A Movement Vs. A Location

If you as a ministry leader, whether paid or volunteer, are equipping people to carry out God's plan exclusively in your local church programs, you are not equipping them for all that God has called them to. Instead, we should focus on equipping them to fulfill God's plan through their lives which are connected & invested in the local church but not limited to use only within its walls. The local church is God's plan, but as leaders we cannot afford to equip believers to only leverage their gifts & influence within the church setting. We have to equip people, model for people, & challenge people to take the mission of God outside the walls of the local church's gathering place. 

"The Church Is The Movement Of God's People

Not The Location Of A Building."

The church was not designed to simply gather together in a building, sing their songs, listen to their messages, do their programs, & then go home. Instead, it was designed & called to go outside & reach those who are "far off" to borrow Peter's terminology in Acts 2. The only reason you & I are now "insiders" in the church is because somebody decided to do something to reach out to you with the Gospel. When we forget that, we begin to forget our mission too. We can't afford to do that, & the world can't either.

How are you equipping those you lead to accomplish God's plan with their lives beyond just serving in the local church & in it's programs? How are you modelling this priority in your leadership? Church members, where are you investing in advancing God's Kingdom in a setting that is outside the walls of your building? After all, the Gospel was never meant to be contained inside the walls of our churches.