there wasn’t a lot left.
And you look around and you say “What’s going on?”, and then the Lord starts adding life, but in a more powerful way than you could have ever thought so that, When I stand here even here tonight, just being in this building is just a miracle of God.
It’s God’s work, but often times before God does something powerful, there’s a crushing that takes place first.
And that’s going to happen in your life, if you feel called of God, you are going to get thrashed.
That’s the bottom line, that’s Pastor Bryan’s quote.
And I used to be excited when people would come to me and say you know I feel called to the Lord to go into the ministry and I used to say “Oh, Great!”, you know, what can we do to help you?
And now I say “That poor guy” he~/she’s in for a few lessons, going to learn some deep lessons, but those lessons, every person has to pass through, so whatever decree the Lord is going to use us, there has to be that humbling and it comes in the least likely ways because that’s the most effective.
It comes from the least likely circumstances, catches you off-guard and God just wants to break you down.
I like what Martin Luther said, :”Prayer, Study and Suffering” make a minister.
I used to say “Prayer, and Study” but yes, it is suffering as well.
When the apostle Paul went on weak, that’s when I’m strong.
And, Jesus apart from me you can do nothing.
And “:nothing” in the Greek means NOTHING.
And so, we need to realize that if we are going to be used in the Lord, there needs to be a depth of humility of heart and mind, our thoughts, our deeds, our actions.
And we are not born that way, we are born to rely upon our self, we’re born self-sufficient.
And even in Salvation there has to be that humbling, that breaking that we will look to Christ and for many of us we fought it, or we thought we didn’t need it, I’m doing okay, or I’ll make it through the end but you know, God had to come in break and the stronger the will is the more the pressure he has to put upon your life.
And I borrowed a term that Pastor Chuck used, he spoke about learning an easy lesson the hard way.
And as we have a strong will God will break it because he is much stronger than us, isn’t he?
And he loves us too much for us to walk in self sufficiently and pride and self determination.
And so He will allow circumstances to be created to rise up that will bring the great pressure upon your life and what the Lord is trying to teach us is that, apart from Him we could do nothing and what we think is a defeat is actually a stripping of the way for a better life, a stronger life and more fruit to come to us.
See, God’s ways are not our ways.
He works in the opposite way than we think.
And look at John Chapter 15, there is a lot of things we could look at here, but we want to focus on the “Priority of Bearing Fruit.”
John, Chapter 15 vs. 1 - “I am the true vine and my Father is the vinedresser, every branch in me that does  not bear fruit he takes away and every branch that bears fruit, he prunes.”
And he prunes it as you well know, that it may bear more fruit.
See, but in the pruning process it doesn’t look like more fruit is being born, it looks like it’s being taken away.
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