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I want to see what everyone is thinking, and here is a great way. Leave me a comment, if you want, on a question. I have been thinking alot about the importance of training national leaders. After seeing many of the villages, cities, and people groups without trained leaders, my heart has been burdened with finding the best way to bring the training to them. Many of these churches cannot afford that their pastor leave for several years to go to seminary, and for this reason, Perú has many pastors with good intention, yet little training. So here is the question that goes out to everyone - "What can we do to provide this training where they don´t have it?" "What can the average stateside church goer do to spread God´s Word to every part of this world?" To leave a comment, just click on the "comment" button below, and then click on "post a comment." I want to know what you are thinking!
posted by Unknown @ 9:40 AM
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For some years it has been my strong conviction that it is much much more effective for nationals to minister to their own. Regardless of other factors, real or imaginary, it is foremost in a national's mind that we are
still foreigners, and often come across as braggart wealthy know-it-alls. It is a major communication obstacle. But national pastors do need adequate informative Bible knowledge, training and skills to study, discern and communicate God's Word. "Aye, there's the rub!" Central Seminary has a program of sending professors over to Bulgaria as short-term missionaries with the goal of establishing a seminary program in
the country for the native pastors. Training them in their own country seems best. Perhaps they could be brought over here for a period of time in their last year of training for polishing, as it were. The support of the
national pastor and his family could be handled same as sending a missionary to his field. A home could be provided, children's education, medical, books, etc. provided with the understanding that he is to return to his
native land and likewise train others. Perhaps the Lord would have you implement such a worthy program!
Only a few more days!!!!
I would tend to agree with grandpa and grandma Phillips in that nationals should be trained by their people to teach the Word of God. I also believe that leaders should be trained from among these people so that they could open up a seminary for themselves. I think that the best way to help would be to sponsor Week long classes that build on each other theologically two to four times a year. This would allow for the pastors to not be away from their people for extended periods of time, but still recieve the training that they need. This would be done with a visiting professor, with churches sponsoring the cost of the national pastor to attend the class. I think this would eliminate the "ownership" some American familys feel towards their missionaries, and would encourage the national pastors that their "brothers" in the US care for their education to further the Gospel of Christ.
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